unhappy comments about plot (spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (16 December 2003)

SPOILERS!!! I wanted to like this movie, really, and I went into it thinking "I want to be entertained" but then there were to many plot holes that made me think "hold on"... so the kid lives, and then all these "bad things" happen because of him living, so many bad things that when he sees the chance, he goes back in time and kills himself...either he goes back in time willingly, or he just resigns himself to the fact hes going to die and these events are not going to happen... I think the story hinges on his statement that life cannot be boxed into "good vs. bad" or "fear vs. love"....since the events that happened after he lived were actually "good" events or actually bad events that were only caused BY him being stupid..not just being alive..... 1) kiddie porn king gets arrested by him...thats a good thing, would not have happened if he had died... 2) girlfriend gets killed..she would not have been there except he told her to come along... 3) teacher gets fired...would not have happened if he had not flooded the school... 4) Frank gets shot..again caused by Donnie being up there with his GF
finally, the infamous casuality loop....engine drops and kills him, right..but the engine was from a plane a month in the future...meaning that in a month from that point, 10/31 that plan will still fall over and still drop an engine again going back in time and again flattening donnie and starting everything all over...meaning that the entire univerrse is caught in a 30 day cycle... i did like the refrence to back to the future..that was slick and a way to bring the luddites in the crowd up to speed... editing, camera, lighting, were all good... would i watch it again, hell no, would i recommend it...yes...theres lot more to a film than being pedantic about the story... cheers Q