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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396263673
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Running Time: 145 minutes
Sales Rank: 18378
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Editorial Review:
Album Description:
From the Writer/Director of Donnie Darko comes this epic story starring Dwayne ('The Rock') Johnson, Seann William Scott and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Los Angeles stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster.
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
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Way...way..south
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.
Rating: - Quite simply, this sucks
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.
Rating: - Wait... Donnie Darko is a 5* movie
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.
Rating: - One Of The Worst Films Ever Made.
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.
Rating:  - Cult CLassic for those that don't need to 'Get it'
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 ... Read More
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