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Donnie Darko - finally saw it

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Vitamin Q:

--- Quote from: Kid Modernist ---Frank creeped me out something fierce.
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Ditto.  I normally don't get weirded out by movies, but Frank did the trick.  I was uncomfortable for the rest of the evening.  And then of course there was the idiot friend of mine who decided that he would dress up as Frank for Halloween...  Yeah, not fun.

But anywho, the movie really was good.  My only problem with it is that even though time is more or less fixed by the end, I still feel as if there wasn't full closure.  Too many questions remained in my head when the credits began to roll.  Still, I'd like to actually own it eventually.

Bishop:
I love this movie and the directors cut clears alot up, seeing the pages from the philosophy of time travel clears it up.

StupidityKills:
I have to admit I did not like the directors cut better at all.
I loved the deleted scenes when I first got it, but when I eventually bought the directors/collectors version (mmm hologrammy) I thought they interfered with the flow of the movie and over-explained in unecessary places.
But yes, its not without its fault but its pretty much an awesome movie. Every time I see it I think of more explainations and theories.
I like how in the commentary he (the director)  mostly focuses on how he wanted to shoot it like a comic book and doesn't bother analysing the logic and reasoning so much.

McTaggart:
Well, I finally saw it (thankyou SBS).
If anything, I wish I could get rid of my habit of accidently finding out how stories end before experiencing them. Damn, damn, damn, damn. The fact that I already knew what would happen may have something to do with this, but I had mixed feelings about it. While it did one of the things that film, in my mind, is supposed to do: Take the audience on an emotional journey. I found it moving, even though I didn't really come to like Donnie that much.

The problem is, that I'm not sure at all whether Donnie Darko was meticulously plotted and engineered to leave it so open to interpretation or whether it just wasn't well thought out. Who the hell was Frank? Who the hell were those dudes at Grandma Death's place? What the hell did the english teacher have to do with anything? Maybe I just need to see it another twelve times.

One thing I know is that if I ever make a film I am so stealing the director's fluid camera movements and occasional odd angles.  That scene where they get off the school bus: Genius!

Switchblade:

--- Quote from: Inlander ---Is that like the flipside of your proclaimed habit of answering "Yes" to a non-yes/no question?

EDIT: Oops, it was Switchblade who 'fessed up to having that habit.  In which case - huh?
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