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Donnie Darko (2001)

I thank you very much Richard Kelly

[10/10 · 28 June 2002]

I don't feel like commenting much on Donnie Darko right now. I just wish to say that I don't have ever seen a film like this before, a film I felt very much at home the whole time, a film I cared about this much. I love this film. And I feel kind of angry that a film of this unique quality did not get a theatrical release in Germany, where I am from, or many other places, where it did not receive the kind of treatment it deserved. From all the the young "up and coming" directors Richard Kelly is the one I hope the best for, and the fact that the imdb has not listed anything Richard Kelly might have "in the making" I interpret as a good sign for lots of future surprise cinematic masterpieces we're about to witness. I just hope for them. And Donnie Darko surely is the best reason to hope for them.

Stuart Little (1999)

Perfect Example

[6/10 · 9 December 2000]

Stuart Little gives a very good example for why absolute great and lovely Special Effects alone cannot carry a film. I don't know the original story and don't know how much was left out and what was in it, but I know that the adaption just wasn't interesting or moving enough for me, and I definitely am a sucker for cute and touching "children's" movies (animation mostly, but this comes close, and I loved "Babe"). Another point is, movies like that also have to be funny, laugh out loud funny, and Stuart Little just isn't "that" funny.

And why was that troublesome cat so very abruptly oh so very nice? I wanted her to die! I hate cats. :-)

6 out of 10.