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  • G Gary Wheeler

    Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

    Sidney Poitier

    He should be at the very top of the "wonderful actors who turned into awful directors" list :-D.

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    Bassam Abdul Baki
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    What did he direct?

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    • B Bassam Abdul Baki

      What did he direct?

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      Gary Wheeler
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      See here[^]. Some of the movies were just plain awful, and none of them were what you'd expect from such a fine actor.

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      • G Gary Wheeler

        See here[^]. Some of the movies were just plain awful, and none of them were what you'd expect from such a fine actor.

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        Bassam Abdul Baki
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        I liked Buck and the Preacher, not to mention Fast Forward. :)

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        • B Bassam Abdul Baki

          I liked Buck and the Preacher, not to mention Fast Forward. :)

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          I guess I expected him to be a great director, since he was such a good actor. The movies he directed weren't uniformly horrible, but I would have thought a few would really shine. I'm something of a film snob, I'm afraid. It's probably a result of being forced to watch the unadulterated crap classic 'B-movies' my wife likes to watch.

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          • G Gary Wheeler

            I guess I expected him to be a great director, since he was such a good actor. The movies he directed weren't uniformly horrible, but I would have thought a few would really shine. I'm something of a film snob, I'm afraid. It's probably a result of being forced to watch the unadulterated crap classic 'B-movies' my wife likes to watch.

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            Bassam Abdul Baki
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            Gary Wheeler wrote:

            I guess I expected him to be a great director, since he was such a good actor. The movies he directed weren't uniformly horrible, but I would have thought a few would really shine.

            I never thought Clint Eastwood was an exceptional actor, but his movies are certainly done well.

            Gary Wheeler wrote:

            I'm something of a film snob, I'm afraid. It's probably a result of being forced to watch the unadulterated crap classic 'B-movies' my wife likes to watch.

            Always keep a box of tissues handy. :)

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            • B Bassam Abdul Baki

              Gary Wheeler wrote:

              I guess I expected him to be a great director, since he was such a good actor. The movies he directed weren't uniformly horrible, but I would have thought a few would really shine.

              I never thought Clint Eastwood was an exceptional actor, but his movies are certainly done well.

              Gary Wheeler wrote:

              I'm something of a film snob, I'm afraid. It's probably a result of being forced to watch the unadulterated crap classic 'B-movies' my wife likes to watch.

              Always keep a box of tissues handy. :)

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              Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

              I never thought Clint Eastwood was an exceptional actor, but his movies are certainly done well

              Eastwood's sort of a counter-example to Poitier. Clint's a pretty good actor who has turned into an amazing director.

              Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

              Always keep a box of tissues handy.

              Or a bucket.

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              • G Gary Wheeler

                Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

                I never thought Clint Eastwood was an exceptional actor, but his movies are certainly done well

                Eastwood's sort of a counter-example to Poitier. Clint's a pretty good actor who has turned into an amazing director.

                Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

                Always keep a box of tissues handy.

                Or a bucket.

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                Bassam Abdul Baki
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                Gary Wheeler wrote:

                Or a bucket.

                Tears of joy! :laugh:

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                • B Bassam Abdul Baki

                  Gary Wheeler wrote:

                  Or a bucket.

                  Tears of joy! :laugh:

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                  We had a zombie film festival last fall X|. You can endure only so many movies in a row about shambling managers.

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                  • S super

                    By Consensus or majority thinking, who are considered as the "All time great" actors? I needed the response, to show my esteemed colleague that his knowledge of Movies should be "expanded"

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                      :laugh: :thumbsup:

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                      • S super

                        By Consensus or majority thinking, who are considered as the "All time great" actors? I needed the response, to show my esteemed colleague that his knowledge of Movies should be "expanded"

                        cheers, Super ------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it

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                        "Humans are amphibians ... half spirit and half animal ... as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation: the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.” C.S. Lewis

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