So I just watched it for the first time. Was that Seth Rogan? WTF exactly happened? My brain hurts.
What kind of name is "TheTruth"?What the hell kinda name is donnie darko?
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That is a good one too. I saw it right when it came out. I remember being confused when they ran into the homeless looking guy that was freaked out. I think it was a friend or relative, father-in-law maybe?Times 3.
Anyone seen Primer? Another good time travel movie.
I must be dense. I still can't figure out where the plane engine originated. It comes from the parallel dimension, and Donnie may have or may not have used telekinesis to pull it off the plane himself, but he most certainly creates the wormhole and sends it back in time (along with himself, because his past self knows what happened) to crush himself, which he only avoided being crushed in the first place because Frank pulls him out of bed. But isn't the wormhole itself that the engine falls through the cause of the unstable parallel dimension in the first place??Just watched this, really enjoyed it. I am more confused about how someone couldn't understand the movie. You just had to think about it a little afterward. I like the fact that it didn't spoon feed the plot and foreshadow everything so much that you could figure out the ending in the first five minutes as most movies do.
I guess more people would have liked it if the special effects were better, a few car chases and explosions would have helped.
I certainly can not explain that. I guess I was happy understanding that the engine was the connection between the tangent series of events and the eventual reality. I don't really care about the actual mechanics of it, seems rather irrelevant. No more a leap of faith than waking hallucinations of a dead guy in a bunny suit.I must be dense. I still can't figure out where the plane engine originated. It comes from the parallel dimension, and Donnie may have or may not have used telekinesis to pull it off the plane himself, but he most certainly creates the wormhole and sends it back in time (along with himself, because his past self knows what happened) to crush himself, which he only avoided being crushed in the first place because Frank pulls him out of bed. But isn't the wormhole itself that the engine falls through the cause of the unstable parallel dimension in the first place??
Yep, crystal clear.
And without the extras which tell you about Roberta Sparrow's book, I'd get the time travel, but not necessarily the parallel-future aspect so clearly. And certainly not the fact that the creation of a parallel future would destabilize the fabric of the universe and cause the world to end.
Hmmm, the story itself seemed so hooked on the mechanics of it all, plus there's the fact that I'm a professional investigator...(although I wasn't at the time I first saw it I suppose.)I certainly can not explain that. I guess I was happy understanding that the engine was the connection between the tangent series of events and the eventual reality. I don't really care about the actual mechanics of it, seems rather irrelevant. No more a leap of faith than waking hallucinations of a dead guy in a bunny suit.
My understanding was that it was a time loop. He escaped getting crushed/killed by the engine the first time, only to manage/figure out how to go back and get killed - which was the universe's way of correcting itself - because Frank got Donnie out of the house in the first place (when he was supposed to have died).I must be dense. I still can't figure out where the plane engine originated. It comes from the parallel dimension, and Donnie may have or may not have used telekinesis to pull it off the plane himself, but he most certainly creates the wormhole and sends it back in time (along with himself, because his past self knows what happened) to crush himself, which he only avoided being crushed in the first place because Frank pulls him out of bed. But isn't the wormhole itself that the engine falls through the cause of the unstable parallel dimension in the first place??
Yep, crystal clear.
And without the extras which tell you about Roberta Sparrow's book, I'd get the time travel, but not necessarily the parallel-future aspect so clearly. And certainly not the fact that the creation of a parallel future would destabilize the fabric of the universe and cause the world to end.
That woman is in EVERYTHING. As pretty much the exact same character.Great movie.
Now I notice the head mom from "Sparkle Motion" in every damn movie I watch.
Just saw Extract the other day.... she was in it.
So why did Frank get him out of the house in the first place?My understanding was that it was a time loop. He escaped getting crushed/killed by the engine the first time, only to manage/figure out how to go back and get killed - which was the universe's way of correcting itself - because Frank got Donnie out of the house in the first place (when he was supposed to have died).
Hmmm, the story itself seemed so hooked on the mechanics of it all, plus there's the fact that I'm a professional investigator...(although I wasn't at the time I first saw it I suppose.)
You and I had the same perception of incompleteness, then. I just thought it was a bit weak whereas you don't mind.
And after more watchings, I really do like it. Hell, we own the original and the director's cut.
But, if you're a true hipster, it's time to disavow that played-out shiznit and jump on the hate train.
Was she in "Across the Universe?"That woman is in EVERYTHING. As pretty much the exact same character.
No idea. Frank was a manifestation of Donnie's subconscious (perhaps out of severe schizophrenia), or perhaps was some sort of messenger fabricated by the tangent universe.So why did Frank get him out of the house in the first place?
when you get to press the reset button and travel back in time, there's no consequences. so why not?I get everything except why the heck Frank had him flood the school.
Well, everything else his subconscious had him do was pretty much to warn him about what was going to happen.... Except that.when you get to press the reset button and travel back in time, there's no consequences. so why not?