I saw DD a couple of months ago for the first time and, whilst I liked it, my reaction was pretty much "what's all the fuss about?". I mean, it's really easy to make a film vague and meaningful when you cut out half the scenes.
But basically my feelings about the film are summed up by
Idle Thumb's Chris Remo in his
interview with Ron Gilbert:
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I don't hate Donnie Darko. I hate the sort of obsessive crazy cult of people that have grown up around that movie thinking it's the best thing since sliced bread, and that no other movie has been intelligent before. I was talking to some girl, and she said, "You know, I really like movies like Donnie Darko, because, the thing I like most about movies these days is that now they make you think!" That really blew my mind and I tend to find a lot of people my age who see Donnie Darko as like, the first movie that had something going on underneath, which, I don't know.
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