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The makers of this clearly didn't understand Donnie Darko.

posted 14 years ago by Jasbond
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The thing is with the first Donnie Darko was, it was based around him having died to the jet engine from the future and so it would cause the world to end, because the sequence of events (flooding the school, killing frank etc) wouldn't happen and so neither would the jet engine, and so if that happened the world would've ended due to a hole in the space time contiuum. And so they start off by saying 'IN THE LAST ONE DONNIE DARKO DIED', true enough you see him dying at the end but that was just showing you the alternate reality, they all wake up and they all seem to know it's the end of the world, but as I said that was just the alternate reality, the real reality was at the start where he was out when the jet engine hit his room and thus allowed it once again to go back in time. *gasps for breath*

therefore if they are trying to say Donnie had died in the last one they clearly didn't understand the concept because in the reality in which Donnie dies, the world ends.

Dumb hollywood.

[–] rubengomezradioboy-913-561910 11 years ago

YOU don't understand Donnie Darko.

alternate reality? OMG... XD

[–] Spoffdarko 9 years ago

Neither did you OP.

Two words...Tangent Universe...May help you.

"I'm leaving, i've assessed the situation, and i'm going".

[–] bernhard_alund 10 years ago

Dumb Hollywood? Try another "dumb" on for sice. This is just ramblings of a madman.

[–] amosref-204-123230 9 years ago

It seems like no one bothered to say this clearly (or I missed it browsing through the comments):
The makers of this movie are the exact same people who made "Donnie Darko".. so I'm pretty sure they understand DD...

[–] ChanceX74 9 years ago

The makers of this movie are the exact same people who made "Donnie Darko".. so I'm pretty sure they understand DD...

Here's where you're wrong: A Producer (one solitary guy by the name of Adam Fields) and Daveigh Chase (Samantha) are the only common threads, and many times a producer knows next to nothing outside of footing the bill and dealing with the financial dailies.

The directors are different.

The writers are different.

The other producers are different.

The production company is completely different.

It even has a different distributor - not that this has any impact on story but it certainly drives home that an entirely different creative team was behind this monstrosity.

If that isn't enough to convince you: Donnie Darko‍ 's writer and director, Richard Kelly, said he hadn't read the script and had absolutely no involvement - nor would he ever. If anyone were to understand DD, it's this guy.

[–] amosref-204-123230 9 years ago

I stand corrected. Thanks for taking the time and making the effort (although I was convinced by the second paragraph :) )

[–] ChanceX74 9 years ago

I stand corrected. Thanks for taking the time and making the effort (although I was convinced by the second paragraph :) )

I finally watched this after years of putting it off because I decided to watch DD again and figured "what could it hurt?" I'll say this: despite my disappointment and the fact that it felt like a complete rehashing of the exact same plotline using different characters and events by someone who was a fan of, but ultimately had no understanding of, the original, the movie has a beautiful soundscape - so much so that I went out of my way to find the score almost immediately after despite my disappointment.

That and seeing little Samara from The Ring grown up were probably the finer points.

[–] mapslive 9 years ago

My take of Donnie Darko after having watched S.Darko is that it was Samantha that had the power the whole time, not Donnie. The weird things he saw and dealt with being a product of a time distortion that would end in his death. She would have died in the plane crash so her power caused the engine to fall killing her brother thereby making it so that she never boarded the plane in the first place therefore not dying. Her brother being the first casualty in a long chain of deaths saving her own life. Then the same thing happens repeatedly in S.Darko, she causes others to die in her stead via the manipulations of time, saving herself.