Oscar bait DENIED: CHANGELING

[Borstalboy]

Oscar bait DENIED: CHANGELING #1

Posted: 9/19/08 at 12:19pm

Got good reviews in Cannes. What do we think?

CHANGELING

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

Updated On: 10/25/08 at 12:19 PM

[StockardFan]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#2

Posted: 9/19/08 at 12:31pm

Looks good! Very intriguing!

KFTC!!!!!

[FOAnatic]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#2

Posted: 9/19/08 at 12:35pm

Wow. This could be very interesting. And Jolie looks and sounds fantastic.

"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde

[StockardFan]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#3

Posted: 9/19/08 at 12:42pm

I could also see an Oscar nom for costume design for this one.

KFTC!!!!!

[xxnewgirlxx]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#4

Posted: 9/19/08 at 1:03pm

I didn't know anything about this case, so I wikipedia'd it. I'm a little confused on it, but it sounds like it can be told in an interesting matter.

And Eastwood is an Oscar favorite...I'm sure he and Angelina will be nominees.

[best12bars]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#5

Posted: 9/19/08 at 1:29pm

This looks great!

Eastwood and Jolie together. That will get me into the theatre.

She's always better than I think she's going to be. A very talented actress, and this looks like a career highlight just from these few scenes.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[Maraclea2]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#6

Posted: 9/19/08 at 1:33pm

She won an award for it at one of the major film festivals.
Eastwood also has another Oscar bait film coming out in December.
How many nominations can one guy have in the same year?

But you are, my love, the astronaut/ Flying in the face of science/ I will gladly stay an afterthought/ Just bring back some nice reminders

[StockardFan]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#7

Posted: 9/19/08 at 2:24pm

OK, now I want to wickepedia it too.....

KFTC!!!!!

[StockardFan]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#8

Posted: 9/19/08 at 2:27pm

So did they ever find him? And how did the police think a woman would not know her own son after only 5 months missing?

KFTC!!!!!

[violet72]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#9

Posted: 9/19/08 at 11:27pm

I also think John Malkovich looks great in this too and maybe oscarworthy

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life. Define yourself"

[Luckydave14]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#10

Posted: 9/20/08 at 1:05am

Saw this in front of Lakeview Terrace today. The trailer looks even better on the big screen. I can NOT WAIT for this movie. Looks great.

[munkustrap178]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#11

Posted: 9/20/08 at 7:38am

Looks stunning.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[best12bars]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#12

Posted: 9/20/08 at 8:49am

It's been kinda wild to watch Clint Eastwood's career (through my own lifetime) keep blossoming from star, to mega-star, to director to legendary director.

Oh, yeah, and he writes the music too!

I mean the man is 300 years old now (if he's a minute), and he just keeps getting better. It's pretty inspiring.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[blueroses]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#13

Posted: 9/20/08 at 9:31am

I will absolutely be seeing this.

[Jon]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#14

Posted: 9/20/08 at 11:11am

The phrase "Oscar bait" reminds me of a recent episode of the animated TV show American Dad that was a take-off of James Bond movies. The master villain was a wannabe movie director who planned to make a movie about a mentally challenged Jewish boy hiding in an attic during WWII. His only friend is his cat, who is dying of cancer. The boy's name, and the name of the movie, is "Oscar Gold".

[MrMidwest]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#15

Posted: 10/21/08 at 10:24am

Some of the early reviews have compared it to a Lifetime movie.

I can't wait to see what people here think of it.

"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter

[best12bars]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#16

Posted: 10/21/08 at 10:39am

Oy! A Lifetime movie?

*cringes*

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[MrMidwest]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#17

Posted: 10/21/08 at 10:53am

"It would be hard to be more surprised and sad about how terrible Changeling is.

I mean... Lifetime... at best.

I am a big, big Eastwood fan. But when he misses, man oh man oh man...

Brutal."

http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/archives/2008/10/need_sleep_but.html

"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter

[roquat]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#18

Posted: 10/21/08 at 4:19pm

This looks like typical overrated Eastwood (i.e., MYSTIC RIVER)--a world where it always looks just about to rain and everyone dresses only in shades of brown, gray, and sickly green.

I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."

[Roscoe]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#19

Posted: 10/21/08 at 4:30pm

Looks like another crappy Eastwood flick that everybody will go nuts for. His films are useless, of interest only in that such entirely adequate films manage to get such wild frantic acclaim. I'm sure Roger Ebert will call it a "masterpiece" like he did that other Eastwood Movie Of The Week, the competent but useless weepie MILLION DOLLAR BABY.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[MrMidwest]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#20

Posted: 10/24/08 at 1:29pm

"The film feels like it has a seven act structure, and you'll be fooled into thinking that the sucker has ended again and again. Walking out of the movie I realized that the entire final forty five minutes of the movie could have been a text crawl and we would have lost none of the impact."


Spoiler-y, extremely negative review

"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#21

Posted: 10/24/08 at 1:37pm

That's exactly how I felt watching THE DARK KNIGHT, I hate that kind of movie, ugh. Hopefully the reviews aren't necessarily accurate, the trailer looks quite good.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[roquat]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#22

Posted: 10/24/08 at 2:36pm

I really don't understand the acclaim Eastwood gets. His films are all sour, manufactured depression, and they look like they were shot through brackish water.

I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."

[insertclevernamehere]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#23

Posted: 10/24/08 at 2:48pm

I loved Mystic River, but maybe because it looks like it's set in my neighborhood. And I liked Million Dollar Baby too.

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.

[roquat]

re: More Oscar bait: CHANGELING trailer#24

Posted: 10/25/08 at 12:39am

USA Today hated it. Not my taste barometer, but they generally are good at predicting what will be a hit and what won't.

I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."