New movies for this week (In addition to Kill Bill)

Donnie Darko, pretty good, Dark, a little hard to follow(I may watch it again) Patrick Swazy as a pedophile what else do you need ? Frank-"Twenty-eight days... six hours... forty-two minutes... twelve seconds. That... is when the world... will end."

The Prophecy, Christopher Walken as the angel Gabriel. It will get you looking up all the angels just to see their varying carnage. also featuring Lucifer. Gabriel-"Do you know how you got that dent, in your top lip? Way back, before you were born, I told you a secret, then I put my finger there and I said "Shhhhh!" "

Chasing Amy, truly my favorite Kevin Smith so far. I dig the dialogue in Clerks and the camp in Jay and Silent Bob, but the acting and script work in Amy really grabbed me. Doesn't hurt that Joey Adams is hot, with a sweet husky voice. Alyssa-"For you, to **** is to penetrate. You're used to the more traditional definition - you inside some girl you do, jackhammering away, not noticing that bored look in her eyes."

The thing with Donnie Darko is why is Frank doing this for him...the man who shot him?

Is he trying to save a girl's life, or his own....or does he know this girl and Donnie got in the way, and wants to have his past self get the hook-up on? Yeah option 3 is a bit far fetched, but some of teh most screwed up drama has been over a girl.

Chasing Amy is just classic. one of my co-workers has a set of fingercuffs up on his desk, just because he found that moment so funny. I liked the end talk on the couch...my god, that was just messed up...Gotta admit, that was one of Afflek's better roles in my opinion.

If you don't mind movies with a very very dark ending, go watch requiem for a dream...it's an excellent movie...it should carry a very strong R rating though...there are two versions out the NR and the R rated ones...the R rated one has content missing that you really won't miss...the NR well...you get to se Jennifer Connelly doing some rather nasty things...and in context the scene was jsut horrible...it's nothing you'll be missing...trust me on this, and it's not my innate pig talking on this matter either :p

Donnie Darko is getting a re-release soon, beginning in NYC and LA. Apparently the cult of Darko has made studios reconsider and push it to the public once again.

Donnie Darko is trying to save the world.. The movie makes more sense the more and more you watch it.. watch the deleted scenes.. watch the movie with director's comontary.. read the book. the movie was suposed to be a sci movie where donnie darko, with his super powers ans the ghost of Frank saves the world from its literal destruction.

Donnie Darko was awesome! It's one of those one's that you go to watch substance impaired, then watch the very next day so you can understand it, then give up because it's too whack. Requeim For A Dream will get rid of your inner child once and for all... Some other good mind-f@&$ movies are :
Anything by Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick or David Lynch. Check out Gummo or Julien Donkey Boy by Harmony Korin.

DD: pretty good flick. I was annoyed that the movie wasn't self-contained with no warning in advance that you friggin' have to use other sources, like the website to get a decent understanding of the movie.

Love Kevin Smith's stuff, tho I haven't seen Jersey Girl... he admits he did it cuz he owed the studio a favor. Smith is being tapped by George Lucas for the potential upcoming Star Wars TV series. I know, SW TV? But if anyone can pull it off, it's a quality director and writer who truly loves and understands SW... which Lucas apparently has no clue since Jedi.


Just saw Sparticus... check it out.

Darko - amazing film. I had never heard of it when my roommate bought it, so I didn't know what I was watching. It's just...good.

Prophecy - rented it on a Walken binge. In my opinion it can be classified as a classic...of some variety...

Chasing Amy - Love it! Big Smith fan, but I also have neglected to see Jersey Girl. I DID write angry letters to ABC when they cancelled the Clerks cartoon.



As a newcomer, may I ask what inspires this thread? Is this a Netflix thing?

Donnie Darko is so painfully overrated. It just so happens that all of my friends love it and need to watch it every other time I come over.

Chasing Amy is quite good, though.

Well Donnie Darko is a somewhat lighthearted tragic movie, and I think that's what makes it work so well. As opposed to Butterfly Effect, or Requiem for a Dream, or any of the other tragic movies that were out recently, which tended to have a sharper, harder ending...Requiem was downright saddening at the end, and is pretty much a very disturbing movie due to the subject matter and how believeable it is. Donnie Darko is more fictional, so your more detatched, so was Butterfly Effect. The further cartoonization of Donnie Darko was what made the ending so much softer than it could have been, and made it actually a tragedy which doesnt exactly leave you down at the end.

Given it's not the greatest movie made, but it's pretty good overall.

I prefer abstract movies like 12 monkeys better, where what is going on varies depending on each viewer's interpretation. The last 20 seconds of that movie was what unraveled everything...that is if you were paying attention :)

FIGHT CLUB great great great great movie must see

Well Donnie Darko is a somewhat lighthearted tragic movie, and I think that's what makes it work so well. As opposed to Butterfly Effect, or Requiem for a Dream, or any of the other tragic movies that were out recently, which tended to have a sharper, harder ending...Requiem was downright saddening at the end, and is pretty much a very disturbing movie due to the subject matter and how believeable it is. Donnie Darko is more fictional, so your more detatched, so was Butterfly Effect. The further cartoonization of Donnie Darko was what made the ending so much softer than it could have been, and made it actually a tragedy which doesnt exactly leave you down at the end.

Given it's not the greatest movie made, but it's pretty good overall.

Hmmm, as far as lighthearted tragedies go, I'd have to choose Life is Beautiful as my favourite. A really heartwarming, light, happy movie...even if the second half of it was set in a concentration camp. It takes some talent to insert warmth and humour into WWII. Either way, I just don't quite get why every kid I know creams themselves over Donnie Darko.

neither do I , I prefer requiem myself...the movies that either really make me feel somthing, or make me think for hours on end are the ones I like best.

Darko isnt a favorite, but it stis right up there with clerks and jawbreaker (only on merit of how truly f----d up that movie is...aside from that its a very very ******ed movie).

I also really enjoyed Requiem for a Dream. It really lived up to all the hype of being a realistic, gritty film. My friends also enjoy it a lot...which surprises me since they're all completely drug addicts.