Bought for a bargain £5.99 today. Great film!..
















































What the hell's going on in it though? Will a help?

I was drunk when I went to the cinema to watch it with my ex and I fell asleep much to her disgust which didn't help matters. Ive got it on DVD so will get round to giving it another view.

JDINTERACTIVE said:

You should. Oddly enough i fell asleep for a minute or so myself. I woke with a jolt when Frank was talking.

Love that scene in the school auditorium between Donnie and Patrick Swayze's character, "you're the fucking anti-christ!"

Marrk said:

"It pains me to say this, son...but you're looking for love in all the wrong places..(sigh)"...

Classic movie, one of my faves
"Sometimes I doubt your commitment to sparkle motion"

All around me are familiar faces, worn out places, worn out faces...

great movie!!

and yes...a little weed definitely helps figuring out the whole damn thing

BorisFishpaw said:

Shitty movie...

Artist: Gary Jules Lyrics
Song: Mad World Lyrics

Verse 1
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, Worn out faces
Bright and early for the daily races
Going nowhere, Going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, No expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, No tomorrow

Chorus
And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
These dreams in which i'm dying, Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very.
Mad World, Mad World

Verse 2
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
And they feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, Sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, No one knew me
Hello teacher tell me whats my lesson
Look right through me, Look right through me

Chorus
And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
These dreams in which i'm dying, Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very.
Mad World, Mad World

Enlargen your world

Mad World

PusherMan said:

OTT. That bad i deserve the finger?

Marrk said:

I loved it, excellent film. Obviously not PusherMan's type of thing though!

If you have difficulty understanding what's going on then in it then, yes, will help (maybe!).

If you're interested here's a link to a synopsys of the film. Be warned, though, it's quite long so you may want to prepare a and before reading : http://www.anthroid.net/a...edarko.htm

Enjoy!

how many threads have been started
about this film anyway?

garganta said:

There were others? Must've been before my time.

AsylumUtopia said:

I am not interested in any Sysnopsis or anything for my Sinusitus...I have seen the film 2X and i tell you it is a stupid film that tries very hard to be sophisticated and it is plain stupid...see Taxi Driver instead...if you want a film about Saviours...heroes and Psychos...

AsylumUtopia said:

yes, there have been other threads about the film
started by other people like months ago. I think
Byron was one of them

PusherMan said:[/quote]
I am not interested in any Sysnopsis or anything for my Sinusitus...I have seen the film 2X and i tell you it is a stupid film that tries very hard to be sophisticated and it is plain stupid...see Taxi Driver instead...if you want a film about Saviours...heroes and Psychos...[/quote]

Forums are for opinions. This aint a shitty movie...u find it a shitty movie. I enjoyed it...and i too like Taxidriver. Have some respect for other peops opinions pls.

Whistler said:

I am not interested in any Sysnopsis or anything for my Sinusitus...I have seen the film 2X and i tell you it is a stupid film that tries very hard to be sophisticated and it is plain stupid...see Taxi Driver instead...if you want a film about Saviours...heroes and Psychos...[/quote]

Forums are for opinions. This aint a shitty movie...u find it a shitty movie. I enjoyed it...and i too like Taxidriver. Have some respect for other peops opinions pls.[/quote]
But that is MY opinion...

It's a great movie.

Hurray for cult movies.

And it was so strange to see Mad World hit the charts here, about three or four years after it's release, what's up with that?

gooeythehamster said:



yep, I saw the film for the first time just one week before Christmas and I got completely hooked by that song. One week after I find out that Mad World is the Christmas number one song in the UK... so long after the film´s release


spooky!!

PusherMan said:

So don't read it. I posted the link to the synopsis for Marrk, (and anyone else who is interested).
C'mon you don't think I posted it for your benefit do you?.

As for your sinusitus, that can be quite serious, I would see a doctor if I were you.

I have seen Taxi Driver and it is one of the most disappointing 'classic' films I have ever seen. Totally overrated.

If you want a film about Saviours...heroes and Psychos then watch The Matrix.

And that's MY opinion.

Talking about overated I'm predicting "Donnie Darko" will be the most overrated film. It smells like the kind of movie that wants you to think it's really deep, causing people to claim they loved it even though they actually found it incomprehensible.
I defy you to tell me what this movie is about and point out portions of it to support your theory. It's occasionally about the opposite emotions of love and fear and what falls in between them, but it's also sometimes about fate and predestination. For that matter, sometimes it's a character study, and other times it's a science-fiction time-travel fantasy.
But it is none of these things long enough or with enough commitment to develop any of them. As a result, it's a mish-mash of disparate, non-cohesive ideas, the sort of film that thinks it's brilliant just because no one understands it.
Maddeningly, it also has a lot going for it. Jake Gyllenhaal (who you loved if you saw "October Sky") plays the title character, an upper-class suburban high-schooler beset with visions of a human-size demon rabbit (the anti-Harvey, I guess) who tells him to do things like flood the school and set fire to people's houses. Gyllenhaal gives a wonderful, brooding performance, lending realism to a character surrounded by surrealism.
There are some delicious characters, too, including Patrick Swayze as a lugubrious self-help guru (think Tom Cruise in "Magnolia," only more grating) and Mary McDonnell as Donnie's concerned mother. Katharine Ross as Donnie's therapist and Holmes Osbourne as his dad turn in expert performances, too. (Ignore Drew Barrymore, who is stilted and weird as Donnie's English teacher, and who I'm guessing got the part because she executive produced the thing.)
It has a glorious soundtrack, too, as it's set in 1988 and uses several great popular songs from that year. (Any movie that opens with INXS's kickin' "Never Tear Us Apart" has something going for it, as far as I'm concerned.) There's also quite a bit of witty, entertaining dialogue.
But back to the story. Frank the devil rabbit regularly makes Donnie get up in the middle of the night and wander around town. One such evening, he tells Donnie that the world will end in a few weeks. Shortly after he tells him this, a jet engine mysteriously falls from the sky and crashes through Donnie's bedroom. Had Frank not led Donnie out of it, he would certainly have been killed. Now Donnie knows to trust the prophetic Frank, or something.
This includes suddenly becoming more assertive than he's ever been, telling off his witchy gym teacher, as well as the aforementioned self-help idiot. He gets a girlfriend, too, a new student named Gretchen (Jena Malone).
Frank keeps asking Donnie if he believes in time travel, so Donnie asks his science teacher (Noah Wyle) about it. He lends him a book that happens to have been written, years ago, by the local 100-year-old crazy woman, who spends her days walking from the middle of the street to her mailbox and back again. Donnie begins to see forward into time, sort of: He can see a gel-like trail leading from people's chests toward wherever they're about to go, thus giving him the skill of knowing someone's about to walk across the room before they actually do. (Why this is a skill, I don't know. I also don't know why Donnie can only do it every now and then.)
Will the world end the day after Halloween, as predicted by Frank? If so, what can Donnie do about it? How do time travel and the senile mailbox-tender relate to it all? Why the occasional harping on hypocrisy as it pertains to Swayze's character and others? What does Frank the rabbit represent? Whatever the symbol is, is it totally undermined by the revelation of Frank's real-life basis?
These questions, and many others, are raised but not answered. In fact, they're barely even addressed. The ending is most perplexing. One can almost see Donnie as a hero or a savior, except that the way things turn out is monstrously confusing, making us second-guess the entire film.
"Donnie Darko" is not boring, I'll give it that. High-caliber performances and unusual goings-on keep it interesting. But it's the sort of "interesting" that also makes us enjoy dreaming when we sleep: Anything can happen, and it's fun to continue watching just to see where it goes.
You can read a lot into it if you want, but chances are you're looking for depth where there is none...

PusherMan said:

Who ever said there was anyways?

It's what I like about it; it gives people a chance to put something of their OWN believes into it, like that song Purple Rain.

PusherMan said:

Hey, all I said was that I liked it, nothing more, nothing less. Did you actually write the above, or is it an IMDB review? As it happens I don't think it was a deep movie, I thought it was weird and in parts thought-provoking, but mostly it provided me with 2 hours (ish) of weirdness and entertainment.

"You can read a lot into it if you want, but chances are you're looking for depth where there is none"

I agree totally. Just entertainment.

By the way, you'll be happy to know that it doesn't feature in the IMDB top 20 films.

I just didn't get the ending.
I loved the rest of the movie though.

noepie said:

Martin (Virgin) had the end EXPLAINED to him, hehehe.

I thought that was funny.

AsylumUtopia said:

Go to www.ymdb.com/topmovies.asp and see were it is...right after Big Lebowski...
[This message was edited Wed Feb 4 5:59:06 PST 2004 by PusherMan]

imdb
ymdb

Who ripped who off?

Whistler said:

I am not interested in any Sysnopsis or anything for my Sinusitus...I have seen the film 2X and i tell you it is a stupid film that tries very hard to be sophisticated and it is plain stupid...see Taxi Driver instead...if you want a film about Saviours...heroes and Psychos...[/quote]

Forums are for opinions. This aint a shitty movie...u find it a shitty movie. I enjoyed it...and i too like Taxidriver. Have some respect for other peops opinions pls.
[/quote]
If you like Taxi Driver please Vote here : www.efilmcritic.com/revie...?movie=517

PusherMan said:

Ah, I didn't go to page 2 last time. Well, it wouldn't come that high on my list. Then again, that list doesn't mean much anyway. Fight Club No.1 ? I don't think so!

gooeythehamster said:

IMDB was first (Internet Movie Data Base)
YMDB is Your Movie Data Base...Once you can enlist and rank your favorite 20 movies now...it is only Read-Only...temporarily...until the owners transfer the database to a bigger server...