Comments on: ‘Southland Tales’ will come to theaters

By: Wwe Pic

Wwe Pic — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:16:10 +0000

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By: ML

ML — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:31:23 +0000

Ok, the film badly does need to be edited, by someone other than Kelly as Donnie Darko was. DD got the same kind of reactions when it was on the festival circuit for being bloated and overblown, but the cut that went to theaters was brilliant with the help of some real good editors, we all know how bad Kelly’s director’s cut turned out to be so let’s hope he gets his same editors to work their magic.
Although, the casting for this film is just plain awful.

By: johnathan

johnathan — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:34:37 +0000

Massive overbite?? Watch it, LW.

By: freedug

freedug — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:34:28 +0000

I can’t wait for Southland Tales. I love Donnie Darko, I don’t care what other pepople here say. I’m sorry if you need your plots spoon-fed to you. Cinema Scope has a great article about the film ( Not sure if you can post links but if you google CANNES 2006: Conspiracy of Dunces, you’ll probably find it). Here’s a great quote from it:
“There are innumerable interpretations or tentative analyses of Kelly’s Donnie Darko (2001) follow-up (the amount of films cited is Godardian), but with its crazy names and cuckoo conspiracies, it strikes me as positively Pynchonian performance art—the entire film an approximation of Tyrone Slothrop’s plunge into the crapper in Gravity’s Rainbow, emerging in a semi-fascist, semi-recognizable near-future America. Its obfuscated, noir-tinged narrative style is of the conspiratorial variety beloved of Jacques Rivette (who will surely love this movie: it’s the new Showgirls), with constant double-crosses and shadowy, under-elucidated plots manned by a bevy of oddballs, both government and private. Southland is also a film internet propre, constantly condensing space, zooming about like a hyperactive, pre-Ritalined (silver) surfer: it’s a perpetual motion machine. The way the story is told is inseparable from the content, as the conspiratorial narrative style is an integral element to Kelly’s anti-status quo provocation. Will the kids like it—dunno, don’t care—but, irregardless, why does it all need to make sense? Despite what you may have heard (and are hearing, and will hear), Southland Tales is very much releasable at its current length. Sure, it might drag a bit in the third hour, but what Rivette film doesn’t?”
Now, I’ve never seen Southland Tales, so i can’t defend it. But I wouldn’t trash a film I’ve never scene either (well, that’s not entirely true). Different people goes to films for different things. I have no interest in many of this summer’s “blockbusters”, but Oscar season looks very promising. Films by Sophia Coppola, Darren Aronofsky, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Eastwood, Scorsese, etc. all look to make 2006 a great year for film.
To say that Kelly sucks, I dunno, just kinda pisses me off….

By: LW

LW — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:03:46 +0000

SMG looks like she has a MASSIVE overbite in that picture. Yikes.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:43:27 +0000

Wouldn’t the fact that The Rock is in it obligate half of the WWE fans to watch the movie as well? I mean, regardless of what it’s about… The millions(and millions) of Rock’s fans would undoubtably watch it for the sake of getting him bigger acting roles.
I actually saw Donnie Darko for the first time about two weeks ago on The Movie Channel(had to see it twice since i didn’t understand it at all the first time through)… But i came to the conclusion that it was worth watching. Even if everyone responsible for making the movie had to be on acid during their parts….

By: Alexa

Alexa — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:30:22 +0000

Annie: you sat through Southland Tales twice? Wow. I think you’re my hero. That’s quite a feat!

By: Ned

Ned — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:20:09 +0000

I’ll give it a chance, it has Kevin Smith in it, so it can’t be all bad.

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:05:36 +0000

I think Southland Tales may actually be salvageable, but Richard Kelly has to be willing to cut out entire characters and very big chunks of plot if it’s going to be watcheable. I saw it at Cannes and can fully understand why so many people left both the screenings of it that I attended. Regardless, fans of Donnie Darko (like myself) may be willing to look past it’s (many) faults.

By: Ceballos

Ceballos — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:05:37 +0000

“I bet I could TAKE a picture” I meant (sucks that we can’t edit our own posts on here, oh well.)