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Post by urbanpatrician on Jun 24, 2019 3:53:03 GMT
This should be good stuff. Should be fun to see how this turns out.  Which of the geriatrics do you like more? I like Blood Work and Bridges of Madison County from Clint - they're entertaining. I think Far and Away.... and Rush aren't bad from Howard. A Beautiful Mind is inoffensive. But Unforgiven is probably better than Howard's best... Apollo 13. It's a revisionist western.... but westerns have usually always been one of the most revisionist genres, imo. |
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Post by countjohn on Jun 24, 2019 4:54:14 GMT
I would guess I like Ron Howard as a director more than most people here, but this ain't close. Eastwood is a great director and artist. Howard has never done anything approaching Unforgiven or Letters From Iwo Jima. Eastwood has a greater breadth of good films too and is one of the best at shooting actors.
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Post by Viced on Jun 24, 2019 5:03:56 GMT
Clint usually has something to say with his movies.
Ron Howard is just a hack.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 24, 2019 5:45:58 GMT
An unbearable choice. I guess Eastwood but both have plenty of garbage on their resumes and neither have made anything truly exceptional.
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Post by jimmalone on Jun 24, 2019 6:57:58 GMT
I like some of Howard's films, but Eastwood is a directing great so this isn't close.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 24, 2019 8:43:50 GMT
High Plains Drifter alone wins this for Clint and and he's made several better films than that too even. Ron Howard cast Russell Crowe as the oldest student ever in A Beautiful Mind and didn't fnck up Frost/Nixon but that's as far as I'll go.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Jun 24, 2019 9:14:31 GMT
Howard was still a horny teenager with huge pimple when Eastwood made the Outlaw Josey Wales Perhaps you ignore Clint's 70s/80s directorial works and only focusing his 90s/2000s works? Eastwood I ain't forgot shit. Not sure where you reached that assumption. |
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Post by urbanpatrician on Jun 24, 2019 9:25:49 GMT
I ain't forgot shit. Not sure where you reached that assumption. You only mentioned Blood Work, Madison and Unforgiven  Sudden Impact (disturbing film) and The Gauntlet are films I like too, maybe as guilty pleasures. Those would be my top 5. Maybe replace Madison with Mystic River. |
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 24, 2019 10:16:57 GMT
Clint for me.
I'll come back later to analyze my thoughts.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2019 13:57:40 GMT
The only film I like from Ron Howard is Splash. The only film I like from Eastwood is The Bridges of Madison County.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Jun 24, 2019 13:58:32 GMT
The Clit
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Post by stephen on Jun 24, 2019 14:07:14 GMT
Ron Howard is an underrated director who cops way too much shit. His movies are largely boilerplate, but he also knows not to get in his own way, which a lot of "auteurs" are unable to do. Yeah, he shouldn't have won in 2001 against that murderer's row of talent, but in general, he's a reliable filmmaker.
Still. Clint takes this in a walk, especially when he's at the height of his powers.
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Post by TerryMontana on Jun 24, 2019 16:50:28 GMT
I like Howard and many of his films: A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, Frost/Nixon, Parenthood, Rush...
But if you consider my favorite movie of his is Apollo 13, then you get the point.
On the other hand, I love most of Clint's films and some of them are among the best I've ever watched (Unforgiven, Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby)...
Maybe I'm wrong but I've always found Clint to be a very "mature" film maker. He's dealt a lot with many "adult" and difficult subjects (ie. Iwo Jima and FOOF or a Mandela biopic). I don't get that feeling when it comes to Howard.
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Post by ibbi on Jun 24, 2019 20:11:06 GMT
First of all I don't see how you can compare them in terms of age  Ron Howard could legit be Eastwood's son! Anyway, Howard has made some really good movies here and there down the years. Really good as in really watchable and really entertaining. Eastwood has made a lot of crap, and comparing them at their worst as filmmakers could be interesting, but Clint probably has about 5 movies I'd take over anything Howard has done. You could erase everything Clint's made since 1992, and what he achieved that year alone would still win him this argument for me. |
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Post by countjohn on Jun 24, 2019 21:06:51 GMT
First of all I don't see how you can compare them in terms of age Ron Howard could legit be Eastwood's son! Anyway, Howard has made some really good movies here and there down the years. Really good as in really watchable and really entertaining. Eastwood has made a lot of crap, and comparing them at their worst as filmmakers could be interesting, but Clint probably has about 5 movies I'd take over anything Howard has done. You could erase everything Clint's made since 1992, and what he achieved that year alone would still win him this argument for me.Yep, Unforgiven is one of my 10-20 favorite movies. Howard doesn't have anything nearly that good. |
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jun 24, 2019 23:35:16 GMT
An unbearable choice. I guess Eastwood but both have plenty of garbage on their resumes and neither have made anything truly exceptional.  |
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 24, 2019 23:47:25 GMT
An unbearable choice. I guess Eastwood but both have plenty of garbage on their resumes and neither have made anything truly exceptional. That Eastwood reaction is only exceeded by your awesome avatar  |
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jun 25, 2019 1:03:15 GMT
Yeah... I like Rush, Frost/Nixon, and Apollo 13 more than any of Clint's movies.  |
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Post by bob-coppola on Jun 25, 2019 5:18:30 GMT
Not the biggest Clint fan here, but this is like choosing between a glass of sparkling water and poison, or Woody Allen and Joss Whedon.
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Which of the geriatrics do you like more?
Ron Howard could legit be Eastwood's son!
