Southland Tales
by Richard Kelly
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Actor: Carlos Amezcua, Curtis Armstrong, Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William ScottDirector: Richard Kelly
Brand: Sony
Writer: Richard Kelly
Producer: Bill Johnson
Producer: Bo Hyde
Producer: Dara Weintraub
Producer: Ernst-August Schnieder
Producer: Jim Seibel
Producer: Judd Payne
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 145 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Southland Tales
DVD Review: Still trying to figure out whether I liked it or not!
Summary: 3 Stars
Eclectic film that I swear I still don't fully understand. Part satire, part thriller, part comedy, part everything. Multiple jumbled-up storylines keep you confused through most of it. Some of the visuals and individual scenes were cool, but I'm still not sure how I feel about the film overall. No real rating from me, until I can at least read some outside opinions to help me sort it all out.
DVD Review: Spectacular mess
Summary: 2 Stars
Somewhere inside the twisted, spectacular mess of "Southland Tales" is a decent film. Perhaps all that's necessary is a good editor to bring out the film that was clearly intended; one that's an over-the-top satire of 21st century life. In this world, porn stars, terrorists, politicians, cops, and A-list Hollywood actors often cross paths and form alliances on their way to fulfilling their various narcissistic agendas. They roam around, self-absorbed and self-unaware, grasping toward whatever decadent trinkets tickle their fancy, while the world is literally about to end.
Unfortunately, somewhere along the way the entire thing just became muddled and incomprehensible. Which is a shame, because with the writer/director of Donnie Darko at the helm and a slew of varied talent in the film, it really could have been something great.
DVD Review: Richard Kelly's Sophomoric Effort
Summary: 1 Stars
At some point I thought 'Southland Tales' was an ironic commentary on the Writer's Guild strike. Was that the film's intention? To show how poorly a movie could really be written? Apparently, after reading about the film, this was not what Richard Kelly had in mind.
'Southland Tales' tries to be a dark comedy. If you ignore this review and watch the film, you will find yourself wondering why it was cast with an endless stream of comedic actors. Eventually you will come to understand that you should be knowingly laughing along with the mudddled mish-mash of "hijinx." But, it just isn't funny and when dark comedies aren't funny, they end up being repugnantly bad.
And what's with all the David Lynch comparisons that keep popping up in regards to this film? The possibility that you will enjoy this as a "Lynch fan" is incomprehensibe. I think enjoying a Lynch film requires some aesthetic sensibilty and that sensibility would be completely offended by this lowbrow, incoherent, sophomoric barrage. Any comparisons to Lynch are completely unfounded. Furthermore, Lynch does not incorporate current events and "E-news" style cultural references in his films. Which brings me to my next criticism.
'Southland Tales' (released in 2007 and set in the future - 2008!?!?) feels horribly dated. I fear this represents the retarded development of Richard Kelly. It is as though Kelly has not grown out of the cultural milieu of his teen years. The film is a jumbled mess of "non-actors" and TV comedians that made me think Kelly was casting heros from his adolescence for the sole purpose of expanding his autograph collection. I'm sure Kelly will eventually be exposed as a dweeb with little depth whose desire to meet "the Rock" never should have been an excuse for making an insufferably bad movie. Think Tarantino and Travolta... only way, way, way worse than 'Pulp Fiction'.
Easily in the running for the worst film of (at least) the last decade, the fact that a film with a clear anti-Bush agenda was derided at Cannes says that there is no audience anywhere in the world for 'Southland Tales'. In retrospect, Kelly's second feature film makes one consider reassessing his first.
DVD Review: Yes, I understand the movie. Yes, it sucks.
Summary: 1 Stars
I cannot believe someone financed this movie. It tries to borrow too much from Donnie Darko and tries too hard to blend it with Bible stories. Don't waste your time. It takes the mildly interesting parallel bubble universe idea from Donnie Darko and does a bad job of tying it to the Book of Revelations. There are some funny parts like the Killers video in the middle but it doesn't make up for the mountain of bad things. For example, "I'm a pimp, and pimps do not commit suicide." is the best line you can take from this movie. DVD Review: Adolescent liberal dribble
Summary: 1 Stars
I should have paid more attention to the bad reviews on Amazon. I saw the trailer and thought, that looks good. Well, it lasted about 20 minutes in my DVD player before being ejected.
It's anti-Bush. It's anti Iraq war. It's anti-Patriot act. It's got all the kook tyranny of goverment stuff that was constant and viral from the left about the Bush administration as a sub-plot... at least the first 20 minutes did. I couldn't watch another second. So maybe the rest of the movie is good?
There should be a political warning label on movies like this... Warning, don't waste your money unless you are a moonbat liberal. Just my opinion... your mileage may vary.
Description of Southland Tales
Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and David Clark, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.Well, filmmakers should aim high, they say. And Richard Kelly shot the moon on his highly-anticipated follow-up to cult sensation Donnie Darko, which expands the apocalyptic mood of that movie and blows it up tenfold. Set during the election season of 2008, Southland Tales proposes a series of apparently linked events: the reappearance of a vanished movie star (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), now an amnesiac; the bizarre doubling of a policeman (Seann William Scott in two roles); the development of an energy source from ocean waves; and the presence of an Iraq War veteran (Justin Timberlake) who seems to be watching everything, and narrating some of it. Not that the narration helps; even with voice-over (reportedly added after the film's disastrous debut at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival), Southland Tales doesn't come close to making sense, let alone at the minimum level of dangling a carrot to lead the audience along (even Mulholland Drive had a semblance of murder mystery to be solved, or not). The cast is loaded with Saturday Night Live cut-ups, but only Jon Lovitz connects, and in other roles people like Sarah Michelle Gellar, Christopher Lambert, Bai Ling, and John Larroquette are utterly mystifying, by no fault of their own. In some of the musical sequences Kelly gets in stride, but it's easy to create drama in a three-minute music video, and harder to do over two and a half hours. Some top critics rushed to champion the movie, as though flying in the face of philistinism, so feel free to try out this incoherent pastiche for yourself. --Robert Horton
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