Donnie Darko - Nostalgia Critic 

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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

"I love STAMPS!" - Doug Walker, 2019

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

"DC Cinematic reboot of Bugs Bunny" Yep, shouldn't have been drinking anything during that line.

That bunny is what the live action Sonic looked like before re-edits

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.

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.

Donnie Darko: the one piece of fiction that makes the plotline of "Kingdom Hearts" look sane by comparison.

This film....I find it kind of funny..I find it kind of sad.

And then the two extremes of the Donnie Darko reaction came together and became...Rick and Morty Fans

10:30 "You can't just lump everything into these two categories and deny everything else!" Holy cow, Donnie predicted COPPA

“Because Donnie Darko has 2 very polarizing audiences” I didn’t know this was a Star Wars movie

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..

“Didn’t your dad like.. stab your mom?..” *•Stabbing noises?•*

"It ends with a SPIDER, and they all bang the girl. Happy reading." LOL, best part about the book "IT" xD

liked for the "fucking bubbles" reference...throwback to vintage NC!

6:10 Pug McMannipples sounds like a Gravity Falls Character.

11:22 "So the *f***ing bubble!* leads him to a closet..."

It's funny, I live in Russia, but for some reason all of a sudden I really want to buy US stamps

One of the best parts of the movie is its rendition of Mad World by Gary Jules.

"The DC cinematic reboot of Bugs Bunny" Savage xD

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

Actually Donnie Darko isn’t all that deep it’s really the origin of Mysterio

Doughter: My teacher said this is called shoty exposition Father: Your teacher is a commie honey That killed me

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.

Also the smurf talk about them being asexual made it into canon

Ironically, they're making out to "Love will Tear us Apart" by Joy Division.

DOUG DID YOU JUST PRONOUNCE IT GYLLEN-TH-AL!?!? I AM SHOOKETH.

Maggie and Jake "Gyllenthal" "Gamille" del Toro

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.

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.

I think I know the morale of Donnie Darko: THEY NEEDED STAMPS!!!

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..)

Getting drunk on my birthday and watching Doug joyously sell stamps. NO REGRETS.

So glad that the "BUBBLES!" gag is still strong!

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.

Can we see the Million theories about that intro now

Plot twist: Danny Danko is actually the first victim of Pitch Meeting.

"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...

I can't help to think that *not even Doug* can take seriously this *sponsor.* Just me?

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.

guy: so do you have any 'bunny outfits' ;) me: oh yeah I do! guy: put it on me: *comes back dressed as Frank*

"And frankly I don't care" Why Isn't this line a meme yet? XD

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.

Weird comment. Is it just me or are the adverts nc does getting bloody hilarious? STAMPS!

Yes, you mentioned Eraserhead!!!!!!!! Thanks for proving to me that it wasn't some insane fever dream I had!

2:47 coincidentally, also the ending of another film featuring Jake Gyllenhaal...

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.

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.

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.

"I read comics I know mysterio is the bad guy." HAHAHA.

Huh. A delightful surprise for a review. Which makes me mad that RU-vid always seems to slow down and not show these videos at the right time when they've uploaded! Great job as always.

Sometimes, I doubt your commitment to sparkle sparkle sparkle motion.

The ultimate weapon to kill Frank the Bunny.... "STAMPS!"

I saw this when I was really young. It freaked me the f*"k out.

huh He didn't mention the soundtrack once. I really liked the soundtrack of this movie.

Personally I think Donnie Darko is accidental genius the movie. The director has never made another movie that people could agree was good. Donnie Darko is a complete fluke, which is why I think people are so split. Somebody who isn’t very good at directing made one movie that is maybe good? I almost think that he took this crazy idea and used his incompetence to stitch together a frankensteined movie that oddly works for me. A lot of this movie is aesthetic. Donnie Darko is just like this feeling, this vibe. When I watch it I feel a certain way, like I’m in a hospital, a pristine bathroom, a closet at a party. It’s just grabs me and sucks me in every time of just got these visuals and feelings it invokes in me. I also get this other worldly feeling from the movie. Like these are people but they aren’t. They’re people through an over dramatic lense. I think you’re suppose to relate to what each person represents but you don’t relate to them exactly as like, people, on a deeper level. You relate to what Donnie stands for but you feel disconnected from him as a person, like you don’t understand him. I like that though, like I can’t recall any movie where I genuinely don’t fully understand the main character or like at least can’t relate to his emotions. Either way, this movie is exactly what inspires me to want to create. This stilted world that ours but not always interests me. It’s always interesting to explore these different people, like watching aliens. It’s amazing and I crave every minute of it.

Where’s the Spirited Away Joke? Ps. Freaking love this review.

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.

Why can't tv commercials be more like doug

This is my favourite film, not because it’s deep but it’s just so damn entertaining and nostalgic

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?".

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.

Doug sells the hell out of Stamps.com.

The people were weird because it was a different universe, they were just meant to guide him to his purpose.

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.

Gyllenthal? Gyllenthal? GYLLENTHAL? ITS GYLLENHAAL!

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.

Another bird sound: ALAN!!

4:25 Oh no what did Cartoon Network do to you Bugs?!

Nobody: Alita Battle Angel: 21:24

I like the foreshadowing in this movie (like “cellar door” for example), the lecture about wormholes in time and space, how predictable people’s everyday lives are symbolized by elongated bubbles (fact: it was inspired by those NFL commentary drawings while the director was high) and in this scene the family ARE watching football, Frank’s rabbit mask is cool AF and I want one, the credit’s theme: mad world fits the film so well, divergence in the timeline, tangential universe, grandfather paradox, and the end of Donnie’s world: losing the life of the girl who had crush on him. Time loops back to the point where donnie should have died via jet engine falling onto his house (1. the same engine came from a few days into the future where his mom and sister won the talent show but there was an engine failure on the flight to California eventually killing them in a plane crash) (2. Donnie was supposed to die but frank’s arrival interfered by leading Donnie away on the exact night it was going to fall on his house), I forgot to mention Donnie takes medication because he has schizophrenia, going to therapy and talking about seeing a demonic rabbit telling him the end of the world is coming and instructing him to stir up some vandalism....yeah, that doesn’t look too good. Im still amazed that donnie is seeing the frank unmasked at the movie theater and having a laugh, the same guy he would murder a couple days later because frank ran over the only girl who cared about Donnie. (He lost her, he lost his parents and sister to a plane malfunction. It is the end of the world, his world. A mad world) Anyway after the Halloween climax, as a result the girl lives on having a slight case of deja vu, and life goes on. It’s a few details that make rewatching this movie interesting just searching for. Like seeing frank in the background earlier in the movie (as a regular guy without the costume) News report talking about plane crashes Someone tampered with the plane’s jet engine days before in advance. Flight crew commenting on the strange weather and dismissing the conversation before take off. I apologize if this doesn’t make sense or has a number of mistakes, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen it, or read the explanation, philosophy of time travel. It’s just what I remember.

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”.

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

19:16 was Drew's reaction to the script to Freddy got fingered.

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.

12:55 There is a 4th God's Not Dead in the works now.

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.

I always saw it as creepy and depressing.

This is why I love Wednesdays

I... I actually had a place with furniture outdoors where I usually hanged out with friends... So... am I an early 2000s cliché already?

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.

Please Critic, react to Ninja Turtles : The Next Mutation, you promised in the Fox Kids review !

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.

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

Where's Tamara and Malcom? Oh god you finally killed them, didn't you!!

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!

Donald Darko *[plays Donald Duck theme]*

8:12 I gotta give props, I think that's the worst pronunciation of Guillermo Del Toro I've ever heard.

8:46 - 8:51: You forgot to include Colm Wilkinson's 'Home' sound effect. God, I really miss this.

One of my favorite movies I actually met James Duval (Frank The Bunny) pretty cool guy

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 ! 👍🏾

I hit fast forward five seconds ever time I heard Stamps.com and only heard Stamps.com. Yep Stamps.com Edit: *Stamps.com*

Donnie Darko is quite possibly my favorite film. The only movie close to it is The Sisters Brothers.

Oh, wow, okay. Now I see why the Director's Cut is recommended so highly. It fills in a lot of the blank spaces, helps with transitions by giving pieces of the time travel book, plus shows that everyone in the town remembers the last 28 days, 6 hours, yadda yadda, but isn't sure if it was a dream. Certainly worth a rewatch if you can get that version, it'll make more sense. Well, as much sense as an intentionally obfuscated movie can make.

Congratulations on being on Trending Nostalgia Critic.

Its one of those movies the more you watch it, the more you start noticing few foreshadowing moments.