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Donnie Darko, I found it incredibly predictable.
It's definitely a movie cut from the same cloth as Catcher in the Rye. You love it as a teenager because you vibe with the main character. Then you grow up and see how self-polluting and obnoxious the character is.
I did love the exchange between Mary McDonnell's character and the fundie lady. "Do you know who Graham Greene is?" "Please, I think we've all seen Bonaza". It has a layer of humor that couldn't have been intentional. The fundie lady is mixing up Graham Greene with Lorne Green, and Mary McDonnell would go on to play the political half of Lorne Green's character in the Battlestar Galactical reboot a few years later.
Isn't that kind of the point of Donnie Darko? Comparing it to The Count of Monte Cristo which did that for me, the Count seems like an amazing badass as a kid but just kind of an ass as an adult; he literally says so at the end of the story, but you gloss over it as a kid. Bringing that back to Donnie Darko, he comes to the conclusion the world is better off without him.