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04-07-2006, 10:54 AM
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Southland Tales
 Plot: Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros (The Rock) is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Roland Taverner (Sean William Scott), a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. Release Dates: August/September 2006 - USA, 15th September 2006 - UK http://www.southlandtales.com/ A few photos:   So any thoughts? Last edited by Ghostface 2000; 04-07-2006 at 01:46 PM.. 
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04-07-2006, 11:02 AM
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I don't really know, not sure what to think yet. Isn't Richard Kelly writing or directing this? Also, I heard that Sarah Michelle Gellar gets pretty naughty in the movie as well.
And for some reason bud, the website link doesn't work.
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04-07-2006, 11:49 AM
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The Rock hasn't failed me yet (ok, Doom, Be Cool, and The Mummy Returns were crappy, but it was more everything else and he was pretty cool... except for The Mummy Returns... let's just forget that movie happened) so I'm pretty stoked about it.
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04-07-2006, 01:54 PM
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Can't wait for this.
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04-07-2006, 03:29 PM
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Richard Kelly is Southland Tales' writer and director.
Kevin Smith is in the movie but I don't think he has a big role... It's weird that the website is not working.... maybe they're updating it? You might also want to check the following sites: http://www.krysta-now.com : Krysta Now's official site (that's Sarah Michelle Gellar's character) http://www.treer-products.com/ http://www.usident.org Those are all official sites linked to the movie. Also, the first (of three) graphic novels will be released on May 31st. The title is Two Roads Diverge and it's part one of the saga. The movie is actuall part 4, 5 and 6. You can see a preview on http://www.newsarama.com Did I mention I'm very excited about this movie?  
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04-09-2006, 08:15 PM
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04-09-2006, 08:44 PM
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So is Moby still doing the score for this? I know Reznor backed out, but did Moby?
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04-10-2006, 12:16 AM
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All I know is that (judging by those pics) Gellar makes a pretty convincing porn star.
Fitting. That's probably where she'll be in 4 years when she can't get work anymore, and she's tired of appearing at Comic Conventions as Buffy.
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04-10-2006, 12:25 AM
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I would like to see this.
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04-10-2006, 01:45 AM
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I am so lost. This movie looks weird. I was hoping for Richard Kelly to come up with something original and creative again similiar to Donnie Darko, ...but what in the hell is this? I don't even understand what the movie's about. I'll probably see it just because I think Richard Kelly is genius for DD, but hopefully a trailer will fill me in on what this movie is all about.
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04-10-2006, 07:48 AM
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04-10-2006, 07:50 AM
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04-10-2006, 11:43 AM
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04-10-2006, 04:55 PM
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Yeah, its them.
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04-10-2006, 05:50 PM
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Here's an incomplete cast list, in no particular order...
Dwayne Johnson Sarah Michelle Gellar Seann William Scott Jill Ritchie Mandy Moore Kevin Smith Janeane Garofalo Cheri Oteri Lou Taylor Pucci John Laroquette Will Sasso Abbey McBride Gianna Luchini Christopher Lambert Bai Ling Mike Nielsen Jared Gardiner Shannon Holmes Kevin Roberston Phil Sternberg Todd Berger Wallace Shawn Nora Dunn Justin Timberlake Jon Lovitz Holmes Osborne Katarina Hyde Miranda RIchardson Amy Poehler Zelda Rubinstein Beth Grant Wood Harris Michele Durrett Curtis Armstrong Sab Shimono
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04-10-2006, 07:24 PM
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sounds like a too ambitious, pretentious debacle.
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05-01-2006, 01:57 AM
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 I don't get it. Much of the comments regarding TALES over on the IMDb boards is critical & cynical as well. All without the benefit of really knowing what the plotline is or seeing anything other than a few random stills of it. I'm as mystified as the rest of you about this one, but while the film's ambiguity is apparently turning some off, I find it exciting & intriguing. Hey, it probably WILL turn out to be over ambitious & self indulgent. My response to that is, so what? If nothing else, it won't be boring! So many people here & elsewhere complain that they're sick & tired of the glut of remakes & sequels & cookie cutter, brain dead junk produced for mass consumption by Hollywood. Yet, when confronted by a unique concept & vision like SOUTHLAND TALES, the reaction is that it's TOO different. That the idea of using several different forms of media to tell the story is too confusing. The plot is too thick... The scale is too large... The cast is too big... The cast is no good... I say, DAMN people, give it a chance!
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05-01-2006, 02:41 AM
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05-01-2006, 12:30 PM
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This is certainly really odd. Donnie Darko is great, but I really wonder if Richard Kelly can repeat that kind of great filmmaking. Looking at all of this stuff surrounding the movie - the graphic novels, the official character sites, and the plot outline itself, I don't know if to think that Kelly is a genius or a nutcase. Either way, I hope he doesn't actually expect people to put so much work into watching this movie, such as reading the graphic novels. I hope he's not that pretentious and stupid, and that the movie WILL stand alone without all of the surrounding bonus material on the internet.
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05-01-2006, 02:11 PM
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i dont care how much work i have to put into it, donnie darko was a fuckin' masterpiece and i have all the confidence in this, i'll be getting the books
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05-01-2006, 02:13 PM
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06-29-2006, 01:18 PM
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From Dark Horizons...
Despite a critical drubbing at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Richard Kelly's "Southland Tales" has been picked up for domestic release by Sony Home Entertainment. While it hasn't been decided yet which Sony label will handle the theatrical release, it will be getting a big screen run though. The three-hour cut that ran at the festival in May will be edited down to a shorter runtime for theatrical distribution. Set in a postapocalyptic Los Angeles circa 2008, the project stars the likes of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Seann William Scott. I'm glad it's being released here finally...despite the bad reviews, I'd still like to see this movie, and hey, maybe if he cuts it down, it'll be a little more coherent or enjoyable... I do recall Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny getting terrible reviews from Cannes, including a terrible review by Ebert...but then he cut it down and it got three stars from Ebert so who knows...
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07-01-2006, 07:32 PM
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Ive had high expectations for this for a while now, definitely dissapointing seeing it get panned by critics at Cannes. I hope Kelly cuts it down and stays true to the material, because the premise is fascinating.
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09-04-2007, 01:12 AM
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new clips
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8d25iw http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/thre...uthland-tales/ http://1.kinogov.z8.ru//southlandtales_clip1.wmv http://1.kinogov.z8.ru//southlandtales_clip1.wmv
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09-05-2007, 10:40 PM
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Therefore I hope they make some redits and cuts where needed to at least make it good. How is this a bizarre hope? Is it bizarre to hope somebody fix something that obviously is not working?
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09-06-2007, 01:19 PM
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Is 'Mike Nielsen' supposed to be Mike Nelson from 'Mystery Science Theater 3000'? Is 'Wood Harris' supposed to be Woody Harrelson? And Curtis Armstrong.....the name sounds familar, who is he? I`m heading to IMDB... But yeah, word around the campfire is that this movie brings all new meaning to the word "sucks"
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09-08-2007, 08:52 PM
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i have a feeling this is gonna go down as well as hootie and the blowfishs follow up to' cracked rear view'.
but then again its only one fullas review. felt cheated by this film. The premise is interesting, but after sitting through the duration I feel most people will be left unmoved by anything on screen with only thoughts of disappointment, and most likely confusion. The overriding problem with ST is that it never really takes off or develops into much of anything. We meet characters; they say something ‘whacky’ or act in a heavy-handed futuristic way that is supposed to provide social commentary; then we move on. Repeat this process each time we see them. Southland Tales opens with home-video footage of a Texan July 4th party in 2005 where a nuclear bomb goes off. Cut to credit sequence (unfinished in this cut) where a Justin Timberlake voiceover informs the viewer that in the three years that have passed, WWIII has begun and America’s homeland security has tightened to such an extent that visas are required to travel between states. A group of liberal ‘neo-Marxists’ have formed to rebel against ‘USIdent’ – a company created by the republicans as an ultra big-brother-style monitor of the public and the entire internet. Furthermore there is a new kind of energy in the world known as ‘liquid karma’ which uses tidal force to wirelessly power military vehicles allowing them to never need refuelling… and... yet more… only the votes from California will count in the 2008 governmental election. JT’s voiceover continues throughout the film, providing the sparsest of characterisation to our 2D characters and also quoting various biblical verses that are intermittently relevant to the action. Post credits, the film begins and we learn that Boxer Santaros (The Rock) is a famous actor with a heavy political swing for the republicans. He went missing for 3 days and ended up in Nevada (which baffles the powers because of the visa situation) and now he has ended up back in southland California (further baffling the government). Boxer has written a screenplay called ‘The Power’ with his porn star mistress Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar) which prophesizes how the world will end. Next we are introduced to one of the Taverner ‘twins’ both of whom are played by Seann William Scott. It is a pretty cool scene in which he is weirding himself out in front of a bathroom mirror and playing around with a gun – all the while his reflection is about 3 seconds behind him. Upon leaving the bathroom we see his twin lying unconscious on the floor and some neo-Marxists tell Taverner that he needs to impersonate his brother and pretend to be racist cop. Various other characters show up, but the main thrust is that Boxer wants to film himself doing ride-alongs with Taverner as research for a new film role. Knowing this, the neo-Marxists have set it up for him to witness a fake domestic double murder, which they will then use to bribe the Republicans. The set-up goes wrong and Boxer and Taverner witness a real murder. This sequence frustrated me greatly because it should have been so much more. Their escape is filmed using slow-motion steadicam shots whilst Pixies classic ‘Wave of Mutilation’ resonates over the soundtrack. Although visually interesting, the (deliberately?) minimalistic character development leaves the scene feeling flat and tacky instead of the visceral rush that Kelly was no doubt striving for. This happens yet again during the climax of the film, where another prolonged musical montages kicks in – something which a contemporary director such as PT Anderson can pull of with such vigour - yet here I simply felt nothing. This cinematic device, which also worked so well in Darko, should provide a moment where audience and character unite; a song reflecting an eclectic group’s feeling. Unfortunately here the lack of any genuine emotional resonance or dramatic suspense ruined the third act’s catharsis. One gets the distinct impression that after the success of Donnie Darko, Kelly tried to do something far too abstract. The result is a collection of interesting concepts and segments that in no way fit together as a narrative or even an enjoyable experience. Whilst the idea of Justin Timberlake miming The Killers ‘All These Things That I Have Done’ as girls dance around him and he pours Bud over his head sounds fantastic on paper, it has no correlation to anything at 90 minutes through the film and completely fails to pay off. Things like this happen throughout – cars hump each other as part of a commercial; a character of little significance begs The Rock to allow her to felate him in the middle of Venice Beach. If I had read this and knew Kelly was directing I would have looked forward to some funny, peculiar scenes to enjoy discussing afterwards with my friends. Scenes such as ‘Sparkle Motion’ from Darko work. Here they feel out of place and do not. I respect Kelly’s ambition with the film, but at times it feels like a 140-minute student film and whereas Darko was genuinely funny this frequently feels like a Carry On movie with some added sci-fi elements eerily reminiscent of Galaxy Quest (just sadly without any tongue in cheek). A few positives: It is well fairly shot and as always I enjoyed the work of the principals here, in particular Seann William Scott and Justin Timberlake. The repetition of the line “he is a pimp and pimp’s don’t commit suicide” is pretty cool. As is the very last scene. Moby’s score worked well and there is an excellent selection of songs throughout including Blur’s ‘Tender’ as the end credits roll. At present I struggle to see how Southland could even become a cult favourite. I will go see this at the cinema to see it with the FX shots completely rendered, and shall remain slightly hopeful that on a repeat viewing something grows on me. But for the most part I strongly believe that it’s not that I did not ‘get’ the film – there simply is not much of anything to grasp on to, let alone ponder and discuss. Obviously the Darko fanbase will pay to watch the film, but like me I feel they will only be disappointed. It saddens me to say that even after all this time in the editing room, Southland Tales remains a distinctly underwhelming mess.
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09-12-2007, 03:03 AM
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 final poster
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