|
| Southland Tales [Blu-ray] | ![Southland Tales [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uk6TtYHiL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Richard Kelly
Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Curtis Armstrong, Joe Campana
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $28.95
Buy New: $19.98
You Save: $8.97 (31%)
New (26) Used (4) Collectible (1) from $17.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  104 reviews
Sales Rank: 15570
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 145
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: COLBR26367
UPC: 043396263673
EAN: 0043396263673
ASIN: B001F7Q4HU
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: ~Disc is in excellent condition. All orders are shipped first business day after receipt of payment. Shipping via USPS.
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/18/2008 Run time: 144 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com
Well, filmmakers should aim high, they say. And Richard Kelly shot the moon on his highly-anticipated follow-up to cult sensation Donnie Darko, which expands the apocalyptic mood of that movie and blows it up tenfold. Set during the election season of 2008, Southland Tales proposes a series of apparently linked events: the reappearance of a vanished movie star (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), now an amnesiac; the bizarre doubling of a policeman (Seann William Scott in two roles); the development of an energy source from ocean waves; and the presence of an Iraq War veteran (Justin Timberlake) who seems to be watching everything, and narrating some of it. Not that the narration helps; even with voice-over (reportedly added after the film's disastrous debut at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival), Southland Tales doesn't come close to making sense, let alone at the minimum level of dangling a carrot to lead the audience along (even Mulholland Drive had a semblance of murder mystery to be solved, or not). The cast is loaded with Saturday Night Live cut-ups, but only Jon Lovitz connects, and in other roles people like Sarah Michelle Gellar, Christopher Lambert, Bai Ling, and John Larroquette are utterly mystifying, by no fault of their own. In some of the musical sequences Kelly gets in stride, but it's easy to create drama in a three-minute music video, and harder to do over two and a half hours. Some top critics rushed to champion the movie, as though flying in the face of philistinism, so feel free to try out this incoherent pastiche for yourself. --Robert Horton
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 99 more reviews...
 Way...way..south January 8, 2009
You can not take style for substance. This film has a bunch of style, and some good points to it, but over all comes together like mating hummingbirds, everythings up in the air, something happens, you not sure what or why, and then poof...it's over.
I would skip this one if I where you.
Quite simply, this sucks December 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If this film is thought-provoking to you, check out THE PORKY'S TRILOGY! That will really blow your mind! This is nothing but a terrible waste of time and money. There is nothing going on in this thing worth thinking about. The cinematography is unimaginative, design is mired in the nineties, editing is functional at best, acting is embarrassing and the script is stupid and pretentious. This is the worst episode of QUANTUM LEAP ever made.
Wait... Donnie Darko is a 5* movie December 27, 2008
I've enjoyed movies likes this before, including Donnie Darko. Including Twin Peaks. The biggest distractions of this movie were (1) the glut of celebrities forgetting to play characters and instead were playing themselves and (2) the boring pace.
One Of The Worst Films Ever Made. December 19, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Seriously, this is a completely incoherent, confused piece of garbage. Badly acted, badly written and badly directed. If your idea of fun is watching The Rock "act" for 2 1/2 hours, then this movie will be right up your alley. You keep thinking it has to get better, has to make sense at some point. But it never does.
 Cult CLassic for those that don't need to 'Get it' December 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read all of the 1 star reviews and most of the people seem fairly intelligent but a bit too serious. I found this movie highly enjoyable. Yes, the suspension bridge of disbelief is swaying like a feather in a hurricane, but who cares. It was all in good fun. It is incredulous that anybody could take this movie as pretentious, it is a COMEDY. Jeez. This is not a comparison to any of these movies, because I think it is quite different from these in many ways but if you eve remotely liked the big lebowski, repo man, idiocracy, fight club (a very funny movie), and yes even DR. STRangelove you might want to give it a chance and remember it isn't trying to make any grand statement. If you're into mainstream comedies starring that fat and unfunny idiot seth rogen, then this might not be for you.
|
|
|
 Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
