DISQUS

Jim · 1 year ago

Thank God there's somebody else out there to support my theory that Southland Tales is egotistical and self-masturbatory filmmaking.

H. Stewart · 1 year ago

I don't think you need to "read the comics" before going into Southland Tales...and I think it's OK that it overreaches and gets a bit muddled. There's no need to make sense of EVERYTHING that happens or shows up in Southland Tales...there's so much there, all you need to do is pick a few, sit back, and enjoy.

By the way, Jim, "self-masturbatory" sounds a bit redundant. ;)

iknowyourmother · 1 year ago

OK, now who's the one who sounds egotistical and pretentious here. Because this movie
doesn't meet your elitist and pop-culturally educated standards in storytelling, plot
regulation and character development (based in old fashioned cinematic notions of what
is right and wrong), it is just an incoherent failure. You deemeth so and so it is.

wow, you're so right! it's almost like you were there standing next to the director during
the entire production! How omniscient! everything would be so much easier if we all
would just follow the accepted standards wouldn't' it.

thank god that we have such elitist rules of film standards to save us from having an
uninspired film industry that tosses out blockbuster trash like Cloverfield or 5 useless
Will Ferrell comedies a year. (oh, hey, wait a minute...)

how silly of all the fans to be so naive and suckered into Southland Tales' shallow and
simplistic whims. It is right for us to be berrated at the hands of you learned pop-culture
genius' who are thankfully here to enforce quality and standards.

how could i forget, i'm just a pretentious, art school, indie, too cool for school fanboy (or
whatever derrogatory nickname you call me), and i should consent that the conventions
of storytelling have never, and should never change. Because it's not like the greeks
didn't write 10,000 word song poems with an ever-interchanging cast of humans and
gods, that all needed to be committed to memory, each one of them with their own
twisting, sordid stories.

Rolls eyes and groans.

patrick · 1 year ago

Dwayne Johnson and J.Timberlake are surprisingly talented actors; but i'm still trying to figure out what Southland Tales was about... maybe it's: life is blurred, clutter, flashy and not always meaningful.

Ellie · 1 year ago

I watched the film the first time and then had to spend ages on the internet looking it up and trying to work it out. And I love it. I thought it was such a good film, I watched it again the other day, there are so many different bits here and there that obviously you'll never understand everything but so what, it's great. I especially love the drug/dream sequence

2HitsWrote · 6 months ago

I could break it down to what the movie was about and what the film maker was thinking but that would defeat the whole reason he made it. Think about it. Watch it again.