And the smurfs conversation, particularly, cracked me up.
Hasn't the creator of the Smurfs agreed that Donnie was right WRT their sex lives?
Don't worry, we're sure to spot Faith first. She's like this cleavagy slut-bomb walking around 'Ooh, check me out, I'm wicked-cool, I'm five-by-five.'
Willow ,'Get It Done'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 21, 2004 3:45:23 am PDT #2949 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Angus G - Aug 21, 2004 4:49:16 am PDT #2950 of 10001
Roguish Laird
I saw the Director's Cut recently too. It's still just about my favourite movie of the '00s so far (well perhaps just behind Mullholland Dr ) and I'd quite happily sit through an extra 320 minutes if it was on offer, but in places it did seem to be trying to clarify the story a bit too much for my liking (along the lines of the DVD commentary)...of course, even the "official" interpretation offered by Richard Kelly is still completely incoherent, so it's all good.
Angus G - Aug 21, 2004 4:50:00 am PDT #2951 of 10001
Roguish Laird
BTW I saw Richard Kelly interviewed on Oz TV the other night...he's cute!
Jon B. - Aug 21, 2004 6:09:04 am PDT #2952 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Is any of the additional footage in the DD Director's Cut, stuff that isn't included in the deleted scenes section of the DVD?
Angus G - Aug 21, 2004 6:17:01 am PDT #2953 of 10001
Roguish Laird
Jon, there's a whole lot of extrapolated material from the Philosophy of Time Travel book that I don't remember seeing on the DVD (and which sets out, if rather cryptically, the "tangent universe" theory of the film).
Kate P. - Aug 21, 2004 7:13:37 am PDT #2954 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, and Kevin Spacey. Goddamn, that's a great movie.
Dana speaks the truth. L.A. Confidential is fantastic.
I remember being not all that impressed with Donnie Darko. I wonder if I should give it another try.
Polter-Cow - Aug 21, 2004 8:44:05 am PDT #2955 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jon, there's a whole lot of extrapolated material from the Philosophy of Time Travel book that I don't remember seeing on the DVD
I think that stuff is supposed to be from the website.
And L.A. Confidential does indeed rule.
DebetEsse - Aug 21, 2004 1:17:23 pm PDT #2956 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
What I don't remember about the Smurfs is where the kids came from. I know there was an origin story, but I have no idea.
See, I feel like I understood the movie, except for where the engine came from, as it seemed like it got sucked back in time, but if you don't tangent, then there's nowhere to get sucked back from, if that makes sense (about it not making sense). I don't know if that means it was over-clarified (on some or all points) or what.
I figured there was less book in the original.
victor infante - Aug 21, 2004 5:13:01 pm PDT #2957 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
except for where the engine came from, as it seemed like it got sucked back in time, but if you don't tangent
Donnie brought it from the tangent universe to the real universe, causing the possibility of the tangent to no longer exist.
Angus G - Aug 21, 2004 5:22:57 pm PDT #2958 of 10001
Roguish Laird
Yeah but you're then left with a real universe is which a plane engine has appeared from nowhere, so that's still a rupture in the space-time whatever isn't it? Like, it's hard to see how what Donnie does actually resolves anything. So I prefer to think of the whole movie as ambiguous and unresolved.