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Existential despair? Eh, that is, by my theory, more like a type of angsty repressed self-hatred. Many people, young people, at least in this country, carry a lot of free-floating anxiety. ...

Satire is a valid quality in science fiction. Or do you mean that the satire you see in Donnie Darko specifically is what has no bearing?

We agreed to exclude movies that satirize other sci-fi...

bears voted Videodrome

have re-watched Donnie Darko and was just as unimpressed as the first time. The only parts I loved were the satire, and it is irrelevant to our present topic.