10 Awesome Movie Scenes Trapped In Awful Movies

After the bold, inventive and brilliant Donnie Darko hit screens in 2001, director Richard Kelly instantly became one of the hottest filmmakers in Hollywood. All eyes were on his followup project to see if he could strike gold once again, but 2007's Southland Tales - while still bold and inventive - was far from brilliant.

Kelly is an ambitious filmmaker, but this movie clearly got away from him: a mish-mash of ideas and tones, it's not clear what he's going for or what he's trying to say. Even Justin Timberlake, who starred in the thing, admitted that he didn't know what it was about. At one point, it even turns into a musical with a totally bizarre song and dance sequence, and while it feels silly when positioned next to the rest of the film, it's an expertly-produced music video if viewed as a standalone thing.

Set to The Killers' All These Things That I've Done, the scene follows Timberlake's character on a drug-fuelled dream sequence. Sipping on a beer can as he drunkenly staggers through an arcade laced with American flags, the actor interacts with several women in revealing nurse outfits, lip-syncing to the song like the pro pop star that he is. He then pours the drink all over his head, because why not.

It's so completely insane that it's weirdly transfixing, especially when the rest of the movie is quite uninteresting. In fact, it would have been far more entertaining if the whole thing was a musical too, with Timberlake tripping balls for two hours. Someone start the petition!