Cannot believe Forbidden Planet has been eliminated....
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Cannot believe Forbidden Planet has been eliminated....
Well, I can recant that vote, forcing a tiebreaker?
did you really see all that in this movie??? do I have to watch it again, because I missed it altogether? I believe it can be found if it is looked for, and hard, like most everything can be read (seen) into everything. On the other hand, you may be right (and sure are), and the problems of middle class American teenagers provided with material abundance is something I totally fail to recognize as existential despair.http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k2...r_original.gif
I don't see any of that in Donnie Darko and it's one of my favourite films. The directors cut makes everything a little clearer in terms of the science fiction aspects making a bit morr sense. I like the confliction between a doomsday scenario where the end of the world is only known by a mentally ill teenager who already struggles existing in the world he's now somehow obligated to save. The humourous script is a big plus.
Yeah, the part about equating adolescent discontent with the serious bleakness the film tries to conjure was kind of a joke. It was a surprise hit. I think the target audience is just the kind who see every misfortune as end-of-the-world.
As I stated elsewhere, the Butterfly Effect Director's Cut is just as bad.