Southland Tales is one of the best movies. It's a mind fuck for sure though. The cheesy lines are there not because of poor directing... they are there because that is how the movie is supposed to feel. First movie written and directed by the guy since he did Donnie Darko. Definitely a mind fuck but very entertaining and has a shit ton of symbolism and meaning.
if you say so, it was just an incoherent mess of a film to me. I loved Donnie Darko so I wanted to love this but couldn't. It's not that the concept was lost on me, the dialogue the style I get was on purpose but to what purpose the story itself made no sense. It was trying so hard to be unique and different it seemed to have forgot the point of the story.