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Post by Omnipotent on Nov 15, 2004 19:17:22 GMT -5
I wish I could divorce all knowledge of ever seeing Donnie Darko. The first few times you watch it has such an effect on you. I remember when it comes to the end when "Mad World" plays and you see how Donnie's death effects everybody, I was sat up afraid to move. So powerful but when you know exactly what happens step by step the value is lost to a degree. Anyone feel like this?  |
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Post by Madridarko on Nov 15, 2004 19:47:18 GMT -5
Not really, or at least not me. I think I get where you are coming from, but that is not my case. I actually enjoy watching it over and over again. Specially the second time I watched I think it was the best. My first time, was not really that interesting, maybe because I am not the type that can watch a whole movie then analyze it, I have to analyze it while watching it and then analyze it a bit more after the movie. So my fist time with DD was a total disaster because for most of the movie I was centering my point of view around Frank being an alien or a monster, I never expected it to be so complex and with such a deep emotion. The movie also made me belive that it was an old movie from the 80's so I was like Uhhghg. But then I saw it my second time and I enjoyed it sooooo much. Then I went to the website then researched on it then found this site. Then I watched the movie 50 thousand more times. I was really hooked into it.
To conclude, I really don't think that I would wish for my memories of watching DD would be blown into obliviation just to watch it again and for it to seem as if it was my first time watching it. Maybe this deccision is derrived from my horrible first experience from watching DD for my first time.
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Post by Omnipotent on Nov 16, 2004 10:26:11 GMT -5
I see where you are coming from also and although I agree it's interesting to pick up on different things everytime you watch it, it will never match the first time I really sat down by myself and absorbed it. Words can't describe.
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Post by Twitchmonkey on Nov 16, 2004 18:25:17 GMT -5
Yeah I get that feeling but I get it pretty much every time I watch the movie....I would suggest only watching it once ever couple of weeks to a month
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Post by Madridarko on Nov 16, 2004 19:44:41 GMT -5
I would not mind watching it every day if I had time to. I guess the only reason I do not watch it very oftenly is because I don't own a copy.
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Post by Twitchmonkey on Nov 16, 2004 23:52:57 GMT -5
I would not mind watching it every day if I had time to. I guess the only reason I do not watch it very oftenly is because I don't own a copy. It does lose some of its specialness if you watch it more than 2 days in a row.....and who wants that? |
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Post by josh on Nov 17, 2004 0:12:47 GMT -5
I've certainly passed the point at which the movie felt new. But it is nice to have it playing in the background every now and then to watch the best parts. I've got about a dozen other movies I've watched and wouldn't miss if I never saw them again. In that respect DD is still special. It would be fun to be hypnotized and be able to watch it for the "first time" again. Whoever hypnotized me probably end up quacking like a duck the whole time though.
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Post by twinkle on Apr 23, 2007 21:58:43 GMT -5
funny to find this thread: my wife wanted to see the movie recently and as we sat down to watch it i told her i wished i could be seeing it again w/fresh eyes...
that first time really stunned me; it got in my head and pounded around for awhile afterward. and the second time did as well.
this latest viewing was still good but i found myself looking at more of the technique/technical aspects (it is remarkable what Richard Kelly accomplished w/story-telling abilities alone and a minimum of flashy effects).
the characters awakening is a very moving part of the film, their state of quasi-dream-memory, the "past" and future crashing together in their heads. to be "outside" watching them, we know their heroism and their faults and their confusion. and that melancholy song playing over it all combines for an indelible impression that lasts long after the film's end. i too felt like: NOW WHAT?!
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Post by telekon on Aug 1, 2007 2:58:18 GMT -5
I wish I could divorce all knowledge of ever seeing Donnie Darko. The first few times you watch it has such an effect on you. I remember when it comes to the end when "Mad World" plays and you see how Donnie's death effects everybody, I was sat up afraid to move. So powerful but when you know exactly what happens step by step the value is lost to a degree. Anyone feel like this? I agree to a large extent. Personally, I view good art as very fragile, it easily broken by over-analyzing. It is often, as you mention, the first impressions, the original feelings if you like, that are the most important and the strongest. Influenced by Susan Sontags "Against Interpretation" art should not be dissected into pieces by analytics. Eventhough I've been reading through some of this forum and enjoyed it, I still feel the need to not know everything, to let that magical myst of uncertainty do its job, making the movie almost as good as it was the first and second time I saw it. |
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Post by Omnipotent on Aug 1, 2007 12:22:43 GMT -5
Looking back in retrospect I still feel the same way now, but I've just noticed something... My punctuation used to be absolutely terrible when writing online lol. I still feel the need to not know everything, to let that magical myst of uncertainty do its job, making the movie almost as good as it was the first and second time I saw it. Well said. That's definitely what made it special to me intially, the true wonderment of it. |
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Post by greedy on Aug 2, 2007 19:14:27 GMT -5
Looking back in retrospect I still feel the same way now, but I've just noticed something... My punctuation used to be absolutely terrible when writing online lol. concrete pro me and omni are brothers from other mothers |
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Post by Omnipotent on Aug 3, 2007 21:11:11 GMT -5
concrete pro me and omni are brothers from other mothers Well my mum has implied my dad was unfaithful before, could be  |
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Post by greedy on Aug 4, 2007 12:44:39 GMT -5
lol hey we really should get all the regulars from the board togather some time
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Post by Omnipotent on Aug 4, 2007 21:27:44 GMT -5
lol hey we really should get all the regulars from the board togather some time I tried to get the Halloween party at Prov's going again, but he hid my Reagan mask and destroyed the trampoline. Son of a... |
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Post by greedy on Aug 6, 2007 2:25:59 GMT -5
can i get a fast red car a guy in a clown suit and a frank costume i wanna run gretchen over (call me scum of the board ;D ) and i wanna be dating maggie gyllenhall
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