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Southland Tales (2007) - Film Talk
I have been anticipating this for a long time and I really liked this movie.
Not sure what the critics were expecting.
Sure it is a little incoherent and the plot isn't the easiest thing to follow but there is so much good stuff going on.
I would need to watch this 10 more times to catch half the things in this movie.
I would take a 100 movies like this where a director takes a chance and does something different from the norm than to have to sit through another awful remake or the typical Hollywood garbage.
I pretty much hate 90% of the actors in this movie and yet I enjoyed each and everyone of them in this movie.
It just shows what a talented director can do.
I would like to see what Kelly can do with a different subject matter as there are some similar themes here as there was in Donnie Darko.
This post has been edited by Michael (Sully14): Nov 17 2007, 10:33 PM
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What's with all the advanced screenings Sully, do you work at a theater now or something?
My Favorites:
Films:
1.
The Shawshank Redemption
2.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
3.
Fight Club
4. American History X
5.
Once Upon A Time In America
6.
Road to Perdition
7.
Memento
8. Donnie Darko
9.
Vanilla Sky
10. Fargo
Directors:
1.
David Fincher
2. The Coen Brothers
3.
Sam Mendes
4. Martin Scorsese
5.
Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors:
1.
Edward Norton
2. Val Kilmer
3.
Christian Bale
4.
Robert De Niro
5.
Willem Dafoe
TV Shows:
1.
The X-Files
2. Rescue Me
3.
The Shield
4. The Office
5.
Seinfeld
6. Scrubs
7.
Curb Your Enthusiasm
8.
Weeds
9. Arrested Development
10.
Nip/Tuck
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Quote: @ Nov 18 2007, 04:47 AM) What's with all the advanced screenings Sully, do you work at a theater now or something?
No, just the benefit of living near Boston.
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I really want to see this, I've been keeping tabs on it for a long time now.
I just hope it plays in theaters here and I don't have to wait for the DVD release, like with Tideland.
Has anyone read the graphic novel series leading up to the movie?
I've been thinking about calling around to some comic book stores and seeing if anyone local has them in stock.
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Has anyone else seen this besides me?
I would like to hear what some others thought.
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I wanted to see this, but it seems the bad reviews are heavily outweighing the good ones.
I'll still probably check it out though, to judge for myself.
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I watched it last night.
I really enjoyed it but I need to read the prequel graphic novel now.
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I'm interested in seeing this, it's in my Netflix queue.
It's actually Richard Kelly's birthday today, I can't believe he's only 33!
Wow, he was only 25 when he made Donnie Darko.
My Favorites:
Films:
1.
The Shawshank Redemption
2.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
3.
Fight Club
4. American History X
5.
Once Upon A Time In America
6.
Road to Perdition
7.
Memento
8. Donnie Darko
9.
Vanilla Sky
10. Fargo
Directors:
1.
David Fincher
2. The Coen Brothers
3.
Sam Mendes
4. Martin Scorsese
5.
Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors:
1.
Edward Norton
2. Val Kilmer
3.
Christian Bale
4.
Robert De Niro
5.
Willem Dafoe
TV Shows:
1.
The X-Files
2. Rescue Me
3.
The Shield
4. The Office
5.
Seinfeld
6. Scrubs
7.
Curb Your Enthusiasm
8.
Weeds
9. Arrested Development
10.
Nip/Tuck
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I consider myself a very big DONNIE DARKO fan, but I am extremely hesitant about this one.
I'm holding out for a while.
Not sure when I'll decide to watch it.
I've heard bad things.
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Quote: I consider myself a very big DONNIE DARKO fan, but I am extremely hesitant about this one.
I'm holding out for a while.
Not sure when I'll decide to watch it.
I've heard bad things.
Most of the early reviews for Donnie Darko were also pretty unfavorable...just saying.
The only reason I havent seen this yet is that it never came close to the cinemas around me and I have been out of the country since its DVD release.
Its definitely at the top of my to do list the minute I return.
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Well, I've heard bad things from big fans of DONNIE DARKO...
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Quote: Well, I've heard bad things from big fans of DONNIE DARKO...
Yeah, that's definitely a bit more disconcerting.
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I do plan on seeing it at some point;
I'll let you know what I think, and you do the same for me, okay?
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I personally loved it.
Great cinematography and while hard to follow, I found it easier to take in then Donnie Darko.
I still love Donnie Darko a lot more, but after all of the bad reviews, I watched this with low expectations and ended up really liking it.
Great choice of music, great shots, and the wtf factor made it similar to Darko in my eyes, while it still fell a little short, it's definately worth checking out.
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Nothing at all like Donny Darko, so don't expect anything along those lines (though there is a bit to do with time travel & the 4th dimension).
The near future as imagined in Southland Tales has much in common with the equally absurd and exaggerated corporate-sponsored reality portrayed in 'Idiocracy', along with shades of David Lynchian surrealism, Philip K.
Dick's scientific/metaphysical paranoia, biblical Armageddon, the mangled poetry of T.S.
Elliot & Robert Frost, and prophetic annunciations in the form of Jane's Addiction lyrics.
Oh, and it's got Buffy too.
Given all that it should have been just the sort of movie I'd love...
But it wasn't. Instead I found it sometimes clever though mostly pretty stupid.
There were a number of laugh out loud moments and some clever nods to literature & poetry, song lyrics and pop culture that gave me a nice warm and fuzzy "inside joke" feeling for being pseudo-intellectually hip enough to have caught them.
The film plays on a really dumb level, yet you'd have to be well-read and cultured to get a lot of the references (75% of which will go over most peoples heads).
It crosses over into the ridiculous throughout, sometimes this works, mostly it doesn't.
Good performances from the all-star cast and the movie looked really cool, making good use of Venice beach and downtown L.A.
It was a fun movie, I can't say I didn't enjoy it, though I can't really recommend it either.
Too many what-the-hell moments where I was wondering what had just happend or why the story went in such silly directions.
Was it supposed be a comedy?
Drama? Sci-fi? Scifidramedy?
The subject matter and obvious influences this movie tried to integrate had me wishing it would have been more thought-provoking and less foolish...
More mindbending and less camp...
More Donny Darko and less Airplane.
My Favorites:
Films:
1.
The Shawshank Redemption
2.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
3.
Fight Club
4. American History X
5.
Once Upon A Time In America
6.
Road to Perdition
7.
Memento
8. Donnie Darko
9.
Vanilla Sky
10. Fargo
Directors:
1.
David Fincher
2. The Coen Brothers
3.
Sam Mendes
4. Martin Scorsese
5.
Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors:
1.
Edward Norton
2. Val Kilmer
3.
Christian Bale
4.
Robert De Niro
5.
Willem Dafoe
TV Shows:
1.
The X-Files
2. Rescue Me
3.
The Shield
4. The Office
5.
Seinfeld
6. Scrubs
7.
Curb Your Enthusiasm
8.
Weeds
9. Arrested Development
10.
Nip/Tuck
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I just watched this tonight, and on first viewing, I enjoyed it.
Sure, not all of it really made perfect sense, but I still think it was a well made movie.
I hate most of the cast of the movie, like Michael stated as well, but for the most part I didn't mind them here.
Even Sean William Scott, who I wanted to murder in the American Pie movies, and pretty much everything else he's been in, was tolerable in Southland Tales.
I'd probably recommend it to some, although I don't think most people would enjoy it very much.
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At some point in time I plan on seeing this, and I hope I can be objective about it...
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Figured I would bump this thread since I just picked up the Blu-ray copy.
Anybody else get a chance to finally see this?
I really love this movie.
I love the political satire and how it takes shots at everyone and isn't just one sided like many other directors and movies are.
I have been on a kick lately of listening to a lot of the songs from the soundtrack.
"Wave of Mutilation" by the Pixies and "All the Things I have Done" by the Killers are 2 of my favorites.
Plus the score is catchy too.
I wonder if this movie will ever get recognition in the future since it took a huge negative hit critically.
Hopefully it will be appreciated like Blade Runner, Brazil and others have been after the initial backlash.
This post has been edited by Michael (Sully14): 4 weeks ago
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I saw this during the sci-fi marathon we had.
It wasn't that bad, but I wouldn't watch it again.
I felt The Rock did a good job as did Sean William Scott.
As an SNL fan though, the whole film altogether just felt really strange seeing all these alumni together.
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The best part was when an uncredited (and unconfirmed) Eli Roth got shot while sitting on a toilet.
Other than that, it failed to impress me.
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