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Better than Eastwood

posted 8 years ago by blancolechat
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Ron Howard is so good and very underated it hurts!!!

He's better than Eastwood. Too bad critics always liked Eastwood more.

From Happy days to many masterpieces of cinema.

What a achievement!

[–] myndchanger 8 years ago

Apples and Oranges. Eastwood is about 50's and violence. Howard is about people's connections and how it works.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Eastwood is a punk that got lucky and then senile enough to speak with chairs.

[–] TimMC (9143) 6 years ago

Got lucky repeatedly for decades while his bosses continue to hire him KNOWING that he is very much different, politically, than they are. That is pathetically stupid. Hollyweird hates right leaning people. HATES them. So, Eastwood didn't get lucky one time or a hundred times.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Please keep your posts in the Trump thread.

[–] ShloneN 8 years ago

Are you trolling?

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 6 years ago

Ron's movies I've seen ranked IMO:

Night Shift: C+
Splash: A-
Cocoon: B+
Gung Ho: D+
Willow: B+
Parenthood: B
Backdraft: C
Far and Away: B-
The Paper: A
Apollo 13: A+
Ransom: B+
Beautiful Mind: A-
Da Vinci Code: B
Frost Nixon: C+
Angels and Demons: C-
Inferno: D
Solo: D+

Clint's movies I've seen ranked IMO:

Play Misty for Me: D-
High Plains Drifter: B+
The Eiger Sanction: B-
Outlaw Josey Wales: A-
Bronco Billy: C
Firefox: B+
Sudden Impact: B
Pale Rider: C+
Heartbreak Ridge: C-
Bird: D
White Hunter Black Heart: D+
The Rookie: B-
Unforgiven: C+
Bridges of Madison: C+
Absolute Power: A-
Midnight in the Garden of: D-
True Crime: C
Space Cowboys: B-
Blood Work: C+
Mystic River: B-
Million Dollar Baby: B+
Flags of Our Fathers: A-
Letter from Iwo Gima: C+
Changling: C
Gran Torino: A
American Sniper: B-
Sully: B+

In the end I guess they are about the same to me. I give Ron a slight edge. Eastwood has had more films I skipped and/or hated so I give it to Ron.

I'd love to have a drink and a smoke with both of them but if I had to choose, I'd pick Clint. Both good actors.

[–] johnnm58 (545) 5 years ago

Hands down Eastwood is a better director? That's what I think. Howard has done some great movies.

[–] liscarkat (16869) 4 years ago

Sorry, but "Happy Days" was a cringe-worthy LCD sitcom, not an "achievement".

Eastwood's movies are less mainstream/CGI than Howard's, and more for adults. Howard is a typical Hollywood leftist, Eastwood is not. Many filmgoers allow this to negatively bias their assessment of Eastwood's movies. I doubt Eastwood worries about it much.

[–] chilone (17348) 2 years ago

Eastwood by a mile.