Is Donnie Darko a good movie or a bad movie to watch when one is seriously PMSing?
This should probably be answered by someone who doesn't think it's a bad movie, period, huh?
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Is Donnie Darko a good movie or a bad movie to watch when one is seriously PMSing?
This should probably be answered by someone who doesn't think it's a bad movie, period, huh?
It should be answered by someone who has a period.
This should probably be answered by someone who doesn't think it's a bad movie, period, huh?
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I'm with Gandalfe. Probably not.
I would imagine that, with PMS, you'd end up throwing your remote, bowl of ice cream, cat, or whatever else is handy through the TV screen in a fit of WHATTHEFUCKISGOINGON!?!?!?!
That trailer totally made me cry, but I don't know that I'd recommend the movie to someone who wasn't a fan of the show.
The trailer made me cry and I don't know the show at all. I am, however, a BIG fan of musicals. As evidence by the last two movies I have actually seen in a theatre-- Chicago and Moulin Rouge.
I ended up not watching DD last night, so thanks for the warnings. From what I've picked up by searching old threads for comments, this one may go back to Netflix unwatched.
I seriously love Donnie Darko, but I pretty much just groove on the music and the pretty people and the atmospherics, and don't especially want it to make sense -- I don't know if I'd recommend it to someone who was prone to be irritable and less likely to be charmed by those things.
Also, on Rent, I agree that if you know the music, you know the show. There are probably fewer than ten lines of dialogue that aren't on the OCR, and it's not a show one goes to for the dancing.
I spent most of the time watching Donnie Darko thinking "What the fuck??? The hell?" but I kind of liked it.
And then I listened to the commentary and felt like a complete idiot because I totally didn't get it and the director seemed to think stuff was really obvious. Maybe if I'd watched the movie more than once I would have gotten something, but I didn't like it that much.
I can't stop watching the Rent trailer. It sends chills up my spine every time.
And then I listened to the commentary and felt like a complete idiot because I totally didn't get it and the director seemed to think stuff was really obvious. Maybe if I'd watched the movie more than once I would have gotten something,
No, it's okay askye. The director's interpretation is craxy. Don't fret about it.