tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post2437228359858822259..comments2024-03-03T13:02:17.380-05:00Comments on Listen Eggroll: Skandies: #14md'ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06055853987416332662noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-60490628089241605062008-02-04T23:22:00.000-05:002008-02-04T23:22:00.000-05:00Nobody should ever ask Del Rio to sing a song in a...Nobody should ever ask Del Rio to sing a song in a movie ever again. She topped out the first time. <BR/><BR/>I gave Timberlake some points, since he was the only actor in the film who maintained the outward appearance of an actual human being instead of some inbred pseudo-futuristic assclown. Plus, his character's exhaustion struck me as both intra- and extra-diegetic, like he was the only one who understood the futility he was up against.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-39662295904150532142008-02-04T11:32:00.000-05:002008-02-04T11:32:00.000-05:00I gave Southland points in Picture/Director/Actor/...I gave Southland points in Picture/Director/Actor/Screenplay, but giving this particular scene points seemed completely absurd to me. It's not even the best musical sequence in the film (that would be either Rebekah Del Rio's Star-Spangled Banner rendition or that Moby-scored roundelay between Mandy Moore and Sarah Michelle Gellar). <BR/><BR/>I will chalk its success up to exterior affection for either Timberlake or The Killers' song.Jeremy Heilmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11025198716777000854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-30663820092424492892008-02-04T05:33:00.000-05:002008-02-04T05:33:00.000-05:00I thought there were a couple of other scenes in S...I thought there were a couple of other scenes in SOUTHLAND TALES that were tolerable in exactly the same way -- as a decontextualized music video (e.g. the all-strings performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner").<BR/><BR/>I short-listed the Justin Timberlake scene for Best Scene, a beneficiary of my annual ritual of going through my "con/CON" films and try my darndest to include as many elements as possible from films I didn't like overall. There certainly wasn't a scene this year that was so much better than the rest of the film surrounding it. (It eventually dropped off at about #16 or #18 ... I shuck back my short lists until they're down to 10.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-44757073994253232132008-02-03T23:28:00.000-05:002008-02-03T23:28:00.000-05:00Does craft count for nothing anymore? This would b...Does craft count for nothing anymore? This would be a substandard music video... but it's even more depressing in terms of cinema. As Clara Peller would say, "Where's the mise en scene?"<BR/><BR/>Plus, this scene is basically a dilution of the "Just Dropped in to See What Condition My Condition Was In" scene from THE DUDE ABIDES.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-12565006183937127132008-02-03T22:46:00.000-05:002008-02-03T22:46:00.000-05:00I believe for some people the brief reprieve from ...I believe for some people the brief reprieve from the pain it provided made it one of the year's best scenes.md'ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06055853987416332662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8838733.post-1042070900141830832008-02-03T22:13:00.000-05:002008-02-03T22:13:00.000-05:00Maybe it works better in context, but if that's th...Maybe it works better in context, but if that's the consensus best scene in <I>Southland Tales</I>, I can't even imagine what a shitstorm the rest of it must be.Matt Nollerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09103247767411374713noreply@blogger.com