Personally, I love Donnie Darko. It's one of my favorite movies of all time and I think that it's just... Smart. It has some definite flaws that I've learned to get past (Drew Barrimore's acting, for example), and I thought that some of the predestination discussion could have gone a little farther than it did, but overall I love the film.
Incidentally, I never thought that the soundtrack shone over the rest of the movie. It's a brilliant soundtrack, to be sure, but I loved the writing and direction so much that it was never just the soundtrack. So I find it interesting that some people think that its popularity only comes from the soundtrack - Never considered it that way.
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