The care bear sticker on the fridge at the beginning of the film is foreshadowing. The care bears shoot love out of their chest and Donnie darko and his family have worm holes coming out of their solar plexus later on in the film. *slowly smokes long pipe
Mind's eye Film 112233 OMG! Now we have clear proof those two universes are connected! Also they talked about smurfs in the movie and smurfs traveled through portals in their movies - I see connection!
A quick explanation: Donnie Darko is about the tangent universe theory. basically, there's the main universe and at one point (when the jet engine falls on Donnie's room) a tangent universe is formed. A tangent universe is a complete carbon copy of the main universe but it is very unstable and will collapse in a short amount of time (28:06:42:12) by causing a black hole big enough to swallow the tangent universe AND the main universe, hence ending the world. If you watch the director's cut it is explained that every one who survives the tangent universe (everyone except Frank and gretchen) is called the manipulated living, they need to make sure that Donnie can return back in time through the portal to when the dimensional split occured and he has to die to prevent the dimensional split. This is why the characters didn't act like humans, because they had a set role they were unconsciously fulfilling.
@@23DEATHNUMBER You don't even gotta buy that. The book (the time travel book in the movie) is available for free online. It's even on the film's website, if that still exists. Says everything and it's only like five pages.
There's a certain charm to this film. Makes you feel comfortable and uneasy at the same time. The 80's music and ambient soundtrack make it even better.
What so insane about Kingdom Hearts plotline...Its about darkness, and a child using a 4 foot key to seal away that darkness, and those trying to fill him with darkness or light, and sometimes get at his darkness. Where a 3 foot mouse commands a 6 foot dog and 4 foot duck to accompany him in a ship made of gummi to various disney worlds to take back the souls of people being stolen by a man inside his childhoods friends darkness. Also there are Final Fantasy characters.
@@OuterRaine I know this comment was a year ago but I'd like to point out my younger self's utter disappointment when I had learned the Gummi ship wasn't actually made from gummies.
I like a story that shows what happens when you avoid an inevitable death....everything seems off, unnatural, weird, bizarre. I think the nature of the characters we see are intentionally that way, like you suggested. It's a slightly bizarro world, therefore the characters seem slightly off..
It's been many years since I saw this, but from what I remember him not dying when he was supposed to was creating a rip in the fabric of the universe, which would eventually destroy everything. Grandma Death or whatever they called her wrote a book about it, because it's a semi-regular occurance, apparently. And from that point on, the universe will do everything it can to steer him in the right direction, by "puppeteering" the people around him in order to manipulate him to do The Right Thing (TM). Wasn't there like a director's cut that had a lot more material and explained it rather clearly (and basically ruined the mistique by taking away all the guesswork and interpretation)? Anyway, I also like the Jacob's Ladder interpretation Madfox presented. Which reminds me I should definitely rewatch both Donnie Darko and Jacob's Ladder.
I liked the movie. The whole time I think “medication, bunny spirit, the kid is clearly schizophrenic.” And then in the end it’s “oooh shit time travel and everything was real. Huh.” Thought it was pretty neat
@@Devilsblood have you checked out adam Lambert's version? He covered it when he was on american idol and it's very good. Definitely more emotional than the original, which I definitely like over straight exact covers. Agreed though the jules version sucks, his vocals sound like a whiny nasally emo teenager trying way too hard to be edgy.
Yeah. I get watcha mean. I am a guy who’s in the middle about the new Star Wars films. But I gotta admit I enjoyed Star Wars 8 and 9. I think 9 mastered emotion but not story. 😄👍🏻
I think that The Critic should review Mouse Hunt. It's a DreamWorks live action movie that's *supposed* to be a comedy but has some REALLY depressing and dark moments.
I loved that movie as a kid. It was one of the movies we actively sought to watch our VHS copy of. Still have it, still love it. Might have to revisit it soon.
I have never seen "Donnie Darko" and when Critic said "The Mountains on Minnesota" I said "What no Maine?" And then he cut to the next scene and I noticed that the mom was reading a Stephen King book. XD
What if you say if I told you there was a way for you to get stamps without ever leaving your home? I'd say "Cabbage" because for some reason, I find that word really funny.
Huh. A delightful surprise for a review. Which makes me mad that TH-cam always seems to slow down and not show these videos at the right time when they've uploaded! Great job as always.
Every Nostalgia Critic episode: -These guys here say it's the best thing ever. -But those guys there say it's the worst. -Well it's in the middle. The End.
Maybe the two characters are critics from 2 timelines one where he likes it and one where he hated it you can't prove I'm wrong but you can't prove I'm right too so... 🤔
This movie has ruined "The Killing Moon" for me. It's a shame, really :( I loved this song and now I can't listen to it anymore without thinking about Donnie Darko sucking his girlfriend's face off.
My sister found a printing of that a few years ago at a convention stall, and still has it hung up in her room. After a quick google search, it seems that the design is called "The Last Planeteer", and is available for purchase online (just search that phrase in quotes).
To be fair, the "THAT class!" for the "control your fear" lesson was a bit harsh... It's not uncommon for schools to add one or two special lessons when a traumatic event occurs (deceased student, natural disaster in the region, planes falling on the neighbourhood..)
BWMagus It depends from teacher to teacher. Most teachers are there just for the academic lesson. But my chorus teacher genuinely cared about us and like twice a month she would have a "centering day" where she would have us do meditation for like 25 minutes and then asked us to share how we felt afterwards if we wanted. It was the most calming parts of the school year and it was really surprising to see other teenagers open up about they were struggling that day or that week. (And this wasn't just opening up to like 5 other people lol, there was a total of 97 teenagers in the chorus)
7:58 The controlling fear thing isn't far fetched at all for the time period. A lot of schools were doing programs based on junk psychology at the time while bashing "negative influences" as pornography. My grade school principal (who was something of a Reagan-ite) started a program called 'Positive Actions' and I just couldn't stand it. Some of the younger kids liked it but I was in the sixth grade, I didn't want to deal with that shit.
Yeah, dougs too old to get the climate of schools in the post 9/11 era. This movie wasnt just mopy and cynical for no reason, it was in response to a time when forced happiness and religious dogma were at their height.
@@NudeSophist The movie is supposed to take place in 1988 not post 9/11 hence why the OP mentioned Reagan lol. If anything Doug would have been around 6 or 7 years old in 88 and too young to remember when schools (middle and high school) were teaching the sort of thing depecticed in the film. My older brother was starting 5th or 6th grade in 88 remembers that era and all the weird psychology stuff. By the time I started 6th grade in the mid 90s we didn't have it anymore thankfully. And movies right after 9/11 were trying to be more...uplifting? I guess I would say because a lot of audiences were trying to escape the gloom and depression that lingered after 9/11 but if I'm not mistaken this movie was filmed before 9/11 and released right around it. It took a few years for it to find success. I remember by 2007/2008 it was at its height in popularity. It kind of flew under the radar in 2001
@Kyle Micheals -- Don't worry, you're fine. That "Satanic Panic" shit crops up about once a decade, has been a regular thing since at least the 50's. Then it was Elvis and pot (if you want a good laugh at how overblown it was, look up the cult classic "Reefer Madness"), later it would be acid rock, communism, and D&D. By the late 90's/ early 2000's it would be Harry Potter brainwashing kids into paganism and witchcraft and Marylin Manson's music causing school shootings. And then came the REALLY insane stuff, like the preacher who claimed the Telletubbies were sending out subliminal messages to turn toddlers into gay, crossdressing, Satanists. And then there's everything that happened when the general public was introduced to what a Furry was...
He may or may not take the sponsor seriously but he is very committed to making watching his ads interesting as hell. Doug actually puts a lot of effort into his promotional sponsor segments. I love them. He could literally just say "These people paid me to say go buy stamps now." Instead he actually takes time to create a unique persona for every sponsored video he makes and plays them very well. His mid-video ads are by far the best of any youtuber I've ever watched.
I think he has to take them seriously due to contract obligations. I feel like he is trying to play with the idea of sponsored ad, and this particular episode it got exceptionally crazy.
I liked the movie because of Donnie. I used to go to therapy, always cynical, took medication, used to talk back to my teachers infront of the entire class, and I was good at English class while everyone else sucked at it like they did in the movie. Donnie reminded me a lot of myself and thats what made me like the movie.
Just like you I could relate to Donnie, but I find most of the movie pretentious because of the high school portions and didn’t really delve much further about his depression and cynicism. The part of ”god’s channel” also made me skip the scene, I’m all for debating physics but including an omnipotent being into the conversation and I lose interest.
"I'm unique because I see what's REALLY going on, not like the sheeple who follow the rules and just don't understand how complex I am." Dude, don't be a Raskolnikov
Doug is amazing at advertising. He has a real talent for it. 😆 How he can make a sponsor segment actually fun and enjoyable to watch is beyond me. That aside, *I loved this review.* 💖
Its kind of the main drivers. Is he truly insane and out of his mind? Or is the world actually going to end if he doesn't obey the giant bunny from hell? And as Doug would put it, the answer is simply yes.
One of my psych papers had an assignment where we were to diagnose a character from a film we hadn't seen, so I chose this. He does portray a schizophrenic character very well, though my job was kinda too easy given he's already taking medication and therapy for it. The question is, is everything else just in his mind? Pretty sure what was being watched here though was the director's cut, because the clearest evidence that there's more going on than just his delusions is Frank taking off his mask in the cinema. Everything else is kinda ambiguous; those water bubbles that show where someone will go never show anything beyond what could easily be viewed as an educated guess. But yeah, if you watch the original theatrical version I hear it's a pretty good representation of someone going through schizophrenia. Perhaps that's part of the reason a lot of it is confusing awkward as it's trying to portray how people with schizophrenia view the world.
@@MyFairOne Thanks for the comment/acknowledging the Donald Darko remark. That was probably the best part for me since I can't stop imagining a Donald Duck version of Donnie Darko.
I like the foreshadowing in this movie (like “cellar door” for example), the lecture about wormholes in time and space, how predictable people’s everyday lives are symbolized by elongated bubbles (fact: it was inspired by those NFL commentary drawings while the director was high) and in this scene the family ARE watching football, Frank’s rabbit mask is cool AF and I want one, the credit’s theme: mad world fits the film so well, divergence in the timeline, tangential universe, grandfather paradox, and the end of Donnie’s world: losing the life of the girl who had crush on him. Time loops back to the point where donnie should have died via jet engine falling onto his house (1. the same engine came from a few days into the future where his mom and sister won the talent show but there was an engine failure on the flight to California eventually killing them in a plane crash) (2. Donnie was supposed to die but frank’s arrival interfered by leading Donnie away on the exact night it was going to fall on his house), I forgot to mention Donnie takes medication because he has schizophrenia, going to therapy and talking about seeing a demonic rabbit telling him the end of the world is coming and instructing him to stir up some vandalism....yeah, that doesn’t look too good. Im still amazed that donnie is seeing the frank unmasked at the movie theater and having a laugh, the same guy he would murder a couple days later because frank ran over the only girl who cared about Donnie. (He lost her, he lost his parents and sister to a plane malfunction. It is the end of the world, his world. A mad world) Anyway after the Halloween climax, as a result the girl lives on having a slight case of deja vu, and life goes on. It’s a few details that make rewatching this movie interesting just searching for. Like seeing frank in the background earlier in the movie (as a regular guy without the costume) News report talking about plane crashes Someone tampered with the plane’s jet engine days before in advance. Flight crew commenting on the strange weather and dismissing the conversation before take off. I apologize if this doesn’t make sense or has a number of mistakes, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen it, or read the explanation, philosophy of time travel. It’s just what I remember.
Frank Rabbit. S Darko is a movie that should not even EXIST! Because his little sister knows about the talent show (okay, sure it seems possible that the talent show still happened) but she has the philosophy of time travel book which she should not even have in the first place. Something something major plothole and a big plot point is just kinda ignored by the end (something about billy, the missing kid) I remember a nerdy guy being corrupted by a meteor fragment. (Not to be confused with spiderman 3)
@@PhantomShadow224 the biggest reason i can think for her to even have the book as being one of the manipulated living she somehow came across grandma death and asked the right questions.
I don’t know, but for some reason the whole fear and love line of “philosophy/ethics/religion” class has always captivated me as a concept. I don’t believe it, but it is kind of interesting to compare the two feelings as direct opposites. It actually inspired me to do a painting. Which I will sadly never get back, along with my “David” and my sketchbook and all of my art pieces from 1st year of high school.
but it makes no sense, the reality is that there is only ONE opposite to EACH and all emotions, which is indifference, not feeling any emotion is more of a opposite to feeling emotion then a different emotion isnt it??
No one really talks about how good most Nostalgic critics sponsorships are. He does a really great job in describing the service while keeping it interesting. I rarely skip these because there fun to watch or really informative. So yeah, kudos NC ! 👍🏾
having seen this movie all the way through, i can safely say that Doug left a good chunk of the movie out. i really do recommend people watch it all the way through, there's some context to Donnie's actions that are left out, and the "liquidator schlong" actually appears once before the time Dough showed it.
The best part of this movie is the surrealism that comes across as nostalgia. It's the combination cinematography, color tones, music, and just the weird-ass dialogue--which is surreal because I was like 5 during the time setting of the movie. "Hey, you guys, guess what?! My Mom said the school is closed today because it’s flooded. " "Holy shit! That's the best news I've ever heard!" Also, you stopped right before the best line in the movie. "You'll put Ariel in the garbage disposal." "Goddamn right, I will." That line is the most beautiful thing I've witnessed Gyllenhaal say. It's like he snuck in 40 extra pounds of baggage along with that line. I just love every millisecond. I can't explain it more clearly than that.
Nah, you just thought that in your head that you would say these exact lines to look deep and edgy to strangers when you've watched that movie. The movie itself is painfully mediocre.
@@travalino009 or you know, you could appreciate someone making the effort to bring you something, instead of bitching like some self important entitled brat. If you think you can do better, I'll await your videos to see what you can do.
Personally I think Donnie Darko is accidental genius the movie. The director has never made another movie that people could agree was good. Donnie Darko is a complete fluke, which is why I think people are so split. Somebody who isn’t very good at directing made one movie that is maybe good? I almost think that he took this crazy idea and used his incompetence to stitch together a frankensteined movie that oddly works for me. A lot of this movie is aesthetic. Donnie Darko is just like this feeling, this vibe. When I watch it I feel a certain way, like I’m in a hospital, a pristine bathroom, a closet at a party. It’s just grabs me and sucks me in every time of just got these visuals and feelings it invokes in me. I also get this other worldly feeling from the movie. Like these are people but they aren’t. They’re people through an over dramatic lense. I think you’re suppose to relate to what each person represents but you don’t relate to them exactly as like, people, on a deeper level. You relate to what Donnie stands for but you feel disconnected from him as a person, like you don’t understand him. I like that though, like I can’t recall any movie where I genuinely don’t fully understand the main character or like at least can’t relate to his emotions. Either way, this movie is exactly what inspires me to want to create. This stilted world that ours but not always interests me. It’s always interesting to explore these different people, like watching aliens. It’s amazing and I crave every minute of it.
I agreed with you about"accidental genius" part. For me, this movie is one of the best teenager film. Donnie Darko faced the classic teenager issue: confused, has unique thought that didn't follow authority and never sure he is really right or not. Teenagers in this movie feel like real teenagers rather than Cartoon horny kids nowadays in the movie. Time Travel is just a plot device for Donnie Darko to grow up. That is this kind stuff should be used. But I think the director Richard Kelly completely missed point what make Donnie Darko good at first place. He just fall into Time Travel "arty stuff" and never catch on again.
That's like saying star wars, sixth sense, and the matrix are accidental genuis. They clearly cared about the productions and working hard even if their careers demonstrate a severe lack in quality. Alot of the time is due to having too much creative control when films are a group effort
That otherworldy feeling is definetely there, and I think it might even be intentional. idk if you know the #DEEPLORE associated with the movie, but basically everyone in the movie is being influenced by some kind of higher power (aliens, god, etc, nobody knows) so everything has a really odd feel to it, almost like the whole movie is really just about donnie and this otherworldy being interacting with eachother. It gives me the same feeling of awe that the ending scene of annihilation(great movie btw) does, where you feel the presence of something incomprehensible and it just adds so much to the experience.
Very interesting I can't say I entirely agree with you but I do find it very interesting to hear you out your opinion is quite visual and understanding from my perspective when I saw this movie this movie was just boring but it is cool to read other people's opinions on it cuz it means different things to other people if it's something that influenced you that's a good thing
Oh, wow, okay. Now I see why the Director's Cut is recommended so highly. It fills in a lot of the blank spaces, helps with transitions by giving pieces of the time travel book, plus shows that everyone in the town remembers the last 28 days, 6 hours, yadda yadda, but isn't sure if it was a dream. Certainly worth a rewatch if you can get that version, it'll make more sense. Well, as much sense as an intentionally obfuscated movie can make.
Directors cuts are for people that cannot formulate their own theories and opinions on a movie....if someone releases a movie for an audience it becomes subject to everyones different interpretations. Nothing more nothing less...i don't need a blowhard filling in the blanks.
Jeramy1440 Clash of kings k1035 I'm wondering if it matters which one you watch first? I bought the Director's Cut first - really enjoyed it, a lot. When I found the theatrical release also bought it. Liked it, also, but not quite as much. Maybe if I had seen it before the Director's Cut my opinion would be different? :)
@Felicia Taylor yes more like sacrificing himself. He was kind of played as a Jesus figure. His purpose was bringing the jet engine to the other universe, where it crashes and kills him.
I'd watch all your sponsorship ads even without movie review. Normally I skip those when it comes to other youtubers, but you take that to another entertaining level.
Donnie Darko IS a good movie, but just that. it has never been and will never be a masterpiece. Making a movie around deep and complex themes doesn't automatically make it a deep and complex movie.
...wait what? I mean it's ranked number 142 on my list but you do realize what subjectivity is? People are allowed to think it's a masterpiece. Also you claim the movie isn't deep and complex despite it very much being deep and complex, it's as if you are discrediting what literally happens in the film and are taking this NC review at face value.
So Donnie Darko is a prequel to Care Bears. Must be part of the Teletubbies and Care Bears cinematic universe NC and AVGN were joking about in the Mummy 2017 review.
Really? Why? Like why is it in your top ten, I'm genuinely curious. I always saw Donnie Darko as a movie that was on the level of cheesiness as one of Steven Kings short series. I never found anything deep or interesting about it.
I love this movie because it makes great use of Chekhov's hammer in the sense that it ties up loose ends very well. Nothing is this movie is actually wasted. Everything comes back to mean something, and every time you watch it, you pick up on another recurring detail you previously missed. It's a very consice film from that viewpoint, something which is extremely rare in today's cinema. Another film that is similarly concise is Master & Commander because everything you see is what you get (though it's adapted from the series of the same name, it follows the events of a single book in the series, with enough liberties taken to give the impression of a larger world outside that on screen). Donnie Darko is remembered for being a film that truly comes full circle. Whether or not that makes it a good story is another matter. But cinematically, it's an excellent movie. EDIT: Fixed the spelling of Chekhov. Good catch, thanks.
I knew that a bunch of random guys would say they opinion about the movie even without anyone asking for. And other random guys would comment agreeing or disagreeing about it. So predictable world.
@@BWMagus The dialogue is believable during the home scenes. It's believably awkward during the social scenes. It fits the theme of the film and Donnie's character. The underlying point of the story is that everything which happens is upsetting an already delicate domestic balance. Of course the dialogue is going to be awkward. You'd be awkward in the same circumstances.
So, is Donnie Darko a deep classic or a pretentious slosh?
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My bet is pretensios slosh. But as of yet haven't seen the review to confirm.
Fn classic
Do the movie review Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Fat Albert, Josie and the Pussycats, Yours, Mine & Ours and School of Rock
This was a great movie. It’s pretentious, but still a good classic.
The care bear sticker on the fridge at the beginning of the film is foreshadowing. The care bears shoot love out of their chest and Donnie darko and his family have worm holes coming out of their solar plexus later on in the film.
*slowly smokes long pipe
Mind's eye Film 112233 Dear God! You’re right! How profound!
Mind's eye Film 112233
OMG! Now we have clear proof those two universes are connected!
Also they talked about smurfs in the movie and smurfs traveled through portals in their movies - I see connection!
Well said sir. "*slowly drinks alcoholic beverage.
A long pipe? Are you an elf, sir?
"Time for a game of... disappearing chest cavities"
"I love STAMPS!"
- Doug Walker, 2019
MOTHERFUCKING STAMPS, ARE YOU NOT EXCITED???
Literally 2 seconds after I read this comment is when he said that, lol, perfect timing
@@Oromie9 I would be if Royal Mail UK had that kind of online service
Do people our age even buy stamps
Sarah Barker I prefer text messages as you do
A quick explanation:
Donnie Darko is about the tangent universe theory. basically, there's the main universe and at one point (when the jet engine falls on Donnie's room) a tangent universe is formed. A tangent universe is a complete carbon copy of the main universe but it is very unstable and will collapse in a short amount of time (28:06:42:12) by causing a black hole big enough to swallow the tangent universe AND the main universe, hence ending the world.
If you watch the director's cut it is explained that every one who survives the tangent universe (everyone except Frank and gretchen) is called the manipulated living, they need to make sure that Donnie can return back in time through the portal to when the dimensional split occured and he has to die to prevent the dimensional split. This is why the characters didn't act like humans, because they had a set role they were unconsciously fulfilling.
i need to buy the Director's cut now also does it come with commentary ?
But why should I care
Soooooo Dc's dark multiverse?
@@14s0cc3r14 Well, this video is about about Donnie Darko. You don't have to care, but i am sure others do care.
@@23DEATHNUMBER You don't even gotta buy that. The book (the time travel book in the movie) is available for free online. It's even on the film's website, if that still exists. Says everything and it's only like five pages.
There's a certain charm to this film. Makes you feel comfortable and uneasy at the same time. The 80's music and ambient soundtrack make it even better.
What are you doing here? Love your videos dude!
This comment definitely sums up perfectly how I feel about this film!
It’s a comfortable uncomfortable atmosphere that only it has c:
Best way to describe this movie. I agree
That bunny is what the live action Sonic looked like before re-edits
No it was the Will Smith Genie
@@VirtualKermrade2 You think it might be the same cg-artist? they are both blue.
Daniel Staples I bet you that they were gonna release the trailer, but after the reaction to the poster they had to re-edit the whole movie!
Funny because jokes-except. Not.
More like a 5 night at Freddies character.
This film....I find it kind of funny..I find it kind of sad.
The dreams in wich I did not watch it is the best I ever had
@@Fuckaue
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
I find it dumb as shit
When you watch it again and again, it's a very very mad film.
@@lwanco1018 Mad film
And then the two extremes of the Donnie Darko reaction came together and became...Rick and Morty Fans
Omg.... 😲
"This is like that one bit where bugs bunny f***s with the opera singer for 20 minutes"
Ahh, all too true.
Sounds about right
Your probably right
"DC Cinematic reboot of Bugs Bunny"
Yep, shouldn't have been drinking anything during that line.
so...Lunatics Unleashed?
@@kanniekosplayyes2799 Exactly what I was about to say
Aiden Rutske *”me too kid..”*
Aiden Rutske Definitely gave me some creepy FNAF vibes.
Donnie Darko: the one piece of fiction that makes the plotline of "Kingdom Hearts" look sane by comparison.
What so insane about Kingdom Hearts plotline...Its about darkness, and a child using a 4 foot key to seal away that darkness, and those trying to fill him with darkness or light, and sometimes get at his darkness. Where a 3 foot mouse commands a 6 foot dog and 4 foot duck to accompany him in a ship made of gummi to various disney worlds to take back the souls of people being stolen by a man inside his childhoods friends darkness. Also there are Final Fantasy characters.
@@OuterRaine See, even babies could understand it! (/s)
KH is not insane. It's just so messy even Inception is understandable in comparison.
No it doesn't. Nobody can understand kingdom hearts, not even the actual devs
@@OuterRaine I know this comment was a year ago but I'd like to point out my younger self's utter disappointment when I had learned the Gummi ship wasn't actually made from gummies.
I like a story that shows what happens when you avoid an inevitable death....everything seems off, unnatural, weird, bizarre. I think the nature of the characters we see are intentionally that way, like you suggested. It's a slightly bizarro world, therefore the characters seem slightly off..
It's been many years since I saw this, but from what I remember him not dying when he was supposed to was creating a rip in the fabric of the universe, which would eventually destroy everything. Grandma Death or whatever they called her wrote a book about it, because it's a semi-regular occurance, apparently. And from that point on, the universe will do everything it can to steer him in the right direction, by "puppeteering" the people around him in order to manipulate him to do The Right Thing (TM).
Wasn't there like a director's cut that had a lot more material and explained it rather clearly (and basically ruined the mistique by taking away all the guesswork and interpretation)?
Anyway, I also like the Jacob's Ladder interpretation Madfox presented. Which reminds me I should definitely rewatch both Donnie Darko and Jacob's Ladder.
@Madfox you just turning the movie into another Jacob's Ladder
@@EvenTheDogAgrees 3 years late but comparing the movie to Jacobs Ladder is the first time I've considered it bearable. Thank you for that.
That moment your realize this and Final Destination have the same inciting incident.
@@denverarnold6210 i feel this, in my mind i imagine that the final destination plane crash is related to the donnie darko jet engine wreckage scene.
I liked the movie. The whole time I think “medication, bunny spirit, the kid is clearly schizophrenic.” And then in the end it’s “oooh shit time travel and everything was real. Huh.” Thought it was pretty neat
That was definitely my first impression
It seems like he was schizophrenic before the event of the time travel shit
It's funny, I live in Russia, but for some reason all of a sudden I really want to buy US stamps
stamps.com just makes it THAT convenient.
I'm French Canadian and I feel the same urge... Somehow.
Good comment ,very funny!!
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ẞhrēk íß løvë, shrëk îß lífē
One of the best parts of the movie is its rendition of Mad World by Gary Jules.
Best rendition of the song
I hate that version, Tears for fears wins
@@Devilsblood have you checked out adam Lambert's version? He covered it when he was on american idol and it's very good. Definitely more emotional than the original, which I definitely like over straight exact covers. Agreed though the jules version sucks, his vocals sound like a whiny nasally emo teenager trying way too hard to be edgy.
"The DC cinematic reboot of Bugs Bunny"
Savage xD
He is not wrong😂
Hilarious xD
Doug is stuck in the past with that old joke. Move on people, gritty Snyder DC it's over.
liked for the "fucking bubbles" reference...throwback to vintage NC!
Sparkle, sparkle, sparkle!
We all miss vintage NC
@@bubblegumbabeface6629 I don't. He was boring
Yeeee,hawww. well howdy doo, welcome to the states my friend 🤠
@@ShinySephiroth1 hell yeah sparkle sparkle sparkle
“Because Donnie Darko has 2 very polarizing audiences”
I didn’t know this was a Star Wars movie
Yeah. I get watcha mean. I am a guy who’s in the middle about the new Star Wars films. But I gotta admit I enjoyed Star Wars 8 and 9. I think 9 mastered emotion but not story. 😄👍🏻
6:10 Pug McMannipples sounds like a Gravity Falls Character.
Or a Rick and Morty character.
that's totally the buff pug from hotstreets
Yeah one of the manotaurs
Motion X you’re not wrong
I think that The Critic should review Mouse Hunt. It's a DreamWorks live action movie that's *supposed* to be a comedy but has some REALLY depressing and dark moments.
That movie was my childhood
EeveeStar 682 man I like that film. I used to watch it all the time with my dad
It is considered a dark comedy
I have it on VHS
I loved that movie as a kid. It was one of the movies we actively sought to watch our VHS copy of. Still have it, still love it. Might have to revisit it soon.
"It ends with a SPIDER, and they all bang the girl. Happy reading."
LOL, best part about the book "IT" xD
Was looking in the comments to find something about this
Joe V wow. We had the exact same motives
@Vicodyn
Its a joke
@@chrisarbour Sounds like someone needs to look up the definition of "joke" again.
10:30 "You can't just lump everything into these two categories and deny everything else!"
Holy cow, Donnie predicted COPPA
or, moreso, youtube mutilating it
Donnie obviously does not know how the world works
@@jessicadegen8433 More like Twitter. Then again, Twitter IS the world to some "people"
Also the smurf talk about them being asexual made it into canon
When I watched the movie for first time I died XD
It was always canon, the smurf talk was only facts being stated. I'm 61 years old, now.
I've seen the two Smurf movies and I believe that the fuckers that made Donnie Darko are the cause of it...
I have never seen "Donnie Darko" and when Critic said "The Mountains on Minnesota" I said "What no Maine?" And then he cut to the next scene and I noticed that the mom was reading a Stephen King book. XD
And that book being IT
11:22 "So the *f***ing bubble!* leads him to a closet..."
“Didn’t your dad like.. stab your mom?..”
*•Stabbing noises?•*
“What? You Egg” *stabs him*
👉 Get out
i though it was a dirty joke
door squeek
She should have said "Careful loser, next to get stabbed might be you"
Weird comment. Is it just me or are the adverts nc does getting bloody hilarious? STAMPS!
FUCKING STAMPS!
Not as good as shaving money.
@@brianwise5850 S H A V E
@@brianwise5850 Do people not shave dollars?
What if you say if I told you there was a way for you to get stamps without ever leaving your home?
I'd say "Cabbage" because for some reason, I find that word really funny.
Huh. A delightful surprise for a review. Which makes me mad that TH-cam always seems to slow down and not show these videos at the right time when they've uploaded! Great job as always.
+Bryan Egelhoff's Animation Tech Nation
Thanks for the kind words!
Every Nostalgia Critic episode:
-These guys here say it's the best thing ever.
-But those guys there say it's the worst.
-Well it's in the middle.
The End.
I thought most of it was "THIS IS AWFUL A AND HERE IS WHY! WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING?!"
Coos Oorlog Not Garbage Pail Kids.
@@HurricaneDDragon I may have exaggerated a little bit
@@ChasehaWing Naah, that's the angry video game nerd. :D
..except for Starship Troopers :D
Doughter: My teacher said this is called shoty exposition
Father: Your teacher is a commie honey
That killed me
How did this go 3 months without being corrected
Just another day in America
Doug voicing the daughter = Doughter
Can we see the Million theories about that intro now
"Film Theory that shit!"
@@crane8015 its not crap
Maybe the two characters are critics from 2 timelines one where he likes it and one where he hated it you can't prove I'm wrong but you can't prove I'm right too so... 🤔
@@tylergroves3477 it was a joke
💀 *WAN7T ME? LO6OK, I MASTB**ATE NAK1ED,снеск2 VID9еО.* 🏅
I love every single thing about this movie.
It’s that kind of movie where even the flaws are part of what makes it great.
huh
He didn't mention the soundtrack once.
I really liked the soundtrack of this movie.
Ralph Smith : The soundtrack was the best part
The soundtrack for the theatrical version, but not the directors cut!
"Mad World" at the end was perfect!
In a world where a teacher who is passionate about kids is fired and the pedo-defending one still has her job, it's a very very mad world.
This movie has ruined "The Killing Moon" for me. It's a shame, really :( I loved this song and now I can't listen to it anymore without thinking about Donnie Darko sucking his girlfriend's face off.
Actually Donnie Darko isn’t all that deep it’s really the origin of Mysterio
Shit you're right
Tony Stark caused that portal?
I'll be honest, I have no idea what the paid promotion for this episode was because I was too busy admiring Doug's Avatar: The Last Airbender shirt.
Same tbh. The only question now is where can I get one? 😂
Indeed he needs to shirt promotion last review he had Bojack Mr. peanut butter shirt.
Right?! That shirt was cute asf! And love the Captain Planet reference on it too.
My sister found a printing of that a few years ago at a convention stall, and still has it hung up in her room. After a quick google search, it seems that the design is called "The Last Planeteer", and is available for purchase online (just search that phrase in quotes).
Yes! I'd love one!
To be fair, the "THAT class!" for the "control your fear" lesson was a bit harsh... It's not uncommon for schools to add one or two special lessons when a traumatic event occurs (deceased student, natural disaster in the region, planes falling on the neighbourhood..)
BWMagus
It depends from teacher to teacher. Most teachers are there just for the academic lesson. But my chorus teacher genuinely cared about us and like twice a month she would have a "centering day" where she would have us do meditation for like 25 minutes and then asked us to share how we felt afterwards if we wanted. It was the most calming parts of the school year and it was really surprising to see other teenagers open up about they were struggling that day or that week. (And this wasn't just opening up to like 5 other people lol, there was a total of 97 teenagers in the chorus)
@@BWMagus Humanity progresses.
Like how Heathers satirized that as well
7:58 The controlling fear thing isn't far fetched at all for the time period. A lot of schools were doing programs based on junk psychology at the time while bashing "negative influences" as pornography. My grade school principal (who was something of a Reagan-ite) started a program called 'Positive Actions' and I just couldn't stand it. Some of the younger kids liked it but I was in the sixth grade, I didn't want to deal with that shit.
Yeah, dougs too old to get the climate of schools in the post 9/11 era. This movie wasnt just mopy and cynical for no reason, it was in response to a time when forced happiness and religious dogma were at their height.
@@NudeSophist The movie is supposed to take place in 1988 not post 9/11 hence why the OP mentioned Reagan lol. If anything Doug would have been around 6 or 7 years old in 88 and too young to remember when schools (middle and high school) were teaching the sort of thing depecticed in the film. My older brother was starting 5th or 6th grade in 88 remembers that era and all the weird psychology stuff. By the time I started 6th grade in the mid 90s we didn't have it anymore thankfully. And movies right after 9/11 were trying to be more...uplifting? I guess I would say because a lot of audiences were trying to escape the gloom and depression that lingered after 9/11 but if I'm not mistaken this movie was filmed before 9/11 and released right around it. It took a few years for it to find success. I remember by 2007/2008 it was at its height in popularity. It kind of flew under the radar in 2001
@@winterlynn9012 Damn, I guess I always associated it with that time cause of all the satanic panic shit going on in the late 90s/early 2000s.
@Kyle Micheals -- Don't worry, you're fine. That "Satanic Panic" shit crops up about once a decade, has been a regular thing since at least the 50's. Then it was Elvis and pot (if you want a good laugh at how overblown it was, look up the cult classic "Reefer Madness"), later it would be acid rock, communism, and D&D.
By the late 90's/ early 2000's it would be Harry Potter brainwashing kids into paganism and witchcraft and Marylin Manson's music causing school shootings. And then came the REALLY insane stuff, like the preacher who claimed the Telletubbies were sending out subliminal messages to turn toddlers into gay, crossdressing, Satanists. And then there's everything that happened when the general public was introduced to what a Furry was...
@@AnInsideJoke On the bright side, you can just read the list of shit that pisses these people off if your looking for some cool things to get into.
DOUG DID YOU JUST PRONOUNCE IT GYLLEN-TH-AL!?!? I AM SHOOKETH.
Finally someone points it out
I don’t know where a “TH” comes from. Even TV hosts say the Gyllenhaals’ names correctly 🙄😅
How about "Gameel Del Toro?"
Why can't tv commercials be more like doug
Andrew Kind Because no one would take it seriously
SerenityM16 no one on the internet takes things seriously
I think I know the morale of Donnie Darko:
THEY NEEDED STAMPS!!!
Maggie and Jake "Gyllenthal"
"Gamille" del Toro
Ironically, they're making out to "Love will Tear us Apart" by Joy Division.
That's the remix from 1995, too.
Such a good band and that movie had like the best soundtrack
Joy... Division. 😁😁😁
@@onwerslament that movie is mostly indie core for pretentious teens as much as that music is tho
@@NecroIust probably the most accurate comment i have ever read on youtube, and i like the movie and that band and was at the right age for the film
This is why I love Wednesdays
Yea I have a new saying tgiw
Best time for nostalgia critic
Same
I like, Wednesday Mornings...
Smirks about meta joke
Best time alright. I can't wait till he reviews Origins Wolverine and Venom this season even though i loved Venom.
I can't help to think that *not even Doug* can take seriously this *sponsor.*
Just me?
He may or may not take the sponsor seriously but he is very committed to making watching his ads interesting as hell.
Doug actually puts a lot of effort into his promotional sponsor segments. I love them. He could literally just say "These people paid me to say go buy stamps now." Instead he actually takes time to create a unique persona for every sponsored video he makes and plays them very well.
His mid-video ads are by far the best of any youtuber I've ever watched.
@@memorra
:) I'm glad we agree about this point.
I think he has to take them seriously due to contract obligations. I feel like he is trying to play with the idea of sponsored ad, and this particular episode it got exceptionally crazy.
BETMARKonTube I know!
I love carpet, I love desk , I love stamps!!
Sometimes, I doubt your commitment to sparkle sparkle sparkle motion.
Dude... Sarkle Sparkle Sparkle!
@@bogdangoranov3869 Fuck yeah sparkle-sparkle-sparkle!
Sparkle SPARKLE *SPARKLE!* Aaaahhh!
Joseph Calabrese AAAAAAHHHHHHH !!
Buttin Specter god I hate that bitch she reminds me of my mother and looks like her too
9:33 I think when you're spray painting, it looks different than when you're writing on a chalkboard.
Please Critic, react to Ninja Turtles : The Next Mutation, you promised in the Fox Kids review !
Dude, he's gonna get to it one day. He has other shit to review and if he's gonna torture himself with that, he needs to ready himself.
Doug sells the hell out of Stamps.com.
This is the polar opposite of how Ben Shapiro does his promotional material.
@@OddOneOut665 lol
@@OddOneOut665 how is this being low?
(inhale)
S T A M P S
Gyllenthal? Gyllenthal? GYLLENTHAL? ITS GYLLENHAAL!
Thank you!
Apparently, it's actually supposed to be pronounced like yee-len-hAAL
I forgot the country of origin tho.
It was in an interview with Conan
what a strange mispronunciation.
He also pronounced Guillermo as Jermill del toro...it should be pronounced Gi - Air - Mo
@@illuzion72, must be intentional.
Getting drunk on my birthday and watching Doug joyously sell stamps.
NO REGRETS.
Thats the kinda energy you need towards the world
Your life must be sad you dumb bitch.
@@randomguy2518 Hmm good effort but a little overdone 7/10
@@ratoh1710 Nah, that was perfect if a bit too committed. 8.5/10.
it wa okay. Didnt really hit hard. 5/10, partly because i agree with the russian. this womans life sounds sad
One of my favorite movies
I actually met James Duval (Frank The Bunny) pretty cool guy
Nice!
Where and how
I met him at a con in Pensacola. He seemed like a cool dude.
I didn't know people hated this movie its definitely one of my favourites.
Huh neat
Huh so this is Mysterio’s MCU backstory
Astro Punch Not to mention the different name who takes on the said mantel.
I liked the movie because of Donnie. I used to go to therapy, always cynical, took medication, used to talk back to my teachers infront of the entire class, and I was good at English class while everyone else sucked at it like they did in the movie. Donnie reminded me a lot of myself and thats what made me like the movie.
Just like you I could relate to Donnie, but I find most of the movie pretentious because of the high school portions and didn’t really delve much further about his depression and cynicism. The part of ”god’s channel” also made me skip the scene, I’m all for debating physics but including an omnipotent being into the conversation and I lose interest.
"I'm unique because I see what's REALLY going on, not like the sheeple who follow the rules and just don't understand how complex I am." Dude, don't be a Raskolnikov
PremierSportingKC 😂😂
Lmao wow
I can see how it might be a film about potential school shooters. Seriously.
Plot twist: Danny Danko is actually the first victim of Pitch Meeting.
Nobody:
Alita Battle Angel: 21:24
LOVED ALITA BATTLE ANGEL And I just saw The OVA
lol those eyes
Doug is amazing at advertising. He has a real talent for it. 😆 How he can make a sponsor segment actually fun and enjoyable to watch is beyond me. That aside, *I loved this review.* 💖
lol, and stamps of all things. xD
I always thought this was simply a movie about somebody suffering from schizophrenia
Its kind of the main drivers. Is he truly insane and out of his mind? Or is the world actually going to end if he doesn't obey the giant bunny from hell?
And as Doug would put it, the answer is simply yes.
One of my psych papers had an assignment where we were to diagnose a character from a film we hadn't seen, so I chose this. He does portray a schizophrenic character very well, though my job was kinda too easy given he's already taking medication and therapy for it. The question is, is everything else just in his mind? Pretty sure what was being watched here though was the director's cut, because the clearest evidence that there's more going on than just his delusions is Frank taking off his mask in the cinema. Everything else is kinda ambiguous; those water bubbles that show where someone will go never show anything beyond what could easily be viewed as an educated guess.
But yeah, if you watch the original theatrical version I hear it's a pretty good representation of someone going through schizophrenia. Perhaps that's part of the reason a lot of it is confusing awkward as it's trying to portray how people with schizophrenia view the world.
@@mp5k9mm1 You're wrong.
@@thechannelthatactuallydoes2866 well, a rando in the internet just told me I am wrong without providing any further output, so he must be right...
PM_Ghost not in the original cut but in directors cut it shows it and confirms it
guy: so do you have any 'bunny outfits' ;)
me: oh yeah I do!
guy: put it on
me: *comes back dressed as Frank*
Don't be surprised if they're into it all the same
Donald Darko *[plays Donald Duck theme]*
Is this a good place to find some ingredients?
somehow if Frank the Rabbit sounded like Donald Duck i could not take this move as seriously as i would otherwise
@@scottmantooth8785 same 😂😂😂
@@MyFairOne Thanks for the comment/acknowledging the Donald Darko remark. That was probably the best part for me since I can't stop imagining a Donald Duck version of Donnie Darko.
I like the foreshadowing in this movie (like “cellar door” for example), the lecture about wormholes in time and space, how predictable people’s everyday lives are symbolized by elongated bubbles (fact: it was inspired by those NFL commentary drawings while the director was high) and in this scene the family ARE watching football, Frank’s rabbit mask is cool AF and I want one, the credit’s theme: mad world fits the film so well, divergence in the timeline, tangential universe, grandfather paradox, and the end of Donnie’s world: losing the life of the girl who had crush on him.
Time loops back to the point where donnie should have died via jet engine falling onto his house (1. the same engine came from a few days into the future where his mom and sister won the talent show but there was an engine failure on the flight to California eventually killing them in a plane crash) (2. Donnie was supposed to die but frank’s arrival interfered by leading Donnie away on the exact night it was going to fall on his house),
I forgot to mention Donnie takes medication because he has schizophrenia, going to therapy and talking about seeing a demonic rabbit telling him the end of the world is coming and instructing him to stir up some vandalism....yeah, that doesn’t look too good.
Im still amazed that donnie is seeing the frank unmasked at the movie theater and having a laugh, the same guy he would murder a couple days later because frank ran over the only girl who cared about Donnie. (He lost her, he lost his parents and sister to a plane malfunction. It is the end of the world, his world. A mad world)
Anyway after the Halloween climax, as a result the girl lives on having a slight case of deja vu, and life goes on.
It’s a few details that make rewatching this movie interesting just searching for.
Like seeing frank in the background earlier in the movie (as a regular guy without the costume)
News report talking about plane crashes
Someone tampered with the plane’s jet engine days before in advance.
Flight crew commenting on the strange weather and dismissing the conversation before take off.
I apologize if this doesn’t make sense or has a number of mistakes, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen it, or read the explanation, philosophy of time travel. It’s just what I remember.
a fellow follower pf Darko-ism. you're a true Darko-ist if you can make S. Darko make sense! it takes a while.
Frank Rabbit. S Darko is a movie that should not even EXIST!
Because his little sister knows about the talent show (okay, sure it seems possible that the talent show still happened) but she has the philosophy of time travel book which she should not even have in the first place.
Something something major plothole and a big plot point is just kinda ignored by the end (something about billy, the missing kid) I remember a nerdy guy being corrupted by a meteor fragment. (Not to be confused with spiderman 3)
@@PhantomShadow224 something something plothole something reference reference coincidence coincidence.
@@PhantomShadow224 we are an elite group. and PC gamers think THEY are the master race.
@@PhantomShadow224 the biggest reason i can think for her to even have the book as being one of the manipulated living she somehow came across grandma death and asked the right questions.
This is my favourite film, not because it’s deep but it’s just so damn entertaining and nostalgic
There are some flaws but I love this movie
it really isnt, its boring and obnoxious
I don’t know, but for some reason the whole fear and love line of “philosophy/ethics/religion” class has always captivated me as a concept. I don’t believe it, but it is kind of interesting to compare the two feelings as direct opposites.
It actually inspired me to do a painting. Which I will sadly never get back, along with my “David” and my sketchbook and all of my art pieces from 1st year of high school.
but it makes no sense, the reality is that there is only ONE opposite to EACH and all emotions, which is indifference, not feeling any emotion is more of a opposite to feeling emotion then a different emotion isnt it??
No one really talks about how good most Nostalgic critics sponsorships are.
He does a really great job in describing the service while keeping it interesting. I rarely skip these because there fun to watch or really informative.
So yeah, kudos NC ! 👍🏾
Cool man
having seen this movie all the way through, i can safely say that Doug left a good chunk of the movie out. i really do recommend people watch it all the way through, there's some context to Donnie's actions that are left out, and the "liquidator schlong" actually appears once before the time Dough showed it.
It was a cool ass movie but I honestly felt like it wasted my time because it’s just a bunch of shit happening and that’s it
Congratulations on being on Trending Nostalgia Critic.
So glad that the "BUBBLES!" gag is still strong!
The best part of this movie is the surrealism that comes across as nostalgia. It's the combination cinematography, color tones, music, and just the weird-ass dialogue--which is surreal because I was like 5 during the time setting of the movie. "Hey, you guys, guess what?! My Mom said the school is closed today because it’s flooded. " "Holy shit! That's the best news I've ever heard!"
Also, you stopped right before the best line in the movie.
"You'll put Ariel in the garbage disposal."
"Goddamn right, I will."
That line is the most beautiful thing I've witnessed Gyllenhaal say. It's like he snuck in 40 extra pounds of baggage along with that line. I just love every millisecond. I can't explain it more clearly than that.
I always saw it as creepy and depressing.
But Tripy too
That's part of the appeal.
@@HurricaneDDragon I like yours too
@@DanielFlores-fo1ee its boring ass all hell
"I guess I missed the part where they went from name-calling to multiple homicide"
Hoooo boy I am getting some Jeff The Killer flashbacks...
So pretty much every bully in a Stephen King story.
Lol jeff the killer is such poorly written trash
Yes, you mentioned Eraserhead!!!!!!!! Thanks for proving to me that it wasn't some insane fever dream I had!
Eraserhead is considered a classic movie...
No it was and we all exist in your head. It’s cramped in here.
When I first saw this movie, I literally went “What the fuck?” Because my mind was just blown at how strange, yet mesmerizing it was.
Nah, you just thought that in your head that you would say these exact lines to look deep and edgy to strangers when you've watched that movie. The movie itself is painfully mediocre.
The lady defending Patrick Swayze's character is the greatest at being that character. Like, from Rain Man to Matchstick Men to this and more!
You forgot about to mention how the ending credits alluding to how each of the characters would have died/ been effected in the original time lone.
What do you mean?
... okay, we need a compilation of the Nostalgia Critic sponsorship ads.
hahahah i was just tjinking they should do that or at least a top 5 best NC ads
@@alvarooverlay5405 They're just so insane, I love em. And then I can't ever remember in which reviews they are. :(
FUCKIN STAMPS!
*shave*
Its official. Your commercials are now better than your videos. Subbed for the commercials now.
Eventually, he'll do a 'Battle of the Commercials' style vid about his own commercials.
@@voridori2863 That's all we can hope for
@@travalino009 or you know, you could appreciate someone making the effort to bring you something, instead of bitching like some self important entitled brat. If you think you can do better, I'll await your videos to see what you can do.
@@vidlover69 oh yah the classic if you can do better argument. Lol
Wo, this got strangely aggressive. It's ok internet, it was a joke.
Personally I think Donnie Darko is accidental genius the movie. The director has never made another movie that people could agree was good. Donnie Darko is a complete fluke, which is why I think people are so split. Somebody who isn’t very good at directing made one movie that is maybe good? I almost think that he took this crazy idea and used his incompetence to stitch together a frankensteined movie that oddly works for me.
A lot of this movie is aesthetic. Donnie Darko is just like this feeling, this vibe. When I watch it I feel a certain way, like I’m in a hospital, a pristine bathroom, a closet at a party. It’s just grabs me and sucks me in every time of just got these visuals and feelings it invokes in me.
I also get this other worldly feeling from the movie. Like these are people but they aren’t. They’re people through an over dramatic lense. I think you’re suppose to relate to what each person represents but you don’t relate to them exactly as like, people, on a deeper level. You relate to what Donnie stands for but you feel disconnected from him as a person, like you don’t understand him. I like that though, like I can’t recall any movie where I genuinely don’t fully understand the main character or like at least can’t relate to his emotions.
Either way, this movie is exactly what inspires me to want to create. This stilted world that ours but not always interests me. It’s always interesting to explore these different people, like watching aliens. It’s amazing and I crave every minute of it.
I agreed with you about"accidental genius" part. For me, this movie is one of the best teenager film. Donnie Darko faced the classic teenager issue: confused, has unique thought that didn't follow authority and never sure he is really right or not. Teenagers in this movie feel like real teenagers rather than Cartoon horny kids nowadays in the movie. Time Travel is just a plot device for Donnie Darko to grow up. That is this kind stuff should be used. But I think the director Richard Kelly completely missed point what make Donnie Darko good at first place. He just fall into Time Travel "arty stuff" and never catch on again.
That's like saying star wars, sixth sense, and the matrix are accidental genuis. They clearly cared about the productions and working hard even if their careers demonstrate a severe lack in quality. Alot of the time is due to having too much creative control when films are a group effort
That otherworldy feeling is definetely there, and I think it might even be intentional. idk if you know the #DEEPLORE associated with the movie, but basically everyone in the movie is being influenced by some kind of higher power (aliens, god, etc, nobody knows) so everything has a really odd feel to it, almost like the whole movie is really just about donnie and this otherworldy being interacting with eachother. It gives me the same feeling of awe that the ending scene of annihilation(great movie btw) does, where you feel the presence of something incomprehensible and it just adds so much to the experience.
Very interesting I can't say I entirely agree with you but I do find it very interesting to hear you out your opinion is quite visual and understanding from my perspective when I saw this movie this movie was just boring but it is cool to read other people's opinions on it cuz it means different things to other people if it's something that influenced you that's a good thing
Very well put :)
2:47 coincidentally, also the ending of another film featuring Jake Gyllenhaal...
That involves a giant spider 😉
Oh, wow, okay. Now I see why the Director's Cut is recommended so highly. It fills in a lot of the blank spaces, helps with transitions by giving pieces of the time travel book, plus shows that everyone in the town remembers the last 28 days, 6 hours, yadda yadda, but isn't sure if it was a dream. Certainly worth a rewatch if you can get that version, it'll make more sense. Well, as much sense as an intentionally obfuscated movie can make.
Yes but I still prefer the original cut because of all of the mystery around it.
VGJustice
I agree! Director's cut is the best.
One of my favorite movies.
Directors Cut sucks ass. Kinda lessens the openness of interpretation.
Directors cuts are for people that cannot formulate their own theories and opinions on a movie....if someone releases a movie for an audience it becomes subject to everyones different interpretations. Nothing more nothing less...i don't need a blowhard filling in the blanks.
Jeramy1440 Clash of kings k1035
I'm wondering if it matters which one you watch first?
I bought the Director's Cut first - really enjoyed it, a lot. When I found the theatrical release also bought it. Liked it, also, but not quite as much.
Maybe if I had seen it before the Director's Cut my opinion would be different? :)
12:08 to be fair, my older brother literally hung out with his friends in a field with random furniture back when he was in high school.
random
Same here.
As an older brother, yes
>Opened TH-cam
>Saw thumbna- *click*
Reality Weasel I too like seeing the thumbna
"And frankly I don't care"
Why Isn't this line a meme yet? XD
19:16 was Drew's reaction to the script to Freddy got fingered.
or just Tom Green
Or everyone who had to saw the food fight trailer
Goodbye Tuesday, HELLO WEDNESDAY!!
It's wednesday my dudes!
guillermo del toro doing a nesquik commercial...bruh...I'm dead lol.
Where’s the Spirited Away Joke?
Ps. Freaking love this review.
The moment you mispronounced “Gyllenhaal” as “Gyllen-THALL”, I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
"When will Admiral Boom announce his cannon fire?!" xD
Did somebody say "boom"?
BOOM!
I now have memories about stuff I didn't even know about
You again
@@CaJoel why you agian???????????
The people were weird because it was a different universe, they were just meant to guide him to his purpose.
So...his purpose was dying?
@Felicia Taylor yes more like sacrificing himself. He was kind of played as a Jesus figure. His purpose was bringing the jet engine to the other universe, where it crashes and kills him.
@@crackedatlas6310 ooohhhh. Thank you!
@@lunabearsong2043 yes this film can be confusing but it's a masterpiece
Duckmanlovesyou but....why?
I'd watch all your sponsorship ads even without movie review. Normally I skip those when it comes to other youtubers, but you take that to another entertaining level.
Donnie Darko IS a good movie, but just that. it has never been and will never be a masterpiece. Making a movie around deep and complex themes doesn't automatically make it a deep and complex movie.
...wait what? I mean it's ranked number 142 on my list but you do realize what subjectivity is? People are allowed to think it's a masterpiece. Also you claim the movie isn't deep and complex despite it very much being deep and complex, it's as if you are discrediting what literally happens in the film and are taking this NC review at face value.
I found it to be standard pretentious fare for the time...featuring Drew Barrymore for no fathomable reason.
@@KingRandor82 The production was lacking funds and Drew stepped in as a producer, that's how she got into the movie.
Movies are also about the experience
Same thing goes for Interstellar and Inception, the characters are poorly developed, they are only a device used to push these complex ideas forward.
he must have been the real darkheart, but the care bears were yet to come.
So Donnie Darko is a prequel to Care Bears. Must be part of the Teletubbies and Care Bears cinematic universe NC and AVGN were joking about in the Mummy 2017 review.
The ultimate weapon to kill Frank the Bunny....
"STAMPS!"
Donnie Darko AND Nostalgia Critic in the same video? You guys know how to make my Wednesday night
I like how this movie was partly inspired by back to the future, adds a sense of enjoyment to it
I was pleasantly surprised to see you reviewing one of my top ten favorite movies. Donnie Darko made me the most emo teenager in high school.
Really? Why? Like why is it in your top ten, I'm genuinely curious. I always saw Donnie Darko as a movie that was on the level of cheesiness as one of Steven Kings short series. I never found anything deep or interesting about it.
@@aliciafraser1835 I lived my bruiting teen fantasy through Jake Gyllenhaal
"I read comics I know mysterio is the bad guy."
HAHAHA.
I love this movie because it makes great use of Chekhov's hammer in the sense that it ties up loose ends very well. Nothing is this movie is actually wasted. Everything comes back to mean something, and every time you watch it, you pick up on another recurring detail you previously missed.
It's a very consice film from that viewpoint, something which is extremely rare in today's cinema. Another film that is similarly concise is Master & Commander because everything you see is what you get (though it's adapted from the series of the same name, it follows the events of a single book in the series, with enough liberties taken to give the impression of a larger world outside that on screen).
Donnie Darko is remembered for being a film that truly comes full circle. Whether or not that makes it a good story is another matter. But cinematically, it's an excellent movie.
EDIT: Fixed the spelling of Chekhov. Good catch, thanks.
*Chekhov's gun :)
*Pedantic 😉
I knew that a bunch of random guys would say they opinion about the movie even without anyone asking for. And other random guys would comment agreeing or disagreeing about it. So predictable world.
But what does the care bear mean?
@@BWMagus The dialogue is believable during the home scenes. It's believably awkward during the social scenes. It fits the theme of the film and Donnie's character.
The underlying point of the story is that everything which happens is upsetting an already delicate domestic balance. Of course the dialogue is going to be awkward. You'd be awkward in the same circumstances.
Just me or NC got a better camera? I put the videos on 720p60HD and compared to last year's videos, the quality is so astonishing it almost looks 3D.
Ergotth What is the moon character from?
@@Luke-zj6ge Soul Eater.
He just started using 60 fps. That’s about it.
But I totally agree it looks a lot better.
*bangs fists against desk*
I LOVE STAMPS!
I saw this when I was really young. It freaked me the f*"k out.
Very hard to understand as well huh?