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spoot:
--- Quote from: Nephasth on July 03, 2012, 08:10:08 pm ---Oh good, it wasn't the important Andy...
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Heh, was thinking the same thing. But RIP AG.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 05, 2012, 03:54:57 am ---
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.
I mean, even if you have poor taste in movies and actually like Ron Howard as a director . . . "the best"? The best? Better than Hitchcock? Scorcese? Huston? Tarantino? Nolan? Kubrick? Polanski? Kurosawa? The freaking Coen Brothers? Clint Eastwood. Woody Allen. Danny Boyle. Hell, even Spielberg is a damned sight better than Ron Howard! And what about Paul Thomas Anderson, or even Wes Anderson? Coppola (either of them, frankly). Or classics . . . John Ford, Orson Welles, Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life for crying out loud), Robert Altman. What about David Lean . . . Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Oliver Twist, Bridge on the River Kwai. Or Sergio Leone and all his great westerns.
My god, man, what on earth are you talking about? I could easily quadruple the size of that list without breaking a sweat! Hell, Tim Burton is a genius compared to Ron Howard (and Burton makes a lot of garbage). Even the incredibly uneven Spike Lee and Oliver Stone have turned out better work than Ron Howard.
Andy Griffith, though, is pretty great. The world was lucky to have him.
JMB:
Andy Griffith, first junkyard owner in space! I'm sure a few of you remember this.
CCM:
--- 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.
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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.
I mean, even if you have poor taste in movies and actually like Ron Howard as a director . . . "the best"? The best? Better than Hitchcock? Scorcese? Huston? Tarantino? Nolan? Kubrick? Polanski? Kurosawa? The freaking Coen Brothers? Clint Eastwood. Woody Allen. Danny Boyle. Hell, even Spielberg is a damned sight better than Ron Howard! And what about Paul Thomas Anderson, or even Wes Anderson? Coppola (either of them, frankly). Or classics . . . John Ford, Orson Welles, Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life for crying out loud), Robert Altman. What about David Lean . . . Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Oliver Twist, Bridge on the River Kwai. Or Sergio Leone and all his great westerns.
My god, man, what on earth are you talking about? I could easily quadruple the size of that list without breaking a sweat! Hell, Tim Burton is a genius compared to Ron Howard (and Burton makes a lot of garbage). Even the incredibly uneven Spike Lee and Oliver Stone have turned out better work than Ron Howard.
Andy Griffith, though, is pretty great. The world was lucky to have him.
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I agree that Ron Howard is far from the best director, but wow.. calm down before you stroke out over Opie!
saint:
--- 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.
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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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