Eye Candy #60 - "Southland Tales"

Southland Tales: Wildly excessive, nonsensical, unabsorbing, unengrossing, and most importantly, unentertaining. Yet another failed dystopian future vision committed to film (like "Johnny Mnemonic", except worse and with more profanity), with some of the most bizarre casting-against-type in the last 5 years, "Southland Tales" is nothing if not extremely disappointing. Supposedly an indictment on the state of post 9/11 civil liberties, I couldn't glean that from the film, even going in knowing that to be the case. It plays more like a giant Hollywood in-joke, and the audience isn't party to what that is. I'm not going to bother explaining the plot. Why? Because it's obvious the plot wasn't important to the director, the cast, or crew, so why should I? Hey, Rock? I know you want to expand your "range", this isn't how you do it. All you former cast members from SNL, MadTV, and the like? What, do you all share the same agent, show up at the same casting call? Oh, and another thing - for a movie that can't end soon enough, it goes on FOREVER. This is night and day compared to director Richard Kelly's previous effort "Donnie Darko", which was brilliant. Nothing redeeming about this film except it has "Wave of Mutilation" on the soundtrack. Woodchuck sez, "Avoid upon pain of death."