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DVD : Southland TalesIn association with Amazon.com List Price: $19.94 Amazon.com's Price: $15.99 You Save: $3.95 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Sony EAN: 0043396182837 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 99 Release Date: March 18, 2008 Running Time: 144 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Sales Rank: 7541 MPN: COLD18283D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and David Clark, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!The people who didn't like this movie should stick to the mind-numbing romantic comedies and the seen one seen 'em all action movies that lead you along like a dog. to appreciate this movie you do have to think a little. I love it when a refreshing, original, genre breaking movie like this actually comes out of Hollywood and wish there were more like them. But as you can see by a lot of the movies that receive high ratings on Amazon, at least half the populace does want a predictable, lead-me ... Read More Rating: - Southland Tales - Blu-ray InfoVersion: U.S.A / Sony / Region A, B(?), C(?) MPEG-4 AVC BD-50 / High Profile 4.1 Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 Running time: 2:24:32 Movie size: 35,83 GB Disc size: 44,40 GB Average video bit rate; 26.94 Mbps Dolby TrueHD Audio English 2476 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2476 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps) Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps / Dolby Surround Read More Rating:  - Visually impressive, but incoherentI usually try to begin my reviews with a brief, neutral description of the plot, but in this case I have to make an exception. Pulling a coherent narrative out of this mess would require more effort on my part than writer / director Richard Kelly apparently made to put one in. There are some excellent visuals here and it can be fun to play "spot the recognizable character actor," but I'll be darned if I know what it was about. With so many pointless and inconclusive subplots going on, ... Read More Rating: - the Anti-"Magnolia"No Aimee Mann songs, no tear jerker scenes. It's LA, and it's the end of the world. Huge cast. Epic set-up. Huge budget. Did terrible at the box office, and even now has a growing army of fans. 10 years from now, it'll probably be shown regularly at college campuses at midnight, with people showing up dressed as different characters from the film, and shouting the lines at the screen. It's like that. If you don't like it after 15 minutes, don't bother. If dark satire about how vain and ... Read More Rating: - The Best Movie of 2007This film received such polarizing reviews, which is usually the sign of genius in film. If you were not a fan of Donnie Darko, stop reading here as you will probably hate this film. However, if you appreciate Richard Kelly's genius, he has actually outdone himself in this, his sophomore effort. I won't attempt to explain the plot to you, just read the tag "This is the Way the World Ends", nuff said. There are so many intricate plot threads, obtuse characters, and out there scenarios that it takes a good ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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