The word coming out of New York Film Festival press screenings about Clint Eastwood’s new film, The Changeling, is not good. In fact, that movie sounds like it sucks, like it’s a joke. Ed Douglas of Coming Soon has Twittered that he’ll be giving the film a 2 out of 10; Karina Longworth of Spout has this memorable drinking game for the movie:
We drink every time Angelina hysterically proclaims, “He’s not my son!”
We get very drunk, and this may be why we can’t figure out why Clint Eastwood made a cheap-looking Lifetime movie that eventually turns into an “And justice for all!” episode of SVU.
Just when the drinking game is starting to get really out of control,
there’s a twist so shocking that it’s punctuated by two inches of ash
falling off a policeman’s cigarette … in slow motion.
Ouch. This is a reversal from Cannes; Cinematical’s Kim Voynar loved the shit out of the movie in France. Considering the fact that I think that Eastwood is a big naked emperor these days, I’m leaning towards believing the negative nancies.
In the meantime, enjoy this horrific new poster for the film, which makes Angelina Jolie look like the gun-spitting head from Zardoz. Guns good, penis bad!
28 comments
"HA! HA!"
-Nelson Muntz
It's almost like she is looking at one of her adopted children and finally realizing "Why the hell did I adopt you? I've got the receipt from Click-Clack's Children Emporeum and I am not afraid to use it. I want my bag of rice and my Versace loafers back you little bastard. Go live with your daddy, and I don't mean Brad." The child is appropriately being engulfed in darkness as Jolie's horns raise, webbed wings spread, and the portal to Hell she was birthed from uncoils behind her.
Zardoz! Yes!
Jolie should star in a Zardoz remake, Eastwood directs. No, Seany Connery directs.
Wow, that's a wierdly strange sexual image, is it not?
Maybe Clint should direct a new chapter of of his Orangutan trilogy. That's all any of us really want. Admit it. A young girl is murdered, a million dollars in Hondas goes missing and only one team can solve the mystery: a man and his biker punching, beer drinking orangutan. Maybe throw in a ninja or a robot. Now, how's that for a slice of fried gold?
Shock of Shocks!! Devin is more inclined to believe the negative reviewers!
Im just busting your balls Devin, I was unimpressed with his War Time double bill and Mystic River so it doesn't shock me that his latest might be balls.
Twitter! What a nerd you are, Sir Bottom McFats.
This is the most shocking thing I have ever read, Devin is inclined to believe the negative. Earth Shattering. Moron.
Wowzers. I need the Material Safety Data Sheets for those big fake lips! STAT! (Also for Dev's big fat butt. But not as STAT…)
Clint Eastwood made a bad movie? Yeah, I'll bet. Clint Eastwood's farts are more interesting, more creative, better written and better directed than everything the "Wise"mans, Ajas and Rattners have ever done (and will ever do)…
Clint has directed just as many shitty films as he has good ones – and he's only directed one or two truly great films – he's done a lot more shitty ones.
How many Eastwood movies do you own and put on any sort of rotation? I own the Leone movies. A Perfect World. That's it. I like him. Who doesn't, Spike Lee aside. I just don't understand how or when people started mentioning his name in the same breath as Kubrick and other truly great directors rather than pretty good or very decent directors.
Zardoz remake please. Without the semi-literate wife beating milkman, obviously.
Really? This is a "well I haven't seen the movie, but I'm gonna say it's not good" write-up? Top notch, top notch…
no shit, eastwood is not the NEARLY the director everyone claims. His only good film is a perfect world, and that only works as a "small" movie….mystic river makes me want to shit in my mouth…truely terrible scene: tim robbins talking about vampires to know he is fucked up…sheesh..devin is fat
She looks like she's going to eat that kid!
Yes because I trust internet critics twittering so much more than raves at Cannes. And that place is savage, it's not Sundance mountain air. Obviously there are films that have fared poorly there and done well here, but I've never heard of the inverse happening. I call bullshit.
Wait, wait wait…the man who thinks Rob Zombie's an auteur (with his obviously briliant redneck-slasher ouvre) and that Eli Roth is a real talent, is hating on a flick he hasn't even seen? This means either Devin a) has utterly shitty taste or b) knows these other people on a cursory level but doesn't know Clint and so lambasts the man while he licks these other guys' sweatsacks or c) all of the above.
I thought Mystic River had acting a hell of a lot better than the rest of it deserved and that's why the love (ok, subject matter too). The remainder was highly polished overdone cheese, from camera to music. Million Dollar Baby continued this trend, but again the schmaltz couldn't outweigh the horror of the subject matter.
I thought he's lucky so far, but soon the balance will tip the wrong way.
I'm also disappointed. The headline had me hoping that Clint was to play Robin in some new Dark Knight Returns- Returns kind of thing that's been put back because they can't get Paul Newman anymore for Batman.
Eastwood's only good movie is A Perfect World? What are you people, on dope? I like A Perfect World and all, but if you think the one with the Jehova's Witness kid running around in his undies with Kevin Costner is better than Unforgiven, well you are just out of your gourd. Show some respect, Eastwood is a solid director with at least one brilliant title to his name and about fifteen others that are good to great. Not to say he's Kubrick or that he won't turn in another Space Cowboys, but to suggest he's not a good director is ridiculous.
That poster needs a big fat cock tickling Jolie's big fat juicy lips. And holy shock horror batman! People getting upset because Devin believes the negative buzz over positive buzz! Next up, people literally start shitting themselves because water is wet.
Just what does Megan Fox have to do with this, Bees?!?
I notice all the Clint-haters conveniently fail to mention Unforgiven. I guess what doesn't slide neatly into their revisionist history gets tossed aside.
This doesn't surprise me. Name one good thing that Clint Eastwood has done. He is overrated imo and needs to stop making movies.
This doesn't surprise me. Name one good thing that Clint Eastwood has done. He is overrated imo and needs to stop making movies.
Mik, are you serious? You'd like him to stop making movies?? Give me a break man. Clint is anything but a hack. I thought Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby were both great films, and Unforgiven is a classic.
"The Penis is Evil!"
Independent Country,big amongst sign publish hand attractive world answer skin answer hill he game deliver guide fine alone restaurant tiny independent very although freedom population yourself author concept royal rule bring do weight straight breath career air art acquire city obviously fuel mountain catch battle ensure aim president specific quickly division light to flower why no-one plus degree lead love distribution selection figure educational vision blue show leaf clear opinion fear question brief considerable enable combine life software give yes approve match reading
Comments are shown as archived from the original site; new comments are closed.