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jackspencerjr
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 07/11/2006 : 5:22:50 PM
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Originally posted by Ken HPoJ
I'll see your Jacob's Ladder and raise you a Donnie Darko. I can't remember a film I hated more than that one. I got stuck watching it with some friends, and was squirming through the whole damn pretentious thing. Then the ending arrived and I nearly kicked in my TV screen. All that pain for that hoary old dog of an ending.
I'm sure some people here like that movie, but I stand by my opinion. It's a steaming pile of self-satisfied twaddle.
Thank god. I was begining to think I was the only person in the world who hated that movie. I especially love how it has a bad case of read-the-filmmaker's-mind-itis in regards to the whole time travel/multi dimensions thing. I suppose that with some thought, I could have pieced it together. But that just proves that old axiom: not everything that requires a great deal of thought is worth thinking about. |
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tam1MI
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 07/11/2006 : 6:25:49 PM
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| I'm starting to see the TV series LOST heading off in that direction, too - or worse, going down the we're-just-making-crap-up-as-we-go-along cul-de-sac, which is seriously setting my teeth on edge. I loved that series in it's first season, now I barely watch it. |
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 07/11/2006 : 7:48:10 PM
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Oooh, where do I board the "Donnie Darko Is Crap" Special!! I didn't like it at all when I saw it and I've had so many people go on about it that I was ready to watch it again and see if I was the one who was wrong and just didn't get it. Ken has restored my faith that my judgement is good on this one!!
As for LOST, I thought the second season was as good as the first. They have even tied up some plot holes that seemed like they were abandoned. I have hope that it really is going somewhere- the potential overall plot at this point could be REALLY cool given the developments of the last couple episodes.
Coming soon-
Eraserhead: The Musical!! |
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jackspencerjr
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
262 Posts |
Posted - 07/11/2006 : 9:39:18 PM
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Originally posted by Sardu
Oooh, where do I board the "Donnie Darko Is Crap" Special!! I didn't like it at all when I saw it and I've had so many people go on about it that I was ready to watch it again and see if I was the one who was wrong and just didn't get it. Ken has restored my faith that my judgement is good on this one!!
strongbad_email.exe
Dear Strong Bad
Have you seen that movie Donnie Darko? I think it's so kewl. I think it was a really deep story that. Didja see it?
Mark Pillsbury
Clement NA
Well, doughboy, you address is indeed appropriate: NA-- Not Applicable. Not cool neither.
Actually, I did see this movie. It was Strong Sad's turn with the Netflix so he got Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream and some other piece of crap starring Richard Burton. It was a dark day for mail order DVD renting that week. or day. You know what I mean.
I got two words for you about Donnie Darko: PAIN FULL. Man, this was a movie you really had to thing about to untangle the many plot threads and when your done, all you've got is a big pile of string on the floor.
Part of the problem is that subplots that could have developed, didn't, like when Donnie kept countering that Sparkle Shine guy saying life doesn't work that way. He just kept doing the same thing to counter it, so it never goes anywhere, man.
And the whole plot hinged on this theory of time travel and pocket dimensions and stuff and NOT ONE WORD is offered in the movie to explain any of it. Here's a memo to the director of this piece of crap: If your movie is about a guy going down to the corner store or other stuff that normal people do every day, then you don't have to explain it because people know what it's all about. If your movie is a guy trapped in an alternate timeline or a pocket dimension or other such crap that normal people haven't even heard of YOU SHOULD PROBABLY EXPLAIN IT. Just a little.
I suppose I could have looked up the book that's talked about in the movie that explains things or just listen to Strong Sad explaining it, but I didn't want to do that. If it's not in the movie, it's not part of the movie.
And it wouldn't hurt to populate the movie with characters who don't get on people's nerves so that they might actually want to try to puzzle out what you're doing.
After the ending credits rolled, the Cheat and I put on pirate costumes and buried the disk in Strongbadia somewhere between the tire and the Chinese food. We drew a map of where be buried it, but Strong Mad ate it. I think that's for the best.
Well, this week is MY turn with the Netflix. I rented a bunch of Steven Segal movies. We're going to force Strong Sad to watch every minute of them in a sealed chamber i.e. the dryer.
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Cannon Fodder
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Australia
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Posted - 07/12/2006 : 06:26:14 AM
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| I guess I must be the only person around these parts who liked Donnie Darko. Admittedly it was more than a little ambiguous but it was a film I enjoyed because of aspects other than the blurry time travel mechanics. I liked the characters, the humour and the evocation of school life in the eighties (Obviously not everyone would get a similar nostalgic kick). Hey, it made more sense then the average David Lynch film. |
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Criswell
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
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Posted - 07/14/2006 : 5:24:43 PM
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Things can get worse than Donnie Darko. Much worse.
And to quote,
"Suddenly there was no trail. There was no giant, no monster, no thing called Douglas to be followed. There was nothing in the tunnel but the puzzled men of courage who suddenly found themselves alone with shadows and darkness. With the telegram, one cloud lifts, and another descends. Astronaut Frank Douglas, rescued, alive, well, and of normal size some 8000 miles away in a lifeboat."
*shudder*
"Something's wrong with our worm Earl." -Grady-
"Nyo Ho!" -Gyro Zepelli- |
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jackspencerjr
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
262 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2006 : 9:06:44 PM
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Call me stupid.
What's that one?
EDIT: Ah, never mind. Haven't seen that one yet. |
Edited by - jackspencerjr on 07/14/2006 9:09:23 PM |
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1294 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2006 : 9:31:38 PM
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Originally posted by Criswell
Things can get worse than Donnie Darko. Much worse.
And to quote,
"Suddenly there was no trail. There was no giant, no monster, no thing called Douglas to be followed. There was nothing in the tunnel but the puzzled men of courage who suddenly found themselves alone with shadows and darkness. With the telegram, one cloud lifts, and another descends. Astronaut Frank Douglas, rescued, alive, well, and of normal size some 8000 miles away in a lifeboat."
*shudder*
"Something's wrong with our worm Earl." -Grady-
"Nyo Ho!" -Gyro Zepelli-
Okay, ya got me. What's it from? Will I feel like a total idiot when you tell me? |
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Citizen Carrier
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
322 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2006 : 10:09:01 PM
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How about the movie Identity (2003) where John Cusak and Ray Liotta and other cast members are trapped at a motel during a rainstorm and they start getting killed off one by one?
I've never referred to this as a "Jacob's Ladder" ending, I call it the "Wizard of Oz" ending.
Oh, it was all a dream. It was all in his head. I actually wanted to yell "Boo!" at the movie when this trite plot device revealed itself.
If only the part where I paid for the ticket was a dream... |
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Gristle McThornbody
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Germany
186 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2006 : 2:50:25 PM
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Originally posted by BradH812
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Originally posted by Criswell
Things can get worse than Donnie Darko. Much worse.
And to quote,
"Suddenly there was no trail. There was no giant, no monster, no thing called Douglas to be followed. There was nothing in the tunnel but the puzzled men of courage who suddenly found themselves alone with shadows and darkness. With the telegram, one cloud lifts, and another descends. Astronaut Frank Douglas, rescued, alive, well, and of normal size some 8000 miles away in a lifeboat."
*shudder*
Okay, ya got me. What's it from? Will I feel like a total idiot when you tell me?
That's the infamous voiceover at the ending of 'Monster a-Go-Go'.
And I'll throw in a "liked it" vote for 'Donnie Darko', although I will admit that the director ultimately failed in getting the main time-travel/alternate-reality narrative across to the audience. I read somewhere that they had a shoe-string budget, and the director was contractually obligated to deliver a movie of a limited length, forcing cuts that ultimately marred the story.
In spite of it's failures, I enjoyed it.
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Criswell
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
32 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2006 : 3:51:18 PM
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Yep, it's Monster a Go Go.
The movie is hardly even there in any real sense, even without the Jedi mind trick ending.
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"Something's wrong with our worm Earl." -Grady-
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