Tideland (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

Tideland (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Terry Gilliam

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Director: Terry Gilliam
Brand: THINKFILM LLC
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm

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Movie Review: Tedium Is Not The Same As Art
Summary: 2 Stars

Disclaimer: Lifelong Gilliam fan. And yet, I put the blame for this movie's failure squarely on his head. First off, for what it has to offer, it is much too long. Second, it never seems to figure out what it has to offer. Third, when it realizes this, it resorts to just battering us with ugly stereotypes. Fourth, it wastes the sincere talents of almost everyone involved. Specifically the little girl, despite her awful excuse for a southern accent, has to carry the whole movie and does. Unfortunately, she has to share a lot of screentime with a very unpleasant character who we're supposed to find lovable (I guess) but is just teeth-grittingly grating. In fact, his appearance was the moment I realized I was hating the movie. My only hope was that he (Dickens) would disappear soon - such was not to be. Perhaps this only speaks badly for my own tolerance but there it is.

Jeff Lebowski starts out so strong that it's difficult to believe he agreed to spend 3/4 of the movie as a corpse. A gassy corpse at that. Gilliam can't get enough of that. The part should've gone to somebody not so immediately likable, such as Jim Belushi. As it was, I just kept hoping Lebowski would leap back to life and elevate the movie out of its long slide to sub-mediocrity.

The evil-ish female counterpart was played over-the-top, but well, until the inevitable southern stereotype of the Jesus freak emerges. Somehow it's never enough for Hollywood to have a character be creepy unless they also harbor some sort of Christian fetishism. In some ways this is stressed as the character's most glaring flaw, above and beyond tanning her loved ones and keeping them around for future resurrection.

As an aside I have to beg Hollywood to hire some dialog coaches for southern accents. I know that it doesn't matter outside of fly-over country, but it is truly grating to have to hear hokeyness pass for our true manner of speaking. It would be far better to just forgo the accent than to have it done in a manner that sounds like Ignorance 101. It's funny how many English actresses (and the Scottish actress in No Country) can get this right, whereas Americans have no ear for it at all. Since George Washington is always portrayed as speaking like a 19th century Shakespearean actor, certainly accuracy can't be that important to movies like "Tideland". (Which is supposed to be Texas, according to the book summary, but is never referenced in the movie. Convenient. Got a bunch of sick twisted characters with unbelievable habits? Just throw them in Texas and anything is possible. For once I'd like to see the Vermont Chainsaw Massacre).

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Summary of Tideland (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

A young girl (Jodelle Ferland) lives in a terrifying and gruesome world. When her father (Jeff Bridges) takes her away to a rural farmhouse, she finds herself in a bizarre fantasy world where only her dolls' heads keep her company. When she meets a mentally damaged man and a tall ghost-like woman, the line between her imagination and reality quickly disappears. Tideland is a spine-chilling tale from the visionary mind of acclaimed director Terry Gilliam.

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