What the Heck was I Watching?

Rating: 1/10 (27 March 2008)

I watched the Director's Cut of Donnie Darko a few years ago, and for whatever reason I was left with loose ends and a senseless plot. The story's about a kid that was supposed to be killed by a meteorite or something, but survives and goes through a weird week. His one teacher inspires him and he starts studying morality or time-travel or something (I forget, it has been a while since I watched it) and another teacher tells him that they've crossed a certain line in talking about the subject because it's getting into things he can't teach.
He keeps seeing this bunny guy, who doesn't really do anything, just kinda sits there and acts weird, then one day Donnie goes to a speech this rich guy is giving and is the only person who disagrees with him, and the bunny tells him to burn down his house, so he does. After this there's a news report that says the rich guy was actually a pedophile, so whether or not this justifies what Donnie did (it doesn't) it's good that the guy was figured out. Then Donnie goes out with this one girl and has sex with her at a party, and when he goes out into the street one night he sees the bunny guy again and kills him, or some-such, and then learns that the bunny guy is the one who saved him from getting killed by the meteorite, or something.
But Donnie didn't want to give the bunny that burden (?) I guess, so he goes back in time through a portal or something, and decides to stay in bed and be killed by the meteor, so that the events of the movie don't take place. The next day it shows Donnie's body being taken away in an ambulance and everyone in town is standing around in shock from it, feeling bad that Donnie died even though they didn't know him, and a couple of people come together because of his death.
So yeah...Didn't really get the movie, again maybe I really missed something in the film, but after I watched it, it made absolutely no sense to me. The whole movie is really about Donnie and how his death is important or something, the teacher and the rich pedophile guy and everyone aren't really that important and don't appear in the movie that much. I have gotten scratched DVDs from the place I rented this movie from before so, who knows, maybe the whole plot of the story was damaged and I just didn't notice it. But I didn't see the scenes just skip or anything, so I guess this is really what the movie is supposed to be, and it is crap.
My opinion - horrible film, made no sense, no questions answered and no real likable characters. I was going to give Donnie Darko a '3' because I was interested enough by it to actually rent it and watch it, but upon writing this review I now realize that I hated this movie, so it is awful enough to garnish a 1/10. Stay clear of it unless you want to waste a small portion of your life (and possibly money) on it and feel confused and disappointed.