Also, no Richard Kelly tag?

I never got the praise. It was like Lost mystery bullshit written for mental teens who idolize Holden Caulfield. The cardboard villains and Donnie's moral grandstanding against them were just embarrassing. Patrick Swayze's character not reprehensible enough? Better make him a pedophile to hammer it home!

It came out at a good time for me, since I was a mental teen who idolized Ian Curtis when it came out. It was as close to my generation's Breakfast Club as it got, lost in a sea of really shitty teen movies. But I dunno if I'd watch it again, or if I would've gotten much out of it if I was my current age at the time.

I loved this movie as a teen. I recently rewatched it after smoking a bowl. It holds up pretty well, just really well acted and atmospheric. Great music too.

I liked this movie and even though I haven't seen it in at least a decade, I'll stand by it. The soundtrack is great and you can't really hold it accountable for what happened with the "Mad World" cover afterwards.

Yeah Gary Jules' career too. Also, feel free to correct me with an earlier example, but I think this was the first movie to introduce the "bittersweet montage" that we commonly see at the end of TV series' episodes and stuff. Obviously there were films like Rocky that did it before, but I think DD was the first, or at least the first with a somewhat mainstream following.

I'll also remember this movie because I went and saw it in a theatre on my birthday my freshman year of college. It was a really cold night and I was having a really bad semester. No friends, family 5,000 miles away, thinking about dropping out, etc. Despite the nature of the film I thought it was fucking hilarious, and also I was the only one in the theatre. I started talking to people in my film class about it, but it was already gone, as if literally nobody had seen it but me. So all of a sudden I was kinda cool because I knew something the TA didn't, and things continued to look up after that.

Its silly to think that there aren't cardboard villain type humans actually holding positions of the ones in this movie. I have no doubt these were based on real worthless people,

Also you guys are trying way too hard to pretend you don't like something simply because it became semi-mainstream and a bunch of mouthbreathers also glommed onto it.

Silly reason to dislike something.

I wasn't too impressed with this movie when it came out but I like it a lot more now. It definitely led to a whole lot of really shitty copycat stuff but taken on its own terms it's a good movie. Kind of like Pulp Fiction, except this aged better and didn't inspire quite as much garbage as Pulp Fiction (Tarantino was the Spielberg of the 90s in that regard)

Oh, Gmork

Funny you should mention Tarantino; I tried to Netflix Southland Tales since I've never seen it. It recommended Nightcrawler but then auto played Inglorious Basterds, and continued with Tarantino after that. I liked IG (it's my favorite QT film) but trying to rewatch Kill Bill 2 was a hard thing to do.

Nightcrawler.. Meh. Jake Gyllenhall cant act his way out of a paper Gosling🌊.

I don't know if it's what you mean, but this guy has the Cannes version for trade:

http://theworkprintvault.weebly.com/

Fixed.

It's in the movie. Besides the aforementioned Tarantino it's got one of the best soundtracks to fit the on screen action that I've ever seen. Sorry Scorcese, I like your movies but your dad rock disinterested me.