The title tells it all really.
I’m been secretly looking forward to Southland Tales because of how much I enjoyed Richard Kelly’s unique voice in the industry after his Donnie Darko movie, which has somehow ended up with this meteoric cult status. I mean it’s a pretty fun movie but there’s so many other low budget independent movies that are released every year that is just as good as that one but still I enjoyed it.
I know one good friend of mine absolutely hates Darko. He can’t get over how the movie ends and his want for a nice resolution to tie up all the loose threads, frustrates him. He finds the movie pointless and where I agree the ending seems a little weak (actually, it’s a lack of ending because I’m not sure Kelly could think of one!), it was a genius conclusion to start a cult craze.
So the trailer for Southland Tales is finally released and now it’s me that’s irritated. I’m frustrated because I don’t know what the hell is going on. The only thing that I understand is that The Rock is cool… and I wanna see more of him… and if The Rock’s cool then maybe Southland Tales is cool too.
What was I saying about Kelly and his unique voice. Maybe it has got the better of him this time.
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Wow…this trailer didn’t really make a whole lotta sense. In one sense, it sounded like the end of the world, a las doomsday, was coming…and then in the other sense, the music evoked a happy feel to it that like the end of the world seemed cool in a way… and then just the sake of inserting all these semi-familiar B-actorsthe rock, sean williams scott, cheri oteri, jon lovitz, smg)into the movie…was just SOOO uber COOL….just because it is. I didn’t really get a sense of the story there…it just seemed like kelly was trying to make a movie that had as much action and political satire as possible, so he could draw in the action moviegoers and the people who are politically interested and irritable. ya know? i thought the song choice was pretty bad…didn’t mix with the theme of the movie when im thinking “this is how the world ends” and cops and shootouts going on….
Hopefully Richard Kelly surprises us with the final movie. Unfortunately, im already hooked so there’s no stopping me from seeing it unless something in the near future REALLY turns me off from seeing it.