S. Darko is THE WORST!

I really love "Donnie Darko".  It was so great.  I can pick it up at any time on cable/satellite and just watch from that moment.  I love everything about it.  

So with that in mind, I picked up "S. Darko" at Blockbuster.  I didn't have high hopes, but I couldn't believe that it was actually worse than I expected it to be. 

a.  Briana Evigan from "Step Up 2: The Streets"?  I half expected her at any moment to start popping and locking in the roadway.   

b.  Daveigh Chase looks pretty much the same.  The best part of the 'sequel' was the flashback to her Sparkle Motion performance.  Maybe she and SU2:TS-girl could have done a little Notorious dance remix. 

c.  The metal "Frank the Bunny" on "Iraq Jack"... who just happens to be the grandson of Roberta Sparrow.  "My grandmother told me you would come?"  What, when she was catatonic eight years ago?   WTF?

d. Weird ass  actors.  The dude from "Gossip Girl" is a hideous Joaquin Phoenix wannabe.  The motel owner is the Jewish store assistant from "Deadwood".  And literally, the movie was nearly over before I realized that Jeremy was the actor from "Twilight" [Jasper] playing exactly the same role of a dead-faced, strangely confused psycho, just minus the incisors and looking strangely like the guy who wore the Frank the bunny costume in DD. 

e.  Why are all the people touching the meteorite getting itchy and the 'gnarly rash'.  What the hell?  

f.  Gossip Girl man, who could afford a camaro until the car crash, rides his bicycle up a mountain in the 'end of the world' meteor attack sequence?  Huh??

g.  "We're perfect".   "Immaculate."   Dialogue that did not need to be repeated.  Again.  And again. 

h.  WTF:  why are there two MIB guys walking into the diner, and around the town, and trying to look so unnoticeable, in a 5th grade stage performance sort of manner?

i.  What's with the "12 Monkeys" and "Strange Days" playing on the marquee... can we choose some titles that are a bit more cliche?

j.  Oh wait,  time travel, in reverse, now the marquee is... backwards!  WOW!  What great screenwriting!  

The worst piece of film-making I have witnessed in a long time.  There are movies which should never have a sequel and/or prequel, and DD was one of them.  

The only thing I've seen lately that is worse, is the current DVD which Dan has playing right now, which is some ridiculous Samurai movie called "Azumi" in which the lead character is a girl warrior with a purple minidress, and white Nancy Sinatra boots on.   Whatevah!