A Public Service Announcement Concerning "Southland Tales"
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Um, I'm kind of running out of computer time and I've already gotten a lot of the vehemence out of my system, but I have a mission and feel it's very important, so let me just throw this out there really quickly:
Avoid "Southland Tales" like the plague. It's awful. As in, it's "Plan 9 from Outer Space" without the humor or the ironical humor. It's really bad.
Here's what I wrote at another forum to help sum it up:
Honestly one of the worst films ever made. Bad acting, bad story, bad meta, bad satire, beach-party imagery ad-nauseum, endless voice-over narration, no point, no drama, didn't go anywhere, bad soundtrack, extremely annoying in parts, mostly boring in others, bad sci-fi bullshit elements, and a two and a half hour playlength where an hour fifteen would have sufficed. Basically this movie boils down to two themes: California is stupid, and Bush is stupid. OOOO, big deal. I literally spent the entire length of the film waiting for it to go somewhere, only for it to do just the opposite of having a point. I honestly think he was aiming for camp, but mis-aimed and just hit so-bad-it's-bad.
I've even started a tally: 3 people saved from renting "Southland Tales" so far. One who didn't listen to me, only to come back 3 hours later just so that he could agree, because he felt he owed it to me for trying. Believe me, people, see something else instead.
Good day,
--PolarisDiB
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