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Wake up! S.Darko trailer gives a glimpse at what the Donnie follow-up will look like!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I know this is a direct to video title, but I figured there was enough of a fan following for DONNIE DARKO that at the very least a morbid curiosity exists for seeing what a follow-up will look like.
And I think the trailer I'm linking below actually looks well-made. It doesn't look like direct to video crap, but I will say there's a feeling of rrreeeaaalllyyy trying to be like Richard Kelly's original.
But as a kid I always had a soft spot for odd sequels, even if they were low-rent photocopies of the ones I loved. The fact that they got Donnie's sister from the first, Daveigh Chase, to come back now as a teenager reminds me of those movies... mostly horror movies, actually... that I grew up loving.
So, consider me mixed on this. I'll probably catch it when it hits cable. The trailer makes me at least not want to just blow the whole thing off, so I suppose that means it works. What do you folks think?
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While it WAS an original was somewhat of a cheese dream and hasn't aged well.
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There were some pretty good moments in it...
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i cant even scroll down this bitch
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It did spark a lot of interesting discussions.
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It looks like some Emo 'Ghost Whisperer' shit...
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If ever there was a movie in existence that never, ever warranted a sequel than Donnie Darko would be it. This is bullshit.
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looks alright
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But it's very obvious they are trying to play up the sex appeal thing the way she is dressed.
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WHY do they have to make sequels to perfect movies-movies that DON'T require another part? I mean, I generally like sequels, but Donnie Darko? There was nothing needed to add to the story. Had a beginning, a middle, and an end. I probably won't be seeing this.
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Utter garbage. You can't have a true sequel to Donnie Darko. Another cheap piece of shit cash in.
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She played Samara in The Ring and was the voice actor for Lilo from Lilo & Stitch as well.
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lets see you top that!
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Trailer wasn't as godawful as I expected, but it's still an unnecessary sequel.
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They even got a dude that looks like Jake Gyllenhaal for some reason. And did anyone else laugh at the bunny at the end of the trailer? Instead of sounding creepy/cool like the original one, he just kind of gurgled "wake up!" WTF?
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Nice name dude, and the original Donnie Darko was overated sadly. Was mucho dissapointed.
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Samara is fucking hot. How old is she?! And I see she still doesn't give a fuck about the laws of physics regarding TV screens. The brat.
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Interesting.
Looks like it will be pretty if nothing else. I think the original is overrated and it honestly looks like this is about the same quality. -
Now I KNOW it will be good!
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This trailer, which is not the least compelling made-for-TV trailer I've ever seen, probably masks a really pedestrian story and laughable acting. I still remember seeing Donnie Darko in the theater before anyone knew about it... now THAT was some cool shit. That's the way to see these things, before the hype machine throttles them into self-indulgence.
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Tiresome Emo bollocks for the Tweener generation.
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but that's like the faintest praise i've ever given in my life.
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Feb 21, 2009 2:46:48 PM CST
Next up: a sequel to "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid"
by flim springfield
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From Wiki: In 1976 a sequel was released titled "Wanted: The Sundance Woman", a made for tv-movie, starring Katharine Ross as Etta Place joining Pancho Villa.
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Looks like whoever made this movie only watched the first one with the sound off. This looks like complete bullshit. And however much the hipsters that originally liked it feel the need now to cast it off as "emo" or "goth" in order to continue being hipsters, Donnie Darko is a really good movie all around.
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I've sat through a lot of bad movies, but after three attempts I couldn't make it all the way through Southland Tales. The movie didn't make me angry for wasting my time - it just made me sad that it didn't have the power to do anything else.
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The original release of Donnie Darko was great.
The director's cut was a mess. Whoever made the choices that led to the theatrical release were right.
Southland Tales, that was spectactularly bad. I managed to sit thorugh it to the end, mainly through sheer disbelief on what utter trash was unfolding in front of me.
The trailer looks OK but given that the original cut was not the directors intended release, and how bad that and Southland were, I'm going to be very cautious this time round. -
after watching that movie, i honestly had no clue as to how i felt about it. i didn't hate it... but it's nothing i'd recommend, either. an interesting bunch of nothing.
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What the hell happened to that dude.
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Should be interesting.
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Feb 21, 2009 3:29:23 PM CST
Hell, I'll watch ot over "Superman : Unleashed, Wrath of Khan !"
by se7en
Unleashed ? Sheesh. They just don't get it.
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or did those look like giant penises
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It was the limitations that made the first film work. Richard Kelly has a great imagination but needs some serious reigning in. Southland Tales isn't a bad a movie, it just needs an editor to make sense of it all.
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I watched southland tales and that was end of the world bullshit as well. This is just a hash of donnie which is a shame because its not going to be as good, if anything it will spoil the first one. It was cool and bizzar enough for people to talk about it. We don't need another one because now you got the invisble penis snakes to fight off.
Alas i hope there is not much of a budget and it gets released in cinemas world wide unlike southland did.....
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I'd rather a good rip-off over a POS one... If I ever get round to watching it...
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I will definitely watch it.
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Has nothing to do with this one nor does he approve of it. Just so you all know.
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..and would make money if it was. that doesnt make it good though.
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Maybe anyone in need of a quick emo-fix before the next Twilight hits should check out S. Darko. Shame they couldn't have got any of the other cast back, like Mary McDonnell (who played Donnie's mother). I'm guessing that plot is gonna be just the same as Donnie Darko apart from some crazy twist at the end that makes it different, like she has to kill or let someone else die instead of being a sort of superhero like Donnie. Fuck knows? The plot to Donnie Darko was bullshit anyhow. That's why the theatrical cut was so much better - everyone could put their own spin on what it all meant, and the actual plot about time travel didn't matter. It was definitely an entertaining movie.
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I'm not trying to be pretentious. or does just liking the movie make me sound pretentious? Either way, maybe i was in the right mood, but i quite enjoyed it.
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or Southland Tales. I loved Donnie Darko, but boy, did that director's cut suck balls. At least Lucas waited 20 years before he ass-raped his original film and then made shitty follow up movies. Kelley didn't even wait 3.
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and I was great!
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I saw Donnie Darko and loved it, I still don't know which one I saw, the theatrical or not..either way it was awesome.
Southland Tales was very very odd, but not reall BAD.
This one however, looks like some sort of horror ripoff spinoff...WTF?! Donnie, the bunny, the vortex(es) and other things were NOT evil, not caused my some malevolent being, and certainly not by some demon looking emo loser like the trailer I just saw...S.Darko the movie looks like a turd S.Darko the girl is all grewed up and yummy however. -
Then again, I rent a lot of movies...
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That looks fucking wretched and cheap. Looks like a Final Destination sequal, more so than Donnie Darko. I'd fucking slam Ms. Chase though.
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Darko is four-dimensional abstract perfection. The songs not only flow with the imagery, mood, and era, but the fucking lyrics match the action as well! And don't get me started on the original score.. shit. Anyone who says that the first one is Emo or tweener, doesn't understand the words they are using.
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Feb 21, 2009 5:29:45 PM CST
Yeah, I don't know if I'd call Southland Tales bad...
by whinynegativebitch
...So much as insane. It was just like staring at someones complete mental breakdown on the big screen.
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why is there a different rabbit person at the end? how is everything all of a sudden evil? hahaha why is there a phoenix?! i feel like they just got some weird ideas and added them in without actually realizing that there has to be some sort of sense to be made. You cant just make things up about something that was so well defined and established. I will not see it.
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I finaly saw it last year for the first time and i was blown away by it.i went out and bought it right away.it really is a great film.and this sequel seems like another cash in along the lines of cruel intentions 3 and wild things 2.i'm curious to see it but i also like the way the movie was left.i have yet to see the director's cut and have never wanted to because i thought the theatrical release was flawless
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this looks worthless
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Feb 21, 2009 6:10:16 PM CST
Nice to see the tentacle from The Abyss getting some more acting
by henrydalton
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'getting some more acting work'. I'm here all night, folks...
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For the rest of my breathing life I will attempt to never acknowledge the sequel to the GREAT Donnie Darko. P.S. The "Director's Cut" of Donnie Darko sucks and is for idiots who need everything spelled out for them. Have a pleasant evening.
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I'm a hard right person. But am honest about films, regardless of their leanings. Southland Tales has SO many things going on, the viewer needs to watch the film a minimum of 2 times before coming to a verdict. It's not humanly possible to catch everything that is going on in it. Given that, I gave it 3 out of 5. Not Bad, Not Great.
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but that trailer is filled to the teeth with crazy shit, like the body bubbles... hopefully that stuff isn't done to death, it was barely used in donnie darko which is why it was effective. if this movie is just a load of crazy ideas tied together, it will probably suck. well, it'll probably suck anyway, but... i'll give it a shot.
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was junk. a friend of mine had never seen the movie and i told him how much i liked it, so he bought the director's cut, and after we watched it i said "i'm sorry you paid money for that". it was like richard kelly missed the point of his own movie (though i shouldn't have been surprised, his commentary on the original donnie darko release is laughably bad and he really seemed to dig a little too deep when trying to explain the ending).
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Cause I saw this when she was a little kid.
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no debate.
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that looks SO to-video..the CGI is cheap, the acting fuckin awful..the whole idea is retarded.
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Colour me surprised - that looks like it's got a serious shot at not sucking. Probably because Richard Kelly had nothing to do with it. God, Southland Tales was bad. Epic bad. Career-ending bad. Really, really, really horrifically bad. This, though, I'll have to see.
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The problem with ST is that it honestly needed to have gone through about 4 more drafts before just throwing out there. Aside from the car-fucking, (there's a hyphenation I never thought I'd use) it had potential to be genius. Instead it just ran off eight different sets of rails.
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Looks like a TV pilot. USA or FX. Maybe the WB in their "Whatever goes" Buffy days. Not a BAD pilot necessarily, but a pilot nevertheless. But since I was not a fan of the original, I have no great proprietary stake in something like this. Southland Tales was horrendous.
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Feb 21, 2009 7:48:18 PM CST
Director's Cut of Donnie Darko was rrreeeaaalllyyy trying...
by amy chasing
and also trying to be like Richard Kelly's original. It's like all the mystery and fascination that was in the original evaporated via over-explanation and redundant footage in the director's cut. But then director's cuts usually suck.
Southland Tales on the other hand goes on my special list of worst films ever made. It tries to be interesting and fails. It's not really entertaining. It's like they didn't know what they were making and so it doesn't really know what it is. And then to top it all of it looks like it was made with quite a large budget. Dreamcatcher, Lost In Space & Southland Tales. If they hadn't been made would we still have an economic crisis?... -
regardless of how good or bad this turns out being, Daveigh has sure gotten fucking hot, damn.
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Feb 21, 2009 8:21:36 PM CST
to answer whoever thought the mom and daughter died in part 1..
by bouncy x
yes they probably did die but donnie somehow went back in time and died to save everyone or whatever. that event likely changed most of what happens after, which means his mom and sister probably never went on that after all.
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You know how Hollywood loves to show us things rising in prequels. Er... you know what i mean.
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The 2nd one make less sense and is bloated. The third one always gets funny and ironic. The 4th one is a tired attempt to squeeze more money. Seems we follow the rules hm?
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If Swayze's not in it, I'm out.
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Rhonda from Big Love, Chuck Bass from gossip girl and jesse from saved by the bell!
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I do admire her though for taking that career risk with ShowGirls and now living the dream life that followed it. Coming back to this moive, I kind of get the feeling that the writers/director of this movie don't even understand the original. The creepy bunny for example was a memory from Donnie's past that he saw in the unstable alternate universe. This time, I just think that the world is going to be really ending and the whole point of the first Donnie Darko will be ruined. Donnie didn't have powers and there is no reason that his death in the actual universe would trigger anything in S.Darko's life. This movie looks like a cheap way to cash in on the original by incorporating the same special effects and bunny. Do they even know what that abyss special effect means? I seriously wonder if they realize that its showing the future and the significance behind it. Without the intelligence and mystery of the first film, this film will fail miserably and be a waste of time and energy for anyone looking to watch it.
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Looks like they're hoping to set up a half assed mythology and turn Donnie Darko into the next Wild Things or The Crow or Poison Ivy franchise. I wasn't a big fan of the original anyways, and Domino was a complete pile of garbage, not sure if I should blame Kelly or Scott for that though. Southland Tales was a bad movie, but somehow it was a weirdly involving and imminently watchable, even rewatchable, which is a rare accomplishment. I can't quite reconcile in my head what it means that the film was terrible but that I can sit down and watch it all the way through, and not in a Plan 9 From Outer Space way, just straight watch it completely without irony. Does that mean it wasn't a bad film? But it was! Argh I don't get it! That's a meta-concept that twists my mind more than the goofy time warp/hole/travel of Donnie Darko ever will.
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If Daveigh Chase HADN'T happened to turn into a super-hot piece of under-age ass then this movie would never have been made.
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I consider Donnie Darko my favourite film and this film looks like a piece of shit that will ruin my enjoyment of the original if I even consider checking it out.
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At the Belcourt in Nashville, one of those great, old theaters who show independent and older films exclusively. Every couple of years it's threatened by destruction but the community always comes to its aid, even if they don't always support it by frequenting it.
I believe Donnie Darko was only out for couple weeks and I caught the last showing by myself. There were about 4 other people in the theater with me, also alone. I fell in love with it immediately. I've seen better movies than Donnie Darko, but for some reason seeing that film, in that setting at that point in my life, will always have a its own place reserved in my memory.
When the movie gained some popularity years later, I felt that the small gem I had found had been taken from me. But I guess it was never mine to begin with.
PS - The director's cut sucked my nuts. No need to replace "Killing Moon" with "Never Tear Us Apart". At least not in this instance. -
total shit. Must be better than Lost Boys II- but that's like saying diarrhea is better than diarrhea with blood in it. It's all garbage, folks.
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It doesn't look as bad as I thought. I hate to say it, cause it's a sequel to one of my favorite movies ever, but it looks kinda cool, it has a kind of dark, gothic vibe to it, full of shadows.
I dig the style and the look.
My only concern is that they try to copy the original to much, and I hope it's not just a bunch of weird shit for the sake of weird shit, that's what the original did so well, it was weird shit but at the end it made some kind of half assed sense.
It's an interesting trailer and I hope it's not "trailer trickery", and that the actual movie lives up to it. But in the end it's probably not going to measure up the original, I mean...what can? But it might not be as bad as I thought. -
This is unfortunate, as a Donnie sequel may have been cool. Unlike Quint, this trailer with all the Abercrombies and their perfect hair, does make me want to blow this whole thing off. Couldn't they have at least used "Mad World" as the background music?Will be right up there with Blair Witch 2.
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Shouldn't this be set in the 90's? Where are all the poser kids trying to look grunge, or the jocks wearing baseball caps?
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I like Donnie Darko and this looks heavily inspired by Kelly's original, so it could be worth a look. I don't think Donnie Darko is a brilliant work of perfect or anything, so a sequel of this variety doesn't bother me one bit. Plus, I love 'end of the world' stories, so that alone makes me curious about this flick.
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Just bizarre - like an Onion headline come to life.
At least the fact that Richard Kelly's not involved redeems him somewhat in my eyes, after the DD directors cut. Whoever said Kelly didn't appear to understand his own movie - bravo my friend, got it in one. One of the biggest disappointments of the decade. -
Damn you, IAmMrMonkey! You just planted an idea that somebody will one day attempt. Nooooooo!
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...and each time it looks worse and worse. The "effects" look blocky and cheap and awkward. Richard Kelly must hate this shit and, hopefully, is vehemently against it...Rightly so. By creating a DD sequel they spoil the mysticism of the first. It looks as though they are going the route of trying to make sense of why Donnie could do the shit he could do. Why? There's no need. None whatsoever. Hollywood hates ambiguity and has an urge to resolve everything. It's a sad state of affairs.
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It just had more star power... it was almost set for a diect to DVD release.
I personally think that this clip showed alot of potential. It may suck end hte end, but it will still be miles above anything the SciFi channel puts out ( which is my definition of shit SF/F/H ) -
FRANK, eight years old, is standing in a pet shop with FRANK'S MOM who is arguing with her husband on the phone. Hanging up on her husband, FRANK'S MOM sighs loudly and turns to her son.FRANK'S MOM: "Have you seen anything you like?"FRANK is staring towards a single white rabbit which has died in a cage and nobody has noticed. The sign in the rabbit's cage reads 'Donnie'. FRANK is transfixed and walks over to the cage.FRANK: "Wake up, Donnie..."
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Feb 22, 2009 11:04:16 AM CST
I dunno that looks like the definition of direct to video to me
by rubiks doob
Let's count' em up: Iffy CG shots- the meteor hitting the wind mill- CHECK. Semi-reconizable actress who must have been on some TV show but who can't help overacting- CHECK. Dumb cop with handlebar mustache who thinks he's Dewey from Scream- CHECK. Recycling of plot from original film with minor but obvious tweaks- CHECK. Hurmmm- this site is crap....
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It's probably going to be bad, but I loved Donnie Darko, so why wouldn't I at least see what they tried to do with this? My friends and I sat through both direct-to-video follow-ups to Cube (Cube Zero actually wasn't bad, minus the amateur acting) and this feels like a similar situation.
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The 1st one was such a turd. It's very rare that a trailer for an 'unwanted' follow up looks 100 times better than the 1st movie. I'll most likely skip this one, but I didn't even see it yet and I like it more than the 1st. Hell I like getting punched in the junk more than watching the 1st Darko.
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But an excellent achievement, that sparked alot of discussions, and heated debates. I love the layers that is given to the plot, and characters, and the ambigous nature of the films structure. A sequel should of never been made, and it doesn't look that good. :(
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Not only should it have never been made but as with The Descent 2, another cash in on something that didn't need to be expanded on. Who the fuck gives the go ahead for crap like this?
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What is that vampire antagonist guy for!? Oh man, did they lose all charm the Donnie Darko film had? Does the crew behind it even understands what the FUCKING MOVIE IS ABOUT!!?? I guess not, what a shame
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Looks watchable enough to make me at least want to see it. I'm not really expecting much out of it though. But who knows. Maybe it will actually be kind of good.
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i think that was a pun. richard kelly is rolling in his grave.
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I note that the Wikipedia synopsis has the sister `learning the true meaning of family and friendship'. Ye gads.
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Thanks for headsup on Butch & Sundance. I wonder how that compared with the prequel "Butch and Sundance: the Early days" which I believe starred Mac Davis and William Katt from Greatest American Hero.
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I absolutely loved "Donnie Darko", so I expect this sequel to really suck. If it was the same director, cast, script, etc, then I would be hopeful, but because this is DTV, I am expecting something like the Prophecy 2. By the way, Elizabeth Berkley does look old, used, and beaten down by Hollywood. She needs to find some rich guy to marry and retire. Daveigh Chase looked very hot in the trailer. This is what Hollywood actresses should look like.
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Because of this discussion, i went back and rewatched southland tales. then i dug a little deeper into the chapter meanings and ended up reading the graphic novels of chapters I-III. (Southland Tales is Chapters IV-VI) There actually is a lot going on there, and the first three chapters lay out whats going to happen. (especially the script for 'the power'.) i stand by my liking of this film.
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The Vortex tunnel looks like a cross between what was shown in the 1996 TVM and how the Vortex has been shown in the credits to the relaunched Doctor Who series since 2005.
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Speaking of BIG LOVE, I liked how they were supposed to be in the Midwest for much of the other night's episode but instead, they were actually in Sacramento featuring the Delta King, the (former) Money Store pyramid, Old Sac, and other landmarks around here. Funny how the City wasn't thanked in the credits though!
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I swear, it was like a retarded version of STRANGE DAYS but for the most part it looked like a cheap Canadian tv series and not an actual film. It also didn't help matters that the ending ripped off the Blinovitch Limitation Effect from Doctor Who without giving proper credit (as always). The commentary proves that Kelly is paranoid about Republicans to boot.
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BLADE RUNNER. Deckard isn't a fucking replicant. The character arc is ruined by making Deckard a replicant. Funny how fanbois rip George Lucas a new Death Star sized anus yet don't take to task Ridley Scott for failing to understand the intent of the original screenplay that he shot from...that and the narration makes it a true noir piece while it is an art house film without it.
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I'd rank CECIL (sic) B. DEMENTED and BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN as stellar cinematic achievements towering above southland tales.
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and MY NAME IS BRUCE is now out on Blu-ray.
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That means her brother makes a mysterious return, and that Jake Gyllenhaal turned down the role.
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IN the plane crash, in either universe it happens. and nothing that happens that would change that other his mother wouldn't have to be on the plane because the other women coach would have gone because donnie would have never exposed that guy. I mean I never thought for one minute that girl wasn't still destined to die 4 weeks later. So WTF?
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