Southland Tales - WTF

[lynsangelic1]

I've just watched Southland Tales because I was cold, tired and in need of a lie down so I thought that meant I'd be suitably clear headed and focused on it.

Didn't make a bit of fucking difference.

I have seen a lot of weird stuff in my time.  A lot more crazy ridiculous wanky wank art is done in theatre than on film and I've seen too much that I don't usually get that arsed when a film goes in that direction.

Let me also say, I'd been looking forward to it.  It sounded interesting, I always like to catch up with the Buffy alumni (except Bones. I point blank refuse.  That shit is retarded.) and I thought Darko was quite a film.

I got what was happening and the more I think about it now I can vaguely track the through line of the story.  But alot of it was quite pointless.  It was well shot, art direction was lovely but I felt let down that such grand concepts (apocalypse, souls, dimension, warfare) were so scrappily dealt with.

It's terrible to say that my favourite part was SMG dancing with slow dancing Mandy Moore, isn't it?  I don't even particulary fancy either of them but I do believe Kelly was thinking "Shit, it's been two hours.  I've had too many shots of the Rock with his shirt off.  Right, I'll jam in a nice well lit visual scene with two lovely ladies dancing.  That'll wake that chick from Scotland up long enough so that she sees the ending."

I will usually give a fucked up film like this until the credits to explain itself or to do something so it doesn't need to.  But as soon as that first end title was up, I was WTF-ing all over the place.  I can't quite remember the name of the last film that did that to me, but I know the one before it was Anchorman.  I don't generally respond well to that kind of crap.

But Southland Tales is the kind of film that makes me think that if I didn't like it then I must be the stupid, uncultured one.  It's not the films fault, it's mine.

*reaches for dunces cap*

Comments

[awe-some-ness.livejournal.com]

Hey.
Just needed to say that I love your icons.

Did you make or take?

I'm Cassie btw, how's your day?

[lynsangelic1.livejournal.com]

My day's not been too shabby, thank you.

I cannot make, therefore I take. I do the best I can to give credit.

Your icon's pretty hot as well, but Bette is love. You an L Word fan?

[awe-some-ness.livejournal.com]

I would be if I ever got round to watching it, nope this be an image from the net that I thought was nice :) didn't know it was from anything in particularr.

Yeahhh, I looked into your icons after I posted the comment and saw, some good ones in there :)

[lynsangelic1.livejournal.com]

Ah, I just assumed you liked TLW cause my icon on that post was from there. Bette is lovely. If you thought that was hot, then that's pretty much all you need to know to get you through The L Word.

I've got more good icons saved to my hard drive but I need to go on a ruthless icon cull to make space. I just don't have the heart (or can be arsed paying for extra storage).

So, if you don't mind me asking, how'd you stumble upon my humble journal?

[awe-some-ness.livejournal.com]

Oh right, nope I just thought it was hot XD
I do need to watch it sometime. Haven't seen adverts for it on the TV in aggeesss.

I think I got to you from miniluv68's journal? Mayybbee.
I'm not entirely sure where if it's not that XD

[zee014.livejournal.com]

I don't really know what you're talking about. Mostly because I've never seen what you're talking about. BUT, I just recently watched Because I Said So, which had Mandy Moore in it, and I totally had a tiny crush on her after watching it.

So, no, it's not wrong to like something that has something to do with Mandy Moore. I liked her enough to get a crush on her for about 5 minutes. I'm not ashamed of it. It's totally cool.

[lynsangelic1.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I have your support, lol. Haven't heard of that film but if it's crappy, soppy rubbish I'll probably check it out. y'know, just so that I too can have the 5min crush.

I think I was mostly ashamed cause I thought she was a bit rubbish. But both of them slow dancing... the lighting... Was pretty hot.