I read this article on my way home from work on Friday. Those of you not based on London, wouldn’t have had the chance to read the article, so I was desperate to write about it.
When reading my paper to or from work, I rarely read articles all the way through. This article was different though. It was such a delightful and articulate mauling of the ‘Worst Movie Ever Made’ that I just had to read it from start to finish!
Essentially it says that the new movie (starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Justin Timberlake, Sean William Scott, and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson) is rather diabolical, but charts its directors attempts to remedy the situation.
They chart the saga of ‘Donnie Darko’ director, Richard Kelly, and the movie getting laughed out of Cannes, up to where the film is now.
They end up saying that despite the long-winded and rather valiant three years or so trying to fix the movie, they still hate it!
TheLondonPaper (aka my new best friends) rip the film new one here.
Hilarious (if mixed) reviews, such as this, can be found here.
Spending $12 and 2½ hours (30 minutes less than the Cannes cut) on something as aggressively bad as Southland Tales is not something I can recommend with a clear conscience.
The trailer, and examples of a script with gems like ‘Scientists are saying the future is going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted’ is shown below.
March 31, 2008 at 9:48 pm
For anyone to associate any possible positivity to this absolute colon blow of a movie is insane. This is the worst movie of all time and will be forever disappointed with anyone associated with its making. I would have preferred to have stuck a red hot needle in my pupil and slammed my face repeatedly into a slab of concrete, then to have seen this movie. All movie making is a form of artistic design and expression but some stuff is best kept to ones self.
March 31, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Will DeShazer – Welcome and thank you for commenting
Crikey don’t hold back
Here! Here! Have not seen it, but it looks appauling.
TheLostGirl
April 20, 2008 at 11:14 pm
worst piece of shit movie followed by the constant gardener.
sorry about the loss of time in your life if you watched it.
If you haven’t for god’s sake don’t do it take the hour and a half to do something like vacuum the corner cracks around the house ,that will be far more satisfying in the end.
this is the black plague.. run from it.
April 20, 2008 at 11:22 pm
jasper – Welcome and thank you for commenting
Haven’t and won’t ta
ROTFLMAO
TheLostGirl
June 2, 2008 at 6:00 pm
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