Southland Tales/YMMV


 * Big Lipped Alligator Moment: Lots.
 * Most notably a scene with a Japanese Prime Minister agreeing to have a pinky cut off for the energy source... only to have his entire hand cut off.
 * Also, the somehow live-action Disney Acid Sequence where J-Tims lip synchs to "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers, as latex-wearing nurses dance 40s-style at him. It's a dream that Abilene is projecting into Taverner's head, and is a callback to the graphic novel, which reveals that just before, Abilene listened to "All of These Things That I've Done" when he borrowed 's iPod on the helicopter.
 * That insanely weird car commercial featuring automobile sex.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome:
 * Elbow's "Forget Myself" in the trailer, sadly not making an appearance in the movie itself.
 * The music Moby composed for this film is up there with his best work.
 * Designated Hero: Boxer Santaros, Martin, and the Taverners are the only good guys. All others are just comic representations of political party stereotypes (i.e. Neo-Marxists are hyperbolic Liberals, and USIdent and the government are exaggerated Republicans).
 * Ear Worm:
 * The song "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers ("I got soul, but I'm not a soldier")
 * Gellar's Britney Spears pastiche, "Teen Horniness Is Not A Crime".
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Jon Lovitz was just mesmerizing in his cameo.
 * Esoteric Happy Ending:.
 * Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: May very well be a valid interpretation of the film. Or maybe just The Rock is Jesus. Who knows?
 * Narm: Quite a bit in this film.
 * Boxer's nervous tic that looks like him imitating a paranoid squirrel.
 * "I am a pimp, and pimps don't commit suicide" was ridiculous enough the first times it was used,.
 * A delusional woman, believing she's a character in Boxer's script, jumps a confused Boxer and delivers her character's exposition and cryptic clues to him. Then she puts a gun to her head and announces she'll kill herself if she can't give Boxer a blowjob.
 * Nightmare Fuel: Lots, but especially Jon Lovitz.
 * Squick: There's an animation of two SUVs having sex. And you get to see it in detail. Three times.
 * True Art Is Incomprehensible: Seems to be the general feeling of the film's (tiny) fanbase. As this movie is completely incomprehensible even from the first minute, if you follow this rule, "Southland Tales" is the greatest piece of art ever made!
 * True Art Is Incomprehensible: Seems to be the general feeling of the film's (tiny) fanbase. As this movie is completely incomprehensible even from the first minute, if you follow this rule, "Southland Tales" is the greatest piece of art ever made!