Donnie Darko - cool movie! Loved the bunny guy...although I was really sad to discover that he wasn't actually an evil outer space bunny from another dimension.
And I'm with you dude - I definitely don't believe in the sit on your ass & let fate come type of fate. Can't win the lottery if you don't go out & buy a ticket! Unless, of course, you find someone else who won the lottery and you club them on the head and take THEIR ticket. But then again maybe you were fated to club the lottery winner....
To quote one of the most brilliant and hilarious books ever written:
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. - Good Omens, by Neil Gaimen and Terry Pratchett