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I heard all these rave reviews of donnie darko and was really looking forward to watching it. Rented it last night, expecting to be blown away by a ground breaking film. What I saw was a very average film that mixes catcher in the rye with back to the future. People refer to it as being a complex film. I don't understand why. marty mcfly's adventures had more twists in them than this arthouse piece of shit. I knew i should have rented one hour photo. |
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pff |
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It was a grower for me...wasn't that sure first time through... but I really like it now...(and can't stop playing that version of Mad World by Gary Jules(??).. on the soundtrack...)... I don't really think of it as an "Arthouse movie"...it's not that complex or groundbreaking but it does take chances, isn;t all sweetness & light and has just about the right level of ambigeiouty to work for me...YMMV as always.. Not as good as PI...but nothing ever is..:).. |
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DD is better than One Hour Photo, definitely. So maybe you should avoid that. |
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I can;t recall the last time I rented a movie...I download everything now and if I like it enough, I get the DVD (and devour the extras...I sooooo adore dir comment tracks and all that..)... (On this 2mbs line, it only takes an hour to dl a gig DVD rip...so it's basically Video on Demand...sorry!!! I know should stop mentioning it but it's so cool expeiencing just a little taste of what our future will be like...)... |
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where's the ambiguity? |
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It can't be as bad as One Hour Photo. |
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I do pretty much the same, although generally I buy the dvds I know are great films as well as having lots of extras (I'm a commentary fiend too) and I download the stuff which either has fuck all on the extras front or which had average reviews. |
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modern twilight zone with "cool" 80´s music and alternative highschoolers angsters. a very forgetable film. Can´t remeber one line in it.......... |
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Speaking of 'Catcher In The Rye', I always forget to pick it up when I'm getting books... any good? |
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Has anyone seen Brotherhood of the Wolf? Any good? |
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It's on Front Row now, and I was curious about it. My mates saw me looking at it, one said "That's a fantasic film" and the other one said "It was utter, utter, shit" so I think I need to find out for myself. |
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You sound hurt, jonesy. Did one hour photo hurt you? |
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"brotherhood of the wolf" is utter utter crapiness of la order maxi-mum. Take Dangerous Laiasons, lash in some The Howling, sprinkle with Crouching Tiger and you get a big dose of french, overlong bullshit. Nice costumes, set though.. but, for some reason, i like a good story! |
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Catcher in the rye is a goddam great book. i gotta tell you. it really is. i'm not kidding. it's one of my goddam favourite books. it really is. |
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so you are the one who is going to kill the president by government mind control triggered by subliminal messages or high frequency beams aimed at your brain implant? btw, idd DD is a pretentious + very average movie |
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Tears for Fears version of Mad World is a super dank song. DD has a great soundtrack |
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hehehhe what happened is this.......TOO MUCH BUILD-UP! a movie never lives up to it's reputation when it's talked about ad nausem on this MB. i for one am glad i didn't read/hear about it on here cos otherwise it woulda been ruined for me. it was an original and interesting flick, not oscar worthy (T hee) but still enjoyable. again......endless hype only leads to disappointment, no matter how good something is.......IMO =0) |
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agree bill I don't find myself saying that too much, but DD is an underground film that people like to rave about. people forget, some films are underground for a reason. |
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I disagree with you all it would seem. Donnie Darko is my favourite movie ever. I had no expectations when I saw it and I found the characters had certain subtelties whoich I could relate too myslef. Plus it made me feel strange for a while |
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DONNIE DARKO sucked. |
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If nobody talked about it so much and tried to look into it, it would have been one of my favorites. When I first watched, I really liked it, but then people started quoting it way too much and trying to dissect it...It wasn't a movie to make you think, even if it tried to be, it just a nice, decent film. |
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it felt to me like they were trying to emulate some of the "David Lynch" mood and take it further, hmm kinda lost my interest by the end... |
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"again......endless hype only leads to disappointment, no matter how good something is.......IMO =0)" nope, can I say "Lord Of The Rings" ;o) |
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i actually agree with bill_hicks on this, i saw it only just yet ('cause it was supposed to be a "great movie") and man what a huge disappointment it was. i kept on waiting for the moment it'd get more interesting, but it didn't. it sucked as Dael sais, it looks like they wanted to make a David Lynch style kinda movie a little, now i do like Lynch's movies, but DD sucked, it's not automatically cool when it's vague and absurd, at least Lynch also has great atmosphere/mood and tension as ingredients for his flicks before i saw it i even thought of buying the DD dvd since everybody thought it was great anyway, am i glad i can just delete the avi file now |
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im speechless |
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i hate drew barrymore |
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we all do |
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i get a little bored of reading threads where people feel let down by an album/song/film. don't you see that getting sucked into 'underground' hype + word-of-mouth hysteria is exactly the same as fawning over whatever the tabloids + the tv promote? considering the number of 'anti-mainstream' sentiments i see expressed here im surprised at how often people seem to be dismayed that something hasn't lived up to its (often exaggerated) reputation. simple rule of thumb - don't believe the hype.. wherever it comes from. try + approach things with an open mind. chances are, whatever it is/whoever produced it/whatever anyone says about it, it's not going to be the second coming. make up your own minds + dont let anyone shape your expectations for you. there are no garuantees.. we're all different + we all have different tastes. for the record - i really enjoyed donnie darko. |
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yeah you're right, for anyone who still wants to go and see donnie darko: don't have high expectations of it |
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you know full well thats not the point i was making. |
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of course i do but why is it so hard to accept that DD was a disappointment for some people, i for one really think only the quality of the film itself was responsible for it, not the hype or the promotion. btw i for instance read loads of reviews that praised kill bill and said it was a great flick, i went to see it with high expectations and indeed i loved it, strange huh |
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here's a line "what are feces?" "baby mice" "awww." |
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fuckass |
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i think its good. my wife didn't like it though. i mostly appreciate it's asthetic qualities, music, photography and how appropriate they are to the subject matter. but yeah, i agree that some people excessively cream over it. it looks like the hype ruined it for you. I was aware of the hype, but i strive for objectivity when watching a film, attempthing to separate myself from the hype. I know what i like. i like donnie darko. |
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you know what im talking about. ob-jec-tiv-itttyy |
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I think it's okay. problem for me with Donnie Darko is that it's more like a case-study of a made-up theory - which is fun maybe, but kind of unaccessible to me (emotionally, I mean) and it's not like the theory is that interesting - in other words, it could've been any theory really. |
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i can see that. i think for a movie with a "gimmik" it could have been flushed out a little better rather than made intentionally confusing. it is, however, an interesting, original (i think) way to examine time travel in film. |
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a better "case study with a made up theory" is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. It takes it's little gimmik theories and thoroughly examines all aspects of them using different characters, before, during, after kind of thing. It's much more complete. i think. |
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donnie what? |
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I agree. Donnie Darko was a pile of pish. now Donnie Brasco. there's a good film.. |
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looking forward to seeing it. Kaufman at least choses theories that have an emotional effect on his characters - in other words, they have to live with the consequences. |
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anus!! |
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