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shmokes:
First, I fully agree with CCM's assessment of me, lol.

Second, A Beautiful Mind was a terrible movie. I don't mean it didn't live up to the hype. It was terrible. AFI be damned :)

I haven't seen Frost/Nixon, but it looks like it could be good. I seriously doubt it could be great, because Ron Howard doesn't take the risks necessary to make great films. But it could be good. And I remember Parenthood being pretty good, but I saw it when I was a kid, so I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that it's not actually very good. Cinderella Man looks like crap, but I haven't seen that one either.  :cheers:

Btw, I have the best taste in media of anyone I know.

Howard_Casto:

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Ron Howard - . . . the best damn director ever. 

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. . . the ---fudgesicle---? The only great movie he ever made was Splash! Then he has a couple of perfectly watchable, but paint-by-numbers flicks like Apollo 13. But the vast majority of his work is dreck. He couldn't even turn the made-for-the-silver-screen DaVinci Code into a watchable film.

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Your taste in media always boggles me Shmokes. Ron Howard's not my pick for best damn director ever, but he's far from a hack, and Splash certainly isn't the one I'd hold out as his greatest ever (92% critic rating, but only 52% fan rating on Rotten Tomatoes). You've underrated Apollo 13 which was an excellent flick (97% critics, 78% fans) and is his highest rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes, and there's Frost/Nixon (92% and 86%), Cinderella Man (80% and 88%), A Beautiful Mind (78% critics, 91% fans), and then more formulaic but still entertaining Night Shift (95/56%), and Parenthood (93/68).

Two of his films are on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time. They are A Beautiful Mind (2001) at #93 and Apollo 13 (1995) at #12.

To each their own of course :)


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I think you missed the part where it was my comment Saint.  Shmokes has some sort of psychological disorder where he has to adimently disagree and complain whenever I make a comment.  Notice how this was a thread for rememberance for Andy and he turns it into an argument about films.  ;)

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 06, 2012, 02:59:08 am ---
--- Quote from: saint on July 05, 2012, 01:14:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on July 05, 2012, 11:22:39 am ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 05, 2012, 03:54:57 am ---

Ron Howard - . . . the best damn director ever. 

--- End quote ---

. . . the ---fudgesicle---? The only great movie he ever made was Splash! Then he has a couple of perfectly watchable, but paint-by-numbers flicks like Apollo 13. But the vast majority of his work is dreck. He couldn't even turn the made-for-the-silver-screen DaVinci Code into a watchable film.

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Your taste in media always boggles me Shmokes. Ron Howard's not my pick for best damn director ever, but he's far from a hack, and Splash certainly isn't the one I'd hold out as his greatest ever (92% critic rating, but only 52% fan rating on Rotten Tomatoes). You've underrated Apollo 13 which was an excellent flick (97% critics, 78% fans) and is his highest rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes, and there's Frost/Nixon (92% and 86%), Cinderella Man (80% and 88%), A Beautiful Mind (78% critics, 91% fans), and then more formulaic but still entertaining Night Shift (95/56%), and Parenthood (93/68).

Two of his films are on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time. They are A Beautiful Mind (2001) at #93 and Apollo 13 (1995) at #12.

To each their own of course :)


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I think you missed the part where it was my comment Saint.  Shmokes has some sort of psychological disorder where he has to adimently disagree and complain whenever I make a comment.  Notice how this was a thread for rememberance for Andy and he turns it into an argument about films.  ;)

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Shmokes can be easily forgiven.  Anyone having to endure terrible heat, and no power can rant as much as he wants to about anything.

Besides Ron Howard directorial ability is getting very close to that of George Lucas.  His early stuff is fine, but the latter work is borderline crap.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 06, 2012, 02:59:08 am ---
I think you missed the part where it was my comment Saint.  Shmokes has some sort of psychological disorder where he has to adimently disagree and complain whenever I make a comment.  Notice how this was a thread for rememberance for Andy and he turns it into an argument about films.  ;)

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This again. Howard, I think you have a problem with narcissism. Nobody here (besides you) thinks that I expend any special effort on you. I'm an argumentative sumbitch. Considering that you don't even visit the PnR forum, it's sort of laughable to think that I disagree with you more than anyone else. But I seriously doubt that even outside the PnR forum you take the cake. I suspect that I've disagreed with Chad, pinballjim, RandyT, and possibly CheffoJeffo more than you. Probably others as well. I honestly don't particularly care one way or the other about you personally. You strike me as a perfectly nice person. If you say something I disagree with, I'll disagree with it. If you say something I agree with, I'll agree with it.

Admittedly, I have disagreed with you fairly frequently over the years, moreso than many people. But as you know, you are very opinionated. I thus have far more occasion to disagree with you about something than I have with many people. But seriously, get over yourself. I've agreed with you plenty of times too. And if you weren't wrong so frequently we wouldn't even be having this discussion.  ;D



Edit: changed wording to compensate for an auto-censor failure

trekking95:
Wow, word censor block is that easy to get by?

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