RON HOWARD: Pick Your Poison

GAH FORGOT DAVINCI

HOW COULD I?

i have avoided all but 3

I thought that skull helmet in Willow was the coolest thing since Boba Fett when I was 10.

Parenthood, easy.

I liked Willow, and always got a kick out of how it apparently was so airy-fairy that Peter Jackson got pissed off and dumped extra grime into LOTR

Ransom. Poor Lili Taylor.

Parenthood is the only watchable movie on this list

(which is sad cuz its also probably one of the last decent movies Steve Martin made)

Splash was on TV recently - SO BAD

I remember John Candy being a blast.

Apollo 13 is the only one I've seen since Parenthood.

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srsly guys

Ok, I have to say the typical Kenan thing and say that Splash was my first encounter with naked movie butt, and it will always have a special place in my heart. It's a pretty rotten movie, though.

i like the action scenes in 'ransom' a lot but theres way too much suffering mel inbetween.

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I wish Arrested Development narration was an option.

Can I vote Arrested Development narration?

uh, xpost

Now that I think about it though, he was even the shittiest actor in that!

But it worked!

no.

American Graffiti

I vote for the movie about the robot driving instructor who goes back in time for some reason. with a talking pie as a sidekick

Another addendum to the poll: his bathrobed Simpsons cameo.

"We need more Vodka!"

oh fuck, i had repressed the memory of the 4th

you guys don't even read my posts do you

Some of us are just too lazy to type "xpost".

parenthood easily one of the worst movies i've ever seen. and i have seen a lot of movies. completely odious. grand theft auto gets my vote. though i am a gung ho fan.

Apollo 13...because "it's when America was AMERICA, dammit!!"*

* People would use duct tape to fix complex shit in badass ways

I don't think I can bring myself to vote in this one.

completely odious.

Elaborate? I don't see it.

I haven't seen it in 20 years, so I might feel differently if I saw it now. I do still laugh whenever I think about Tom Hulce and his son, "Cool".

altho looking at this list its hard not to conclude that Ron Howard is one of the shittiest big name Hollywood directors currently working

Steve Martin to the cop: "Show him, honey."

"Elaborate? I don't see it."

reprehensible. made me want to vomit. curdled cream. life as living death. smarm city. idiocy disguised as insight. made me want to blow up the world.

but that's just me. i felt the same way about father of the bride re-make too. sorta.

as my lit professor used to say "be specific. reference the text"

i haven't seen it in years. but i despised it. i much prefer Father Hood. i think Neil LaBute was heavily influenced by Parenthood. and Todd Solondz. that and the scene in Grand Canyon where Steve Martin gets shot and pisses his pants. OH THE HUMANITY!

I like Solondz, LaBute less so but they both seem more hateful and bitter (not to mention mysognystic, especially in LaBute's case) than Ron fuckin Howard.

Willow all the way.

Never realized his directing career ran so close to playing Richie Cunningham.

Shakey OTM about Solondz and LaBute, but Howard's saccharine fulsomeness is just as loathsome.

My vote's for Night Shift because there's a scene in a disco in which Michael Keaton dances to Talk Talk's "Talk Talk."

A Beautiful Mind is not hateable if divorced from the hype/Oscars - Crowe, Bettany and Connelly make for a well above-average cast, at least. It's not exactly good, but I think I'd rather watch it than any of the others.

I just want to see his lost deathcamp clown film.

And now so do I.

hahaha

is night shift worth seeing? it sounds kinda funny. i didn't realize howard and keaton were such a team.

I kinda hate Michael Keaton for some reason I can't quite place.

Altho I noticed he had back-to-back funny incompetent cop roles in Out of Sight and Jackie Brown, which made me appreciate him a little more. His 80s stuff I avoid like the plague (he's the worst thing in Beetlejuice)

night shift is awesome, michael keaton is awesome

I can't forgive him for Jack Frost, Batman, Multiplicity, Clean and Sober, Mr. Mom, to name a few...

well, batman is no batman returns, i'll grant you that

I remember liking Gung Ho somewhat...there are little bits to like in most of his movies, but looking at that list as a whole, I just want all those hours of my life back.

Multiplicity. Man I can't believe that movie exists. I worked at a theater the summer it came out. it seems like a bad dream.
i pretty much hate michael keaton too.

but i like Mr. Mom

I agree that Batman Returns is totally better than Batman... but that's because of the villains and the supporting cast (and a better script), not Keaton.

Keaton's OOS & JB role is the same incomptetent cop, Ray somebody.

I was wondering what the connection was cuz yeah, they're remarkably similar. But I didn't know there was any connection between Soderbergh and Tarantino, that's kinda odd...

he was terrific in Clean and Sober! That and The Morning After the only alkie movie I can watch.

I hate Michael Keaton, too, and I've never been able to figure it out! Pretty easy to hate, tho.

I chose Far & Away, but only because Enya is fucking awesome.

Michael Keaton is my favorite actor with a near-unforgiveable film career. Mr Mom though is wonderful. I really wish the initial LOST pilot episode had panned out as originally intended, with Michael Keaton as heroic and not-yet-douchebaggy Jack, who was to have died by the end of the episode.

xpost hahaha omg "Enya is fucking awesome." How's that for sentences you never thought you'd ever read.

I chose Cocoon, because Steve Guttenberg needs love and no one's going to do it besides me I guess.

Shakey: both Out of Sight & Jackie Brown are based on books by Elmore Leonard; I think Soderbergh was the one that chose to carry MK's role over (given Ray Nicolette - I think is his name - is in both books).

Ah! Thanks it all becomes clear.

Nothing else above tops Keaton's debut 30 seconds in "Night Shift."

Hi, I'm Bill Blazejowski, you can call me Billy Blaze, so what's our job, we pick up stiffs or what? That a picture of your wife? Nice frame...

GIVE MICHAEL KEATON THE OSCAR!

(critical endorsement, according to Clean and Sober television advertisement)

Ron Howard can give him his Oscar.

i am serious, nick-- Enya is totally fucking sweet. she WRITES all of her shit, and knows how to work those synths. Far & Away is an awful movie, but "Book of Days," Enya's best song, is played like a million fucking times throughout it, so i like the movie.

("book of days" is the 11th most played song on my itunes)

what no Orinoco Flow

Storms in Africa

I voted Willow very narrowly over Parenthood because OMG Sorsha and "I stole the baby! I stole it from that stupid Daikini while he was taking a pee pee!" and "There's a peck here with an acorn pointed at me!"

I can quote Parenthood all day too but there's no Sorsha. :(

i voted for apollo 13 because it's the only one of these i can even halfway remember.

i own Orinoco Flow on tape. some blissful car drives, let me tell you.

i love the paper to pieces. its a simple remake of 'the front page', with a pretty great cast, marisa tomei being absolutely hot even tho she is 9 months pregnant, glenn close is great, jason robards has an ace minor role. and michael keaton is fantastic, though i have to admit to having a soft spot for any film with a permanently stressed and overworked editor who is addicted to coca cola as its hero.

also, even though he was pretty awful, i love ron howard in happy days. bucko. and morbs is right, he's very good in american graffiti; kind of an underwritten role, but he's surprisingly good playing a shallow and spiteful kid about to ditch his girlfriend for sex with college students.

no doubt it's willow. because the redhead in that movie is utterly, utterly hot.

word.

A Beautiful Mind is not hateable if divorced from the hype/Oscars

I don't know how the oscars would make the movie detestable. An oscar is about par for the course for a tearjerking turdpile like that movie.

I used to have nightmares about Orinoco Flow. I really did!

night shift, easy. michael keaton when he was still funny, and shelley long (?!?) looking kinda hot.

Willow is funny

i also like the aforementioned Enya songs. connect the dots, make of that what you will, etc.

Enya rules. Sorsha rules. Haters to the side.

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Cotton Candy is not on this list.

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willow sucks

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yes. that is my definition of "do not want"

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Frost/Nixon is a lying sack of shit

Michael Keaton is my favorite actor with a near-unforgiveable film career.

Someone cast him opposite Diane Lane!

You know, after WPIX was taken over, they never show Willow on TV anymore. Back in the day you were guarenteed at least 2 Willow showings a year on Channel 11.

Netflix queue: Willow.

wouldn't the writer of frost/nixon be more to blame for any lies than ron howard?

visuals can lie too (and do, here). but both, yes.

more or fewer lies than The Queen?

Parenthood would've gotten my vote.

like I saw The Queen! (this Morgan fella has a stiffie for the unimportant subjects.)

all movies are lies

I avoided Frost/Nixon when it was in theatres, bought a cheap DVD last year, continued to leave it on the shelf, finally watched it the other night. The guy who plays Frost is good--same guy who was in the play, I think. It's mimicry rather than acting, and he overuses a couple of facial expressions, but boy, he had the voice down pat (and an interesting conception of the character to go along with it--nice guy giving it his best in the midst of official-journalist condescension). Didn't get what Langella was doing at all. Anthony Hopkins didn't really look or sound like Nixon, yet it was an idiosyncratic interpretation that made sense to me--the Andy Hardy aspect was a great touch. Langella speaks slowly and deeply, and barely even hints at Nixon's insecurities and neuroses. To me at least, he didn't even remotely suggest Nixon.

good points. i prefer michael sheen in the role of "wesley snipes."

lol jaymc