{"id":697,"date":"2008-10-31T13:22:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T13:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/10\/31\/my-review-of-the-changeling\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:34","slug":"my-review-of-the-changeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/10\/31\/my-review-of-the-changeling\/","title":{"rendered":"My review of the Changeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movingpicturesmagazine.com\/reviews\/movies\/changeling\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">reviewed the new Eastwood-directed, Jolie-starring film <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Changeling<\/span> for <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Moving Pictures<\/span><\/a>.  Seeing as how this is J. Michael Straczynski&#8217;s feature film script debut, I thought many of the Revolutionaries out there would be interested.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">Perhaps the movie&#8217;s biggest flaw, veteran TV writer J. Michael Straczynski&#8217;s feature film script debut moves slowly and goes on far too long, with multiple false endings, including two extended prison scenes and an apocryphal moment four years after the main tale. The story suffers from a linear script that would have been better served beginning later in the tale.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.awardsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/changeling1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nI realize that many of you are surprised and upset that that this isn&#8217;t a movie about <a href=\"http:\/\/ladytimedramon.joeyteel.com\/garfieldlogan\/comicgalleries\/newteentitans.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Changeling aka Beast Boy<\/a>, the shape-shifting, literally green-headed stepchild of The Doom Patrol and Teen Titans.  <\/p>\n<p>So was I!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ladytimedramon.joeyteel.com\/garfieldlogan\/comicgalleries\/newteentitans_files\/terroroftrigonbonus.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reviewed the new Eastwood-directed, Jolie-starring film Changeling for Moving Pictures. Seeing as how this is J. Michael Straczynski&#8217;s feature film script debut, I thought many of the Revolutionaries out there would be interested. Quote: Perhaps the movie&#8217;s biggest flaw, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/10\/31\/my-review-of-the-changeling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/10\/31\/my-review-of-the-changeling\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My review of the Changeling - The Geek Curmudgeon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I reviewed the new Eastwood-directed, Jolie-starring film Changeling for Moving Pictures. 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