Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.

Okay. First off, here we go:

Here’s the trailer for Richard Kelly’s “Southland Tales,” starring Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Mandy Moore, Justin Timberlake and Kevin Smith.

Matt McDaniel
Yahoo! Movies

I noticed something odd about the e-mails today. Normally, when a highly-anticipated geek movie trailer appears online, we’ll get about 50 to 100 e-mails telling us that it’s appeared online. And I’m not complaining. I appreciate every single person who takes it upon themselves to send us a heads up on anything. That’s the way this all works. But normally, when that happens, each of those people will chime in with their opinion. And not even for publication. Just because they have an opinion, and they want to share it.

We got the same number of e-mails today, but there was something strange about the complete lack of opinion in every single e-mail we were sent. Not good. Not bad. Just... nothing. The link to the trailer. That’s it. Over and over, like everyone was nervous about offering up their opinion first.

I think it’s a fascinating trailer. Kevin Smith’s appearance alone has me ready to fork over my $10. It’s got some great striking imagery. I have no idea what the fuck it’s about, but if I had the whole thing figured out from a 2 minute trailer, I think I’d actually be a little let down.

I hope Kelly pulls this one out. I think that would be a great ending to the story for this particular movie. He took such a public beating on this at Cannes, and I think the movie press has been waiting for this one ever since, sharpening their knives as they so often do, ready to kick the shit out of it. I think it’d be great fun if the work that Kelly’s done since Cannes has transformed the film, and suddenly people would have to decide for themselves if they liked it or not.

I’ve watched this trailer about four or five times today, and no matter how the final film is, I’m intrigued, so the trailer has absolutely done its job for now. After all this time, as a first glimpse, I felt like this worked.

Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles