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His Darko Materials.

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"I can do anything I want. And so can you." So, with or without Frank the Bunny, I went to catch Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut Friday afternoon. While still very enjoyable, a lot of the fun of the film (reviewed earlier here) is in not knowing what exactly you're in for, so the movie admittedly does lose a step after another viewing. And, like the official website, the Director's Cut has a Midichlorian problem...elements of the film that are better left unexplained are now laid over with pages from Grandma Death's time travel tome. As a result, some of the more memorable scenes (particularly the "Mad World" montage at the end) suffer. Still, if you haven't seen DD (or, like me, saw it only on DVD), it's a genre-bending marvel that's definitely worth checking out on the big screen. (The film now also includes the deleted scenes from the DVD, such as the excised Watership Down subplot, and several shots of a 2001-esque eyeball, as seen in the trailer.)

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