Donnie Darko (2001) - Director's Cut Cinema ReRelease

[Ivo]

Donnie Darko - The Directors Cut

Sorry if this topic has been discussed previously. I searched but couldn't find a thread on it.

So, anyone dig this film as much as I do? It originally came out in Oct. of 2001 but was pulled almost immediately because the studio felt the plane crash elements of the film would offend or be taken the wrong way by some. It proceeded to become an underground hit with midnight screenings taking place around the U.S. at least, much in the same fashion as the Rocky Horror midnight showings minus a jump to your left.

A new Directors Cut of the film is currently playing here in Seattle and if it does well the studio is going to re-release the film to wider audiences. If you have the DVD of the original version you will recognize some of the extra scenes from the deleted scenes bonus feature. I liked the additions because they helped flesh out some of the personal relationships a little more. Few movies in recent years have affected me quite like this one and the soundtrack is outstanding.

Let me know what you thought of the film and if you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it.

 

[polymorphikos]

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Absolutely brilliant. I only heard about it by chance, and I'm eternally grateful I did. I like the way that I think I understand all of it, but probably don't, but still do. If that makes any sense.

Perhaps one of my favourite lines of recent years is "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!"

 

[Ivo]

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Perhaps one of my favourite lines of recent years is "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!"

Absolutely, one of my favorite lines and characters from the movie. She was certifiable for sure.

 

[silvercloak]

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Whoa, that's extremely weird, I was just about to make a topic about this myself. I had just watched it about 4 hours ago. It is such a good movie. I love it. Do you think he actually traveled back in time or was it just in his head?

 

[Ivo]

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Whoa, that's extremely weird, I was just about to make a topic about this myself. I had just watched it about 4 hours ago. It is such a good movie. I love it. Do you think he actually traveled back in time or was it just in his head?

You know what's even weirder? I just watched the movie about 4 hours ago too! You and I were on a mind meld for sure!

I definitely think he really went back in time. The wormhole had opened and his one act of difference initiated the alternate universe of his reality. By circumventing death or some pre-ordained historical path he became a human tear in the space time continuum imo and was able to see things on a quantum level that others wouldn't be able to.

I may be completely wrong on that last bit but thats how I percieve it based on my knowledge of science. That's what I love about this movie, it keeps me thinking no matter how many times I see it.

 

[Brian G Turner]

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Hm...sounds interesting.

 

[Foxbat]

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I'm also a person who came across this movie by chance and absolutely loved it.

What does it mean for me? It's a story of time travel - but the underlying reality of it is that it's the almost impossible struggle to be in control of your own destiny.

Whatever it means, it certainly makes you think

 

[Brian G Turner]

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The DVD was in Tescos' "2 for £10" section - was so tempted, but most of the other films in the section were or bare worth. Hm...

 

[Genus]

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If you have a Choices video store locally, you can pick it up for £5.99. Or check their website, they do mail order.

 

[nemogbr]

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It was an interesting film, although a bit fatalistic for my tastes.

The best solution would have been to do nothing?

Then we have a town I would not like to live in at all...jeez... talk about Twin Peaks.

 

[Ivo]

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The DVD was in Tescos' "2 for £10" section - was so tempted, but most of the other films in the section were or bare worth. Hm...

I got my current copy for $9.99 at Best Buy. They are more than likely releasing the Directors Cut version on DVD once it has made its run in the theatres so I imagine they are selling off the older versions to generate cash and interest in the film.

I probably should have waited, but at the time I didn't know they were going to be re-releasing it....

 

[polymorphikos]

Donnie Darko Redux

Probable spoilers.



It occured to me (and laugh at me if I've been missing the obvious) a while ago that the ending of Donnie Darko is actually negative. Aside from Donnie Dying, of course. His saving what'sername undoes all the good he's done, leaves a paedophile at large and all sorts. Fairly self-evident, I know, but I thought it was interesting.

 

[Lacedaemonian]

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An excellent film that asked far too many questions. It was very heavy throughout if not for the sheer comedy/terror of the alien bunny.

 

[Tsujigiri]

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It was incredibly negative and tied in very nicely to the gnostic paradigm. He left everything as he found it and yet remained an independant entity existing outside of the illusiuon binding his peers.

The irony being that he was capable of changing things in any manner he chose, and yet he was bound to step outside and leave everything unchanged. Thus making sure that his existance and the lessons of it were removed from the illusion that is life.

I'm going to have to watch this again now

 

[Alysheba]

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Which is why if we were allowed to rewrite things in our lives even just one simple thing, how much damage would we cause? It may be incredibly disturbing, but very deep. Although I could've done without the demonic bunny nightmares. LOL

 

[Tsujigiri]

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Everyone seems to find the demonic bunny disturbing, I didn't....I wonder what that says about my psyche....

 

[Dakeyras]

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not everyone. but that doesn't tell me anything about my psyche i don't already know...

anyway, has anybody watched the movie with the director's audio commentary?

quite interesting...

 

[a|one]

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I watched this movie for the first time last night. Its absolutely amazing the way it grabs ahold of you. I think it far exceeded the standard in concept, acting (certain characters just blew me away), and the marriage of special effects and atmosphere. There were certain deficiencies, I dont think that many people would really buy into that paedophiles BS, it just seemed a bit too obvious to me. I also dont think they explained Grandma Death well enough. And I felt that they portrayed people as just being too stupid in general, I mean being in a highschool I will readily agree that there are a lot of dumb people, but in the movie it was like every single person other than him, his family, his gf, and the english/science teachers was a moron. I find the problem with the majority of people in our society is not lack of intelligence, its lack of understanding and lack of desire to do so.

It may seem kind of odd since their totally different genres but this movie gave me a similar feeling to the one recieved while watching Garden State.

PS - The bunny didnt seem disturbing to me either

 

[Niolani]

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This was a strange and interesting movie wasn't it? I watched maybe around a year ago after I heard it was a cult hit and I'm still trying to make total sense of it. There is a book out somewhere that explains the whole theory in the movie but I was foolish enough not to grab it when I saw it.

 

[manuel]

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The Tears for Fears cover on it was nasty though. Wasn't it Number One in the music charts over here a few Christmas's ago?