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MARV3712

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One of my favorite movies. If you like scifi and strange but interesting stories then this is the movie for you.

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Posted sep 9, 2009 10:30 pm pt

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This was an awsome movie. Ive been looking everywhere to see and then BAM!! I found it. So anyways donnie darko is disturbing I must say. That being said its well worth it for many reasons. If you want a awsome thriller then donnie darko should...
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This was an awsome movie. Ive been looking everywhere to see and then BAM!! I found it. So anyways donnie darko is disturbing I must say. That being said its well worth it for many reasons. If you want a awsome thriller then donnie darko should really please in everyway.

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Posted sep 5, 2009 4:11 am pt

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this film was so crap!

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Posted jan 21, 2009 1:57 am pt

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Donnie Darko is either a love it or hate it kind of film. It all depends if you like the mindf*ck or after the watching utter "What the f*ck?"

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Posted dec 25, 2008 7:21 pm pt

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Time travel, super powers, psychological problems...and great musical montages (screw the director's cut version songs)! What's not to like? It's one of those great movies that you'll see new things the more you watch it. Good times.

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Posted nov 13, 2008 10:15 am pt

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Weird! Awesome! I had to view this movie several times to really wrap my mind around the ideas it was trying to get across, but now it is a "must own!" Jake and Maggie G. are both amazing actors, and Jake really brings the movie to life.

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Posted sep 28, 2008 11:52 pm pt

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Richard Kelly has made one film that can't escape the grip of success...

Also, Mad World on the soundtrack was pretty good, it had wonderful cinematic style so it was good to hear that while it showed the scenes.

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Posted mar 22, 2008 12:52 am pt

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one of the three best Time Travel movies... the others being Primer and Time Bandits.

Also Frank is awesome... and it was great to hear Joy Division on the soundtrack!

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Posted sep 12, 2007 12:35 pm pt

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Complex coming-of-age supernatural DARK adventure drama, this film pretty much defies description. Jake Gyllenhaal is outstanding in this movie. It's one film that can take you very deep into the subject of time travel and other existential...
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Complex coming-of-age supernatural DARK adventure drama, this film pretty much defies description. Jake Gyllenhaal is outstanding in this movie. It's one film that can take you very deep into the subject of time travel and other existential matters...I love how many interesting conversations can you have based around the meaning of this movie

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Posted sep 8, 2007 4:00 am pt

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I saw this movie late at night, after watching another movie, Grandmas Boy, which is a comedy. So I first watched a comedy, then switch to this drama, somewhat dark movie.

Now heard a lot about this movie, so when I saw it was on, I...
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I saw this movie late at night, after watching another movie, Grandmas Boy, which is a comedy. So I first watched a comedy, then switch to this drama, somewhat dark movie.

Now heard a lot about this movie, so when I saw it was on, I immediately switched to that channel. After watching it, all I can saw was, "Woah..." It was very interesting. Frank the bunny was a little creepy though, too bad Donnie shot him in the eye. Anyways when the aircraft engine almost falls on Donnie, anyways The movie ends with predestination paradox, and Donnie choosing to stay in bed, and die.

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Posted aug 26, 2007 6:02 am pt

• [+] New Times (L.A.)
  
  100
  Like gathering storm clouds, Donnie Darko creates an atmosphere of eerie calm and mounting menace -- stands as one of the most exceptional movies of 2001.

  by Jean Oppenheimer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  91
  Kelly, the 26-year-old writer-director of this excitingly original indie vision, shares more artistically with Wes Anderson or Paul Thomas Anderson than he does with Spielberg or John Hughes, but the point is, he's out on his own here. He swings big -- with flair.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  90
  It is funny, sad and beautiful. And it's right on time.

  by Joe Donnelly | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  90
  Certainly the most original and venturesome American indie I've seen this year.

  by J. Hoberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  80
  Appealingly, the movie has a certain lightness -- like the aforementioned butterfly -- which makes its foreboding qualities surprisingly user-friendly.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Mr. Showbiz
  
  80
  The nerviest, oddest, most outlandish and idiosyncratic American indie debut since "Buffalo 66," Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko defies description.

  by Michael Atkinson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  80
  If you let it be what it is, Donnie Darko will knock you flat.

  by Jan Stuart | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  80
  Kelly is a supple and courageous storyteller, boldly free-associating as he mixes parody and satire with earnest psychodrama and coming up with plot points no one could anticipate.

  by Lisa Alspector | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  80
  A stunning technical accomplishment that virtually bursts with noise, ideas and references, but it's fundamentally a gracefully crafted movie that's about human beings and not images.

  by Andrew O'Hehir | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  78
  So much here is equally befuddling and beguiling; I caught myself leaning in toward the screen repeatedly, trying to somehow get closer to the gorgeous impenetrability of the story, of the boy.

  by Kimberley Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  75
  The flaws are more than balanced out by the risks the earnest Kelly encourages his excellent cast to take.

  by Elizabeth Weitzman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  75
  Its only constant is that it's strangely eloquent and quite original.

  by Paula Nechak | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  75
  Most experienced filmmakers wouldn't even attempt a film that's so blackly funny, that so rapidly shifts genres and tone, and that layers late '80s cultural references so thickly, from "E.T." to Smurfs.

  by Lou Lumenick | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  70
  Has plenty of problems. But most stem from a young filmmaker overswinging on his first time up to the plate and hitting a deep fly out rather than a home run.

  by Todd McCarthy | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  70
  David Lynch lite.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »