I recently got to see a movie on DVD that I had missed catching at the theater when it was out. It was about this crazy kid who figured out how to travel through time, or see the future, or something like that. It was ultra violent and somehow side-lighted child pornography. The crazy guy had to make a choice about whether he would let events unfold a certain way, so that the girl that he loved would die, and all of his friends' and family's lives would be messed up, or change things so that he never met her in the first place. I had a very difficult time understanding what was going on and I think the kid was simply psychotic and that most/all of the time-travel hoopla, and decisions made, were a bunch of bunk. I'm of course talking about Donnie Darko.
Posted by jesse at August 17, 2004 12:29 PMI recommend watching the commentary if you're confused about what's going on. They had to edit the movie down for time, so some things that make it make more sense got cut. Or wait until the new director's cut comes out.
Posted by: TheBon at August 17, 2004 01:20 PMThank you. I thought it was a bad DD rip-off as well.
Posted by: Lynn at August 17, 2004 05:38 PMI haven't seen The Butterfly Effect. Thanks for confirming that for me. There's only one "Donnie Darko." And it's amazing.
Please. Ashton Kutcher isn't even good enough to wash Jake Gyllenhaal's hair.
Posted by: DeAnn at August 17, 2004 10:45 PMTheBon: Do you mean watch Donnie Darko's commentary? Where were you people when I blogged about DD and described how badly it sucked, anyway? :)
Posted by: Jesse Thompson at August 18, 2004 12:11 AMYeah, I was talking about DD. And I believe I was living in North Dakota and had no interest in ORBlogs then.
Posted by: TheBon at August 18, 2004 12:54 AMI blogged about it just a couple months ago; I never saw it in theaters. I hadn't even heard of it in 2001. And furthermore, I shall now eat this bowl of corn-dog batter. Mmmph! mm mmphmmm (etc)
Posted by: Jesse Thompson at August 18, 2004 07:40 PM