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Ron Howard eye-ballin' Straczynski's THE CHANGELING (no relation to creepy George C. Scott movie)!!

VEGAS!!!!!!!! by thelivingdoll	Jun 28th, 2006 06:59:40 AM
What the fuck will my alibi be?!!! OH GOD!!! VEEEEEGGGGGGAAAAAASSSSSS!!!!!! !!
2ND TIME I SAY by darth_billy	Jun 28th, 2006 07:03:39 AM

Ron Hackward by godoffireinhell	Jun 28th, 2006 07:05:29 AM
oh please
will the movie feature The Doors' "Changeling"? by tripp5	Jun 28th, 2006 07:12:44 AM
"i'm a chaaaaaaaaange-ling, see me chaaange"
So would this be.. by RMcD3	Jun 28th, 2006 07:40:09 AM
..what JMS was referring to on his latest newsgroup post (see www.jmsnews.com) when he says 'one of the biggest things to happen to my career is about to happen'? Wasn't B5 bigger than this?
God I'm so bored of the Howard... by brycemonkey	Jun 28th, 2006 08:34:58 AM
sorry, he's a solid film maker but not one I get excited about. Add to that some woman crying cos her kid has been snatched. Then crying while she waits to get the kid back. THEN she gets the kid back, but it's not the same kid. So she crys. PASS!
Better be as good as THE DA VINCI CODE by McGsStepson	Jun 28th, 2006 09:09:09 AM
Kidding. That movie was better than ambien though if you're having sleep troubles. Ron Howard is such a damn bor- zzzzzzzzzzzz.
Ron effin' Howard by beastie	Jun 28th, 2006 09:24:30 AM
He just follows all of the rules laid down by previous Oscar winners. He doesn't have a touch. He doesn't have anything that make his films special. When 'A Beautiful Mind' won best picture, I was more pissed off than 'Titanic' or 'Crash', because everyone was actually under the dillusion that it was a good film. Ron Howard makes mediocre films that take no real risks. I know, I know. 'The DiVinci Code' takes risks against the Catholic church. But, really. Did 'The DiVinci Code' take any sort of artistic risks? I guess it was fitting that a mediocre director was adapting a mediocre book. I think the only Ron Howard flick that I've ever actually enjoyed was 'Parenthood'.
sounds like Richard Matheson story by treewarrior	Jun 28th, 2006 09:27:58 AM
remember that Richard Matheson NBC TV movie (not Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black) where the last story is a woman whose son dies in a drowning accident and she brings him back to life with black magic and he looks fine but slowly he start to psychologically torture her and chase her around the house and it turns out to be a demon in disguise? this was the scariest thing I'd ever seen in my young life and the ending totally freaked me out. that's what JMS's story sounds like.
I hope it's an adaptation of the Thomas Middleton play by Dannychico	Jun 28th, 2006 09:32:00 AM

whew! by StovetopStuffin'	Jun 28th, 2006 09:44:11 AM
man, for a second there I thought it was another remake going through. "The Changeling" with George C. Scott is one of my favorite ghost stories. "Ghost Story" being a close second.
So glad it' by Johnny Smith	Jun 28th, 2006 10:21:38 AM

So glad it's not a remake of the Medak/Scott flick. by Johnny Smith	Jun 28th, 2006 10:22:13 AM
If it was, people may have to have been thrown down a well.
Ron Howard, Please Leave The Building by www.valiens.com	Jun 28th, 2006 11:21:07 AM
Loved ya on "Happy Days", Opie. But you are one bland director. A monkey could have directed "DaVinci Code" and it would have been a huge global success. Arguably, a monkey did. Please quit your day job. That is all.
Howard and Green Lantern by jasper Stillwell	Jun 28th, 2006 11:26:43 AM
Well why not? I mean if Jack Black's into it, which he is, get Ron Howard and a damn Green Lantern film together and watch the screen implode with mediocrity. Talent vacuum alert. Get Akiva to script it coz we all know how great HE is with comic books don't we? Sorry, I've had one coffee too many here...
Whistle And I'll Come to You by Trevor Goodchild	Jun 28th, 2006 11:31:04 AM
Anyone seen that?
Howard's doing Brown's Angels and Demons not this film by R.C. the "Wise"	Jun 28th, 2006 11:32:38 AM
No word yet if they'll resign Hanks for the Robert Langdon prequel.
Whistle And I'll Come to You by jasper Stillwell	Jun 28th, 2006 12:03:40 PM
...that scared the living shit out of me. Really unnerving. Though Hanks and Howard could re-team here to great comic effect - with perhaps a key role in it for Clint Howard as the spook. Not as quite as scary as Cage in a Wicker Man though.
jasper, by beastie	Jun 28th, 2006 12:05:23 PM
I haven't seen Nacho Libre yet, but Jack Black isn't that bad. He was great in High Fidelity and The Muthafuckin' D rules. Come on. Don't like him, that's fine. But he is not in the same mediocrity league with Ron Howard & Akiva Goldsman. Ron Howard is the directing equivelant of Nickleback. They both rely on deriving ideas from better talent and end of creating unmemorable moments in their respective art forms.
beastie by jasper Stillwell	Jun 28th, 2006 12:15:48 PM
Well he ain't no Walter Matthau and he ain't even no John Belushi. But I too loved him in Hi-Fidelity but have seen nothing with him in that tells me this guy can hold a film on his own. He's the perfect memorable sidekick or perhaps a wacky turn in something a bit 'left-field' but certainly nowhere near 'class A' material. (He was WILDLY mis-cast in 'King Kong' - sorry...) Anyone that spends that much energy in a performance signposting 'funny' the way he does to the viewer smacks of desparation. But, hey, each to their own I guess...
jasper again, by beastie	Jun 28th, 2006 12:21:31 PM
You're right. He's best in sidekick roles. However, I do think he'll hold the film when The Tenacious D movie hits. But, yeah. I'm just saying that he does have a certain amount of talent. His is playing the sidekick. Howard on the other hand doesn't really have any.
On Howard by jasper Stillwell	Jun 28th, 2006 12:58:34 PM
I beg to disagree. He at least gave us Bryce. And so I will have to concede and give him that one. And I like to do the same to her if they'd let me. But after that dismal CV I wouldn't let him direct a saturday morning turd out of his own clapper.
I watched Changeling with Scott years ago by WeirdEd	Jun 28th, 2006 01:49:53 PM
A friend at the video store recommended it. Terrific movie if you've never seen it already. I've still got that opening scene burned in my head, where Scott's character watches his family die in that freak accident.
Let's see how Herc takes the news... by Leto III	Jun 28th, 2006 03:01:28 PM
...considering that Howard's tapping JMS, and not Whedon, for the film. If he has Akiva Goldsman rewrite it, though -- overrated sock-sniffing bogtrotter that he is -- it's gonna be dodgeball time, bitch.
Cool! I'd love to see an update of Nomad! by CerebralAssassin	Jun 28th, 2006 03:03:11 PM
Will Russell Crowe play Jackson Roykirk?
Woohoo! Yeah! Beast Boy gets his own movie! by themikejonas	Jun 28th, 2006 04:22:40 PM
But will the other Teen Titans have cameos?
What was Cinderella Man? by endoftheworld	Jun 28th, 2006 04:37:53 PM
I don't get it. This guy is seriously a B- director. But how was Cinderella Man so good? What happened? And how did he lose it so quickly? Maybe it's Thomas Newman. That guy can make anything work. And talk about average, anybody see Superman...?
Demons and Angels will be critically lambasted by Quin the Eskimo	Jun 28th, 2006 06:12:13 PM
'cause the Pope turn into a paratrooper.
Speaking of Matheson by readingwriter	Jun 28th, 2006 06:35:36 PM
...since he's 100 times more interesting than Howard, he's also responsible for the teleplay for Trilogy of Terror, based on his short story--yeah, you know what I'm talking about, Karen Black vs. that African doll with the teeth! AND he wrote this weird TV movie with Barbara Eden "The Stranger Within" about a woman who starts behaving even more bizarrely than usual when she becomes pregnant. You could probably see the ending a mile away these days, but as a kid I found it fascinating, like a reversal of Exorcist--your MOM starts behaving like a weirdo.
matheson by treewarrior	Jun 28th, 2006 10:13:25 PM
he also wrote a short story called "The Distributor" which lots of people said Stephen King's Needful Things was ripped off from. They ARE pretty similar, but both stories were cool and creepy, just in different ways.
The Stranger Within by treewarrior	Jun 28th, 2006 10:17:12 PM
i remember seeing an ad for Stranger Within in TV Guide. If I'd known that was Matheson, I would have checked it out. Don't think it's on video or DVD. on second thought, i might not like it as much as an adult than if i'd seen it as a kid. Oh, well.
what iraq war movie? by white owl	Jun 29th, 2006 12:33:36 AM
we dont need tons of subpar propaganda war movies about Iraq like there were for WW2 and beyond. really.. we don't. speaking of war.. how about this israel/gaza deal going on? holy shit does that smell like a middle-east version of a world war. i hope we stay out... -pindrop-
We need a RISING STARS movie by RezE11even	Jun 29th, 2006 10:36:27 AM
Forget Spiderman and X-men where the heroes debate the fortunes of their powers. Forget Watchmen and Incredibles where the public has problems with Mutants. This is the all out balls to the wall "We have powers and OUR LIVES FUCKING SUCK" story, and damn it rocks.
Worst most hokey director of our generation by chien_sale	Jun 30th, 2006 01:24:17 AM

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