From Hollywood Reporter:
Billy Campbell has joined Tea Leoni, Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear in the romantic comedy "Ghost Town" for DreamWorks and Spyglass Entertainment.
The story centers on a dentist who dies briefly during routine dental surgery and gains the ability to see dead people who ask him for help in contacting the living. Campbell will play the love interest of Leoni’s character, a widow whose deceased husband-turned-ghost (Kinnear) is trying to thwart her imminent marriage.
Holy shit, I’ve never heard a story so unique! It sounds almost just like The Sixth Sense, Beetlejuice, What Lies Beneath, Ghost, The Eye, and Stir of Echoes… but not! Who’s directing this? David Koepp, the guy who wrote Stir of Echoes! (He also wrote the remake of War of the Worlds, which was… uh… really… uh… good.)
I know what you’re thinking: Lance, Lance, Lance, quit ripping on this, it’s obviously a parody – Ricky Gervais is in it! Your aura of masculinity makes my panties moist, but you’ve screwed up this time!
Sorry, folks, IMDB calls it a drama. I call it a turd.
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This movie will definitely blow hard…but with birthday dog around, I can’t help but smile
Yeah, Ghost meets Beetlejuice and we’ll put Ricky Gervais in it. Why? Fucked if I know!!!!!!
GRR…THAT BETTA NOT BE BILLY
CONNOLLYCAMPBELL IN MY CANDY BAG!You know what I call drama. The last 30 minutes. I paid 14.72 at Taco Villa, and when my order was up, I asked if they had any hot sauce. The semi retarded looking girl who was handing out orders looked at me, paused for like 5 seconds, and then said "no". What a bunch of bullshit.
I wish they would make this a TV show instead, so I could ignore it on a weekly basis instead of just skipping it at the movie theater once.
I don’t think that there are enough dentist protagonists in modern cinema.
The Mighty Fek’lhr would tag this article with "forshak".
forshak – Worf provokes Thopok in Quark’s bar: "Is there a pile of rotting forshak in here, or is it you?"
Why don’t they just do a remake of Ghost Dad and get it over with. Then they could hand out handguns with each ticket and slip LSD into the popcorn. It’s my plan for thinning the herd, or making me hate the universe a little bit less.
VH – if they made it a daytime soap you could ignore it daily. think about it.
Am i the only one that read this and thought "Hey, Tea Leoni’s still alive?".
I think they should just make The Dentist 3, starring the lovable & whacky Mr. Corbin Bernsen.
Am I the only one who thought, "Who the fuck is Billy Campbell?"
TeePee’s made from plastic tarps is offensive to my people.
I’m allergic to novacaine.
You got my
penishopes up when I thought it would be Bruce Campbell in new Evil Dead movie. I was sadly mistaken.Come on Joker, you CAN have to much of a good thing!
Am I the only one who thought "Why the fuck Greg Kinnear?"
If it doesn’t have Bruce Campbell then it ain’t shit.
Lance- No you’re not.
I loved him in Almost Famous though.
Yeah, no idea who this guy is and I don’t care to find out. I’m happily in the dark.
Billy Campbell…is he of the Clan Campbell?
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
you’re probably right there Hustla’. i don’t know what i was thinking. although it is nice to know that Drew Carey is on TPIR daily, b/c i ignore that fucker every chance i get.
Am I the only one who thinks that guy has a really pretentious beard?
Wasn’t Josh Brolin available?
Lance are you kidding? Billy Campbell, his close friends call him just Bill, was the husband that threw JLO a few domestic beatdowns in the movie Enough. Personal HERO!
I was thinking that beard was more Masturbatory.
Have there been any good Dentist characters? Nope. Chndler in The Whole 12 Yards was shit (even with tits).
The closest there is was the dude from Little Shop of Horrors and the dude who fucked up Hoffman’s grill in Marathon Man…
OH SHIT, VH!!!! THAT WAS HIM?!?! I LOVE THAT GUY!!
actually i still don’t know who he is, but the idea of JHo getting her ass kicked by an overly dominating and sadistic husband. . . welll you know. . . i got wood
What about Corbin Bernson as "The Dentist"?
bryce – Are you saying that Orin Scrivello D.D.S. is not a great character? Because we may have to throw down.
*Bernsen*
Happy Halloween heroin fix!
The dentist from M*A*S*H who wanted to kill himself was funny.
What about Campbell Scott in The Secret Lives of Dentists? yeah, i know what you’re thinking. what about him? the secret lives of what? you are talkin pure nonsense joker.
hey, that’s what i do
a dentist who dies briefly during routine dental surgery
What the fuck!?! That’s like saying a hooker who dies briefly during a routine scissor session with another hooker. Make it surgery to remove an ingrown toenail or something sweet like that.
There is nothing better then being forced to watch a chick flick with your wife and then cheering for the villainous wife beater. It was a dry week or two, if ya know what I mean??
Wait, did he die "briefly" while getting routine dental surgery, or while performing routine dental surgery? If it’s the latter, I don’t want to know what happened to his patient.
You know, in Shakspeare’s time, to die meant to have a sexual orgasm.
And props to myself for turning this into a way to quote Class Act.
I think they should use Steve Martin as the crazy dentist character from Little Shop of Horrors.
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How would one die getting a routine dental procedure? And how the fuck would someone die GIVING a routine dental procedure?
What kind of dental surgery is dangerous enough that someone could die during anyway? Was he wanting to put 180 degree hinges in his jaw to make brushing his back teeth easier?
you know, is Shakespeare’s time, people died from the fucking flu. I wouldn’t be surprised if death by orgasm was a routine way to go.
^in, not is
There is an amusement ahh…park near where I live that is called Ghost Town in the Sky, but that is actually about Cowboys and gold and shit. People
nonpussyshave to take a chair lift to get there. I’ve always wondered what it would feel like to push someone off of one of those things. You’re not exactly bucked in, you know??What kind of dental surgery is dangerous enough that someone could die during anyway?
Let’s just say some patients absolutely refuse to let the dentist put his hand in their mouth. They have to get there the long way.
this has been a homicidal off topic report from Koru.
Koru, you live near North Carolina’s mile high theme park?
Lucky.
I’ve always wondered what it would feel like to push someone off of one of those things.
I imagine it would feel alot like pushing someone off a stool at the bar, only it would take longer to hear the splat.
I imagine it would feel alot like pushing someone off a stool at the bar, only it would take longer to hear the splat.
yes JHC, but you would get to hear them scream in terror that much longer. win-win as i see it.
Lance please confirm or deny, is this the same Ghost Town that that fat fuck at AICN has been trying to get made for like 10 years now?
Billy Campbell = The Rocketeer. Has also been known to to wear only a velvet shash around his manhood for costume parties and only aknowledge those who refer to him as "The Velvet Hammer" when adorned in said manner.
Another reason not to like Billy Campell. He got to touch Jennifer Connelly.
i would very much like to touch jennifer connelly. in naughty places. like a broom closet. or maybe the back seat of a volkswagen.
Jennifer Connelly? You mean "Ass to Ass" as she shall be reffered to from now on?
Alas, the "ass to ass" was a body double.
A reason to like him is because he got to touch Jennifer Lopez with his FISTs! But since it was a movie and he didn’t really get to hit her hard, then I guess that is a reason not to like him again. Unless he doesn’t like her either, in which he would have taken the opportunity to accidentally slip and give her a solid four finger tune-up during filming. Then and only then, would I like him again. What was the question again?
Jacktion- Shit really? I’ve called her that since seeing that film. Damn. Oh well, too late to change now. That’s what she is known as.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Watch the f-bombs, this isn’t the other place.
He did get to kiss and fondle Sela Ward on TV, one of my favorite MILFs.
BODY DOUBLE? WHAT? GODDAMMMMMIITTTTT!!
yeah, it figures she was OK with showing me the beaver pelt, but couldn’t bring herself to get booty down on a huge black cock with another chick while dozens of impotent morons look on. f’n prick tease.
that said, I’d still bang her until her tits fell off. then i’d bang her disembodied tits.
i feel as if i’ve gone way off topic. who is Billy Campbell again?
That scene in Requiem was probably one of the greatest scenes in movie history. I honestly masturbated to that scene for a good three minutes. Then I knocked out for three hours. Call me ladies!
Jack! I may have to throw down, not because I disagree but because my Paw taught me to never admit you are wrong or back down. EVER!
Wow, Hairy is also from the ‘Other Other Place’ where the fat ginger gunts run free…
See? "Paw". It sounds American.
Is knocked out like passed out?
My Pa always taught me to put it in her pooper. So that way I don’t have my own life-sucking-money-draining-piece-of-horse-shit-creature-like-disappointments of my own. :::sigh::: Thanks Pa!
yes SMB, except when dub dub says it, it sounds gay. don’t ask me why. i don’t make the rules.
Super gay.
Ganging up on people you don’t know nor will you ever meet is fun.
erswi – i dont know if i should be offended or not.
THE FRIGHTENERS?
not. that’s just one man’s opinion though
how can you die briefly? thats just stupid, just say that he died and came back to life, don’t say he died briefly, dagnabbit, stupid visual studio im gonna have a stroke, put the fucking datagrid in the panel IN THE FUCKING PANEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh my stars, still 40 more minutes till lunchtime.
Fek I have also received apples for halloween, they suck.
in the vane of JWIADH i would love to see Angela Lansbury’s Hot Pants use an avatar featuring. . . ohhhh i dunno. . . Angela Lansbury in Hot Pants!!!!
that shit would be awesome. c’mon, hook a brotha up.
raisins. worst treat i ever got in my halloween bag. they do work for throwing at the littler kids when their parents aren’t looking though.
I just sent my son to school with enough raisins for 30 kids. They’re having a party. And now, I’m sure, my son has no friends. Thanks for the heads up, assholes.
There was an old lady around the block from me who always gave out toothbrushes.
Hard Boiled eggs would be a good one.
hey nom what did your kid dress up as?
itll make him stronger nommy. worry not. we all turned out ok, right? right, guys?!ÂÂ
A fuckin’ ninja, of course. But, I bought him a 50 dollar ninja suit. It’s got a chest plate, forearm guards like batman, and the same thing on his legs. Its sweet.
To improve on the ol’ classic razorblade-in-the-apple trick, this year I am giving out watermelons with machete blades in them.
Kids today love the raisins. They have yet to discover the magic of Fun Dip.
I finished wrapping up bundles of 5 pennies last night. I bet the kids are going to love it. Who couldn’t use some extra spending money, right?
least favorite Halloween candy of all time. fuckin candy corn. that shit is disgusting.
DONTCHA BE BAD MOUTHIN’ CANDY CORN thats the best ever
candy corn is the haggis of halloween candy
as in paul haggis or that crazy scottish meal?
Nominus sounds like a cool dad. When i was a kid, physically at least, my dad dressed me up as a mummy by wrapping me in toilet paper. Blue toilet paper. Hold on, it wasn’t even Halloween that time, that was at my first holy communion.
i think we can agree that they are both equally terrible
agreed
Nominus is a cool dad. Did your dad ever teach you how to strategically avoid the SRS? I bet not.
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Fuck Nominus, I’m the coolest Dad ever, and if you go to the above link you’ll also find out I’m the most gigantic nerd on FilmDrunk.
Okay, yes, you may be the coolest ever. Really, I guess kids don’t care that much about learning how to use triple beams. But I digress, he’ll thank me one day.
That depends, what the hell is the SRS? i’m pretty sure it never came up in conversation though, unless it relates to bloody wogs or the London government’s southern bias in all things, including their unfair share of good weather.
The SRS is like a government agency that is supposed to look out for the well being of children.
haha, Competitive Dads. Remember that episode of South Park where Kenny has the brilliant scout walker costume and loses to some girl in a wookie mask, then as he disconsolately trudges away gets attacked and killed by tiny rebel fighters. That was equally funny and sad at the same time.
And the winner is Wendy! For her Chewbacca costume!
Seriously though, hats off to you Nommy. I love seeing Dad’s involved in their kid’s lives.
Same to you Hairy. Same to you.