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S.Darko (2009) - Yes, a Donnie Darko sequel. Oh god.
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So, apparently, they (Chris Fisher as director, not Richard Kelly) are giving Donnie Darko the sequel treatment. This time, the story focuses on his little sister, some time later:
S. Darko takes place in the summer of 1995, seven years after the original film. It follows Donnie Darko's younger sister, Samantha (Daveigh Chase), who, in the wake of his death, has found herself at age 17 with a broken family, mired in feelings of insignificance. She and her best friend Corey (Evigan) set off on a road trip to Hollywood in a bid to 'make it big', but their journey is cut short when their car breaks down unexpectedly, leaving them stranded in a small desert town. When a meteorite happens to crash-land nearby, Samantha is plagued by bizarre visions telling of the universe's end and it appears that their breakdown was part of some grander plan. When she finds out she was actually adopted by the Darkos, and that she is in no way related to Donnie, she must face her own demons and, in doing so, save the world and herself. (from Wikipedia)
I'm devastated. I loved Donnie Darko. There are many who hated it, I'm sure, but making a sequel off of a story that essentially left you with no cliffhanger is... well, it's retarded.
More info here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1231277/
S. Darko takes place in the summer of 1995, seven years after the original film. It follows Donnie Darko's younger sister, Samantha (Daveigh Chase), who, in the wake of his death, has found herself at age 17 with a broken family, mired in feelings of insignificance. She and her best friend Corey (Evigan) set off on a road trip to Hollywood in a bid to 'make it big', but their journey is cut short when their car breaks down unexpectedly, leaving them stranded in a small desert town. When a meteorite happens to crash-land nearby, Samantha is plagued by bizarre visions telling of the universe's end and it appears that their breakdown was part of some grander plan. When she finds out she was actually adopted by the Darkos, and that she is in no way related to Donnie, she must face her own demons and, in doing so, save the world and herself. (from Wikipedia)
I'm devastated. I loved Donnie Darko. There are many who hated it, I'm sure, but making a sequel off of a story that essentially left you with no cliffhanger is... well, it's retarded.
More info here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1231277/
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In other words, just pretend there is no sequel.
Stop raping teh films.
Fuck you,
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These are the types of things that are best left ignored. Hopefully it will be straight-to-DVD so I don't have to see trailers for it.
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Who deemed this necessary?
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Why does this have to be related to Donnie Darko at all? The girl is his sister, but that's where the links to the previous film end.
Oh wait, he's not even his biological sister, so she has NO connection whatsoever.
The fuck.
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That'll kill appeal.
right.
a lot of people, especially "nowadays", seem to judge a piece of art less on its own merits and more on the types of fans it attracts. (alright, I'll say some people)
in some cases it is that people were annoyed by the constant hype and that led to them hating the talk about movie, though they don't actually hate the movie itself.
another possibility is as the movie got hyped and hyped, even those who managed to not react negatively, were led to believe the movie was of a certain quality and it didn't quite reach that quality in their eyes.
I mean. It will be, of course. But it doesn't need to be.
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agreed. I don't think it will in any important way be related to the first movie, could theoretically be good on its own.
but I highly highly doubt it.
yeah that happened here, basically. I think for a while we weren't even supposed to talk about it.
still, that's not at all an actual reason to hate a movie though I obviously see why it could leave a bad taste in your mouth.
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I guess S.Darko is hip and edgy! IT'S LIKE J-LO!
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I agree. This actually sounds like it was an original property, but some executive or marketing person felt it couldn't stand on it's one, so they had it rewritten to give it loose ties to Donnie Darko, an established film. They do that kind of thing all the time. I think the last 2 or 4 Hellraiser movies were done that way, created as original properties then deciding to rewrite them to make them part of the Hellraiser franchise.
Donnie Darko is a Cenobite.
Man, if they did it'd be something terrible.
Like, Being Nicolas Cage.
Everyone loves Nicolas Cage, right?
Nope, it would be Being Edward Norton. And everyone would fucking watch it even though he's lame.
We're talking about Direct to DVD sequels, so the correct answer is Being Christian Slater.
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Seriously, unless this film is an in depth explanation of what the hell happened in the first, there's no point in making it.
Correction: Even if this film is an in depth explanation of what the hell happened in the first, there's no point in making it.
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"Why would you want to do that?"
*credits*
So yeah, maybe I just "didn't get it" or something, but I felt it was a pretty lousy movie.
It was? I thought it was complete as a piece of art the way it was. I don't understand why people can't deal with something being ambiguous.
Maybe I'm not smart enough.
I like when things are left up to the viewer, and that's precisely why I was put off by the existence of supplementary material that goes on to explain everything and reveal an understanding of the film's events that would be impossible to arrive at simply by watching the picture.
The film gives you the opportunity to come to your own conclusion, and then the bonus stuff tells you your conclusion was wrong.
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It has been a while since I watched the movie, but I don't remember anything particularly worthwhile about it.
Then ignore the bonus stuff.
A film (or rather, art) is meant to make you think. Some people just want literal explanations for what they saw, just wanting to see a complete story, so they whipped up an explanation for those guys.
Did the film make you think? About what exactly it was about? DId it make you think about what it was trying to say? If it did, then it's a good film.