Yeah, I recall reading something about her and some of the other “big names” being impressed by the idea of the movie, so they helped to get it made. This was the director’s first, I believe.
Well, there is the added bonus that the entire universe isn’t wiped from existence. So there’s that. 
Alright I gotta know. How could you possibly dumb this movie down?
It adds pages from the book to help explain what’s going on. Definitely easier to follow, if slightly less, well… “whoa”.
It’s rough and it doesn’t get any better when trying to explain it.
Everyone just woke up all haunted, except for Cherita.
Real Frank might need to change pants.
So, anyone interested?
I’d like to think that there was no time travel at all. I think that the entire movie is basically Donny Darko’s life flashing by at the moment of his death.
Like, in his mind, he got to relive some moments of his life… he got to be reckless, he got to be rebellious, he got to love… all the things that in “reality” he never got to do, his “regrets”. (“I never got what I wanted for Christmas… Hungry Hungry Hippos. And I felt regret…”)
And then when he realized that he has to accept his own death for Gretchen to come back alive, and immediately after he makes peace with his own death… Smoosh.
That’s how.
Really? Didn’t you like it?
Yeah, I’m gonna need another rewatch. Or book read. Whichever is gonna facilitate less [Keanu]whoa![/Keanu] I’m up for American Beauty.
None of which explains where the jet engine came from…
And then when he realized that he has to accept his own death for Gretchen to come back alive, and immediately after he makes peace with his own death… Smoosh.
Donnie Darko died for our sins. 
Thanx DBT. I can get down with that explanation. Less whoa. More Ah Ha.
I thot that also. Second time I watched it and caught the Last Temptation of Christ reference. He was given the choice to sacrifice himself for Gretchin. Just like in LToC, Jesus lives a whole lifetime before choosing to die on the cross instead.
Watch the Director’s Cut. Read the interstitials. Don’t even try to read the book on its own. You’ll end up like Granny Death. :eek:
I’m up for American Beauty.
Another one to add to the list!
Exactly. While Frank was one of the Evil Dead…
The first jet engine, the one that DIDN’T kill him, it came out of no where. As if it doesn’t matter where it came from, all that matters is that he survived it so that he can move on with his life.
The second jet engine, the one that DID kill him, well, I imagine there’s perfectly mundane reason for it, which we didn’t get to hear, because the movie ended.
Maybe for October 31, 2008.
12 days left
It’s from his sister and mother’s flight. They were gonna die also. Both engines are the same. Does your brain hurt yet?
But that’s the point. It’s the same engine. It fell off the plane from the tangent universe, 28 days, etc., after the fact. As of that moment, it was still attached to the plane, meaning it came from the future, out a universe that didn’t exist any longer. By deciding to sacrifice himself, Donnie eliminated that entire tangent from ever occurring, although clearly everyone else remembers at least some, if not all, of the events from it.
I’m certainly up for a re-rewatch. It might be fun to actually be in sync with everyone else.