spoilers within. Clint Eastwood directed Changeling. Ron Howard is one of Changeling’s Producers. Babylon 5’s J. Michael Straczynski wrote Changeling and seems to have insisted that it say A True Story and not Based On A True Story. The cast is impressive from the slightly over the top Angelina Jolie to the totally over the top Jason Butler Harner and the calm and semi-normal people that surround them. With all these powers attached to it, Changeling should have been a bit better than it was. Changeling wasn’t bad, it just seemed a bit too much of a star vehicle for…
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Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter…Just Weird
Clint Eastwood started out as nice guy Rowdy Yakes in Rawhide, but that was only the beginning of the Clint Eastwood western era. His spaghetti westerns were among the most interesting movie westerns ever made. High Plains Drifter was as close to spaghetti western as Clint Eastwood make it.This is the story of a Man With No Name who rides into a town in the middle of a desert and is seen as a savior by the town’s folks. Seems there are some bad men coming on the train and they need someone to protect them. That someone is not…