Pretentious "Philosophy" Buffs Who Have No Idea What They're Talking About

Why are you telling me? that's my new philosophy!

Donnie Darko actually has a good solid basis in existentialism.... Granted, watching the movie doesn't make you an expert on anything, but it's not completely worth writing off. There's a lot more to it than 'troubled kid saves the world'.

Edited to add that existentialism is a real, bona fide, google-able style of thinking and not something that a random know-it-all made up.

Updated On: 4/17/06 at 10:50 PM

Cruel, aren't you just as guilty of the the same behavior by virtue of starting this thread?

Now, I have not met the "type who have taken their entire philosophy of life from Donnie Darko but have no idea what they're talking about. Yet they want to debate with everyone at every point of every day (Especially Christians) to prove how "smart" they are."

But, you are basically stating that there is no value to their beliefs because you find them not to be worthy of serious thought or consideration (or not original). You are thus imposing your own values onto them and assuming that your perspective has more validity.

Isn't the very nature of your criticism therefore pretentious?

Ahh but it's not, good sir. I'm not saying that my way is the "right way". I was merely criticizing these people for believing that they are experts when they've only seen one movie, and especially when their philosophies are flawed.

I have to give you props for the phrase "Duke of Metaphysics".

The thing about movies like Waking Life and I Heart Huckabees is that they are supposed to represent soundbyte philosophy. They're meant for people who have some basic knowledge already rather than for people to GET knowledge from them, or at least just be a gateway to such thinking. So I'm pretty suspect of people who seem to have gotten all their philosophical views about life from some movie too. But still. Gotta let people be people. And maybe sometimes people arrive at these conclusions on their own, prompted by a movie.

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