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Copenhagen, Denmark
You cannot do this!
By far the hardest pick of them all.
I think you're the antichrist by making me do this. I'm a child of divorce, gimme a break! Although I love the roughness and macabreness, I got to follow my heart and go with Donnie Darko, if being forced.
This is probably the hardest decision of all the play-ins for me. My gut reaction to vote for DONNIE DARKO is slightly soured by by Richard Kelly's failure to follow it up... and who likes a sour gut, right? But in the end I have to stick with, if only for the fun of hearing Kevin Smith on the special edition DVD commentary track ask Kelly about his intricate story ideas, roughly: "Do you really think about all that stuff when you're making a film?" So, yeah, a vote for Kelly and the alternate timeline where Kevin Smith stopped after Clerks.
All I'm going to say is if you vote Donnie Darko, you're never going to get a reservation at Dorsia.
I really should rewatch Donnie Darko one of these days. I liked it, but I haven't seen it since back in the day. American Psycho, on the other hand, I saw, I loved, I own, and I watch frequently.
Trier, Germany
At first glance, this seemed like a really hard match, but as I had my first encounter with American Psycho through the book, which I also think is the better version of the two, it was easy to pick Donnie Darko after all. Donnie Darko was a special experience. I had never seen anything like this movie before. It felt like my first "grown-up" movie experience I actually "got", back at age 20. Every time I rewatch it, there is something new to discover. Though of course the soundtrack of American Psycho is cult, "Mad World" from Donnie Darko will always give me the chills.
Donnie Darko is an amazing movie, but American Psycho is funnier, scarier, stranger, and has more to say. In our present conversations about billionaires, elitism, and toxic masculinity, American Psycho feels like it should be required viewing.
I recently caught up with AMERICAN PSYCHO because of April Wolfe's guest appearance on Amy Nicholson's version of the Canon. It's such a razor sharp of the moment dissection of masculinity and insanity. It's a vivid satire and a very smart film, smarter than Richard Kelly's DONNIE DARKO, a film that doesn't quite fulfill the promise of its premise.
Donnie Darko is a gem. Every time I see it I get drawn in and blown away in the end. The music, the acting, the story. Superb. It is clearly Donnie Darko to me.
DARKO is magical every time I watch it - partly because I always forget the melancholy of it all. PSYCHO is great, but I don’t really get a strong emotional reaction out of it.
Kansas City, MO
I recently rewatched American Psycho, and I didn't love it nearly as much as I did the first time. I'm not a fan of the ending, but it's still a great Bale performance and it has some standout scenes. I never got the appeal of Darko though.
American Psycho is great, but it's gotta be Donnie Darko. In college, I loved it for giving such a subversive and counter-cultural tone to what is essentially an 80s high school movie, and I still love it for the time travel mysteriousness, which holds up, and for the performance from young Jake Gyllenhaal, which holds up even better.