Comments | justinthyme1978: Donnie Darko=WTF

justinthyme1978

Donnie Darko=WTF

Sep 01, 2007 05:10

What the fuck was that? In 28 days the world will end but he dies by the jet engine that comes off the plane that his mother is in 28 days later that gets sucked up into a vortex that noah wyle predicted when he wasnt fucking the fired english teacher. Oh and hottie Frank was scratching his eye 28 days before he gets shot and runs over gretchen ( Read more... )

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legolas18 September 1 2007, 11:13:24 UTC

I loved Donnie Darko! It was a wonderful story about the coincidences that make up your life and how changing them can actually make things worse. And Jake Gyllenhaal is HOT!

justinthyme1978 September 1 2007, 19:41:07 UTC

No DOUBT about Jakey! But as a whole, the movie just did not make sense to me.

Then again I had to see the Matrix three times to make any sense of it. Now I understand it completely.

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legolas18 September 1 2007, 14:19:31 UTC

You? WTF? About any movie with Jake in it? LMAO!

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justinthyme1978 September 1 2007, 19:37:33 UTC

Oh don't get me wrong - Jake was scrumptious! Its just the movie as a whole left me a bit confused at 5AM!

oblivion1970 September 1 2007, 15:40:26 UTC

Normally I'd be upset when someone spoils a movie I want to see, but now I want to see it more, simply because your explanation was funny as shit.

justinthyme1978 September 1 2007, 19:38:44 UTC

Typically I WOULDN'T spoil a movie, but after its been out on DVD for over 5 years I think there is a bit of a threshhold.

And trust me - even my description didn't really spoil it because you still wouldn't know what the fuck was happening. :)

kyleholl September 1 2007, 16:09:37 UTC

If you didn't like that movie, I don't recommend seeing Momento. Yikes.

I love Donnie Darko, but I can certainly see why it's not for everyone :)

justinthyme1978 September 1 2007, 19:39:55 UTC

I always wanted to see Memento but never got around to it. That movie would have been hard to follow yes, but I think in the end didnt it somewhat makes sense?

This one just was so far out there that trying to make any sense of it would be impossible.

I still love Jake though - probably even more because his acting was spectacular.

deafguy September 1 2007, 21:44:29 UTC

My theory doesn't quite "mesh" with the current popular theory (which is based on the filmmaker's vision and the mythos of the movie, blah blah), but it makes more sense to me.

At the beginning of the movie, it was revealed that Donnie had stopped taking the pills because they were making him hallucinate, right? He took a couple of pills before his mother came in to talk to him. And so... the entire movie is a hallucination that Donnie has in his own mind about how important he is to the entire world or something, and of his own worth. And then he dies, happy with himself.

justinthyme1978 September 1 2007, 23:03:51 UTC

In doing some brief research, one theory out there does mesh with yours, in that "Frank", as a sort of ability of Donnie's to see the future, shows him what would happen if he doesnt sacrifice himself for the good of the world. Donnie decides to stay in his room and sacrifice himself as a result.

The main problem point out with that is "where does the jet engine come from then if not from the jet in the future". But my response to that is that in the very end, they don't say that where the jet engine came from is a mystery, only in the "reality" that is Donnies vision os that particular thing a mystery. Ugh, I hate paradoxes!