Besides Mori, some French site posted it yesterday, and I'm sure a gazillions of blog mirrored it, hence the lack of "wow" factor I suppose. And by saying that I'm not jumping in the bandwagon of AICN-late-for-trailers bashers. I'm just saying that maybe, MAYBE the lack of early comments has nothing to do with the trailer itself. Maybe.

Oh, and the critics sharpening their knives "as they so often do"... yes that sucks, but I'm pretty sure that's what happened right here with Rob Zombie's "Halloween". And I'm not dissing you either (Zombie's flick sucked real hard) but you should know this kind of behaviour is shown even by the better of them critics^^

As for Southland Tales, severely or lightly flawed, I predict a cult following this flick as much as with Fight Club. I hope it's as good as Fincher's film. I just hope its followers won't be composed at 98.9% of 16 years old "rebels" girls wearing Che T-shirts. For a change.

Mogmar speaks for all of us, man.

I, for one, am happy to see Seann William Scott back with Dwayne since THE RUNDOWN, which was a great movie. This looks like a blast, and I'll be sure to check out the graphic novels in advance.

El Paso and Abilene, Texas have fallen victim to twin nuclear attacks on July 4th, 2005 – a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions which sent America into war. The Patriot Act has been upgraded to a new agency known as USIdent, which keeps constant tabs on citizens – even to the extent of censoring the internet and using fingerprints in order to access computers and bank accounts. In order to be able to respond to a newfound fuel scarcity, the German company Treer designs a generator of inexhaustible energy which is propelled by ocean currents. Unbeknownst to them, the generators alter the currents and cause the Earth to to spiral out of control through space, ripping holes in the fabric of space and time.

In Los Angeles, a city on the brink of chaos, we follow the criss-crossed destinies of Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), an action film actor stricken with amnesia; Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), ex-porn star in the midst of reconverting; and twin brothers Roland and Ronald Taverner (both played by Seann William Scott), whose destinies – on one evening – become intertwined with that of all mankind.

end of summary...now Mori, with the plot revealed, at least the core of it, what do you think? And I'm being serious here. no bashing or setting you up for bashing. I personally think this is a complete snoozer.

Writer-director Richard Kelly wrote Southland Tales shortly before the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the original script involved blackmail, a porn star, and two cops. Since the attacks, Kelly revised the script. He described the update, "[The original script] was more about making fun of Hollywood. But now it's about, I hope, creating a piece of science fiction that's about a really important problem we're facing, about civil liberties and homeland security and needing to sustain both those things and balance them."[2]

Southland Tales was described to take place in Los Angeles in the summer of 2008, during a three-day heat wave that leads up to the 4th of July celebration. Kelly described the film, "[Southland Tales] will only be a musical in a post-modern sense of the word in that it is a hybrid of several genres. There will be some dancing and singing, but it will be incorporated into the story in very logical scenarios as well as fantasy dream environments."[3] Kelly has stated that the film's biggest influences are Kiss Me Deadly, Pulp Fiction, Brazil and Dr. Strangelove. He also calls it a "strange hybrid of the sensibilities of Andy Warhol and Philip K. Dick".[4]

In March 2004, Kelly and Cherry Road Films began development of Southland Tales. Filmmakers entered negotiations with actors Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Lee, Janeane Garofalo, Tim Blake Nelson, Amy Poehler, Kevin Smith, and Ali Larter to be cast into the film. Filmmakers also contacted musician Moby for the possibility of composing and performing the film's score.[3]

Filming was slated to begin in July 2004, but after a year, filming had not begun on Southland Tales. Actor Dwayne Johnson joined the cast in April 2005, and principal photography was slated to begin August 1, 2005 in Los Angeles.[5] Filming for Southland Tales began on August 15, 2005, with a budget of around US$15–17 million.

Southland Tales premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2006 with a length of 160 minutes.[6] After the film's festival release, Southland Tales was purchased by Sony Pictures.[7] Kelly sought more financing to finish visual effects for the film, and he negotiated a deal with Sony to cut down on the film's length in exchange for funds to complete the visual effects.[8] Kelly edited the film down to the basic storylines of the characters portrayed by Scott, Gellar, and Johnson. The director also sought to keep the musical number performed by Timberlake, based on "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers.[2] Editorial changes were made to restructure the order of the film's scenes, including re-recording all of Timberlake's voice-over. The director also added 90 new visual effects shots to the film and removed 20 to 25 minutes of footage from his initial cut.

I'm personally just becoming bored with seeing Brad Pitts and Tom Cruises who are so overexposed that it's hard to take them seriously as actors. I'm dying to see the new Jesse James movie, but whenever I watch the preview all I see is Brad Pitt playing cowboy..I hope it turns out different.

I think it's awesome to see this random mishmash cast where there's no real 'standout' star using it as a vehicle. Yeah, It annoyed me when I heard people bitching about the cast, because seriously..who the fuck else would they prefer? Do these people not have the right to play roles different than what you've seen them in before simply because you didn't like it?

For the record, I've never been to film school, and I don't pretend to know it all. God knows where you're getting that bullshit from.

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