Sooo Donnie Darko..

Anybody else think this is the best movie ever made? 
welll maybe not the best, but its definitely my favorite.  Anybody have thoughts on what happened? or if they dont understand what happened 
im pretty sure ive got a good grasp on the shit that went down in that movie hahaha

Haven't seen it in a while. I remember thinking it was good, but not great.

Yes, Donnie Darko is my all time favorite movie.

If nothing else, it's pretty damn interesting.

It's a pretty bloody good mindfuck recursive mystery, for sure. Do I think it's the best movie ever? Nope.

The ending was complete crap. 

" The sequel surpasses the original. "

" @ashriels: i thought the sequel looked really kinda lame.  but then again i never saw it. how was it? "

It's been a long time since I seen it but I remember not liking it much.

I felt it was a movie being weird for the sake of being weird. Never hooked me.

It was alright. It felt like a movie that was trying to be deeper than it actually was--like Twelve Monkeys.

Emo/Hipster garbage.
 
That's just my opinion.

If you want a movie that's actually deep and thought-provoking, watch Synecdoche, New York.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, I suggest you watch the director's cut if you haven't already.

I really liked Donnie Darko. It was pretty weird and crazy, but I enjoyed the ambiguousness of it all.
 
The sequel, though, was probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

I get a real Magic: The Gathering vibe from the movie. 

Do you want a movie that's similar to it and that fans of it would like or a movie which does what it tries to do a lot better? Both are feasible, but they're different requests.

it was good, but nowhere near best movie
it was good phycologically

" @Fbomb: i dont know if it was trying to be deep. i think it was just going for a weird complexity that i thought it pulled off.           does anyone know any movies kinda like donnie darko ,    or one that you would recommend to a fan of the movie?  i really dont know how to classify this movie hahaha "

Timecrimes, Memento, The Machinist, The Nines, Jacob's Ladder and Synecdoche, New York are all movies you might like. I'd probably have more, but half my DVD collection's downstairs.

It's an alright movie.

It's quite some time since I last saw the film. But I definitely remember it as one of my favorites, yes.

I like that it left you with the sense that it was greater than the sum of its parts. There are things about it you don't understand, that you think you should, but you will probably never really know. It leaves you with that sense of mystery that is quite endearing that sort of makes you always levitate back to it. Like a mystery unsolved.

No where near the best movie ever made, when the hell will people learn to like movies without going into ridiculous hyperboles? 
 
I like the movie, though I don't think I would put it in my top 50 list. I really need to work on that. >.>

I love Donnie Darko, but I think the Theatrical Version is much better than the Directors Cut. Directors Cut seemed too in your face with showing you pages of the book, I thought it was bad.
Watch the Theatrical Version with commentary by Richard Kelly and Jake Gyllenhaal, it's brilliant.

Fucking fantastic movie! Soundtrack was incredible. Certainly not Citizen Kane but its definitely stood up over the course of repeated viewings. I think it captures something about adolescence that few other movies have. 

"The sequel surpasses the original. "

One of my favorite films. I won't go into it because i'll be writing a wall of text, but I'll just say that the fact that everyone I know who's seen it has a different and very valid opinion on what happened is awesome.

It used to be my favourite, but loads of other films have overtaken it now, for me. It's still really great though. 

When I was younger I had a real hard love for this film. 
 
Over the years though, as my tastes matured and I grew as a person, I realized Donnie Darko wasn't really a brilliant film, but a wonderful, chaotic train-wreck of ideas. It's like watching someone go on an LSD-induced stream of consciousness rant and by the end, even that person isn't sure what the hell he's talking about. 
 
That said, it's still wonderful, it just doesn't have anything to say.

" @Synthballs: Why was Kevin Smith commentating on it? "

Very good movie. Not the best - but that's a matter of taste.

It's somewhere up there with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and the Back to the Future movies... oh and of cause 2 Fast 2 Furious. no, seriously these are my favorites.

 
Not the best,but damn good.

I thought it was a steaming pile of shit. 

It's not my favourite movie but I thought it was awesome, blew me away the first time I saw it.

I remember seeing it when I was young, not understanding it at all, but liking it.