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Post by Sir Edmund on Sept 21, 2007 8:44:10 GMT 9.5
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Post by ladygiry on Sept 21, 2007 9:50:24 GMT 9.5
Uhhhh...I don't think I like this. Too wacko for me.
And, if I get this correctly, from the trailer and the poster and the credits it looks as if she's playing the bitchy wife of a senator who's running for president. Which sounds like a total rip off of The Manchurian Candidate to me, minus the brainwashing and plus a bunch of crazy futuristic stuff.
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Post by Lane of Magic on Sept 21, 2007 9:56:19 GMT 9.5
It actually sounded rather good to me and I'm definitely more interested into seeing this film! The part of the trailer with the world not ending with a whimper but a bang ironically reminded me of a certain drabble in the Fan Work section - have these people been browsing this forum for inspiration?!
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Post by Clive on Sept 21, 2007 11:26:38 GMT 9.5
Excellent, thanks! I'm currently downloading the 1080p version to get some hi-res pics!
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Post by avalon on Sept 21, 2007 15:42:33 GMT 9.5
Some more info here:
Trailer Mix 9/20/073:53 PM
‘Southland Tales’ Trailer Presents World's Greatest Cast in World's Weirdest Movie The Rock, scared of Sean William Scott, in Southland Tales' trailer. Courtesy of Samuel Goldwyn Pictures.
The Tagline: "This is how the world ends: not with a whimper but a bang."
The Translation: Did we just hallucinate that whole thing?
The Verdict: Mocked mercilessly at Cannes over a year ago, re-cut, and finally picked up for distribution this year, Richard Kelly's follow-up to Donnie Darko boasts one of the all-time great WTF casts in the history of cinema. Sarah Michelle Gellar, The Rock, and Sean William Scott claim pride of place in this totally whacked-out trailer, but we also get glimpses of Miranda Richardson, Amy Poehler, Mandy Moore, a heavily made-up Wallace Freaking Shawn, the Fug Girls' patron saint Bai Ling, and Justin Timberlake with a gross scar on his face. We have no idea what this movie is about, but we do know that the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game just got a hell of a lot easier. Will we actually go see it? Maybe, or maybe we'll eat some bad oysters and watch our dreams instead.
Source imdbpro: Southland Tales (2006)
Role:Miranda Richardson ... Nana Mae Van Adler-Frost Plot Summary Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros(Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now(Sarah Michelle Gellar), an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner(Seann William Scott), a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama, dystopia science fiction, and music. In the year 2005, a nuclear attack wipes out part of the state of Texas, and three years later America is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives, supposedly for their own good. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. A Marxist underground based on the West Coast is determined to bring down the federal government through violent revolution. In this midst of this chaos, we follow a number of stories that continually return to three principle characters. Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock) is an actor famous for his role in action films; he's trying to secure financing for a new project, but reality keeps mirroring the events in his script and he struggles to hold on to his identity following a bout with amnesia. Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is a porn star who is reinventing herself as a television pundit offering her views on politics, contemporary culture, and teenage sex. And Roland Taverner (Seann William Scott) is an L.A. police officer whose identity has mysteriously split in two and he struggles to track down his other half.
Taglines
Have A Nice Apocalypse This is the way the world ends. Warning: you are entering a domain of chaos. The Internet is the Future. The Future is Just Like You Imagined. The Future Is Just Like You Imagined Written by: The GuyInThePj's
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Sept 22, 2007 13:09:46 GMT 9.5
Ohhh, this looks fabulous. Very Hollywood, from the cast they decided to mention in the trailer - looks like they got laughed at at Cannes so decided to go more commercial - but I don't think I mind. I LOVE good sci fi, and I can't wait to see Miranda IN good scifi.
And omg her character looks like a futuristic version of Rita, nails and all. *is in love*.
Ladygiry, where did you get senator's wife from this? Just curious, because I don't even get a hint of that in the trailer (she looks like she's running the show) - is there text anywhere to suggest it?
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Post by EarlyBird on Sept 22, 2007 21:06:31 GMT 9.5
we really need to check before we post I posted this first the otherday:(and mine got less comments:(
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Post by ladygiry on Sept 22, 2007 21:36:18 GMT 9.5
Ladygiry, where did you get senator's wife from this? Just curious, because I don't even get a hint of that in the trailer (she looks like she's running the show) - is there text anywhere to suggest it? I think I saw it on the credits on IMDB or somewhere and on the poster you can see a sign that says "Eliot Frost '08." Which looks like her husband is a politician running for the presidency or something.
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Post by EarlyBird on Sept 22, 2007 21:39:04 GMT 9.5
Yeah I found on the crdits senator or however you spell it frost, but she seems more in charge woo hehe
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Post by ladygiry on Sept 22, 2007 21:45:35 GMT 9.5
Oh, she definitely seems to be the power behind him, which is what reminds me of TMC. Oh well. Ideas are always recycled.
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Post by EarlyBird on Sept 22, 2007 22:09:39 GMT 9.5
:DI dunno if I'll like the whole thing kind of mixed feelings about this film. But the bits where she is in will be good no doubt:)
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Sept 23, 2007 14:29:36 GMT 9.5
The other cast and the way they've chosen to advertise it makes me a bit sad. I mean, SMG and Many Moore really aren't bad actresses, but the 'and' in a credit is usually reserved for the really respected name who has a smaller part in the film. Justin Timberlake gets that honour in the trailer, and not Miranda? lol, um, what.
But anyway. Marketing aside, I'll reserve judgement until I actually see the film. Who knows, if they've edited it a lot, maybe if it's successful they'll release a Director's cut version or something on DVD, with the original that was aired at Cannes.
I wonder what the differences are. I suspect when they took it to Cannes it was more 'intelligent', and now that they've decided to market it as a blockbuster it's more 'action based'. That could be a good thing or a bad thing, I suppose. If the stuff they cut was pretentious twaddle, then yay. If all semblance of the original plot is gone and there are lots of explosions instead, then woe.
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Post by electrostrike on Sept 23, 2007 20:10:46 GMT 9.5
i have to admit, the casting is kinda crazy
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Post by avalon on Sept 24, 2007 15:48:07 GMT 9.5
Do agree!!!!!!!!
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Post by Libitine on Sept 24, 2007 19:14:37 GMT 9.5
i know, weird right? i have to say, though, as much as i love Miranda, she isn't big in my US of A, because she is more of an English film star. so if people see her name in the trailer, only some will know who she is, but EVERYBODY knows JT. I dunno . . . that might be why. she does look like she has a big part, popularity aside.
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