24 Years Later, I Finally Understand Donnie Darko
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26 years later I finally understand South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut?
Perhaps give Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales another visit as well, in the form of watching its fanedit called “A Beautiful Nightmare”. It’s a 3rd cut of the movie that might take it off your worst ever list.
@@97OakStreet Fuck yeah! I wanted to ask for Southland Tales too! Haha
Seems sadly very actual.
Oh waw, had no idea there was a fan edit, that's so cool! I'll have to take a look!
I've been watching your stuff forever, so glad you're still making this type of unique and thought-provoking content. Take care Jared!
To me, Donnie Darko is the dark reflection of It's a Wonderful Life. Its antithesis. Donnie's angel was like, yeah bro, just die.
I only know the broad outline of It's a Wonderful Life, but that's an interesting take!
“I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief because there will be so much to look forward to”
Doomer Darko
28 Years Later, I Finally Understand Spice World. Big arrow pointing to Ginger Spice with the text 'WHAT MOST PEOPLE MISS'
Your tone sounds critical but you're coming in here with the big brain ideas. Jared, you should totally do this and screenshot lionroars comment for the video.
@@ZacharyMarshall-d1c Do it for the kids Jared
0:08 I don't know if you will ever understand how much I love this Bait and switch 😂
Isn’t it great when it feels like a joke from a complete stranger was written specifically for you and you alone?
Donnie Darko is one of my absolute favorite movies. And I think You are very correct with this analysis of the movie. Great stuff!
Goddamn I just love your analysis so much. Thanks for continuing to make these videos.
Donnie resonated with me because I wished I could go back in time to the late 80s and save my mom. I still wish it was all just a bad dream before a bolt from the sky kills me and my mom gets to live.
Life is cruel and devoid of meaning
@@LuisSierra42 I wouldnt go that far. It has the meaning we ascribe to it and create our own life within this darkness. It could be a better world if people would be less shitty to each other and cared less about what clothes they wear or who they love. To Borrow from another one of my favorite films "I like to Imagine Her Battling Evil, In Another Dimension!".
The big lebowski is just donnie darko for people who just want to chill and not think about the deeper meaning
"the big wachowski" -s. gillis
The Evil Dead was released unrated. The NC-17 rating did not exist until 1990. Movies released before then that were originally rated X were declassified NC-17 afterwards. Evil Dead got its NC-17 in 1994
It makes me really happy you highlighted the objective best line in the movie.
Query: What would Donnie & Gretchen be rebelling against in the early 2020’s?
It's been a while so I'd forgotten all about what Donnie tells Coach Farmer to do with the exercise program. Cracks me up every time
I’ll never forget the night I discovered this movie. I was housesitting with a friend, it was his brothers house. We smoked a lot of weed then he pulled out this movie that his brother had told him about. It was life changing. lol ok, maybe not but I love this film and it has a strong emotional tie to that moment in my life.
Make a twenty minutee video that doesn't say:
This is a modern retelling of Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Still one of my favorite movies of all time.
For some reason this movie is very hard to find on streaming services.
Also there is a Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut. But I don't know if the changes makes it better.
Its on tubi and plex tv
More than partisan politics, I think it is about rebellion against the status quo, regardless of the content of its political affiliation, bc that pendelum swings both ways. Right now is the opposite of DD, we have a new generation voting more conservative than ever.
Bubble Boy unironically a better movie.
I usually love your commentary, but I'm not sure you were hitting the mark this time. I think you had a great start by using the sociopolitical lens, but you didn't "math out" the implications.
Donny's very different worldview is acted out due to a supernatural event. His decision to allow himself to be killed "rescues" Gretchen, but the good he does to the world during the parallel universe line is effectively erased. We're talking PDF file shenanigans allowed to go on because he wanted his girl to live, even though that's a cake he can't eat once he's dead. That feels like a condemnation of his self-righteousness, making him as bad as the movie's "villians".
I think that any scholarly exegesis of Donnie Darko should run comparisons between Gretchen here and the one in Goethe's Faust.
It's vague, but once you start nailing things down, fun times ahead!
One of my favorite movies of all time.
Why do so many of these Donnie Darko meaning videos ignore those computer scrolling scenes found in the director's cut? Is it because this is evidence of a simulated universe story and while they have no problem seeing a causation story of made up characters, they don't want to contemplate the possibility of their own non-existence? Regardless, once you view the film through a simulated universe lens the pieces fall in to place.
Imagine a simulated universe performing whatever purpose a simulated universe might have when an error occurs, let's say a jet engine falls from the sky without there being a plane for it to fall from. This would ruin the purpose of the simulation necessitating a reset (end of the "world") or going back to a restore point and using existing elements to justify the error (creating the tangent universe of the story). Donnie is selected because he was going to be killed from the engine and he won't have an ongoing effect once the universe gets back on track. He would be the only one to know what actually happened but he's not going to be plagued by recollections because he will be dead. Others would just have pieces of a dream.
So the program (God?) restore points the simulation creating a tangent universe just before the engine crash, saving Donnie using an avatar bunny. The bunny wasn't the real Frank simulation program (the real Frank was living his simulated life dating Donnie's sister, making masks and drinking beers) and it was simply a program guide (angel?) providing information to manipulate Donnie along the path to save the simulation. The book about time travel was not real either. (What are the odds someone writes something so fantastical that would apply to their future neighbour? It's absurd!) The book was another guide manifestation to manipulate Donnie into saving the universe. The power to see one's path ahead also is used to guide him to necessary actions or story elements ,like the gun, was granted to him. Donnie is also given other powers, ie strength to sink an axe in to a bronze statue and ultimately some sort of telekinesis to pull an engine off a plane, all of which is done off screen but obviously performed.
The program (God?) manipulates Donnie throughout, nudging him along, even setting up a love interest to get Donnie to sacrifice himself for, if saving the universe itself wasn't enough. The Donnie simulation wasn't made a puppet like the other characters must have been. Donnie, though manipulated, was allowed agency so as to keep the saved simulation valid otherwise the program (God?) could just magic it but then why have a simulation at all?
This film which could appear to be about an imaginary bunny getting someone to self delete in a crazy way was quite deep and very well done. One of my favourite films.
*the above was a copy/paste from a prior comment of mine.
You seemed very focused on the social commentary angle, so much so, that I doubt that there is any difference between what you say the film is about and your own social values.
You show one of those scrolling computer data scenes from the director's cut so you've seen it yet you make no mention of all those scenes which show pages from Roberta Sparrows Philosophy of Time Travel book wherein we are told that in the tangent universe the living receiver, Donnie, will be surrounded by the manipulated to get him to save the universe. That means that all the other characters in the film are not entirely themselves, they are the manipulated (by the simulation). Their character portrayals are, in effect, unreliable and so to, any basis for character based themes becomes unreliable.
Now, the director could have meant for all that you got from the film to be there but why then have it be negated, in some part, great or small, with this philosophy of time travel simulated universe angle? Why work against what he wanted to say with these metaphysical story elements? Elements which could have easily been removed entirely, but weren't?
You are, of course, free to feel and present whatever you get from the film but to ignore this obvious metaphysical angle and focus entirely on story proven suspect character portrayals as the only theme is a disservice. Once you pick up on the metaphysical story, everything else is diminished. A simulated universe story trumps a liberals, good, conservatives, bad, story. In my opinion.
"they don't want to contemplate the possibility of their own non-existence?" Maybe think that one through again. Even in a simulated universe, the simulations still exist. That doesn't at all explain why Jared, or any other video creator, would leave out your favorite parts to analyze.
Also since you seem to have missed it, he did actually mention the sci-fi themes, so no he didn't act like the the social commentary were the only themes. On the contrary, your comment that one version of the story "trumps" the other doesn't fit well with the fact that both versions of the movie have both. In case you didn't notice, the social commentary takes up the majority of the movie's length and is pretty much the only reason for Drew Barrymore's character..
@@biggerdoofus "they don't want to contemplate the possibility of their own non-existence" was sort of a throw away line because I just can't understand why the simulated universe angle gets ignored so often. I could have just as easily said, as I did later on, that a simulated universe story diminishes everything else and they don't like that. It puts their views on a back burner, makes it an aside, that sort of thing. If Donnie Darko was simply the theatrical cut, everything this video said could be argued for. But there there is that director's cut.
Why are there director's cuts? Sometimes it's a money-grab but usually it's the story the director really wanted to tell but couldn't for some reason. The main difference between the two versions are those multiple showings of scrolling computer data, scenes none of the characters where aware of, meant solely for the viewer, and those scenes showing the philosophy of time travel pages. Both were the director saying, hey pay attention to this, this is important, this is key. Another difference between the two is when the psychiatrist tells Donnie an atheist believes there is no God and an agnostic believes God is possible but hasn't manifested yet and that Donnie was an agnostic. Deus Ex Machina was the main theme of the film. God exists, whether it's some Divine Father figure, or the great pumpkin or a super-duper holographic computer, it's all the same.
Speaking of Donnie, we were told he possesses an intimidating intelligence. In the classroom scenes, two subjects were discussed. Graham Greene's "The Destructors" and "Watership Down". Donnie spoke of the Destructors as being ironic but the real irony was his view of the watership down rabbits. He said why should we care they are just rabbits. Gretchen said the rabbits were us. Of course, Donnie being so intelligent could see that obvious argument but he was saying the rabbits aren't us, we are the rabbits. The irony is that Donnie, being the only "real" person was saying we don't matter and the "manipulated" person was arguing for our importance. I find that funny, or profound, I'm not sure. Both?
Was Donnie right or wrong? Again, both. Donnie, you see was a depressive. That's why he was seeing a psychiatrist, not because he was seeing giant bunny rabbits. What's the point of living if you don't have a dick and he could see that life doesn't have that satisfying, thrusting, vector. That makes Donnie's arc one of being a troubled youth, no point, no God, we all die alone type, to sacrificing himself for the world and laughing at the end because he finds there is some point and he's not alone. There is something else and he's a part of something greater. He has a dick. Or maybe he's laughing at the absurdity of it all but I think there is more evidence for the former.
So yes, the director's cut does in fact, emphasize the Deus Ex Machina theme over the social theme. The spiritual over the secular. Both are existent but Donnie Darko is more a finding God story than anything else. I'm not religious, at all, but there it is. Sorry for being so wordy.
@@biggerdoofus Oh, and Drew Barrymore's character. Yeah, she was presented as a liberal but she was also the one to bring up the Deus Ex Machina theme. She was the one who pushed Gretchen at Donnie helping to create the "ensurance trap". Clearly "manipulated " behaviour otherwise she's a really creepy teacher trying to hook-up her high-school students. Jake Gyllenhal was a man but Donnie was a kid. He was going to school with his little sister who thought feces were baby mice. Donnie was shooting bb guns at bottles in the woods with his friends who looked younger than him. Donnie was also promoted ahead grades, wasn't he? Gretchen was his first girlfriend. He rode a bike everywhere yet his parents were loaded so he probably didn't have a license making him, what, 15? That scene with Molitov where he says "Donnie Darko?" and she says "I know" with a smirk implies she was talking about being attracted to Donnie. That's the vibe I got. I'm not sure that's the sort of social commentary you want the Drew Barrymore character representing without there being some Deus Ex Machina manipulation going on.
@@NottaChanceman I looked it up. The reason for the Director's Cut was because the people who were involved in the production (both the director and the producers) felt the movie's lack of revenue was due to unfortunate timing and a rerelease would give the film a better chance. The reason the extra footage of the actors wasn't in the original was because the director was asked to edit the film to under 2 hours. The reason the text overlays weren't in the original was because the director hadn't thought of them yet.
So, yes, the director's cut is the version the director would've preferred, but the original was the version that included what he thought was most essential.
It's more of a metaphoric Jesus-like history about self-sacrifice than a literal simulation story.
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Man! What an excellent analysis!
Me nearly 20 years later still trying to figure out what my friend's boyfriend meant when he sat me down to watch this movie and told him I reminded him of the protagonist. Not knowing if he was trying to compliment or insult me.
Well, Donnie Darko was a wanker in the movie...
8:00 I find this argument regarding prohibition a little flawed, as the temperance movement and women's suffrage are deeply tied. Women's suffrage was a profound change to the status-quo, so I don't think this argument that prohibition was solely (or even primarily) about maintaining social order that compelling. Heck, Prohibition was passed the exact same year as Women's Suffrage.
But I probably just need to brush up my dialectical materialism and not play "gotcha"
5:23 Seth Rogan.
Even to this day his best movie
you’re one of the few real youtubers left these days man, please keep doing what you do
Great analysis. I will watch Donnie Darko with fresh eyes next time.
I think the escapism (mirrored today in the wine moms) of the moralizing is missed. These are people divorced from the realities on the ground, and not so much pain makes you holy, but it does reorient you to what is really going on.
There is a lot of pain out there.
I never realized that Controlling Fear is actually a description of the program, not what it's railing against.
Good analysis. 👍
And I believe that we all could agree the sequel (S. Darko) lacked this type of nuance. I'm still irritated with the fact that the kid was still trapped in a cage by the sea. No one gets any "revelations" by the end. It resets too many times and loses any impact. Though the telling of the tangent universe story being reversed (she's the Manipulated Dead) was interesting.
seeing donnie darko accidentally on HBO when i was like 15 or so was so life altering
11:11 It may be anecdotal, but I see the same thing, and it drives me insane.
I love your insight in these videos and the supplemental literature you provide
Loved the way you connected the themes so clearly, really well done!
Pain gives you the power of imagination. It must be quite strong to survive in a place of constant misery. In our imagination we do have some sort of power, maybe not objectively over the material world, ie magic, but at the very least a subjective power over our inner world. Ironically this power over our inner world can translate into power in the real world ie science
That line about people forming their politics to spite the people in their life they find most annoying blew my mind.
*Gestures broadly around at the 2020s"
😂😢😂😢
Damn. This is one of the best video essays I've ever watched. The algorithm did good this time.
3:31
I do have to take a little bit of issue with you in this point of the video.
Reaganism has never truly gone away.
It’s just it just changed to the liberals third way politics. Which on the surface seems like some type of liberation from Reaganism. But that’s it. It’s just at a surface level.
That’s why we are in the mess. We are in now politically, economically, and socially.
We're like in the middle of Reaganism evolving into it's final form lol.
Every title: I finally understand this.
Clickbait lies.
Donnie Darko was the first movie I ever bought on DVD. This is one of my favourite reviews ever.
I actually thought for a second you were going to talk about bubble boy. Never watched it fin fact forgot it exist till you mentioned it.
5:56 Had a Mandela moment there. I could have sworn that line was from Saved.
i just watched this movie. THANK YOU for filling in the blanks, this is so good!
Congrats on passing 100k!
It's going to take Jared another 24 years to understand Southland Tales
Oh man, you're so good at this, thanks!
I absolutely love this film, the sequel is also pretty underrated, and Daveigh Chase gives a surprisingly good performance in the film, even with the creepy priest.
Dude that was an incredibly good assessment, my respect to you sir!
"I'm beginning to doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion" has been my go to obscure burn line for people who take moralism a bit too far.
He will always be BUBBLE BOY to me 💖
It’s been 20 years since I’ve watched, but even after this recap, I’m struggling with understand the connection between the themes of the film with the time travel/changing the timeline story. Can someone illuminate me?
The movie is ultimately a moral power fantasy. It presents all the commentary about reaganism and the moral majority to give an explanation to the audience's pain, then presents a character who gets to make the ultimate sacrifice, thus proving his moral superiority and the audience's. The timeline elements show why the sacrifice was necessary and also gives the satisfying sense that whatever dissonance the character feels is real and valid.
@@biggerdoofus the film for me is about the dangers of nostalgia and wishing you were born in an era you have no full grasp of. Like notice all the references from Patrick Swayze to Drew Barrymore. They're all presented as "candy" for the kid who wish he lived in the 80s but notice how the students in the movie don't seem to be happy in their presence. Then there's the Tears For Fears song "Head Over Heels" playing in the hallway scene where everyone seems depressed. Like this movie for me really cuts deep as someone who was born in 1988 so I didn't experience the 80s.
The ad showing off how good the shoes are by walking through Pee Snow was certainly a choice
Best part of the video, honestly! LOL
Great video! Would love to see another video or podcast with you and Austin
I'm 14, and this is deep, the movie.
Yes!
Our brains and souls feast today! And Memento is next?! Awesome!
This is *SUCH* a great film to do a sociological analysis on!
Hell yeah!
Memento, the freshmaker!
Wow this guy finally understands a lot of things
The temperance movement was a force for good, 1 in 14 Americans have an alcohol dependence, alcohol causes half the fatal car crashes in America, is a factor in about 1/3rd to 1/2 of all murders and rapes and domestic abuse cases. Alcohol directly kills 100,000 people every year. Teen sex leads to unplanned pregnancy, the spread of STDs and a devalueing of long term relationships.
Value systems are important, there are real practical reasons for not giving into your desires all the time.
Thing is, prior to the temperance movement, we were a nation of primarily beer and wine drinkers. The temperance movement upped the ante due to bootlegging, bringing hard liquor to the forefront, which is the problem you are really grappling with. And the same pattern can be seen in nearly every drug crisis. You create the very problems you are attempting to solve.
Consequences are also important, and might reconsider giving in to your desire to morally instruct your neighbor.
@quintessenceSL we are all taught in school that prohibition was a failure because people found ways around it and because it fostered organized crime. This is a misconception, most people stopped drinking alcohol during prohibition, the number of deaths from alcohol decreased during prohibition. We all agree that cocaine and heroin are dangerous, and we are not about to legalize them because of the ongoing black market for those drugs and the persistent ability for a small number of people to obtain them illegally. Another thing to consider is that my legalizing alcohol the government is effectivly endorsing the drug and telling individuals that it's ok to drink. I know more people who's lives have been ruined by alcohol than by any other force.
@@mbox314 Which is all true, and completely irrelevant.
Prohibition increased the severity of problems with alcohol, creating the modern day alcoholism. Heroin was developed to address the addiction issues with morphine, which mirrors the promotion of oxy, which lead directly to the popularization of fentanyl. You see a pattern here?
I'd further add that abstinence programs have a success rate that barely hit the double digits, while the Sinclair method, which requires alcohol to be freely available has a success rate of over 70%.
Again, consequences. Look at the path of destruction prohibition has wrought and tell me again you aren't moralizing regardless of the costs.
@@mbox314 Prohibitions is fundamentally an attack on personal autonomy that has its own social harm. But regardless of what 'the majority of people' did regarding alcohol. You did not successfully counter the critique of fostering organized crime and the blackmarket for elicit goods. Taking the production of those goods outside of the oversight of regulatory authorities and making them more dangerous. Elicit drugs are pretty ubiquitous in US society. We can say prohibitions has also been largely unsuccessful there, and again some of the consequences is the enabling the dangers of the blackmarket. Drugs getting cut with unknown substances to the user is one of the leading causes of OD deaths.
I don't drink, use elicit substances, or even consume caffeine. Indeed, I think the broad society expectation to manage one's sleep cycle through the use of habituated stimulants is largely harmful. But the consequences of trying to ban it will be far, far worse, and pointlessly infringe on other's personal autonomy.
Love the film. Love the essay.
Excellent review ....
Thanks again
I've always wanted to bookend this movie with "Repo Man" and never knew exactly why, but your analysis put it into perspective for me.
"Repo Man" is how the late 80's *felt* to us older teens and twenty-somethings, but 'Donnie Darko' was actually much closer to our reality, and now- in the age of Trump- a lot of us are wishing we could go back and be hit by that engine.
You got to experience the greatest decade as a teenager, and you _still_ wish for the jet-engine? Sounds so weird...
@@DisgruntledDoomer - two reasons; one- if a single sacrifice could eliminate a threat to all(?)....it's a fundamental existential trope. Two- compared to then, the present/future decidedly does NOT look like humankind 'advancing' in humane ways.
GREAT freaking video! Thank you! And sorry for being abrasive before! Lol... I definitely saw myself in Donnie a lot. Hahaha
damn what a banger, I havent seeing this movie in years and its crazy how much this movie is reflected today. I guess history does repeat.
Oh boy! I'm sure glad opposition politics aren't as common today! 😅
I’ve actually only ever seen bubble boy I never watched Donnie Darko
Loved it when I was that angsty young millennial. Did not age well. Then I watched it again recently and it's actually pretty good. Such a shame they never made a sequel.
Imo it would’ve detracted from the first if they had. I’m glad they let it sit alone.
They DID make a sequel. Called S Darko in 2009
If only they’d made a sequel! I would Google that so hard and find it in a matter of minutes. But alas, no such sequel exists. Oh well, probably for the best.
@@JustWentApe shhhhh lol
oh man, i loved this when i was 17, watched it again when i was 25 and HATED it, rewatched it recently and loved it again lol whats up with that XD
Donnie Darko is on my top 10 films list. A true work of art. But PLEASE if you're going to catch this film watch the directors cut. It's a a far better and more detailed version.
Love Bubbleboy!!! 😊
When will Jared finally understand Metal Gear Solid?
Only the first 3 games though. Kojima never intended to answer the questions he raised in MGS2.
"fear is the enemy" : P
Glad to see this. I have been watching your stuff for awhile. Forgot I had subscribed. Glad I did. Really an interesting take on this, especially given current politics on all sides. I'll check out the shoes. In the PNW, waterproof shoes are key.
its a shame the directors cut explains everything. One of the few times i recommend actually watching the theatrical cut instead.
Great analysis, but you have one thing backwards. Those of higher consciousness aren't elevated by suffering. They are suffering under the pressure of living under the tyranny of the stupid.
Great analysis... I love(d) this film but it always felt profound and not so profound at the same time... Now I understand.
I kind of saw the movie as saying that if you are deep then you become brooding because of this frustration to find authenticity and things that are genuinely intellectually stimulating . Not that one becomes brooding to be deep. It felt more like sympathy for that frustration than it was glorifying it. I don't think there is a time in the movie Donnie takes pleasure in everyone else looking stupid. I don't think he enjoys being distinctive by being in a minority opinion, if he did then he would have just made jokes about the presentation with his friends instead of actually standing up and correcting Cunningham. Donnie wanted change, not to just lord over being better than other
waiting for a video about late night with the devil
Best breakdown I've ever seen of my favorite film of all time. Thank you!
It’s always interesting that 20 years later the paradigm has shifted completely and conservatism is the counter culture and liberalism is the moral authority dictating how everyone else should live.
A federal organization called the "Anti Christian Bias Task Force" now exists and yet you are still stupid enough to say this? You will literally never get tired of playing the victim.
No, it's not, not even close. Conservatives are in charge of everything and want to restrict your rights. The worst thing liberals do is be annoying on Twitter.
I watched the directors cut the first time I’ve seen this film and it’s the only time I prefer the directors cut to the original although I’m in the minority.
Oh my God... I totally forgot about Bubble Boy.
What a god-awful movie that was.
Note: Jared, from about 1:50 in your video to 3:01 I am hearing Future Rennaisance by Godmode in your soundtrack, but its not listed in your description credits nor in TH-cam's Music list for the video. th-cam.com/video/iRYCRIMmsFw/w-d-xo.html
The slowest man on the internet 🙇🏿♂️
I would love to see explained videos on the director's other two films "Southland Tales & The Box", it's a weird trilogy of films, a bit a bit like David Lynch films are, but in a different way.!, but I liked all three films, I think THE ROCK in Southland Tales is his best film, acting wise.! it's a bizarre film though.!
I was looking forward to this video because I didn't understand the movie at all but now after watching this I dont feel bad at all. There is nothing deep or profound about this movie and it is a cheap criticism of morality that resonates with edgy teenagers who by default are idiots.
maybe you should find a more deep or profound critical analysis than the channel on TH-cam that posts "i think i get it a quarter century later" videos.
@TheJacklikesvideos do you have any recommendations?
You had me up until the “suffering” bit and tge replacing one symbology for another, equally flawed one. I don’t think this film is about “suffering” at all, let alone praising it, and I think the idea that the replacing worldview is at all the same as the Cunningham vision is itself superficial and flawed.
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I love that movie. One of my favorites. Stay away from the sequel. It sucks
got a like from me with the joke 15 sec in lmao
Did you intentionally avoid mentioning Christianity, like the film did? The film intentionally avoids naming Christianity as it criticizes Reagan/Bush moralism. But in critiquing and analyzing the film, its wild not to mention that.
You say it resonates with your "generation", but have you considered which parts specifically? I would expect at least people whose family was too poor to own a house or pay for therapy to have trouble relating to this movie. Also, it wouldn't surprise me if actual sci-fi fans hated it, given how much the world-line portrayal totally missed the point of world-lines.
Great video, thank you!
I challenge you to do 'Freddy Got Fingered' one day. Someone has to.
No please talk about bubble boy please
How has it taken this long for these to obvious things to come together?
No you don’t. Literally only I understand that movie.