Topic: Southland Tales

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Re: Southland Tales

I saw it a few years ago when it first came out on DVD and had such low expectations that I rather enjoyed it.

It's fun for what it is.

3 (edited by Squiggly_P 2011-08-15 16:17:34)

Re: Southland Tales

I enjoyed watching it. I thought the casting was great, and that Sean William Scott was amazingly good. I thought the Rock did OK as well. It was nice to see both of them acting so far outside their typecast norm. The only casting I hated was Cheri Oteri, because Cheri Oteri.

I honestly can't remember the plot(s), aside from the Sean Scott + The Rock relationship and how there are two Sean Scotts running around. The rest of the movie is fuzzy, and it feels like the weird time paradox/vortex plot only really takes up like 10% of the movie. It feels like there's 90% of movie there that's trying to do something besides tell a story. I guess Donnie Darko was the same way. I don't really 'like' either of the two flicks, tho they are kinda interestingly shot and acted.

Does "The Box" have the same sort of weirdness going on? I avoided it because of Richard Kelly's prior inability to make a film that makes much sense.

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