I don't believe a word of this post but I'll probably eventually look it up and watch it anyway. I always wanted to like Southland Tales more than I did, I feel like they deserved it even though they fucked up real bad.

>>219278039
did you watch theatrical version?

>>219277422
>Those who have seen it: do you recognise the common criticism that the film is a "sprawling mess"? To me it resembled a Pynchon novel,

Yeah, it's much more successful at capturing the feel of Pynchon that either of the two PTA movies that allege to be adapting him. It is actually funny. It has actual musical sequences. It has actual metaphysics. It has all the stuff PTA was embarrassed to include.

Rocky sucks!

>>219278592
it was on a physical DVD so I guess so

>>219277422
>Robocop without the robot cop.

thats the whole point of Robocop you dunce

>>219278660

eh?

the movies robocop and robocop 2 are set in a satirically depicted near-future world where capitalism is taken to extremes, and feature a robot cop (cyborg, whatever).

if you take away the robot cop what you have is a satirically depicted near-future world... which is highly reminscent of the setting of Southland Tales.

>>219278605
To be fair to Paul Thomas Anderson, Southland Tales is strong evidence that neither the public nor critics are going to be receptive toward films that genuinely capture the feel of Pynchon. Hence his watered-down midwit adaptations.

>>219278892
They weren't back then. I feel like more people would get it now. Probably still not enough to make it a big hit but I don't think it'd bomb as hard as it did back then.

>>219278855
youre dull, huh?

I liked this flick. I never understood the hate. Most of the commentary was that it took itself too seriously and was pretentious. It's got two cars fucking for christ's sake. It's stars mainly comedians. There is nothing pretentious about it.

Ultimately I think it was before it's time. Would fit right at home in today's political landscape.

>>219278639

Was Janeane Garofalo in the version you watched?

I've only seen the Cannes cut, I read about the theatrical version on IMDB and entire characters and connecting scenes were cut out, the latter apparently making the story much harder to follow.

>>219279059
Don't remember her being in it but it's been a while.

Is that a black person?

I remember watching this and it being the absolute worst movie I've ever seen in my life.
What a fucking mess.
I'm not rewatching this. No editing can save it

>>219277422
based, Cannes Cut of Southland Tales is probably my favorite film of the 21st century. Unique, original and funny, nothing else like it. Insane how much Kelly butchered it for its wide American release, he got gaslit by the Cannes reception

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>>219279123

Editing was what ruined it.

Did this movie start the trend of having a mostly silent, kooky, murderous asian woman orbiting the evil boss character?

>>219279361
Bai Ling already played that exact role in The Crow 12 years earlier, probably in other movies too

>>219279102
There is only one (1) African-American character in the movie and he is gunned down quite early on by a corrupt cop in a hilarious scene.

/tv/ has such a shit taste. Like, it's crazy how consistent they are in having such a shit taste. Not even reading the comics can save this turd.

>>219279950
filtered

>>219279361
>Editing was what ruined it.
Nah. It was filmed wired, the dialogue was weird, the scene composition was off, the snap zoom, the color grading, the characters.
The movie felt like a fever dream. Literally brought back flashbacks of me suffering after the MMR vaccine

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It got a lot right about the future