re: Defending Ron Howard

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Sure, he's not an "artist". He's a professional. It's probably why many of his best films deal with professional competency: The Paper, Apollo 13, Gung Ho, Backdraft, even Cinderella Man. The world needs artists... it needs professionals, too. We need stories to deconstruct.

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Good way to put it. My only beef with Howard is that a lot of people do often equate him in some sense to an artist or a great director. That's just a small list for me and he's not on it.

But he's superb at what he does, and 90% of the time I enjoy his films.