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AzureTyger
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My gf saw Donnie Darko for the first time last night
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I just figured the bunny at the beginning and acting as a guide wasn't actually the real Frank.
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eodoll
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My gf saw Donnie Darko for the first time last night
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I really wanted to like this movie but couldn't - the idea of it is neat but the execution wasn't totally there. Some parts were completely tangential - the patrick swayze character for instance was just filler because the main story line wasn't strong enough.
They could've focused more on the time travel aspect - he's alive but should be dead, etc... Time travel is fake anyway but they could've done more with the time travel philosophy of it all.
I saw a movie that came up on my netflix recommended list 'The Final Countdown' - it was actually pretty good, it's about time travel. They spend more time showing off jets and aircraft carrier stuff but it was kind of neat none the less.
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illmyrin
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Ha! It's not about time travel!
Its What Dreams May Come meets The Cell! Except God is the sexy therapist and you're the sick twisted dreamer.
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__Bonk__
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The whole movie was in an alternative timeline which was closed at the end so it didnt even happen. Its like a circle which was cut of. A closed loop of time.
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illmyrin
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__Bonk__ posted:
The whole movie was in an alternative timeline which was closed at the end so it didnt even happen. Its like a circle which was cut of. A closed loop of time.
The music is a clue.
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__Bonk__
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In reality the engine just falls on him and kills him. He starts this alternative timeline loop which is a closed loop which everything in the movie occurs. At the end the loop is closed with this death. Full circle.
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Ashmaele
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Registered: 2002-1-15 08:30:50
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illmyrin posted:
Ashmaele posted:
Let's face it: this is some truly wacky shit. (And I don't mean that in a good way.) It's not the worst metaphysical construct I've chanced across (for example, it makes a lot more sense than Scientology), but it's also far from the best. But that's not the central problem. The main problem, the huge problem, the rotting-elephant-carcass-in-the-middle-of-the-dining-room problem is that there is no conceivable way for even the most astute viewer to deduce Kelly's metaphysical construct from the film itself. The phrases "Tangent Universe," "Living Receiver," "Manipulated Dead," etc., never appear in the film. Kelly's version of reality isn’t ambiguous, which would suggest that it could be one of several competing explanations for the movie's mysteries. It's not even obscure, something that could only be gleaned from watching the film over and over again. Rather, it is impenetrable. It is opaque. You can't get there from here.
Kelly's metaphysics is like the house dealing poker cards from the bottom of the deck, never showing you the cards, announcing you've lost, and then burning them. It's like reaching the end of an Agatha Christie novel and finding out that the wildebeest did it, except there was no wildebeest in the book. It's a cheat.
I strongly disagree. I got there from here. There are clues. There are very subtle oddities that, if explored and wondered about, end up making sense out of other oddities. The critic you're referencing sounded like someone who was butt hurt that the movie didn't teach him how to time travel.
Yes, there are clues. But NONE of what was quoted from that old lady's book was specifically mentioned in the movie. ALL of it came from the Director's Cut DVD. And ALL of it is crucial to explaining and understanding the plot. The guy may be butthurt but he's right.
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eodoll
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illmyrin posted:
Ha! It's not about time travel!
Its What Dreams May Come meets The Cell! Except God is the sexy therapist and you're the sick twisted dreamer.
I'm pretty sure it's about a jet engine that fell off an airplane somehow and then went back in time 1 month and fell on his house.
So it's about that 1 month where he died a month ago to an event that happened in the future and he's having trippy dreams in between because he should be dead but isn't.
Like tomorrow something will happen that will kill you last month - cool concept but these guys didn't execute very well. I think most people like it though moreso because of the concept than anything else.
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illmyrin
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Ashmale posted:
Yes, there are clues. But NONE of what was quoted from that old lady's book was specifically mentioned in the movie. ALL of it came from the Director's Cut DVD. And ALL of it is crucial to explaining and understanding the plot. The guy may be butthurt but he's right.
Ok I might have missed something. I got a copy given to me as a gift, it's the only version I've ever seen. Didn't know there was an earlier that didn't have the screen flashes or strange messages. I never saw any directors explanations on my disk though. There is no section that says "directors commentary." I suspect you're saying there was a version that didn't have the weird stuff I got hooked into.
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Ashmaele
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illmyrin posted:
Ashmale posted:
Yes, there are clues. But NONE of what was quoted from that old lady's book was specifically mentioned in the movie. ALL of it came from the Director's Cut DVD. And ALL of it is crucial to explaining and understanding the plot. The guy may be butthurt but he's right.
Ok I might have missed something. I got a copy given to me as a gift, it's the only version I've ever seen. Didn't know there was an earlier that didn't have the screen flashes or strange messages. I never saw any directors explanations on my disk though. There is no section that says "directors commentary." I suspect you're saying there was a version that didn't have the weird stuff I got hooked into.
I'm talking about the theatrical release v. the director's cut DVD. That DVD had a lot of extras, including an "excerpt" from the old woman's book about time travel. That exerpt (which the reviewer quoted, see above) basically explains the movie. Which is fine (obviously far-fetched but it's science fiction so whatever) but there is no way to glean that information from the original film because it did not exist in the original film.
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