Movie Death Match 2007 tuh 2008

3. Donnie Darko v 10. Chinatown
5. Double Indemnity v 12. Twelve Monkeys

Donnie Darko wins because I saw it on a terrible blind date, because it was written by my former boss's college roomate, and because I like movies where people travel through time and read wierd science books that their teachers aren't allowed to discuss with them after school without losing their jobs and where the wierd kid in school gets to have sex with the sexiest girl in school because she respects him for being so intellectually independent. It's also cool to think about jet engines falling through the roof and killing us in our beds.

And on the subject of time travel, Twelve Monkeys is the best time travel movie ever made. Every time I watch it I end up having nightmares about Brad Pitt and that picture of Bruce Willis standing naked in the background of a photograph from WWI. I've never been able to decide if that or the stairwell shot from Blue Velvet is the creepiest movie moment of all time. And then there's that awesome last scene where he calls the future, turns around and bumps into a guy from the future who came because of the call he just made, and then dies in front of himself in while running through a metal detector with a gun. And then the cool old lady from the future tells the guy who destroyed the world that she's in the insurance business - all of which is almost as cool as Christian Slater in True Romance, but not quite.