Haven't seen Southland Tales, but the plot and cast are interesting and music by Moby sounds promising. Thanks for the heads up.

I saw this movie last night -- it was the worst movie I've seen in a long, long time. I would have walked out of the theater halfway through for the first time ever, had I not been there with friends. And having seen the second half, I can say from experience that I would not have been worse off for it.

This is a dreadful movie. The script is bewildering, manipulative, arbitrary, and lame-brained. The characters are thinly sketched and poorly acted across the board. Two key performances, played by the ever-wooden James Marsden (Cyclops from the X-Men films) and child actor Sam Oz Stone deserve special mention. They could be out-acted by a creamsicle.

I took it for granted that at least the film would feature superb atmosphere -- not so, movie whores! The cinematography was dull and the score was third-rate horror movie stuff with dissonant strings stolen directly from Iannis Xenakis.

Everything about this film sucked, but most of all the script is a nightmarish piece of incoherent and self-indulgent solipsistic twaddle loaded with amateurish pseudo-profound references to Sartre. Please. It had the structure of the mystery, but as the films secrets were revealed it was just a bunch of arbitrary bullshit he made up.

"Donne Darko" is on my short list of all-time favorites, but this movie is an abomination that should be cast into the sea.

The only thing I can say in its defense is that at least it wasn't morally reprehensible.