Donnie Darko- Troubled teen Donnie (Jake Gyllenhall) sleep walks, has a six-foot bunny rabbit for an imaginary friend, and if not for these two things would have been killed by a jet engine from a plane nobody can find. He also has the usual teen problems to deal with: bullies, a girlfriend with a fake name and fugitive dad, and time travel.
It all seems kind of confusing unless you put it up against "Southland Tales". Go to IMDB or something if you want a proper plot synopsis. Here's what I remember ( I saw this like two weeks ago) The Rock woke up in the desert with amnesia, and everyone's looking for him, including his wife, Mandy Moore, who is the vice presidential nominee's daughter. The Rock is now living with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, playing a porn star. Together they are working on a movie script. Meanwhile, Stifler is playing a cop who gets kidnapped by some people who are pissed because they haven't found work outside of SNL. Stifler hasn't pooped in a week. Justin Timberlake is crazy. At one point he is lip-syncing a Killers song into the camera while drinking a beer. The guy from The Princess Bride ("Inconceivable!") is married to Bai Ling and has invented away to harness energy from the ocean so we don't have to rely on oil. The Critic, Booger, Silent Bob also star.
Donnie Darko, I really liked the first couple of times I saw it, back when it first came out. It's still a good movie, just a little much.
Southland Tales on the other hand, is a lot much. More much then any movie I've ever seen. I read somewhere that you have to read the five graphic novels that Richard Kelly wrote to fully appreciate and understand Southland Tales. Yeah right. Too many ideas that don't add up to anything. I can't blame a guy for trying though, it's definitely unique and a great attempt to make an epic film. But.... seriously. It is beyond ridiculous.
Donnie Darko: tries to put lots of ideas into story, semi-coherent, kind of funny, solid cast, entertaining overall.
8/10
Southland Tales: tries to put too many ideas into story, not coherent at all, oddly misplaced jokes, very strangely cast, not as entertaining.
6/10 (points just for being so different and weird)
30/150 movies
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