Donnie Darko - Nostalgia Critic
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- Опубліковано 19 лют 2019
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This art-house darling has a lot of people wondering, is this a deep classic or pretentious slosh? Can it be both? Nostalgia Critic gives his thoughts on Donnie Darko.
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Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction film written and directed by Richard Kelly. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Katharine Ross, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle, Stu Stone, Daveigh Chase and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
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So, is Donnie Darko a deep classic or a pretentious slosh?
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My bet is pretensios slosh. But as of yet haven't seen the review to confirm.
Fn classic
Do the movie review Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Fat Albert, Josie and the Pussycats, Yours, Mine & Ours and School of Rock
This was a great movie. It’s pretentious, but still a good classic.
The care bear sticker on the fridge at the beginning of the film is foreshadowing. The care bears shoot love out of their chest and Donnie darko and his family have worm holes coming out of their solar plexus later on in the film.
*slowly smokes long pipe
Mind's eye Film 112233 Dear God! You’re right! How profound!
Mind's eye Film 112233
OMG! Now we have clear proof those two universes are connected!
Also they talked about smurfs in the movie and smurfs traveled through portals in their movies - I see connection!
Well said sir. "*slowly drinks alcoholic beverage.
A long pipe? Are you an elf, sir?
"Time for a game of... disappearing chest cavities"
"DC Cinematic reboot of Bugs Bunny"
Yep, shouldn't have been drinking anything during that line.
so...Lunatics Unleashed?
@@kanniekosplayyes2799 Exactly what I was about to say
Aiden Rutske *”me too kid..”*
Aiden Rutske Definitely gave me some creepy FNAF vibes.
I liked the movie. The whole time I think “medication, bunny spirit, the kid is clearly schizophrenic.” And then in the end it’s “oooh shit time travel and everything was real. Huh.” Thought it was pretty neat
That was definitely my first impression
It seems like he was schizophrenic before the event of the time travel shit
Donnie Darko: the one piece of fiction that makes the plotline of "Kingdom Hearts" look sane by comparison.
What so insane about Kingdom Hearts plotline...Its about darkness, and a child using a 4 foot key to seal away that darkness, and those trying to fill him with darkness or light, and sometimes get at his darkness. Where a 3 foot mouse commands a 6 foot dog and 4 foot duck to accompany him in a ship made of gummi to various disney worlds to take back the souls of people being stolen by a man inside his childhoods friends darkness. Also there are Final Fantasy characters.
@@OuterRaine See, even babies could understand it! (/s)
KH is not insane. It's just so messy even Inception is understandable in comparison.
No it doesn't. Nobody can understand kingdom hearts, not even the actual devs
@@OuterRaine I know this comment was a year ago but I'd like to point out my younger self's utter disappointment when I had learned the Gummi ship wasn't actually made from gummies.
"I love STAMPS!"
- Doug Walker, 2019
MOTHERFUCKING STAMPS, ARE YOU NOT EXCITED???
Literally 2 seconds after I read this comment is when he said that, lol, perfect timing
@@Oromie9 I would be if Royal Mail UK had that kind of online service
Do people our age even buy stamps
Sarah Barker I prefer text messages as you do
And then the two extremes of the Donnie Darko reaction came together and became...Rick and Morty Fans
Omg.... 😲
"This is like that one bit where bugs bunny f***s with the opera singer for 20 minutes"
Ahh, all too true.
Sounds about right
Your probably right
There's a certain charm to this film. Makes you feel comfortable and uneasy at the same time. The 80's music and ambient soundtrack make it even better.
What are you doing here? Love your videos dude!
This comment definitely sums up perfectly how I feel about this film!
It’s a comfortable uncomfortable atmosphere that only it has c:
Best way to describe this movie. I agree
“Because Donnie Darko has 2 very polarizing audiences”
I didn’t know this was a Star Wars movie
Yeah. I get watcha mean. I am a guy who’s in the middle about the new Star Wars films. But I gotta admit I enjoyed Star Wars 8 and 9. I think 9 mastered emotion but not story. 😄👍🏻
That bunny is what the live action Sonic looked like before re-edits
No it was the Will Smith Genie
@@VirtualKermrade You think it might be the same cg-artist? they are both blue.
Daniel Staples I bet you that they were gonna release the trailer, but after the reaction to the poster they had to re-edit the whole movie!
Funny because jokes-except. Not.
More like a 5 night at Freddies character.
A quick explanation:
Donnie Darko is about the tangent universe theory. basically, there's the main universe and at one point (when the jet engine falls on Donnie's room) a tangent universe is formed. A tangent universe is a complete carbon copy of the main universe but it is very unstable and will collapse in a short amount of time (28:06:42:12) by causing a black hole big enough to swallow the tangent universe AND the main universe, hence ending the world.
If you watch the director's cut it is explained that every one who survives the tangent universe (everyone except Frank and gretchen) is called the manipulated living, they need to make sure that Donnie can return back in time through the portal to when the dimensional split occured and he has to die to prevent the dimensional split. This is why the characters didn't act like humans, because they had a set role they were unconsciously fulfilling.
i need to buy the Director's cut now also does it come with commentary ?
But why should I care
Soooooo Dc's dark multiverse?
@@14s0cc3r14 Well, this video is about about Donnie Darko. You don't have to care, but i am sure others do care.
@@23DEATHNUMBER You don't even gotta buy that. The book (the time travel book in the movie) is available for free online. It's even on the film's website, if that still exists. Says everything and it's only like five pages.
"It ends with a SPIDER, and they all bang the girl. Happy reading."
LOL, best part about the book "IT" xD
Was looking in the comments to find something about this
Joe V wow. We had the exact same motives
@Vicodyn
Its a joke
@@chrisarbour Sounds like someone needs to look up the definition of "joke" again.
10:30 "You can't just lump everything into these two categories and deny everything else!"
Holy cow, Donnie predicted COPPA
or, moreso, youtube mutilating it
Donnie obviously does not know how the world works
@@jessicadegen8433 More like Twitter. Then again, Twitter IS the world to some "people"
I like a story that shows what happens when you avoid an inevitable death....everything seems off, unnatural, weird, bizarre. I think the nature of the characters we see are intentionally that way, like you suggested. It's a slightly bizarro world, therefore the characters seem slightly off..
It's been many years since I saw this, but from what I remember him not dying when he was supposed to was creating a rip in the fabric of the universe, which would eventually destroy everything. Grandma Death or whatever they called her wrote a book about it, because it's a semi-regular occurance, apparently. And from that point on, the universe will do everything it can to steer him in the right direction, by "puppeteering" the people around him in order to manipulate him to do The Right Thing (TM).
Wasn't there like a director's cut that had a lot more material and explained it rather clearly (and basically ruined the mistique by taking away all the guesswork and interpretation)?
Anyway, I also like the Jacob's Ladder interpretation Madfox presented. Which reminds me I should definitely rewatch both Donnie Darko and Jacob's Ladder.
@Madfox you just turning the movie into another Jacob's Ladder
@@EvenTheDogAgrees 3 years late but comparing the movie to Jacobs Ladder is the first time I've considered it bearable. Thank you for that.
That moment your realize this and Final Destination have the same inciting incident.
@@denverarnold6210 i feel this, in my mind i imagine that the final destination plane crash is related to the donnie darko jet engine wreckage scene.
This film....I find it kind of funny..I find it kind of sad.
The dreams in wich I did not watch it is the best I ever had
@@Fuckaue
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
I find it dumb as shit
When you watch it again and again, it's a very very mad film.
@@lwanco1018 Mad film
It's funny, I live in Russia, but for some reason all of a sudden I really want to buy US stamps
stamps.com just makes it THAT convenient.
I'm French Canadian and I feel the same urge... Somehow.
Good comment ,very funny!!
Жиза...
ẞhrēk íß løvë, shrëk îß lífē
One of the best parts of the movie is its rendition of Mad World by Gary Jules.
Best rendition of the song
I hate that version, Tears for fears wins
@@Devilsblood have you checked out adam Lambert's version? He covered it when he was on american idol and it's very good. Definitely more emotional than the original, which I definitely like over straight exact covers. Agreed though the jules version sucks, his vocals sound like a whiny nasally emo teenager trying way too hard to be edgy.
"The DC cinematic reboot of Bugs Bunny"
Savage xD
He is not wrong😂
Hilarious xD
Doug is stuck in the past with that old joke. Move on people, gritty Snyder DC it's over.
liked for the "fucking bubbles" reference...throwback to vintage NC!
Sparkle, sparkle, sparkle!
We all miss vintage NC
@@bubblegumbabeface6629 I don't. He was boring
Yeeee,hawww. well howdy doo, welcome to the states my friend 🤠
@@ShinySephiroth1 hell yeah sparkle sparkle sparkle
“Didn’t your dad like.. stab your mom?..”
*•Stabbing noises?•*
“What? You Egg” *stabs him*
👉 Get out
i though it was a dirty joke
door squeek
She should have said "Careful loser, next to get stabbed might be you"
11:22 "So the *f***ing bubble!* leads him to a closet..."
I have never seen "Donnie Darko" and when Critic said "The Mountains on Minnesota" I said "What no Maine?" And then he cut to the next scene and I noticed that the mom was reading a Stephen King book. XD
And that book being IT
6:10 Pug McMannipples sounds like a Gravity Falls Character.
Or a Rick and Morty character.
that's totally the buff pug from hotstreets
Yeah one of the manotaurs
Motion X you’re not wrong
Actually Donnie Darko isn’t all that deep it’s really the origin of Mysterio
Shit you're right
Doughter: My teacher said this is called shoty exposition
Father: Your teacher is a commie honey
That killed me
How did this go 3 months without being corrected
Just another day in America
Doug voicing the daughter = Doughter
Also the smurf talk about them being asexual made it into canon
When I watched the movie for first time I died XD
It was always canon, the smurf talk was only facts being stated. I'm 61 years old, now.
I've seen the two Smurf movies and I believe that the fuckers that made Donnie Darko are the cause of it...
I think that The Critic should review Mouse Hunt. It's a DreamWorks live action movie that's *supposed* to be a comedy but has some REALLY depressing and dark moments.
That movie was my childhood
EeveeStar 682 man I like that film. I used to watch it all the time with my dad
It is considered a dark comedy
I have it on VHS
I loved that movie as a kid. It was one of the movies we actively sought to watch our VHS copy of. Still have it, still love it. Might have to revisit it soon.
DOUG DID YOU JUST PRONOUNCE IT GYLLEN-TH-AL!?!? I AM SHOOKETH.
Finally someone points it out
I don’t know where a “TH” comes from. Even TV hosts say the Gyllenhaals’ names correctly 🙄😅
How about "Gameel Del Toro?"
Ironically, they're making out to "Love will Tear us Apart" by Joy Division.
That's the remix from 1995, too.
Such a good band and that movie had like the best soundtrack
Joy... Division. 😁😁😁
@@onwerslament that movie is mostly indie core for pretentious teens as much as that music is tho
@@NecroIust probably the most accurate comment i have ever read on youtube, and i like the movie and that band and was at the right age for the film
I'll be honest, I have no idea what the paid promotion for this episode was because I was too busy admiring Doug's Avatar: The Last Airbender shirt.
Same tbh. The only question now is where can I get one? 😂
Indeed he needs to shirt promotion last review he had Bojack Mr. peanut butter shirt.
Right?! That shirt was cute asf! And love the Captain Planet reference on it too.
My sister found a printing of that a few years ago at a convention stall, and still has it hung up in her room. After a quick google search, it seems that the design is called "The Last Planeteer", and is available for purchase online (just search that phrase in quotes).
Yes! I'd love one!
I love every single thing about this movie.
It’s that kind of movie where even the flaws are part of what makes it great.
9:33 I think when you're spray painting, it looks different than when you're writing on a chalkboard.
Getting drunk on my birthday and watching Doug joyously sell stamps.
NO REGRETS.
Thats the kinda energy you need towards the world
Your life must be sad you dumb bitch.
@@randomguy2518 Hmm good effort but a little overdone 7/10
@@ratoh1710 Nah, that was perfect if a bit too committed. 8.5/10.
it wa okay. Didnt really hit hard. 5/10, partly because i agree with the russian. this womans life sounds sad
Weird comment. Is it just me or are the adverts nc does getting bloody hilarious? STAMPS!
FUCKING STAMPS!
Not as good as shaving money.
@@brianwise5850 S H A V E
@@brianwise5850 Do people not shave dollars?
What if you say if I told you there was a way for you to get stamps without ever leaving your home?
I'd say "Cabbage" because for some reason, I find that word really funny.
I think I know the morale of Donnie Darko:
THEY NEEDED STAMPS!!!
I don’t know, but for some reason the whole fear and love line of “philosophy/ethics/religion” class has always captivated me as a concept. I don’t believe it, but it is kind of interesting to compare the two feelings as direct opposites.
It actually inspired me to do a painting. Which I will sadly never get back, along with my “David” and my sketchbook and all of my art pieces from 1st year of high school.
Yes, you mentioned Eraserhead!!!!!!!! Thanks for proving to me that it wasn't some insane fever dream I had!
Eraserhead is considered a classic movie...
No it was and we all exist in your head. It’s cramped in here.
I can't help to think that *not even Doug* can take seriously this *sponsor.*
Just me?
He may or may not take the sponsor seriously but he is very committed to making watching his ads interesting as hell.
Doug actually puts a lot of effort into his promotional sponsor segments. I love them. He could literally just say "These people paid me to say go buy stamps now." Instead he actually takes time to create a unique persona for every sponsored video he makes and plays them very well.
His mid-video ads are by far the best of any youtuber I've ever watched.
@@memorra
:) I'm glad we agree about this point.
I think he has to take them seriously due to contract obligations. I feel like he is trying to play with the idea of sponsored ad, and this particular episode it got exceptionally crazy.
BETMARKonTube I know!
I love carpet, I love desk , I love stamps!!
Can we see the Million theories about that intro now
"Film Theory that shit!"
@@crane8015 its not crap
Maybe the two characters are critics from 2 timelines one where he likes it and one where he hated it you can't prove I'm wrong but you can't prove I'm right too so... 🤔
@@tylergroves3477 it was a joke
💀 *WAN7T ME? LO6OK, I MASTB**ATE NAK1ED,снеск2 VID9еО.* 🏅
So glad that the "BUBBLES!" gag is still strong!
Plot twist: Danny Danko is actually the first victim of Pitch Meeting.
Huh. A delightful surprise for a review. Which makes me mad that UA-cam always seems to slow down and not show these videos at the right time when they've uploaded! Great job as always.
+Bryan Egelhoff's Animation Tech Nation
Thanks for the kind words!
Every Nostalgia Critic episode:
-These guys here say it's the best thing ever.
-But those guys there say it's the worst.
-Well it's in the middle.
The End.
I thought most of it was "THIS IS AWFUL A AND HERE IS WHY! WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING?!"
Coos Oorlog Not Garbage Pail Kids.
@@HurricaneDDragon I may have exaggerated a little bit
@@ChasehaWing Naah, that's the angry video game nerd. :D
..except for Starship Troopers :D
guy: so do you have any 'bunny outfits' ;)
me: oh yeah I do!
guy: put it on
me: *comes back dressed as Frank*
Don't be surprised if they're into it all the same
"And frankly I don't care"
Why Isn't this line a meme yet? XD
To be fair, the "THAT class!" for the "control your fear" lesson was a bit harsh... It's not uncommon for schools to add one or two special lessons when a traumatic event occurs (deceased student, natural disaster in the region, planes falling on the neighbourhood..)
BWMagus
It depends from teacher to teacher. Most teachers are there just for the academic lesson. But my chorus teacher genuinely cared about us and like twice a month she would have a "centering day" where she would have us do meditation for like 25 minutes and then asked us to share how we felt afterwards if we wanted. It was the most calming parts of the school year and it was really surprising to see other teenagers open up about they were struggling that day or that week. (And this wasn't just opening up to like 5 other people lol, there was a total of 97 teenagers in the chorus)
@@BWMagus Humanity progresses.
Like how Heathers satirized that as well
huh
He didn't mention the soundtrack once.
I really liked the soundtrack of this movie.
Ralph Smith : The soundtrack was the best part
The soundtrack for the theatrical version, but not the directors cut!
"Mad World" at the end was perfect!
In a world where a teacher who is passionate about kids is fired and the pedo-defending one still has her job, it's a very very mad world.
This movie has ruined "The Killing Moon" for me. It's a shame, really :( I loved this song and now I can't listen to it anymore without thinking about Donnie Darko sucking his girlfriend's face off.
"I guess I missed the part where they went from name-calling to multiple homicide"
Hoooo boy I am getting some Jeff The Killer flashbacks...
So pretty much every bully in a Stephen King story.
Lol jeff the killer is such poorly written trash
You forgot about to mention how the ending credits alluding to how each of the characters would have died/ been effected in the original time lone.
What do you mean?
7:58 The controlling fear thing isn't far fetched at all for the time period. A lot of schools were doing programs based on junk psychology at the time while bashing "negative influences" as pornography. My grade school principal (who was something of a Reagan-ite) started a program called 'Positive Actions' and I just couldn't stand it. Some of the younger kids liked it but I was in the sixth grade, I didn't want to deal with that shit.
Yeah, dougs too old to get the climate of schools in the post 9/11 era. This movie wasnt just mopy and cynical for no reason, it was in response to a time when forced happiness and religious dogma were at their height.
@@NudeSophist The movie is supposed to take place in 1988 not post 9/11 hence why the OP mentioned Reagan lol. If anything Doug would have been around 6 or 7 years old in 88 and too young to remember when schools (middle and high school) were teaching the sort of thing depecticed in the film. My older brother was starting 5th or 6th grade in 88 remembers that era and all the weird psychology stuff. By the time I started 6th grade in the mid 90s we didn't have it anymore thankfully. And movies right after 9/11 were trying to be more...uplifting? I guess I would say because a lot of audiences were trying to escape the gloom and depression that lingered after 9/11 but if I'm not mistaken this movie was filmed before 9/11 and released right around it. It took a few years for it to find success. I remember by 2007/2008 it was at its height in popularity. It kind of flew under the radar in 2001
@@winterlynn9012 Damn, I guess I always associated it with that time cause of all the satanic panic shit going on in the late 90s/early 2000s.
@Kyle Micheals -- Don't worry, you're fine. That "Satanic Panic" shit crops up about once a decade, has been a regular thing since at least the 50's. Then it was Elvis and pot (if you want a good laugh at how overblown it was, look up the cult classic "Reefer Madness"), later it would be acid rock, communism, and D&D.
By the late 90's/ early 2000's it would be Harry Potter brainwashing kids into paganism and witchcraft and Marylin Manson's music causing school shootings. And then came the REALLY insane stuff, like the preacher who claimed the Telletubbies were sending out subliminal messages to turn toddlers into gay, crossdressing, Satanists. And then there's everything that happened when the general public was introduced to what a Furry was...
@@AnInsideJoke On the bright side, you can just read the list of shit that pisses these people off if your looking for some cool things to get into.
Maggie and Jake "Gyllenthal"
"Gamille" del Toro
2:47 coincidentally, also the ending of another film featuring Jake Gyllenhaal...
That involves a giant spider 😉
Where’s the Spirited Away Joke?
Ps. Freaking love this review.
This is my favourite film, not because it’s deep but it’s just so damn entertaining and nostalgic
There are some flaws but I love this movie
This is why I love Wednesdays
Yea I have a new saying tgiw
Best time for nostalgia critic
Same
I like, Wednesday Mornings...
Smirks about meta joke
Best time alright. I can't wait till he reviews Origins Wolverine and Venom this season even though i loved Venom.
"I read comics I know mysterio is the bad guy."
HAHAHA.
The ultimate weapon to kill Frank the Bunny....
"STAMPS!"
I truly hate when my favorite youtubers try to half-ass an advertising plug partway though their video. Thankfully, you FULL-assed it and were so convincing that I signed up for that Stamps website. I had been meaning to do it for a while, but I never committed. Your plug made me commit.
@@penguinscrumbles1402 well, stamps are important soooooo. You don't have to insult him. Troglodyte
@@penguinscrumbles1402 of course a person like you has a brotherhood of steel pfp.
I like your icon.
"Rockstep is DOMINATING Channel Awesome"
@@penguinscrumbles1402 dude chill ya don't have to go 13 year old boy on anyone
having seen this movie all the way through, i can safely say that Doug left a good chunk of the movie out. i really do recommend people watch it all the way through, there's some context to Donnie's actions that are left out, and the "liquidator schlong" actually appears once before the time Dough showed it.
It was a cool ass movie but I honestly felt like it wasted my time because it’s just a bunch of shit happening and that’s it
I saw this when I was really young. It freaked me the f*"k out.
Very hard to understand as well huh?
The people were weird because it was a different universe, they were just meant to guide him to his purpose.
So...his purpose was dying?
@Felicia Taylor yes more like sacrificing himself. He was kind of played as a Jesus figure. His purpose was bringing the jet engine to the other universe, where it crashes and kills him.
@@crackedatlas6310 ooohhhh. Thank you!
@@lunabearsong2043 yes this film can be confusing but it's a masterpiece
Duckmanlovesyou but....why?
Sometimes, I doubt your commitment to sparkle sparkle sparkle motion.
Dude... Sarkle Sparkle Sparkle!
@@bogdangoranov3869 Fuck yeah sparkle-sparkle-sparkle!
Sparkle SPARKLE *SPARKLE!* Aaaahhh!
Joseph Calabrese AAAAAAHHHHHHH !!
Buttin Specter god I hate that bitch she reminds me of my mother and looks like her too
Why can't tv commercials be more like doug
Andrew Kind Because no one would take it seriously
SerenityM16 no one on the internet takes things seriously
I kinda appreciate this for what it is. When you're a teen, you're faced with the darker and more impactful facts about life. So you try to get above it, and you try to understand it. Your thoughts are still clumsy and unrefined but it's still an accomplishment to put more thought into the world around you.
That's pretty much this movie's theme in a nutshell. This movie is clumsy and awkward, but it's trying to explore deeper meanings and thoughts. And the audience that likes it seem to be in that stage of growth.
This is the best description of this movie I've seen so far.
The Nostalgia Critic Nonchantly talking about the events of IT was.......surprising to say the least.
'DC's Cinematic reboot of Bugs Bunny.'
You mean from when he go throw in an Albanian Prison for weeks or months, only to be broken out by The US Marines, which is revealed to contain Daffy because he needed a place to go because he got thrown out. All of this with the firing of Assault Rifles and even a Grenade thrown by Daffy in the Background?
..........I'm not making ANY of this up, youtube 'Bugs in Albanian Prison.'.
This aired on TV.
ShadowWolfRising I REMEMBER THAT
12:08 to be fair, my older brother literally hung out with his friends in a field with random furniture back when he was in high school.
random
Same here.
As an older brother, yes
Please Critic, react to Ninja Turtles : The Next Mutation, you promised in the Fox Kids review !
Dude, he's gonna get to it one day. He has other shit to review and if he's gonna torture himself with that, he needs to ready himself.
Another bird sound: ALAN!!
This movie inspired "bad bunny Morty" from Pocket Morty.
When I first saw this movie, I literally went “What the fuck?” Because my mind was just blown at how strange, yet mesmerizing it was.
Nah, you just thought that in your head that you would say these exact lines to look deep and edgy to strangers when you've watched that movie. The movie itself is painfully mediocre.
One of my favorite movies
I actually met James Duval (Frank The Bunny) pretty cool guy
Nice!
Where and how
I met him at a con in Pensacola. He seemed like a cool dude.
I didn't know people hated this movie its definitely one of my favourites.
Huh neat
My parents went to see this when it was in theaters (God knows why, they were in their late forties at the time and not into this kind of thing at all), and I asked my mom what it was about the next day.
"It's about a psycho kid who thinks a man in a bunny costume is telling him to kill people and burn things"
I laughed my ass off, then asked, "No, really, what was it about?".
I hit fast forward five seconds ever time I heard Stamps.com and only heard Stamps.com.
Yep Stamps.com
Edit: *Stamps.com*
Doug sells the hell out of Stamps.com.
This is the polar opposite of how Ben Shapiro does his promotional material.
@@OddOneOut665 lol
@@OddOneOut665 how is this being low?
(inhale)
S T A M P S
I always thought this was simply a movie about somebody suffering from schizophrenia
Its kind of the main drivers. Is he truly insane and out of his mind? Or is the world actually going to end if he doesn't obey the giant bunny from hell?
And as Doug would put it, the answer is simply yes.
One of my psych papers had an assignment where we were to diagnose a character from a film we hadn't seen, so I chose this. He does portray a schizophrenic character very well, though my job was kinda too easy given he's already taking medication and therapy for it. The question is, is everything else just in his mind? Pretty sure what was being watched here though was the director's cut, because the clearest evidence that there's more going on than just his delusions is Frank taking off his mask in the cinema. Everything else is kinda ambiguous; those water bubbles that show where someone will go never show anything beyond what could easily be viewed as an educated guess.
But yeah, if you watch the original theatrical version I hear it's a pretty good representation of someone going through schizophrenia. Perhaps that's part of the reason a lot of it is confusing awkward as it's trying to portray how people with schizophrenia view the world.
@@mp5k9mm1 You're wrong.
@@thechannelthatactuallydoes2866 well, a rando in the internet just told me I am wrong without providing any further output, so he must be right...
PM_Ghost not in the original cut but in directors cut it shows it and confirms it
Its one of those movies the more you watch it, the more you start noticing few foreshadowing moments.
like what?
@@killingmewillnotbringbacky9177 In the classroom scene Donnie is given a hypothetical situation in which he finds a wallet on the ground and keeps the money, and then must determine whether that choice was made out of fear or love. When his english teacher is talking about The Destructors she says it's about children who find a stash of money and burn it.
Donnie later find Patrick Swayze's wallet on the ground, and uses it to find out where he lives and burns his house down.
There's others but I think that's the foreshadowing that slipped by me the longest.
@@jadeandjesse5908 They also say that the house the old man's house is flooded by breaking through a water pipe.
We also see a very short conversation between his physics and English teachers, where they just mention his name and laugh without any context - signifying that they possibly are somewhat aware of being manipulated living.
Finally you get all the foreshadowing about Frank being shot in the eye - the mirror stabbing scene and the weird wound he has when he takes his mask off.
Id love to see a redo of the stamps ad as doug creepily licking stamps in a dark room, looks at the camera and in a creepy voice says “SAVE”.
I always saw it as creepy and depressing.
But Tripy too
That's part of the appeal.
@@HurricaneDDragon I like yours too
Donald Darko *[plays Donald Duck theme]*
Is this a good place to find some ingredients?
somehow if Frank the Rabbit sounded like Donald Duck i could not take this move as seriously as i would otherwise
@@scottmantooth8785 same 😂😂😂
@@MyFairOne Thanks for the comment/acknowledging the Donald Darko remark. That was probably the best part for me since I can't stop imagining a Donald Duck version of Donnie Darko.
4:25
Oh no what did Cartoon Network do to you Bugs?!
He joined fnaf
Where's Tamara and Malcom?
Oh god you finally killed them, didn't you!!
Huh so this is Mysterio’s MCU backstory
Astro Punch Not to mention the different name who takes on the said mantel.
Gyllenthal? Gyllenthal? GYLLENTHAL? ITS GYLLENHAAL!
Thank you!
Apparently, it's actually supposed to be pronounced like yee-len-hAAL
I forgot the country of origin tho.
It was in an interview with Conan
what a strange mispronunciation.
He also pronounced Guillermo as Jermill del toro...it should be pronounced Gi - Air - Mo
@@illuzion72, must be intentional.
Is his hair ever going to grow back?
Nah he waxes his head with stamps
He said in a dollar shave club ad that he actively shaves his head, so probably not.
Not sure how long it's been since you've seen Eraserhead. It's actually one of my favorite films, but definitely the worst scene has them literally turning his head into erasers and putting them on the end of pencils.
The lady in the radiator still haunts me
Doug is amazing at advertising. He has a real talent for it. 😆 How he can make a sponsor segment actually fun and enjoyable to watch is beyond me. That aside, *I loved this review.* 💖
lol, and stamps of all things. xD
No one really talks about how good most Nostalgic critics sponsorships are.
He does a really great job in describing the service while keeping it interesting. I rarely skip these because there fun to watch or really informative.
So yeah, kudos NC ! 👍🏾
Cool man
This reminds me of a graphic novel I read on a family going through schizophrenia and how it affects their lives, but it also had a bizarre twist that left you wondering if there was more to the illusions
I... I actually had a place with furniture outdoors where I usually hanged out with friends... So... am I an early 2000s cliché already?
Nobody:
Alita Battle Angel: 21:24
LOVED ALITA BATTLE ANGEL And I just saw The OVA
lol those eyes
Congratulations on being on Trending Nostalgia Critic.
Please please PLEASE review Southland Tales! It’s one of the most maddeningly pretentious movies you’ll ever see, and what do you know? It’s directed by Richard Kelly. I’d love to know how you feel about it
The man said "Why are you wearing that man suit." Which was led up with a great Nostalgia Critic quote, "Spoken like a true furry."
I'm not against furries for I am one. Don't judge me.
except that's not what frank meant. i.e. donnie dies at the end of the movie
I liked the movie because of Donnie. I used to go to therapy, always cynical, took medication, used to talk back to my teachers infront of the entire class, and I was good at English class while everyone else sucked at it like they did in the movie. Donnie reminded me a lot of myself and thats what made me like the movie.
Just like you I could relate to Donnie, but I find most of the movie pretentious because of the high school portions and didn’t really delve much further about his depression and cynicism. The part of ”god’s channel” also made me skip the scene, I’m all for debating physics but including an omnipotent being into the conversation and I lose interest.
"I'm unique because I see what's REALLY going on, not like the sheeple who follow the rules and just don't understand how complex I am." Dude, don't be a Raskolnikov
PremierSportingKC 😂😂
Lmao wow
I can see how it might be a film about potential school shooters. Seriously.
Place you bets!!!
How long until he reviews S.Darko?
S. Darko?
666 dislikes... Guess my parents were right, edgy teens are the devil.
The best part of this movie is the surrealism that comes across as nostalgia. It's the combination cinematography, color tones, music, and just the weird-ass dialogue--which is surreal because I was like 5 during the time setting of the movie. "Hey, you guys, guess what?! My Mom said the school is closed today because it’s flooded. " "Holy shit! That's the best news I've ever heard!"
Also, you stopped right before the best line in the movie.
"You'll put Ariel in the garbage disposal."
"Goddamn right, I will."
That line is the most beautiful thing I've witnessed Gyllenhaal say. It's like he snuck in 40 extra pounds of baggage along with that line. I just love every millisecond. I can't explain it more clearly than that.
The lady defending Patrick Swayze's character is the greatest at being that character. Like, from Rain Man to Matchstick Men to this and more!
8:46 - 8:51: You forgot to include Colm Wilkinson's 'Home' sound effect. God, I really miss this.
I grew up a goth (tragic I know) but somehow I never saw this movie, I think some part of me assumed it was overrated, but watching this review and seeing a lot of these scenes makes me glad I never saw it. Donnie is very similar to how most of us goths were in my town and seeing this would've either made me feel justified in staying goth longer, or made me feel disgusted with myself and seek out much more help than I needed at the time.... I eventually grew into needing that much help but I didn't need it at the time.