Donnie Darko

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I am looking forward to watching Donnie Darko tonight on Sci-Fi in the UK. Jake Gylenhall was brilliant in the role and the storyline was good too even if it was complex. I didn't quite understand some parts of the film but maybe a second viewing will help.
 
I think it does - I saw it for the second time a month or so back - and I agree it's great film. The title was so familiar to me before I saw it and I had somewhat dismissed it as a teen film but I found it really effective. Agree about Jake too, he's excellent.
 
I watched it last night for the first time. I missed the first 5 minutes so I hope that I didn't miss anything important in the opening scenes (first scene I saw was the family at the dinner table).

Now, can someone outline the main story?

When the reactor drops, does it really kill him and all the rest is his imagination or what?

Or is it that he escapes the reactor by meeting Frank for the first time but then at the end goes back in time and is killed, to save Gretchen?

I like films where you understand everything...so I'm a bit confused.... :cool:

Also, a few years back there were adverts on TV for 'Talk to Frank', for telling kiRAB about drugs...was this a reference to the film?

gaffer

PS: Is it on again?
 
It is a bit of mindbending film isn't it? I think Donnie Darko is open to all sorts of interpretations so I'll keep my interpretation to myself or there could be all sorts of arguments breaking out. :) There are quite a few sites and pages on Web sites which discuss it though - you could try here as a starter.

I don't think so.


It is indeed:

10th January 2007 - 22:00
14th January 2007 - 00:30
16th January 2007 - 22:00

All on the Sci-Fi channel.
 
It is an AMAZING film - very underrated.

Apparently it was Drew Barrymore that helped it to get made. One other thing I remember about it was that the song at the end was a Christmas Number one theyear after the movie came out.

By the way does anyone know the name of the second film by the Director? It was supposed to come out earlier this year?
 
'Southland Tales'.

I recall it getting bad / puzzling reviews at early screenings at Cannes (or somewhere similiar) and Richard Kelly would be 'pruning' it a bit. Think it's due for release in 2007 sometime.
 
It did indeed get a lot of praise from the critics - I was meaning more in terms of Oscars - cos as we all know the best movies never win Oscars - The Truman Show being another obvious example...
 
It did extremely well on the dvd release I think, can remember getting it on region 1 dvd way before it hit cinemas here, was my little secret :) until released here lol.

Now waiting for Southland Tales, looks interesting even though most of the cast isn't to my liking...
 
Donnie Darko is one of those great films that gets better the second time you watch it. It's also David Lynch-like in that it takes more than one viewing to actually understand it!
 
I must have watched it at least ten times now, and I STILL have trouble telling myself the story in a clear way. All i know is ive watched a damn good film.


(Apparently, the directors cut has extra scenes in it that explain it a lot better, but ive not seen that)
 
Its my favorite film of all time.

I personally don't understand why somebody would not like the film, IMO opinion it always comes down to "they didn't get it".

I had to watch it 3 times before I understood it, then the Directors cut was even more compelling.

Good its back on, I missed it :)
 
It's like a Twilight Zone episode dragged out to make a feature film but a much less entertaining. Also Jake Gyllenhal's in it so it's just plain irritating. :yawn:
 
It's open for interpretation although there IS an 'official' explanation which kind of takes away some of the magic from it. The way I look at it, Donnie is 'chosen' by a higher power to experience what happens in an alternative timeline where he ISN'T killed in order to understand why he needed to die in the first place.

The end of the film is brilliant because everyone kind of has memories of what happened in that alt-timeline even though it's back in the normal timeline where Donnie IS killed. You just have to WATCH it and you somehow get it.
 
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