There really is nothing to say here.

It's all 'end' and no 'beginning' or 'middle'. Like watching two non-consecutive episodes of lost whilst drunk and trying to maintain a conversation about something altogether different.

(Cannes cut) Richard Kelly is such a prankster. Or maybe he's like a cat who brings a dead bird to show for the masters. His second feature film Southland Tales is incoherent mess of nonsense. Wardrobe used in the film deserves a special mention, as a worst I have seem in a long time. And he brought that to Cannes, to the most unforgiving audience. I can only guess what he was thinking. Either way, in the end the joke is on him. He messed up his golden ticket.

I liked it and I don't know why. Requires multiple viewings and maybe some reading.

Disappointing. A weird mixture of various video segments that don't fit together cohesively.

Worst casting I've ever seen. Its plot is beyond ridiculous and fails to deliver on what it promises by ending not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Prepostrous, amateurish, incomprehensible, misguided in its political rambling.

The worst thing about Southland Tales is spending over two hours concentrating hard on all the rubbish that's going on, hoping that it'll be worth it in the end. It isn't. You feel sorry for the acting ensemble who play their parts ably but are stuck in this confused Verhoeven/Gilliam rip-off that thinks the old non-linear plot + quirky visuals + ill-fitting soundtrack = good film. It doesn't. The narration is waay overdone too. Richard Kelly is an overrated hack.

wtf really this movie hurt my head it was ridiculous

Mind-numbingly incoherent, the horrible writing lays waste to some cool potential ideas.

Laughable

"Southland Tales" is a colorful assembly of so many things, that on a first viewing, I felt as most of the critics who reviewed the film did. I was confused, I was angry, I was bored, I felt cheated, and I hated it with a passion. But I refused to believe that there was nothing there. I knew there had to be 'something' there. And on multiple views, more and more became clear; and I began to realize the power in Kelly's concoction.

Is it a comedy? Is it a conspiracy theory? Is it science fiction? Is it a musical? Is it a pornographic sit-com? Is it political satire? It's all of them, it's everything, it's nothing. It's logic lies in it's irrationality, it's meaning lies in it's meaninglessness.It's not a movie, it's an experience. And a unique one too. With no question, one of the most original films of the decade.

Sorry, Bing, but it's just a faux-Lynchian mess.

Ummmmm I really don't know what to write here. I think maybe the moral of the story is intricate, dystopian, sci-fi setup doesn't really mesh with tacked on overly weird, wanna be Lynchian film making, I think?

This film was odd from start to finish, not the kind of odd that one could embrace either, it had no logic and made no sense at all.

I spent a week working on my own cut of this film, trying to save it from its creator. Richard Kelly, you are shit.

43.000

Yes it's a mess, but it is more original than most movies I've seen. Kelly seems to have a gift for that as both The Box and Donnie Darko seemed to be the same way. Not the best acting I've seen, but the characters do manage to make the film funny. I think Kelly executed the setting well. Definitely the kind of movie I'd expect only Richard Kelly to attempt, and IMO for the most part it works.

Yes, it's mostly incoherent and random and way too pretentious for its own good, but... I still enjoyed myself. I can completely understand people hating this, but when the movie starts out with amnesia and Marxists and dystopian government control and ends with flying ice-cream trucks, glowing handshakes and time travel I can't help but grin and enjoy the ride.

I can see people not getting it, and then going and blaming the director. Oh well. I guess that's why Pauley Shore makes movies.

"Wow, this may be one of the worst instances of sophomore slump I've ever seen. After the brilliant Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly seems to have been overrun with over-confidence, a huge budget, a mass of scattershot ideas, an endless line of celebrities and cult personalities, and a complete lack of discipline or vision... There is no satire or wit, and all the one-liners, again, feel like writers and celebrities having fun pretending to be something kooky, without being actually funny."

What is this I don't even