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Inland Empire fans - please forgive me.
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006)
I'm not sure what it is about Richard Kelly which makes him still fight the system and still put out movies, but I'm actually glad he does. This film, one of the most ridiculous pieces of crap the other side of Inland Empire, is at least blatant in its few attempts to connect with its audience. No matter how idiotic I believe the film is, I can still accept that somebody would like it and try to defend it in some way. It's truly amazing when you start watching a film, and after five minutes, you already believe that you are two plus hours behind what's happening! Even if this film has some humor and is completely wacko, it doesn't mean that most people want to follow along. I followed along twice, yet it still didn't make REAL sense at all.
I'm not really a big fan of this movie. Sure, plenty of things happen, but most of them make no sense (how about the Justin Timberlake character?), yet when the film winds down, I was laughing a little bit. It's true that I find writer/director Kelly to be a lost soul along the current lines of David Lynch, but that's not really even fair. Lynch's Inland Empire, a movie which is as hard to sell as any I've ever seen, was able to "earn" $849,000 in the U.S, and I find that incredibly difficult to believe. Even so, the perhaps-better, but still hard-to-accept Southland Tales earned $273,000 at the U.S. box office. Sorry, but this should be enough to explain why certain films will never be accepted, and hell, no, I don't accept Inland Empire because it sucked away almost an entire day of my life (each time I viewed it), and gave me almost nothing in return
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2006)
I'm not sure what it is about Richard Kelly which makes him still fight the system and still put out movies, but I'm actually glad he does. This film, one of the most ridiculous pieces of crap the other side of Inland Empire, is at least blatant in its few attempts to connect with its audience. No matter how idiotic I believe the film is, I can still accept that somebody would like it and try to defend it in some way. It's truly amazing when you start watching a film, and after five minutes, you already believe that you are two plus hours behind what's happening! Even if this film has some humor and is completely wacko, it doesn't mean that most people want to follow along. I followed along twice, yet it still didn't make REAL sense at all.
I'm not really a big fan of this movie. Sure, plenty of things happen, but most of them make no sense (how about the Justin Timberlake character?), yet when the film winds down, I was laughing a little bit. It's true that I find writer/director Kelly to be a lost soul along the current lines of David Lynch, but that's not really even fair. Lynch's Inland Empire, a movie which is as hard to sell as any I've ever seen, was able to "earn" $849,000 in the U.S, and I find that incredibly difficult to believe. Even so, the perhaps-better, but still hard-to-accept Southland Tales earned $273,000 at the U.S. box office. Sorry, but this should be enough to explain why certain films will never be accepted, and hell, no, I don't accept Inland Empire because it sucked away almost an entire day of my life (each time I viewed it), and gave me almost nothing in return