BTW I saw Richard Kelly interviewed on Oz TV the other night...he's cute!
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
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Angus G - Aug 21, 2004 4:50:00 am PDT #2951 of 10001
Roguish Laird
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.
victor infante - Aug 21, 2004 6:50:01 pm PDT #2959 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
If you've got some time, work your way through the Web site, [link] It goes into tangent universes, artifacts from them, et al.
Of course, it will still melt your brain.
Sean K - Aug 21, 2004 7:41:49 pm PDT #2960 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
There's a point in the movie where they explain that when a time loop is closed, there will always be an artifact of some kind, so even though the tangent universe gets closed, the engine is still left behind as the artfact, the sole piece of evidence that the tangent universe ever existed.