http://ambival.net/movies/donnie-darko Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 16 May 2008 04:30:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://ambival.net/movies/donnie-darko#comment-9812 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » Music and Lyrics Wed, 02 May 2007 23:47:47 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=649#comment-9812 [...] I’ve really not been a huge fan of Barrymore’s forays into generic romantic comedy; I didn’t even really love her that much in Charlie’s Angels ... she was doing so great with Donnie Darko and Riding in Cars with Boys but she kind of seems to have sold out just a little (I know how stupid that sounds, she’s not exactly been an indie girl all her life, but still) – though even as I say that, I remember how much I loved 50 First Dates and Fever Pitch, even then, I guess I just know she has so much more inside her and she could do so much better, at the same time as I appreciate she deserves to have some fun. Really, I’m guessing my love of this movie has a whole lot more to do with little personal things than general quality of film making etc, I guess I just feel the need to make that known here. [...] [...] I’ve really not been a huge fan of Barrymore’s forays into generic romantic comedy; I didn’t even really love her that much in Charlie’s Angels … she was doing so great with Donnie Darko and Riding in Cars with Boys but she kind of seems to have sold out just a little (I know how stupid that sounds, she’s not exactly been an indie girl all her life, but still) – though even as I say that, I remember how much I loved 50 First Dates and Fever Pitch, even then, I guess I just know she has so much more inside her and she could do so much better, at the same time as I appreciate she deserves to have some fun. Really, I’m guessing my love of this movie has a whole lot more to do with little personal things than general quality of film making etc, I guess I just feel the need to make that known here. [...]

]]> http://ambival.net/movies/donnie-darko#comment-6490 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » My Top 100 Movies [current] Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:10:05 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=649#comment-6490 [...] Donnie Darko [Theatrical Cut] Richard Kelly [...] [...] Donnie Darko [Theatrical Cut] Richard Kelly [...]

]]> http://ambival.net/movies/donnie-darko#comment-2487 Ambival.net » Movie Reviews » Brick Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:25:27 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=649#comment-2487 [...] I thought I recognised something here other than the Donnie Darko comparisons I’ve read about elsewhere (seriously, I don’t get the comparison – United States of Leland was a hundred times closer and even that wasn’t close to DD, lol), and finally I found out that the director Rian Johnson edited May, so along with the presence of Joseph Gordon-Levitt (could I be more envious of how far someone my age has come over the past decade? but I love him all the same) ... I really wanted to love this. [...] [...] I thought I recognised something here other than the Donnie Darko comparisons I’ve read about elsewhere (seriously, I don’t get the comparison – United States of Leland was a hundred times closer and even that wasn’t close to DD, lol), and finally I found out that the director Rian Johnson edited May, so along with the presence of Joseph Gordon-Levitt (could I be more envious of how far someone my age has come over the past decade? but I love him all the same) ... I really wanted to love this. [...]

]]> http://ambival.net/movies/donnie-darko#comment-1495 Ambival.net » Movies » The United States of Leland Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:44:45 +0000 http://ambival.net/?p=649#comment-1495 [...] Maybe I’m being too harsh, but to me this was just Donnie Darko meets American History X with all the energy sucked out. Fans of this movie will probably say I didn’t get it, and they’re probably right, but more than that, it’s probably simply one of those cases of, depends which movie you saw first. There’s actually a shot midway of Jena Malone and Ryan Gosling walking down a street and for a brief second I really couldn’t tell whether I was watching DD or not, lol, it’s uncanny. [...] [...] Maybe I’m being too harsh, but to me this was just Donnie Darko meets American History X with all the energy sucked out. Fans of this movie will probably say I didn’t get it, and they’re probably right, but more than that, it’s probably simply one of those cases of, depends which movie you saw first. There’s actually a shot midway of Jena Malone and Ryan Gosling walking down a street and for a brief second I really couldn’t tell whether I was watching DD or not, lol, it’s uncanny. [...]

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