Donnie Darko sucks major Ass
I hate this movie. I really didn’t like it before, before I knew very many people that did like it, but seeing the mass praise this crapturd of cinema gets is disgusting to me. This shitty movie with shitty acting has an even shittier plot, as for which I will not be saying it has. Instead, I will refer to it as “lettuce”, because that is about how smart the writer must have been when he hammered out this…this…piece. As for the plot, well, there isn’t one! Its merely a string of random events, all that have something to due with a dumb jackhole in a bunny suit. Am I watching Furry porn all of a sudden? Okay, let me describe this to you:
The movie stars this young douche bag named Jake Gyllenhaal. He does nothing throughout the movie except look older than his character and have this half-retarded smirk on his moronic face. I wanted to punch the dumbass as soon as he came on screen, and by the end of the movie my hand was bloody raw. He’s a shitty actor, same as everyone else in the movie. Okay, enough about that bad acting.
The plot equally sucks. Again, as stated above, there isn’t so much a plot as there is an elephants pile of nothingness. Nothing gets resolved! In the end, the gay dude in the bunny suit even gets run over and killed by fugly Jake. Does it make any difference? No! This stupid movie then just keeps going on and on, adding more threads to already shambling mess.
Even thought I hate this term almost as much as this movie, this movie is emo. And I mean that in the worst possible way. There’s nothing to life, that you should die? Yeah, great message. If only all the emo fucks that see this will take that advice to heart. Then my cold and bitter heart won’t hate humanity quite as much.
Oh, and BTW, shut up with the “you have to go to the website” bullshit. Any movie that forces me to play some stupid mini game on a crappily designed website is a piece of shit. Seriously.
I’m tired of complaining about this movie. Leave me alone now.
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October 21, 2007 at 12:33 pm
I hate the website stuff too, and have never read it.
In passing – RPS turned up in the referrals – the “Point” isn’t that you should die. The point
October 21, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Turned up via RPSreferrals…
I hate the website stuff too, and have never read it for the same reasons. That said, from what I understand, it doesn’t really explain what it’s “about”, just what’s happened (i.e. Mechanisms of time travel, etc). That shit’s not the real point.
Ultrasimplifying, but it’s not nihilistic. It’s absolutely the opposite – it’s that, no matter how sad it may appear, that deaths (and, by implication, all deaths) happen for a reason.
REALLY ultrasimplifying, the point of the story is explaining to Donny why he has to die. If he doesn’t die in bed when the engine crashes down on him, the world ends and everyone he knows with dies. However, due to the experiences of the days, he understands that he’s dying for a reason and doesn’t feel alone. Before, he was confused and depressed. When he dies, he isn’t – he knows there is a point and a plan and a reason.
I have problems with the film’s message, as it’s Christian hippy-dippy predestination bullshit*, but you’re beating it with the wrong stick, man.
(Glad you like the site, btw)
KG
*That said, despite me thinking it bullshit, I think it’s pretty (both in terms of looks and mood) bullshit, so like it a lot more than you do.
April 17, 2009 at 10:51 am
This thread may be incredibly old in terms of me responding, but I just watched Donnie Darko for the first time and agree with you sentiments. However, you need to watch the film again because you clearly do not understand the plot. If you do not understand the plot, then you certainly cannot properly build a case against the film. I did not like the movie because self-sacrifice is SO played out. There were also many play-on words that alluded to sex such as Middlesex and Dukakis.
If you think about it, Dukakis has no place in the film other than his name sounds funny. Dukakis=Do-cock-ass.
I am really getting tired of these lame writers who you can tell spent a lot of time hitting the bong and dropping tabs in college. They develop stories around
awkward sex scenarios and drug-laced experiences. It is almost a wonder any of the stories these kind of narrow-minded writers make sense. I have an inkling that there is statistics at play.
…and by the way, Donnie Darko has a Catcher in the Rye feel. *yawn*
October 29, 2010 at 5:23 pm
that is the plot! its like a series of punches in the face then a bullet to the head at the end! S DARKO WAS WORST SO SHUT UP!
May 30, 2009 at 9:08 pm
You are very simple minded about the plot.
July 8, 2009 at 6:53 pm
I have to mostly agree with you. I watched Dunny Dickwipe during a part of my life where I was completely fucked of my tits most of the time on one kind of halucinogen or another. At that time (the kind of time people tend to seek out those kinds of films) I found the movie barely passable as ok. In act I kind of thought it was mostly crap then. Heck, I’d watched a shitbarge of movies then that were way better. The plot made sense in a basic abstract sense, it was even somewhat interesting but wasn’t exactly revolutionary. The way it pretentiously bigged up it’s own premise is kind of like putting makeup on a mound of shit and expecting it to make a difference.
I have to say the most sureal thing about it is that recently I’ve noticed a whole bunch of fucking hippy/emo/scene/sheep fuckwads worshipping this film. I mean what the fuck. The film is common as dirt in the alternative scene. I could name dozens of films that rival it and probably far exceed it in complexity, profoundness, pschedelic shit, etc/whatever the fuck it is the youth go for these days. So basically it has gone from a film that’s ok, and slightly interesting to a fucking piece of shit I can’t stand because people can’t fucking stop talking about it as if it’s not only some kind of masterpiece but as if it’s the only fucking film ever. As if the film wasn’t boring enough it’s self, these people bore me to tears.
What’s worse is that they have made a sequal which is even fucking worse. The pretentiousness invoked such a desire to inflict violence within me they really should fucking ban this shit. Here’s a fucking example. What the fuck has a hyper cube flying through the air got to fucking do with anything? Seriously, what the fuck were they thinking? You can’t just make a film about time travel, and then arbitrarily through in a hypercube for no reason other than “DUUDES I KNOW! LETS HAVE A HYPER CUBE FLYING THROUGH THE AIR BECAUSE LIKE OH MANY THEY’RE TOTALLY AWESOME AND 4D AND SHIT AND LIKE THE FOURTH D IS LIKE TIME MAAAAANNNN!”. At least this time people have the sense to give it a 4 on IMDB. But really it should be a number 2, because it is fucking shit.
September 15, 2009 at 3:09 pm
[...] I finally got over the creepy bunny costume thing and sat down to watch Donnie Darko last night. And I got bored. Right away. The pacing? Did not work for me. The acting? Did not ring [...]
October 28, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Well, the thread is bullshit. It seems either you did’t even try to understand the plot or you just DON’T GET IT. See director’s cut if it’s too hard to get it. See comentary, if it’s STILL hard to get it. If you have any brains you can put puzzzlepieces in the middle of the movie and sit back, watching how they put together as you predicted. This is understanding of the plot.
As for the sequel, it SUCKS ASS. I would kill that deuchebag Chris Fisher for screwing Richard Kelly’s masterpiece.
October 29, 2010 at 5:44 pm
I understand the plot. Its just the plot is a pile of buffalo shit. also GO BACK TO SCHOOL!
October 30, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Mediocre at best. I’m sick of people saying i don’t like it cause i don’t get it. I understand the plot or lack thereof. anyways it’s not that bad. well, the acting is…..
January 2, 2010 at 9:54 am
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December 24, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Ummm…. No.
I agreed with some of your rant. The website is bullshit. And I hate the hype. But the acting wasn’t noticeably bad.
But, the message wasn’t “life sucks, go kill yourself,” not at all. It attracts emo kids (who I despise BTW) because they are retards and dont get it. Donnie SACRIFICED himself for the people he loved. It was a tragedy, like Shakespeare. Nothing emo about Shakespeare. You don’t call Romeo and Juliet emo, do you? Just saying….
And how’d you get that the bunny was gay? And, he didn’t get run over, he got shot. He was a messenger of god– The Holy Spirit, if you will. Definitely not gay.
And the movie wasn’t a string of random events. You just have to pay attention and use your brain. Aside from the stupid emos who lie and say they learned the meaning of life in it, it attracts more– educated… or observant people. Not rednecks that get pissed if no one gets gunned down in the first 10 minutes.
And you can’t say it was shitty. Its the # 9 movie you should see before you die. Obviously, someone got it.
January 2, 2011 at 10:05 am
Donnie’s stupid he could have just ignored the girl the second time they meet just like in butterfly effect. Darko just went through the whole thing once and he quits. This movie is for loosers.
February 21, 2012 at 9:08 am
he should get a visit by frank.