Don't let the negative reviews stop you!

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I agree. Besides the road "starting" at the theater, there didn't seem to be a connection made with the theater. There needed to be a build up to it. Overall, I liked it and thought it was really original and mostly well-done, but I felt like it needed a script revision. It felt as if the script wasn't quite finished.

There seems to be 3 types of people with opinions on Yellowbrickroad - The junkies, the misconcepted and the ones with a dark sense of humor. I guess the latter can have some fun about it and will be sure not to ask men to remove their hats. The junkies are going to crack up on mescaline and have trippy slumberparties with a bunch of shr00ms and a talking caterpillar and the people who totally have misunderstood this film will raise it to the skies.

Personally I think the junkies are correct, it does look like a bad trip followed by mass psycosis, something that would have worked smoothly with a government LSD Behaviour experiment plot. That could have justified all the extremely badly executed over the top kills explaining it as being blown out of proportion by the drugs. It would also have been referred to in the scene when the team tries to explain the music.

The common misunderstanding that this film is good is that people look at the acting. And that is no misconception - the acting is excellent. The plot however is lousy. Another way to mistake this film for being a good piece of art is observing the footage, camera, angles and color filters. Also wery good. The dusky faded grey filter is a pleasure for the eye to watch and it dowses the actors. But the film in itself is still not good. It is actually quite a waste of time and money. And not to mention the credibility for the actors. Negative ratings and rewievs ALWAYS hit the actors the most. And that can easily grow to a stigmata creating a false image for the actor that they have low acting skills when the fault really lies with the directing team, first filming the actors and later cutting up the production to something completely pointless and horrid.

I had high expectations for Yellowbrickroad. I don't give a flying frak about reviews, I care for the result. And the outcome in this case was another dissapointment, watching great acting being shredded to pieces by incredibly incapable directing.

The film might have sounded better in the script. But it is extremely poorly executed. The end feels more like a Shining ripoff then the "End of the Yellowbrickroad" The kill scenes are redicoulous. Ripping of legs? Tearing up jaws? Come on. There is absolutely nothing that justifies that awfulness and the only way it could have been explained would have been that they all were hallucinating. Since they weren't it's just lame. And it tore down the serious aura set by the actors. Not in their favor.

The entire film goes on without getting to the point and you just count down the time of it ever having a shot of getting there.

So it is a clear misunderstanding to belive that this film is a great piece of art. It is a poor film with good actors. If you want to watch a brilliant horrorflick with one of the participating actors you should tune in to "The Signal" (The Terminus Signal) THAT is excellent filmmaking WITH great acting NOT being "spoonfed" to you. Skew is an interesting indie piece wich makes you think

And. I am sorry. But Donnie Darko is an awful film. It is so bad it should recive an award. It's tragic that people have gone all wanky about the Passenger Rabbit suit and blindly pushes it to be a film that "only a few understands"

It's an incredibly sh*tty film and Jake Gyllenhaal is a shame, it is amazing how he ever could get into the acting biz if you look at his horridly lacking performance. And you sure can compare to sister Maggie Gyllenhaals way better performance. Jake Gyllenhaal's part in Donnie Darko is not far from the same lacking part he had in the timewasting war-non-action film Jarhead. I was surprised and pleased to watch End of Watch at the cinema seeing him improved to a good actor. I never thought that would happen. Glad to be proven wrong in that case. But it doesn't change the fact that Donnie Darko is a lousy film, bad script, redicoulus, extremely sex and violent fixated juvenile mono - and dialouges, inconsistency and the only action actually happening at the end of the movie. It's D'erenlicté and nothing else.

If you really want to watch things wich are complex to understand take a sit down and try to manage Primer. Or enjoy a young Rufus Sewell in Dark City if you like the flashback to the past. Or go for the obscure piece Brainscan if you want old school darkness. Or what the heck - Take some LSD and watch Space Jam in a Frank suit, that might just do it.

And just about the time I am coming out of jail, hopefully you'll be coming our of your coma

I dont even understand what isnt explained. It all ties together nicely
for me. I wonder if people were drinking when they watched it.

I'm glad i read this post, i saw the IMBD score, and was about to dismiss it, but i have had my mind changed by what ive read in the posts here, i love strange movies which dont spoon feed you every step of the way, so i think ill actually give this one a chance, thanks!

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"The acting is poor, the script is awful, the cinematography is amateurish and the pacing is as captivating as waiting at the dentist office."

Couldn't agree more. This movie tries to be complex and ambiguous, but the people behind this crap just don't have the talent for that.

People don't hate this movie because they want to be spoon fed, people hate it because it sucks. To the OP, I love movies like PRIMER, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, DONNIE DARKO... so don't give me that "people didn't like it because they didn't get it" bs.