Southland (revisited)
Not to be confused with Southland the TV show, which I liked.
Recently, I tried rewatching Southland Tales again. I left the TV even more confused even from the first time I watched it. Grant it, we now live in that slightly crazier world with extremist groups on both sides taking on the government, but it doesn’t make up for the sheer crazy stuff literally floating around the movie.
When your movie ends with the hero and his girlfriends getting killed by a guy on a flying ice cream truck, you’ve lost me. The movie is a mess and not a wonderful mess like The Room or Freddy Got Fingered. It is pretentious and confusing while hiding under being a political satire. It does none of it right and just stumbles on its own ego and greatness. Richard Kelly made this movie as a Donnie Darko on crack. The one thing I did like was the casting of The Rock, but even he looks genuinely confused.
Southland Tales is that douche bag on social media that poses with middle fingers in all his photos and claims he’s deep. Actually, he comes across as annoying. Despite the crazy world we live in today, the movie hasn’t gotten better with age. Sorry.
-Sarah Michelle Gellar looking very good in this flick: Damn.
-Why is Kevin Smith in the thing?
-Yes, pornstars now have their own shows and products: Yes, pornstars now have admitted to raw dogging the President. He called that one.
-The left shifts to Marxism. Again, the director predicted this one too.
-Saturday Night Live reunion: Why are there so many former SNL cast members in this movie? This is not an SNL-backed film either. Kelly really likes SNL actors.
-Janeane Garofalo had most of her scenes cut from the movie, but they’ve been restored in the extended cut. Interestingly enough, most of them involved Kevin Smith,
Yes, a car f's another car.
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