Netflix Two Cents: Southland Tales
Southland Tales (2006)
Verdict: If there is ever any sort of Nuremberg Trials for the members of the Bush Administration, I hope they are held responsible for this crime against humanity.
posted by d l wright at 4/09/2009 01:12:00 PM
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From the Wiki:
Kelly described the film, "[Southland Tales] will only be a musical in a post-modern sense of the word in that it is a hybrid of several genres. There will be some dancing and singing, but it will be incorporated into the story in very logical scenarios as well as fantasy dream environments."
The director also sought to keep the musical number performed by Timberlake, based on "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers which he felt was the heart and soul of the film.
I have never heard of this. How is that possible?
Is that The Rock? If so, then I don't believe you that this could be a bad movie. Next thing, you'll be telling me Fast & Furious wasn't very good.
Brad: the reason you have never heard of this movie is because it got absolutely ravaged by critics at the Cannes film festival and was subsequently released in just 63 theaters in America ($275,380).
This is by the guy who did Donnie Darko, by the way.
I am going to use the rest of the comments section to post awful things about this movie.
A list of character names:
Boxer Santaros/Jericho Cane
Roland Taverner/Ronald Taverner
Krysta Now aka. Krysta Kapowski
Madeline Frost Santaros
Pilot Abilene
Cyndi Pinziki
Vaughn Smallhouse
Bart Bookman
Nana Mae Frost
Baron Von Westphalen
Simon Theory
Dion Element
Justin Timberlake is the "narrator" of the movie, which pretty much accounts for 5 minutes of terrible exposition and then random Revelation quotes which I am sure somehow relate to the non-sensical plot.
The Republican candidate for president is named Frost and quotes verbatim from Robert Frost poems.
I kid you not.
Two Hummers quite literally have sex.
I wish I was making this up or that I could gouge out my eyes and erase my memory.
wow, it actually sounds kind of awesome, are you sure you were drinking enough?
It might have been hilarious if it weren't so unbearably heavy handed.
Not Battlefield Earth good-bad. Just Crash bad-bad.
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