I just watched Donnie Darko. MASSIVE WOOT!!

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token lunatic		#41	[-]
Posts: 22623 (01/28/09 1:39 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Spoiler [+] So if Frank's death occurred only in the TU, how and why was his image used to talk to Donnie.
Vegazguy		#42	[-]
Posts: 16142 (01/28/09 1:42 PM) 10 per day, bitches! Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	ogmious wrote: token lunatic wrote: That was very nice, ogs. Too good in fact for OT. thanks geek/pearls. ever seen mulholland drive? that is a quality mind fuck. ecks! loved it! i still don't know what it was about. can you please enlighten me?
Antithesys		#43	[-]
Posts: 23801 (01/28/09 2:43 PM) Gadabout Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	UNPOSSIBLE! I'll have to watch DD now. There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think Fight Club is a superb piece of filmmaking, and those who I am willing to interact with.
ogmious		#44	[-]
Posts: 817 (01/28/09 3:05 PM) Local user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	well, who kills frank in the TU? donnie does. by luring donnie out of his bed at the beginning of the film, frank is essentially setting up the string of domino's that will eventually convince donnie to make his ultimate sacrifice. why would frank do this? because if donnie can be convinced to make himself a martyr in the PU, as opposed to continue living in the TU, there is no car accident/gun shot and frank survives. remember the red-heading girl in tLToC? she was a demon sent by satan to show christ how great life would be if he denounced the cross. frank is kinda the opposite - hes showing donnie how shitty life will be if he doesnt allow himself to take the jet engine in the noggin. the parallels between the two films are numerous.
RoMa		#45	[-]
Posts: 37172 (01/28/09 3:20 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Antithesys wrote: UNPOSSIBLE! I'll have to watch DD now. There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think Fight Club is a superb piece of filmmaking, and those who I am willing to interact with. And those that think every movie with Pitt and Norton should require no shirts and lots of sweat. Only until they are not hot.
SonOfAbraxas		#46	[-]
Posts: 8323 (01/28/09 3:32 PM) BB Forum Moderator Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	But why bother waking Donnie up (making him not get hit by the engine) in the first place? Why would he need to be convinced to die when he was going to anyway? That said, I do enjoy the movie. In a weird, dark place kind of way. ETA: This is assuming I remember the movie correctly, it's been a LONG time.
FranklinBluth		#47	[-]
Posts: 4268 (01/28/09 3:38 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I recently watched Southland Tales which was also written and directed by Richard Kelly. It was unlike any movie I've ever seen and after multiple viewings I can't decide if it's brilliant, shitty, or brilliantly shitty.
it is a mystery		#48	[-]
Posts: 1146 (01/28/09 3:56 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I actually just saw this for the first time about a week ago. I thought it was great! Confusing, but still pretty good. I found it funny how Jake and Maggie Gylenhaal play brother and sister in the movie.
Eagles Frodo Mt Doom		#49	[-]
Posts: 30 (01/28/09 4:16 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Are Jake and Maggie still together?
GameShowMyAss		#50	[-]
Posts: 4121 (01/28/09 4:29 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Angelina broke them up. At least DD makes more sense than LOST does. The engine fell in the TU, creating a time loop. DD had to make it go back and fall in the primary U to get things back on track. Why? I dunno. Nobody seemed to notice except him. Maybe to save the chick, although I'm sure the future molestees would see it differently, since Swayze didn't end up going to jail. What a horrible message.
Eagles Frodo Mt Doom		#51	[-]
Posts: 34 (01/28/09 4:33 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Why didnt Drew Barrymore simply run outside and hide in the bushes? Why was she in DD to begin with? ::confuzzled::
GameShowMyAss		#52	[-]
Posts: 4123 (01/28/09 4:40 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	If only she'd died in Fever Pitch. Anyway, her prodco picked up the underfunded film and helped it get made. She was also dating Tawny Kitaen at the time. hence the hairdon't
Eagles Frodo Mt Doom		#53	[-]
Posts: 36 (01/28/09 4:43 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	The Tangent Universe starts at the time Frank pulls Donnie out of the house, before the engine falls. There is a corruption in space/time and the engine traveled through the corruption to the past. Donnie pulls the engine off the plane 28 days later and sends it into the past. Both events take place in the Tangent Universe. How can a corruption of time in the Tangent Universe create a Tangent Universe? The corruption has to occur for the Tangent Universe to occur, right?
token lunatic		#54	[-]
Posts: 22624 (01/28/09 4:49 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	ogmious wrote: well, who kills frank in the TU? donnie does. by luring donnie out of his bed at the beginning of the film, frank is essentially setting up the string of domino's that will eventually convince donnie to make his ultimate sacrifice. why would frank do this? because if donnie can be convinced to make himself a martyr in the PU, as opposed to continue living in the TU, there is no car accident/gun shot and frank survives. remember the red-heading girl in tLToC? she was a demon sent by satan to show christ how great life would be if he denounced the cross. frank is kinda the opposite - hes showing donnie how shitty life will be if he doesnt allow himself to take the jet engine in the noggin. the parallels between the two films are numerous. So, basically it's Frank or Donnie. In a Universe where both existence, the very fabric of time and space would rend. Ok. Got it.
Eagles Frodo Mt Doom		#55	[-]
Posts: 37 (01/28/09 4:51 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	But if that girl was in the TU why did she appear right after the crash? How could she be in both places at the same time?
sadllama		#56	[-]
Posts: 4459 (01/28/09 4:52 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Antithesys wrote: UNPOSSIBLE! I'll have to watch DD now. There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think Fight Club is a superb piece of filmmaking, and those who I am willing to interact with. LMFAO. Is someone who cried during Bill Pullman's independence day speech really acting like a snob to people who like fight club?
token lunatic		#57	[-]
Posts: 22625 (01/28/09 4:52 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Are you talking about Gretchen? :dammit, man, don't leave me hanging
Eagles Frodo Mt Doom		#58	[-]
Posts: 38 (01/28/09 4:53 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Yes, Gretchen. And why does Gretchen appear in the notes of The Philosophy of Time Travel as a Manipulated Dead?
token lunatic		#59	[-]
Posts: 22626 (01/28/09 4:59 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	She did? Cool. Is that bonus DVD stuff? I can only afford to watch free movies, hence the lapse in time since it's original release date. On top of that, I simply wasn't ready to wrap my mind around it. In my estimation, I assumed by her smile at the end, Gretchen perhaps is living a different sort of life but per ogs' memory theory, she recognized something in Donnie's mom? Thus in the TU, she is alive but dies a tragic strange temporal loop death.
GameShowMyAss		#60	[-]
Posts: 4124 (01/28/09 5:00 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Now you're just making things up. That's called "trolling."

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I just watched Donnie Darko. MASSIVE WOOT!!

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