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yeah it's a great movie and not because it's "omg so deep" or whatever. it's just a great movie
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One great thing about Donnie Darko was the website. It was filled with weird clues and artwork, and that part was ok, but the thing that creeped me out was what was at the end. At least I think it was the end It was creepy as poo poo, and that's how you do a tie-in website. This part's not up on youtube, but it was a recorded conversation between I think the FBI and the FAA. The whole time, there was this creepy drone playing in the background. FBI guy: so, we're looking into the jet engine that fell on the house. FAA guy: Alright, and? FBI: well, here's where it gets weird; we got the serial number and we checked the FAA's records. FAA:..... FBI: It doesn't look like this engine ever existed. There's no record of it, where it was manufactured, or even what flight it would have fallen from. Can you offer any insight to this? Any explanation? FAA:....... FBI: Hello? Excuse me, are you there? Can you.... FAA: *click* (and the line goes dead). FBI: Hello??
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Feb 9, 2023 21:12
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Smugworth posted:Same question, Butterfly Effect The Butterfly Effect was a lot funnier, but I don't think that was intentional.
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Feb 9, 2023 21:22
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The original ending of the Butterfly Effect makes it a much better film. It becomes an inverted It's A Wonderful Life.quote:With his brain terribly damaged and aware that he is committed to a psychiatric facility where he will lose access to his time travel ability, Evan makes a desperate attempt to change the timeline by watching a family video, which shows his mother just before she was about to give birth to Evan. Evan travels back to that moment and strangles himself in the womb with his umbilical cord so as to prevent the multi-generational curse from continuing, consistent with an added scene where a psychic palm reader tells Evan "you have no lifeline" and that he does "not belong to this world". Shockingly, test audiences hated it. Tragedy of the commons.
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Feb 9, 2023 21:31
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:One great thing about Donnie Darko was the website. It was filled with weird clues and artwork, and that part was ok, but the thing that creeped me out was what was at the end. At least I think it was the end The FAA just didn’t wanna get in trouble for poor record keeping
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Feb 9, 2023 22:03
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Jake G was a real cutie pie in Donnie Darko and he's only aged like a fine wine since then. So I vote yes.
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Feb 9, 2023 22:24
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Gutcruncher posted:The FAA just didn’t wanna get in trouble for poor record keeping Well, maybe but it was all put together far creepier than that. I think at one point, the fbi guy implies or outright states that the engine shouldn't exist. My write up was very much paraphrasing it all. Edit: here's a complete description of the whole jet engine serial number subplot, AND a transcript of the call. I missed a ton of stuff, but I haven't read/heard it in like 15 years. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Feb 9, 2023 23:09
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Smugworth posted:Same question, Fellowship of the Ring Jake Gyllenhaal auditioned for Frodo and utterly blew it because nobody told him the part required a British accent.
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Feb 10, 2023 00:06
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Elijah Wood looks more like whatever a "hobbit" is and no I don't remember what little I read of The Hobbit in middle school because I thought it was boring For the best really
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Feb 10, 2023 00:17
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Dick Jones posted:Jake Gyllenhaal auditioned for Frodo and utterly blew it because nobody told him the part required a British accent. And then Disney came up to him and asked, “Hey, wanna audition for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time?” And Jake was all like (in a British accent), “DO I?!?!???”
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Feb 10, 2023 00:21
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Same question, Blade
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Feb 10, 2023 00:53
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He say you Blade Runner
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Feb 10, 2023 00:55
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:He say you Blade Runner 
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Feb 10, 2023 00:57
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I watched it in 2007 and was nonplussed with how hyped up it was, I thought it was merely okay. Maybe it’s better than I thought but I wouldn’t call it a deep or smart movie by any means, I think people thought it was this really cerebral thing and I didn’t understand it. It was like six years of listening to people dream themselves and being like sure, I’ll check it out sometime, and so that was disappointing. The Gary Jules cover of Mad World is inferior to the original. Apparently they changed the font on the poster because of 9/11?? An Arabic-seeming typeface was more than the american public could handle (it’s still in the opening credits of the movie though)
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Feb 10, 2023 01:11
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EEKA GEEK posted:I watched it in 2007 and was nonplussed with how hyped up it was, I thought it was merely okay. Maybe it’s better than I thought but I wouldn’t call it a deep or smart movie by any means, I think people thought it was this really cerebral thing and I didn’t understand it. It was like six years of listening to people dream themselves and being like sure, I’ll check it out sometime, and so that was disappointing. Most unintelligent people can't appreciate the film Donnie Darko
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Feb 10, 2023 01:14
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Most unintelligent people can't appreciate the film Donnie Darko 
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Feb 10, 2023 01:17
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If you don't love Donnie Darko, you probably fear the movie and/or it's perceived message. It's pretty simple.
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Feb 10, 2023 01:19
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My favorite from that era was a sincere effortpost talking about the symbolism of "metal" and "water" during some poo poo in the middle and I remember asking "what did those elements symbolize?" and they were like "no you don't get it it's a symbol."
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Feb 10, 2023 01:30
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Smugworth posted:Same question, Blade Blade kicks rear end. Just a bunch of karate, and vampires, and people exploding. Perfect movie.
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Feb 10, 2023 01:34
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Extra Large Marge posted:Blade kicks rear end. Just a bunch of karate, and vampires, and people exploding. Perfect movie. Iirc it begins with a blood rave and only gets better from there. And Kristofferson? *chefs kiss*
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Feb 10, 2023 01:55
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satanic splash-back posted:If you don't love Donnie Darko, you probably fear the movie and/or it's perceived message. It's pretty simple. There are other things that need to be taken into account here, like the whole spectrum of human emotion. You can't just lump everything into these two categories and then just deny everything else!
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Feb 10, 2023 03:03
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I remember when Donnie Darko came out didn't they do some website mythology tie in that talked about Darkos through time, like the medieval period or something, like a big ol heap of metal always falls on a Darko no matter what year it is. In the movie it just happened to be an airplane engine. I think they were biting off Blair Witch
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Feb 10, 2023 03:17
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I actually really love that movie, a lot. I loved it when it came out and I was in middle school, then bought into the bullshit about it being bad or pretentious in high school/college. Its one of those things where it turned out middle school me was right.
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Feb 10, 2023 03:22
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Smugworth posted:I remember when Donnie Darko came out didn't they do some website mythology tie in that talked about Darkos through time, like the medieval period or something, like a big ol heap of metal always falls on a Darko no matter what year it is. In the movie it just happened to be an airplane engine. Yeah there was a whole high production quality website that like explained every tiny thing lol
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Feb 10, 2023 03:28
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It was one of the first movies I ever watched with commentary on. I don't remember any of the commentary but I do remember I ordered a pizza that day
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Feb 10, 2023 03:29
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Sir Donald of Darko, galloping across a field in full armor, has a 500lb metal cauldron fall out of the sky and crash into his skull, killing him instantly
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Feb 10, 2023 03:30
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I think there were ways to get to it until they killed Flash
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You Are A Elf posted:Nah, the director’s cut ruins what is a nice ambiguous psychological thriller and turns it into a bad sci-fi film by over explaining everything with pages of the time travel book and added unnecessary scenes. I saw it once and hated it.
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Feb 10, 2023 04:22
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You Are A Elf posted:Nah, the director’s cut ruins what is a nice ambiguous psychological thriller and turns it into a bad sci-fi film by over explaining everything with pages of the time travel book and added unnecessary scenes. I saw it once and hated it. I know someone who LOVED Donnie Darko, she made us watch it with her multiple times. I didn't mind, it's a good movie I enjoy it but one night we saw a midnight screening of the director's cut and it killed her love for the movie dead.
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also, Southland Tales isn't what i'd call a good movie but i loved the hell out of it when i saw it. i haven't seen it since so
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Feb 10, 2023 04:49
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Donnie darko was good. Rented the sequel (who knew) and holy poo poo it was terrible
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Feb 10, 2023 05:12
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rear end TO rear end!
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EEKA GEEK posted:The Gary Jules cover of Mad World is inferior to the original.
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BigSexy posted:Donnie darko was good. Rented the sequel (who knew) and holy poo poo it was terrible S Darko is unrelentingly terrible. They only good thing about it is it introduced me to "Heaven or Las Vegas" by the Cocteau Twins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KnYw4EwYGc Speaking of good music in bad movies, while I enjoyed Southland Tales WAY more than S Darko, the best part is clearly this whole scene, thanks to Moby's "Memory Gospel" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XY5yLet3es
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Feb 10, 2023 06:44
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first viewing was ok, second viewing i really enjoyed it, now i watch it every few years because it's just a good flick
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Feb 10, 2023 07:12
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Lt. Cock posted:Donathan Darko got me to put that Mad World song on a mix cd and feel super deep and misunderstood riding the bus to Highschool The tears for fears song is so much better
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Feb 10, 2023 07:15
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The Gary Jules version was perfect for the final montage of the movie but that's it. I don't need to hear it at the goddamn grocery store when I'm trying to choose a barbecue sauce.
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Feb 10, 2023 07:34
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I used to have a gf that I could crack up everytime by singing it when there was some obvious ennui scene in a tv show, movie, commercial, whatever
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Smugworth posted:Same question, Fellowship of the Ring The writer/linguist who said "of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that "cellar door" is the most beautiful" was Tolkien. Of course it was Tolkien. It's pretty much elvish. Maybe he liked it because it was like elvish, or maybe he designed his elvish because he liked it, but that's why Cellar door is beautiful. So, really, those two are the same movie.
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