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Cara · **Posted:** Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:22 am

There is no way anyone can grasp that movie on the first watch.
no way.

heatseeker · **Posted:** Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:25 am

Cara wrote:

There is no way anyone can grasp that movie on the first watch.
no way.

There's no way anyone can grasp it on any watch. It doesn't make any sense.

I actually did look it up on Wikipedia and knowing what's actually happening, there's no way that you could know just from watching the movie.

Caligula_K · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:56 pm **Posts:** 3561

heatseeker wrote:

SoulSociety wrote:

Donnie Darko, awesome, if a bit confusing. 8.5/10

Tell me what happened in the movie. Without looking it up on Wikipedia.

I do love that movie a lot, and I've seen it many times but it is very true that the plot makes absolutely no sense unless someone explains it to you.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:54 am

I hate that movie because it is a bunch of pseudo-science that made people think they were so smart that they understood it. Ultimately it was a decent movie only because of Frank.

noodles · **Posted:** Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:27 am

heatseeker wrote:

SoulSociety wrote:

Donnie Darko, awesome, if a bit confusing. 8.5/10

Tell me what happened in the movie. Without looking it up on Wikipedia.

the jet engine went back in time!!! i'veonly seen it once

Goat · **Posted:** Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:55 pm

noodles wrote:

heatseeker wrote:

SoulSociety wrote:

Donnie Darko, awesome, if a bit confusing. 8.5/10

Tell me what happened in the movie. Without looking it up on Wikipedia.

the jet engine went back in time!!! i'veonly seen it once

Exactly! I mean, if your normal film fare consists of Will Ferrell comedies, I can see where you might have difficulty, but considering that a good 50% of what I watch is either not in English or downright weird, Donnie Darko was fairly straightforward. Kids nowadays are spoilt.

EdgeOfForever · **Posted:** Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:04 pm

There's a lot more to it than that, but most of it is impossible to understand if you don't read about it first. I think it's a great film no matter how much of it you understand, and if you want to learn more about the film (the tangent universe, the manipulated others) you can, but it's not necessary to know about all that crap to enjoy the film. I think it's similar to Mulholland Drive in that sense.

heatseeker · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:47 am

EdgeOfForever wrote:

There's a lot more to it than that, but most of it is impossible to understand if you don't read about it first. I think it's a great film no matter how much of it you understand, and if you want to learn more about the film (the tangent universe, the manipulated others) you can, but it's not necessary to know about all that crap to enjoy the film. I think it's similar to Mulholland Drive in that sense.

Exactly. Zad, I'm laughing at you right now because you think you understood the film because you figured out that the plane went back in time. Although nobody would know it unless they looked it up, there was also a whole other deal about how Donnie was a prophet with some supernatural powers or some shit. I dunno, it's been a long time since I watched it/looked it up.

That being said, it's still a very enjoyable movie.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 2:18 am

heatseeker wrote:

EdgeOfForever wrote:

There's a lot more to it than that, but most of it is impossible to understand if you don't read about it first. I think it's a great film no matter how much of it you understand, and if you want to learn more about the film (the tangent universe, the manipulated others) you can, but it's not necessary to know about all that crap to enjoy the film. I think it's similar to Mulholland Drive in that sense.

Exactly. Zad, I'm laughing at you right now because you think you understood the film because you figured out that the plane went back in time. Although nobody would know it unless they looked it up, there was also a whole other deal about how Donnie was a prophet with some supernatural powers or some shit. I dunno, it's been a long time since I watched it/looked it up.

That being said, it's still a very enjoyable movie.

That is exactly how fans of that movie ruined it for people like myself.

Goat · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:58 pm

heatseeker wrote:

EdgeOfForever wrote:

There's a lot more to it than that, but most of it is impossible to understand if you don't read about it first. I think it's a great film no matter how much of it you understand, and if you want to learn more about the film (the tangent universe, the manipulated others) you can, but it's not necessary to know about all that crap to enjoy the film. I think it's similar to Mulholland Drive in that sense.

Exactly. Zad, I'm laughing at you right now because you think you understood the film because you figured out that the plane went back in time. Although nobody would know it unless they looked it up, there was also a whole other deal about how Donnie was a prophet with some supernatural powers or some shit. I dunno, it's been a long time since I watched it/looked it up.

That being said, it's still a very enjoyable movie.

Well forgive me for not caring about a movie's subtext that is only known to IMDB forum-dwellers, and that makes no difference to the film itself. :rolleyes:

Wsx26 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:01 pm

Dead Alive is the best movie ever, I've watched it like 1000 times and it still makes me laugh.

Antonakis · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:49 pm

Batman - The Dark Knight.... 5/5 ... Finally watched it and yes, it is as good as they say!!! :dio:

rio · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:27 pm

Wsx26 wrote:

Dead Alive is the best movie ever, I've watched it like 1000 times and it still makes me laugh.

Damn right

Wintermute · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:49 pm

I agree.

Thomas · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:56 pm

Rendition... Pretty good, but a bad ending in my opinion... I want to know what happened further.

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:34 pm

El Dia De La Bestia
Pretty funny, the stereotypical fat metalhead was amusing.

heatseeker · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:17 pm

Zad wrote:

heatseeker wrote:

EdgeOfForever wrote:

There's a lot more to it than that, but most of it is impossible to understand if you don't read about it first. I think it's a great film no matter how much of it you understand, and if you want to learn more about the film (the tangent universe, the manipulated others) you can, but it's not necessary to know about all that crap to enjoy the film. I think it's similar to Mulholland Drive in that sense.

Exactly. Zad, I'm laughing at you right now because you think you understood the film because you figured out that the plane went back in time. Although nobody would know it unless they looked it up, there was also a whole other deal about how Donnie was a prophet with some supernatural powers or some shit. I dunno, it's been a long time since I watched it/looked it up.

That being said, it's still a very enjoyable movie.

Well forgive me for not caring about a movie's subtext that is only known to IMDB forum-dwellers, and that makes no difference to the film itself. :rolleyes:

Good point.

Although it still shows that you didn't get the whole movie, despite being Mr. Awesome-Krieg Movie Watcher.

The_Voice · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:01 pm

FrigidSymphony wrote:

El Dia De La Bestia
Pretty funny, the stereotypical fat metalhead was amusing.

that guy is hillarious, there is another movie of him called Torrente wich i find very funny.

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:00 pm

The_Voice wrote:

FrigidSymphony wrote:

El Dia De La Bestia
Pretty funny, the stereotypical fat metalhead was amusing.

that guy is hillarious, there is another movie of him called Torrente wich i find very funny.

Thanks, I'll be sure to check it out. Is it always the sort of satirical heavy metal/satanism thing?

Goat · **Posted:** Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:11 pm

heatseeker wrote:

Zad wrote:

heatseeker wrote:

EdgeOfForever wrote:

There's a lot more to it than that, but most of it is impossible to understand if you don't read about it first. I think it's a great film no matter how much of it you understand, and if you want to learn more about the film (the tangent universe, the manipulated others) you can, but it's not necessary to know about all that crap to enjoy the film. I think it's similar to Mulholland Drive in that sense.

Exactly. Zad, I'm laughing at you right now because you think you understood the film because you figured out that the plane went back in time. Although nobody would know it unless they looked it up, there was also a whole other deal about how Donnie was a prophet with some supernatural powers or some shit. I dunno, it's been a long time since I watched it/looked it up.

That being said, it's still a very enjoyable movie.

Well forgive me for not caring about a movie's subtext that is only known to IMDB forum-dwellers, and that makes no difference to the film itself. :rolleyes:

Good point.

Although it still shows that you didn't get the whole movie, despite being Mr. Awesome-Krieg Movie Watcher.

Whateverrrrrrrrr.

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