69. Donnie Darko
It’s hard to say what kind of movie “Donnie Darko” is. It seems to have a lot in common with Sam Mendes’ “American Beauty,” one of the best films of the last decade. Both have the same wry, biting vision of middle class suburbia, and its dark underbelly. But where “American Beauty” offers us a pot-smoking bench-pressing Keven Spacey, “Donnie Darko” is about a whole universe gone awry. Literally. This is one of the most complicated, subtle and bizarre science fiction movies of the decade. The sci-fi premises in “Donne Darko” make “Primer’s” multiple time dimensions seem like child’s play. If you manage to understand completely everything that happened the first time you see it, well, my hat is off to you, sir. Thankfully, this is one movie that is deeply enjoyable even if you don’t quite “get” it.
(PS – and if you’ve seen it a hundred times are STILL not sure what happens, I’m right there with you. Here’s a website that makes it all clear…as mud.)
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