Why is Robert DeNiro a bad actor now -
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He's good when he's got a good script/character to work with.
Take Joker, for instance. That was a well-written movie, and DeNiro did a great job as Murray. Yet, decades before that, he was doing embarrassing shit like Rocky & Bullwinkle and Meet the Parents, and it always felt very forced.
DeNiro's not a bad actor, per se, he's just not a great actor. There are plenty of actors who can turn cringy roles into interesting and convincing stuff, but DeNiro is not one of them.
Take Joker, for instance. That was a well-written movie, and DeNiro did a great job as Murray. Yet, decades before that, he was doing embarrassing shit like Rocky & Bullwinkle and Meet the Parents, and it always felt very forced.
DeNiro's not a bad actor, per se, he's just not a great actor. There are plenty of actors who can turn cringy roles into interesting and convincing stuff, but DeNiro is not one of them.
So his past as a good actor is a mere coincidence that he got cast for the roles?
He was never a very good actor, Godfather II < I, he was always okay at best. He was in some good movies but almost never elevated them by himself (Heat, Goodfellas, Casino etc.). The only movies in which he added something were Jackie Brown, Cape Fear and that one where he played a braindead retard (a role he was a natural at)
He's an all-time-great actor who apparently takes every role offered to him, for money or just out of boredom (more likely). Same with Pacino, and Brando towards the end of his career.
You can dump on him for his low standards, but nobody is going to remember Dirty Grandpa or The Intern 50 years from now anyway, and everyone is going to remember Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, so it's not like it matters.
You can dump on him for his low standards, but nobody is going to remember Dirty Grandpa or The Intern 50 years from now anyway, and everyone is going to remember Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, so it's not like it matters.
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If you want a truly horrific and completely soulless De Niro performance I recommend checking out Killing Season. It also has John Travolta playing a serbian and the accent he puts on is so fucking bad I cant even describe it. I know they're just phoning it in for money but my god. They also only utilize about 4 "sets" in the movie, it was probably some kind of attempt by the studio to skirt around taxes by declaring loses on an obvious pile of shit movie.
I enjoy the work of Robert DeNegro.
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The first demon spawn from the left looks like he's about to plunge Earth in 5000 years of darkness and despair.
Why is Laurence Fishburne wearing a dress
Every A list actor used a dress at some point in their career. Is something Hollywood producers gets their socks off.
Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Deniro, the rock... Everyone used a dress.
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He is still a great actor. He just doesn't get the scripts and really doesn't care - he gets big bucks for doing anything. Why bother trying to give a performance of a lifetime for a garbage script?
the list of great films he has done...is a hell of a list.
the list of great films he has done...is a hell of a list.
He’s been in some great movies (Taxi Driver, Cape Fear, Godfather 1 and 2) but you could make the argument he was great in those because of the great directors attached to the movies. He’s a good actor, just not a great one
I think it’s because of the actors union rules, where you have to make a movie every so often to stay in. On this Red Letter Media, they explain it while watching a movie Abe Vigoda was in.
Too much adrenochrome overstimulated his brain.
then this would seem more like a compliment towards marty than deniro, an actor who requires (not just benefits from) good direction has serious problems
to further the point, leo dicaprio who is a thoroughly middling actor was absolutely excellent in wolf of wall street
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