What a disappointment

Rating: Null/10 (20 August 2003)

Donnie Darko is to melodramatic teeny-bopper movies as Something About Mary was to gross-out humor... a movie I heard a bunch of junk about, but when I finally got to see it, I sat there, and said... and?
Darko's entire plot line can be basically be reduced to "My life is so pathetic and I'm so worthless that the world would be better off without me." Which might be alright if it read as genuine, but knowing the Executive Producer, I'd be more inclined to believe it was a plot line adopted to cater to the "hip young crowd" of tragic 3rd-generation-Morissey fans that can't get enough of suicidal self-pity.
Is it sci-fi? What about the causality paradox... Bah. Even on the lax side, Tears for Fears? Do I really need to hear that again?