Wednesday, September 25, 2013

YOU NEVER SEEN A GUY WHO SLEPT WITH A FISH BEFORE?  In a week when many are contemplating Ron Howard's directorial legacy, Joe Reid brings a lot of smart people together to vote on and rank his films, 1-to-19, and the top nine are all perfectly cromulent.

9 comments:

  1. Rush is certainly his showiest work in a long time. Howard has generally been a solid, unobtrustive director who executes pretty much anything you give him with utter competence. (That said, his film of Da Vinci Code exposes the book's central weakness--it's a book that's primarily about people breathlessly explaining things to one another, and while that works quite well on the page, far less so on the screen.)

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  2. That's a lot of effort for a director whose best work is B+, at best.

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  3. Joseph Finn12:02 PM

    Wellll......I wouldn't say utter competence in a list that includes Backdraft (special effects aside) and Far and Away (a demonstrably bad movie). I blame the DaVinci movies, obviously, on Dan Brown.


    And I'll maintain to my dying day that Beautiful Mind is a silly mess that wastes a great Jennifer Connelly performance.


    But yes, I'll agree with your central point but in my mind I think of it as Ron Howard is a generally competent director that brings nothing in particular to a project that's not already there in the script.

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  4. mhgatti1:02 PM

    No "Night Shift"? Couldn't just throw that in somewhere? It's better than a lot of the movies listed.

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  5. Roger3:05 PM

    Ooh, The Paper. I should rewatch that....

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  6. Adam C.11:01 PM

    There is no director on earth who can get a better performance out of Clint Howard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXOtZqsekV8

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  7. I have my doubts that Howard actually directed all of Rush. It just didn't feel like him at all.

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  9. Nigel from Cameroon10:21 AM

    Goodness, Jennifer Connelly is hot.

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