The Al Pacino School of Acting

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Lesson One: Yelling + bugging out eyes = acting.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Today's his birthday. Lighten up, buster.

― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

His performance in Waiting for Richard says you're lying, n/a.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Lesson two: Don't just say the swear word, BE the swear word.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Lesson three: WHOOO-AH!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Let Us Now Praise Excellent Actors That Have Hammed It Up For A Paycheck.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

His performance in every other film of the last ten years (except Donnie Brasco) says Waiting For Richard was a fluke.

Amst/Slocki to thread to declare his later movies to be a rare and exquisite delight, like eating caviare through a gold straw.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Is he an excellent actor? I was watching Heat last night and, great movie and all, but Pacino sucks pretty bad in it. Unless he was intentionally going for the laughs.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

the n/a school of posting.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Heat is marred by the HOO-AH, but Scent of A Woman is some kind of masterpiece. Or some kind of puzzle movie. I mean... what the hell is that performance? What in God's name got into him? What kind of movie is this?

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Heat is marred by the HOO-AH, but Scent of A Woman is some kind of masterpiece
Kenan, are you are saying there are both good and bad uses of the HOO-HAH!?

He was pretty bad in the Insomnia remake too: "I think I'll have myself a bee-ah." I'm not sure what this is lesson-wise, maybe

Lesson four: Bizarrely drawn-out drawling is acting too, if you're old and famous enough.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Al Pacino and Robert deNiro are both in my book as actors who totally jumped the shark in their later years for paychecks. That doesn't make them any less awesome; I mean Al Pacino's performance in The Insider is...something else. I think both of them have kind of decided to try to play the exact same character, in slightly different permeations, for the past 20 years or so, with a handful of exceptions of varying successes.

I spent a night on AIM once questioning my entire friends list on who was the most Italian person in Hollywood, Pacino was eliminated fairly early on in favor of deNiro v Pesci, with a write in vote for the dude who plays Joey on Friends.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

And Scent of a Woman is possibly one of the most inexplicable movies I've ever seen, up there with Anchorman and Dune with the "Shouldn't this be better than it is? What are these people doing? Does this make sense? Are they even acting or are they all drunk?" questions.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Panic in Needle Park, yo.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

haha is n/a Tom Carson?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I don't get it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

don't mind them, n/a, you are correct.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Al Pacino made 3 or 4 good movies and has pretty much coasted the rest of the time.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Well, if you had to OPO American movie role, the classic of classics, Michael Corleone is the one.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

(x-post)Which is less than Jack Nicholson or Robert DeNiro, but more than John Travolta.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

The Godfather is incredibly overrated.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

THERE I SAID IT. AGAIN.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

It is, but it's still good. So is Panic in Needle Park and Dog Day Afternoon (even though it is probably the beginning of overacting Al.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

As far as latter day Pacino, I'll stick by Richard & Glengarry Glen Ross (if only because Mamet's dialogue totally fits his "I'm SCREAMING because I CAN because I'm AL FUCKING PACINO!" MO) (ha - maybe his GGR work lead him to DO this THING he DOES so MUCH) (ha ha: Pacino's response to critics bitching about his post-Scent work = "FUCK YOU! PAY ME!"). & maybe Merchant of Venice (tho I haven't seen it, I'd like to think honoring Will Shakes might reign Tony M. in a bit).

I can't think of anything DeNiro's done away from Scorscese (sic?) of late worth mentioning (for its quality, that is). Godsend? Mary Shelley's Frankenstein? That Dakota Fanning imaginary friend flick?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

I hate David Mamet so much.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

the fametracker audit of Pacino makes a good case that he hasn't just been taking jobs for money. Dude really doesn't take that many movies (esp. compared to DeNiro). Working in the same amount of time, he's been in ~1/2 or 1/3 as many films.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Dick Tracy is the only film of his I've seen. Seriously.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

DeNiro has definitely fallen apart completely. Still he did more good stuff than Pacino.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

also, the thing about Al Pacino's schtick is that it never gets old. It's always enjoyable to watch on-screen. Where DeNiro's tough-nervous-crazy-guy schtick was worn out in 1976.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh bullshit. Most of DeNiro's best performances are post-76.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

When's the last time DeNiro did that schtick, tho?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

HOOO AH!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

In my book, DeNiro earned the right to lean on that schtick (if he did), just for, "I fuck you where you breathe".

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Heat isn't a great example because that's one of those movies that would be good WITHOUT pacino, and also you're full of shit for implying that he is "going for laffs" in the scene in the diner with deniro, and the scenes with his wife.

Scarface is the best example, to me, of a movie that would totally blow ass except Pacino was in it. Best because everybody's seen it a dozen times and because it's funny to try and think of ANY OTHER ACTOR in the world doing the "bad guy" speesh onna way otta da ressa'ront.

Dog Day Afternoon is another great one, would've been nigh unwatchable without him carrying it though. Who else can get away with that?

I don't really think DeNiro and Pacino are that similar, to be honest. They're definitely not interchangeable in the least. I mean look at Cape Fear, that is what happens when you put the wrong one in a movie. You could definitely make a Pacino-Stallone Flowers For Algernon though.

I need to watch all of these again, sometime soon! Except Cape Fear, god.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 25 April 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

I didn't say Pacino was going for laughs in Heat. I offered up the idea that he was going for laughs as a tongue-in-cheek excuse for his acting in that movie. Like when he's questioning his informant and he starts singing "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." What a nut.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

last DeNiro movies I remember seeing the schtick - the Fan and Great Expectations. So we're talking late-90s at a minimum.

I will give DeNiro major credit for Jackie Brown, though.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm not arguing that Deniro doesn't have schtick, nor that Deniro hasn't been in crappy movies in the past twenty years, but claiming he's been a one note actor since '76 or that he hasn't done anything worthwhile since then is just fucking madness.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Roeper asked a great question about DeNiro: "Is he trying to take Charles Grodin's career away?"

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

That question doesn't make any sense.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Unless DeNiro is angly for a quickly cancelled talk show or the wimpy dad part in Beethoven 6.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

but that schtick is his calling card, fallen back on many times over the years (plus variations/caricatures like the wiseguy in Analyze This), and it never gets any fresher. Whereas Pacino's schtick constantly rejuvenates itself, because you get the impression he's enjoying his job more and not taking it too seriously. (I don't know much about their styles, maybe this is a Method issue?)

So DeNiro hitting a peak in a different mode is still great (Jackie Brown), but Pacino is just steadily damn-good and often (as Tombot says) the difference between a good movie and an unwatchable one.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

xxpost:
Is it some kind of reference to Midnight Run, that maybe backstage they did some voodoo-style/Freaky Friday/Young Frankenstein switcheroo?

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

i had a running joke with a friend for years about-- well, back up, do you remember those little toys that looked like remote controls with lots of buttons and if you hit one of them it would make a funny sound like something exploding or a siren going off? so we thought there should be an "al pacino simulator" along the same lines with the salient bits from his movies:

"I CHOOSE TO FIGHT! BACK!"

"HOO-AA!"

etc.

that said, i actually like him , and i think the moment in "heat" where he says "because she's got a--GREAT ASS" and makes that silly ass-shaping hand gesture is great acting.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Pacino is the reason why so many Al Pacino movies are unwatchable. DeNiro just happens to be making a bunch of unwatchable movies (Godsend wouldn't have been any better with Morgan Freeman in it.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

pacino's directors are more to blame, i think.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

"Whereas Pacino's schtick constantly rejuvenates itself, because you get the impression he's enjoying his job more and not taking it too seriously."

This makes me laugh. AL PACINO is always playing AL PACINO! He never reinvents himself.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Stence OTM.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

the Pacino factor has only driven me away from one movie: The Merchant of Venice.

I like Any Given Sunday quite a bit, but imagine it would have been the worst movie ever with anyone else as the Coach.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

ANY GIVEN SUNDAY IS THE WORST MOVIE EVER!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Spellings of Al Pacino's Catchphrase From Scent Of A Woman -POX.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

This is making me want to watch Scent of a Woman, even if it does have Robin in it.

As one-note shouty actors that you can't take your eyes off go, Pacino's no Christopher Walken.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

science would seem to have proved that oliver stone + football = headache

the movie mostly bears this out but i found it kind of amusing in its insane macho-ness

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Christopher Walken is better mumbly and spaced (like a guy who's seen some freaky shit and lived to tell) than shouty. He was genius in Man on Fire

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

I mean that whole movie is a joke. Anyone could have overacted Al Pacino's role and it wouldn't have made a difference.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Any Given Sunday is all about Jaime Foxx lovin' life, and everyone else passing kidney stones. Fuck an inch.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Devil's Advocate was fun because it was the perfect outlet for Pacino to let loose on the WHOO-AH without ruining the movie.

― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Oh, yeah - the devil totally HOO-AHs.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

POV:

HOO-AH
HOO-WAH
WHOO-AH
HU-AA
KHOOWAH (silent K)

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Anyone could have overacted Pacino's role, yeah - but it would have sucked. He didn't overact, though, that's what was great. He basically just met the pitch of the movie and was often pretty chill. (Like the bedroom scenes w/ the naked hooker from Saved By The Bell)

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Scent of a Woman is a really creepy name for a movie.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha Milo I am never trusting your opinion of Al Pacino movies. NEVER.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

I think Pacino has much more of a knack than DeNiro does at taking really poorly-written shit and turning it into gold. He goes into left field to do it a lot, which gets him into a bit of trouble, but it's totally forgiveable. Glengarry Glen Ross!!!

With DeNiro I get the idea that I'm watching a dishwater protagonist turned into somebody really compelling, The Score and Ronin are pretty good examples of this, I think.

Actually Ronin is fucking great, they should just make a sequel with him and Jean Reno running around Europe with guns for 120 minutes. After Ed Norton.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 25 April 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

GGR was poorly written?!?

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Am I the only person who simply forgot "Heat" the second he left the theater?

Al's Hyperventilating Mode only worked for me as Big Boy Caprice.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

GGR is a good collection of monologues for young actors.

Christopher Walken's best movie of late is still The Rundown.

Also what the fuck were Pacino and Walken doing in Gigli?!?!?

― TOMBOT, Monday, 25 April 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I forgot about the GREAT ASS line. It's a total WTF moment but a great one.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

"Am I the only person who simply forgot "Heat" the second he left the theater?"

I remember the terrible ending to this DAY!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

I can't remember deNiro's part in Wag the Dog at all, but I'm sure it was good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.t-shirtking.com/graphics/138-00249.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

GOD DAMN IT!!

ihttp://www.alyon.org/generale/theatre/cinema/affiches_cinema/s/sab-ser/serpico.jpg

SERPICO!!!

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.musicman.com/polish/serpico.gif

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

who gives a shit what Pacino and Walken were doing in Gigli, wtf was deNiro doing in Rocky & Bullwinkle?????

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

I mean seriously that's about 70,000x worse than whatever shit happened in Orson Welles's brain in the late 70s/early 80s. I mean at least the Muppet Movie is enjoyable. WTF!

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

you don't mean to say that you LIKED gigli?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Pacino was good in Angels in America as far as recent movies go.

― darin (darin), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

That performance is okay, even though it ANNOYED ME THAT THEY COULDN'T ACTUALLY FIND A FUCKING JEWISH ACTOR TO PLAY ROY COHN (also fuck you Merchant of Venice, just fuck you.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

I have never, ever implied any affiliation to the film Gigli, merely that Rocky & Bullwinkle is worse. Having a STARRING ROLE in Rocky & Bullwinkle is like...I actually can't think of a comparison that really expresses how I feel about deNiro doing this.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

i don't understand why yer being so rockist wr2 roy cohn having to be portrayed by a jewish actor?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

I didn't mind him in Angels, but it's a hundred miles away from the right casting decision. Jewish, Gentile, whatever. He was wrong for it.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

The Rundown was scary genius wrapped in a shiny wrapper. Christopher Walken single-handedly saved that movie.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

O!T!M! Everything Walken says in that movie is absolutely gold.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Did he say "Boys, this is our night to howl"? It seems to be his "HOO-AH".

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

No Dan. You are Wrong.

1. The Rock beating up the offensive line of a professional football team with a pair of turntables.
2. Stifler getting his ass beat, multiple times.
3. Chris Walken's tooth fairy speech.
4. Chris Walken saying "Wow" after the first time The Rock kicks his boys' asses.
5. The Rock cocking shotguns with his armpits.
6. "I built you a town! Why are we fighting?"

That movie needs no saving.

Also, though she's not really my thing:

7. Rosario Dawson.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 25 April 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

I knew I should have put "for the unbelievers" at the end of my post because everything I've written about would lead you to believe that I would go apeshit for The Rundown... AND YOU WOULD BE RIGHT for every reason you've listed but particularly 1, 2,6 and 7.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

He nearly took the whole GENE WILDER thread down with one post.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

the n/a school of posting.
He nearly took the whole GENE WILDER thread down with one post.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

WHO-HAAAH!

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

There was an interview on Salon with Pacino where he said that the reason he does THE PACINO YELLING THING is because the DIRECTORS EITHER TELL HIM TO DO IT OR THEY NEVER TELL HIM TO TURN IT OFF...

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

I got you all in check.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

N/A GOTCHA OPEN, KID.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

al pacino is great! the devil's advocate is great! the insider is great! any given sunday is great! all his early movies are even greater! (mostly)

great actors play themselves yo!! you are all maniacs!! AL PACINO 4 LIFE!!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

name me one more entertaining american actor of the last 30 years!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

1) Christopher Walken

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Christopher Walken

(XPOST OMG)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

OK I JUST DISCOVERED THIS GOOGLING FOR CHRISTOPHER WALKEN

http://jamesbond007.net/advers/Walken.jpg

AWESOME!

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

When did Julie Andrews turn into Christopher Walken???

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

WHO IS TEH DREAMIEST

http://jamesbond007.net/advers/Walken.jpg vs. http://www.magazinequeen.com/images/deniropb.JPG vs. http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/actors/al-pacino/al-pacino-mugshot.jpg

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

christopher walken is just as much, if not 20x more, a self-parody than pacino. but if you like him better what can i say. he IS good (and he can dance)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

l-r: Julie Andrews, Keanu Brody, Robert Downey Jr.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Christopher Walken in Annie Hall >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Al Pacino's entire career basically.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

HISSSS

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

(Everyone will boo me for saying it but I like Denzel Washington more than I like Pacino. I also like DeNiro more than Pacino. But I do like Pacino.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

I like Matthew Broderick more than I like Al Pacino (these days--as I said I like Pacino before Dog Day Afternoon A LOT.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Saying you prefer Walken to Pacino is like saying you prefer ice cream to cake! I mean I wouldn't turn either down!

Also Pacino was apparently pretty cute back in the day! WTF happened to him! HOOOOOOHAAAAAAAA

xpost argh Denzel used to stalk around my old neighborhood with a HUGE posse of men, all of them smoking cigars and looking v. angry. I didn't like it at all.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

"Also Pacino was apparently pretty cute back in the day! WTF happened to him! HOOOOOOHAAAAAAAA"

TOO MANY TANNING SALONS!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Al Pacino's album:

http://sopot.lex.pl/~djjack/lyrics/covers/jr.jpg

(I apologize for this comparison, I know it is not 1996)

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Wow. I would pay money to see the Angry Denzel Posse in full effect.

Are the most entertaining actors the ones who become self-parodies? I was scanning through my mental shortlist (Dustin Hoffman, Harrison Ford, Denzel, Walken, Pacino, DeNiro, Bob Newhart) (don't laugh, Bob Newhart is the shit) and pretty much all of them could be said to be caricatures of themselves. (I guess Tom Cruise is the exception that proves the rule?)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

If someone made a movie and it starred Hoffman, Ford, Denzel, Pacino, Walken, deNiro, Keanu Reeves, Tom Cruise, James Spader, Samuel L. Jackson, and Hugh Grant, not only would it cost a lot of money, but I think civilization would reach a new pinnacle.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

But mostly it would just suck (plus aren't all those people in Burn Hollywood Burn.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

xpost - You aren't accusing Cruise of being an entertaining actor, are you? The guy is a stump.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I think Dan is accusing him of being a self-parody.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

I couldn't decide which end he was supposed to be the exception to.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

It's weird seeing the Godfather now, it's like Pacino was saving up all the WOO HAAAHs for later in his career. He says like five words in the entire trilogy. He never moves his face!

Al Pacino was indeed cute in GF Pt I but man, DeNiro was the real sex bombe in that one. I gasped when I saw him.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

What an entertaining image that provides.

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHA Ally, I swear I was going to list James Spader and Samuel L. Jackson in my original list!!!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

ally your denzel story made me snort ginger ale out of my nose

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

i like the idea of denzel's posse hopping from piano bar to piano bar, smoking cigars, leaving a string of dazed margarita-swilling divorcées in their wake

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

how did we get all the way down here on this thread without anyone mentioning Pacino's one great non-shouty movie of the last, I dunno, 10 years: Insomnia?

I have never seen the entirety of the Godfather, and every time I catch some of it on TV or wherever, I find it incredibly slow and boring. I don't get it.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 25 April 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

I think somebody may have mentioned it already, Shakey. I hate to say it, but even though he didn't shout his performance still wasn't that good.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Ken might have an inside track on the previous Insomina reference.

I find portions of The Godfather to be absolutely riveting. It's one of my favorite movies that I never want to watch.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

(Oh! And since I never explained, YES Tom Cruise is self-parody but FUCK NO he is not entertaining; he is like Kryptonite to entertainment.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Who is Tom Cruise's historical equivalent - who are the overpaid, talentless "hunks" of yore?

(fwiw I think Insomnia *was* pretty forgettable, but it was also undeniably Pacino deliberately trying to play against his "shouty" type)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 25 April 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

I've never stayed awake through all of the Godfather.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Who is Tom Cruise's historical equivalent - who are the overpaid, talentless "hunks" of yore?

RYAN O'NEAL TO THREAD

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

I guess the thing about the Godfather that I find off-putting - and maybe this would not be the case if I sat down to watch it start to finish - is that it seems like a film that is very static: nothing happens, then someone gets killed. The film seems like this pointless excercise in waiting for the entire cast to get killed off. I mean, where is the dramatic *tension* supposed to come from? It seems like a given that everyone will betray everyone else - someone fucks up, they get whacked, the end. If you take that as a foregone conclusion, there's no real reason to watch it...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 25 April 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

i like that aspect of the godfather

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

The entire point of the narrative of The Godfather seems to me to be about how organized crime had ossified into a fairly predictable pattern where you knew exactly whose back you had to scratch to get by... and then the younger Corleones came along and the whole world zips merrily to Hell in a handbasket.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

the funny thing about Ryan O'Neal is that I can't remember a single one of his movies - OTOH in thirty years, I doubt many people will be able to remember a single Tom Cruise movie either, since he has never, not ONCE, been in a good movie ("Risky Business" is really not that good, and pales in comparison to other, far superior teen-sex comedies of the same era. Shit, even "Last American Virgin" is better).

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 25 April 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

sadly tom cruise has been in a number of good movies, no thanks to tom cruise

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

name one.

don't say Eyes Wide Shut.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 25 April 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

I'll name one: Minority Report. I don't know exactly what the directors see in him, unless he is some sort of reliable cipher around which to spin their vision, if you will allow me to mix metaphors.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

I liked Minority Report. Also, um, Rain Man and Top Gun.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

I never saw Minority Report, the casting Tom Cruise was akin to pissing on PKD's grave, being as he is the total antithesis of Dick's protagonists. Top Gun and Rain Man are both awful.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 25 April 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

You can't remember a single Ryan O'Neal movie?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

dustin hoffman should have been in top gun

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

not off the top of my head, no. I may not have even seen any.

x-post

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 25 April 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

The Christopher Walken as manchild photo just amazes me. Him as a cowboy with mascara in Heaven's Gate also amazes me.

(In reading through this thread I realize more than ever I don't track actors, I [sorta] track movies, and even then it's astoundingly random. I honestly can't think of the last movie I saw because I thought to myself, "Oh, so-and-so is in it, I gotta go.")

As for Ryan O'Neal, there's always Barry Lyndon, I s'pose. Though I'm kinda grateful I've never sat through the whole thing yet.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 April 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

"Ryan O'Neal, there's always Barry Lyndon,"

haha - I guess he and Cruise are good analogues, they both starred in shitty Kubrick movies!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 25 April 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Hahah, ouch.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 April 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

who gives a shit what Pacino and Walken were doing in Gigli, wtf was deNiro doing in Rocky & Bullwinkle?????

It's a Tribeca movie, and DeNiro co-owns Tribeca or summat, but the company doesn't work too well and the only times it gets a deal with major studios is when DeNiro promises to be involved as an actor, pretty much (note: this is based on half-remembered facts from some chaepo DeNiro biography, I'm not 100% on any of it.)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 25 April 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

I just watched Barry Lyndon and it's actually pretty great satire.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 25 April 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

pacino is still ok by me but i do think it's weird when actors who get major attention early on amp up their style as they age, instead of whittling it down and fine tuning it - it seems run counter to the whole idea of craftsmanship. (i'm not sure this is what has happened to pacino, but it sure looks like it sometimes). that said, the older shouty pacino is the one whose movies i prefer rewatching, and the early ones i like are pretty shouty too.

― jones (actual), Monday, 25 April 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

you know who else is good? alec baldwin.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 April 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

haha and there i was trying not to bring him up

― jones (actual), Monday, 25 April 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

I mean, where is the dramatic *tension* supposed to come from?

This is trolling, no? From Michael! Good God, man, did you even watch the movies?

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Insomnia had this low-key feel that I associate with great made-for-TV movies, where things patiently get uncovered and the surface ok-ness of everything gradually unravels, and I was into it even after Robin Williams started annoying the shit out of me, but then it climaxes in Yet Another shotgun shootout that leaves the protagonists bloodied but triumphant and the bad guy killed and it's hey, end of movie. I'm so sick of this shit. Like, who cares what happens, all the feints and apologies and passionate declarations and betrayals and double crosses if you know it's all going to end gun vs gun. Fuck. It's like a home run in baseball. Somebody walks, he steals second, somebody bunts him over, there's a strike out, a couple of pickoff moves, a fly out that's not quite deep enough to tag on.. and then somebody hits a home run. I mean that's great and all but if you know every game is going to end with a home run it takes quite a bit away.

So yeah, Pacino. I can't believe people complain about his shouty style, it's fantastic, when Tom Cruise shouts you get the feeling he's kind of looking in the nearest available mirror at the same time to make sure his jaw is clenching in the most masculine style possible. When Pacino yells, sometimes it seems like he's bored and just trying to liven things up by yelling, but that sense of relieving boredom by just really lambasting something feels true, too, you know?

I'm trying to think of the Tom Cruises of yore - irritating hunks who could barely act - and I'm drawing a blank on really SUCCESSFUL ones.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Mitchum could be an irritating hunk. He could also be a totally great actor, but he wasn't always. THe other night on TCM, they ran this movie where he affects a fake Austrailian accent all the time, and it's totally the Far and Away of its time.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Pacino does his best when he's quiet. That's how you make the loud stuff work. Dynamics, eh?

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

I'm trying to think of the Tom Cruises of yore - irritating hunks who could barely act - and I'm drawing a blank on really SUCCESSFUL ones.

JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

so the early part of his career was just setting up the later part of his career, you're saying? (xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

I never saw Minority Report, the casting Tom Cruise was akin to pissing on PKD's grave
I hate to break it to you, Shake, but next up on their plate is a Michael Moorcock adaptation.

Curious G OTM.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

If he plays Jerry Cornelius I'm going to shoot myself.

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

"they had faces then" to thread etc.

alex baldwin is pretty great, but he's best playing a version of "alex baldwin"

i always smile when he makes a cameo; best part of the aviator by far

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

I am pleased that this thread started being about Christopher Walken, and particularly The Runaway/Welcome To The Jungle. TOMBOT's list needs one extra item: Ewan Bremner's accent.

In reading through this thread I realize more than ever I don't track actors, I [sorta] track movies, and even then it's astoundingly random.

You need the ILX starter set:

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/29/35/38m.jpg http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/29/07/38m.jpg
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/24/85/38m.jpg
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/65/85/38m.jpg
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/54/65/38m.jpg
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/86/17/68m.jpg
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/52/37/12m.jpg
http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/53/17/38m.jpg

Act now and recieve for free:

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/79/35/38m.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

(I'm sure those are some short term cache, and by the time other people read this, it'll be twelve pictures of Zha Zha Gabor)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)

Rundown, not Runaway.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 08:16 (twenty years ago)

Yeah all those pictures are invisible. I found a ridiculous alternative.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

If he plays Jerry Cornelius I'm going to shoot myself.

Nic Cage to star in 'Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan'

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

All Christopher Walken fans: PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVE SEEN "PENNIES FROM HEAVEN"! He does a striptease! And seduces Bernadette Peters!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I misread that as "PENIS FROM HEAVEN" and thought, no, I don't really want to see the Walken woo.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

It's a really unusual movie, but the Walken scene is magnificent.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

I hated the movie on first viewing but I've grown to like it a lot over the years. And I believe that is a great scene.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Yeah all those pictures are invisible

Bollocks. That starter kit in full: Johnny Depp, Owen Wilson, Rosario Dawson, Bill Murray, Kirsten Dunst, Ben Stiller, Keanu Reeves, Zhang Ziyi. Bonus: Will Ferrell

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

alex baldwin is pretty great, but he's best playing a version of "alex baldwin"

why do people always say this about actors like it's a bad thing

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

That ranks right up there on the pet-peeve list with "He's not acting, he's IMITATING."

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

he just wants attention!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Movie stars from the 40s and 50s to thread!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

There are days I think Barry Lyndon is Kubrick's second-best film (after 2001). Likely his subtlest; so smart and profoundly funny.

I saw Pacino shout a lot onstage in American Buffalo in '81, and it was fine there.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

All trailers for movies featuring Al Pacino in the past 10 years must include at least one scene of him screaming into a cell phone the words "YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME?!"

― !, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

I still can't decide, two years after watching it, if Ryan O'Neil in Barry Lyndon is horrible casting or great casting.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Barry is an oaf. It's great casting.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

"I hate to break it to you, Shake, but next up on their plate is a Michael Moorcock adaptation."

AAAGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *head explodes*

(unless it's Elric - I don't care at all about Moorcock's fantasy stuff, and if something gets made that makes him money, hey great)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

why do people always say this about actors like it's a bad thing

it's NOT a bad thing, it's only bad when it's not called for. like when erroll flynn was cast in "meaty" roles, you're like, "duh, he's ERROLL FLYNN."

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

well in that case i'd blame the casting director, not the actor!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Tom Carson is the GQ (and other) critic who once categorized Pacino's recent work as "the food-fight school of acting."

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

who is the gq critic who once categorized pacino's recent work as "the food-fight school of acting?"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

(xpost)

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

i'll take "pithy critical assessments" for 200, alec

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

you complete me. (ACTUAL xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, there's a good movie with tom cruise, jerry maguire!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

http://relkind32.home.mindspring.com/smlogo.gif

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

have we talked about the al pacino school of acting yet?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps we should also consider the GENE WILDER school.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

"oh yeah, there's a good movie with tom cruise, jerry maguire! "

I just caught a bunch of this on TV the other day and, um, no. Movies about sports, with cute little kids and Cuba Gooding Jr. (to say nothing of the presence of Tom Cruise) are doomed from the start.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

it's NOT a bad thing, it's only bad when it's not called for. like when erroll flynn was cast in "meaty" roles, you're like, "duh, he's ERROLL FLYNN.

if this isn't a gag about flynn's legendary schlong...i want it to be.

― Masked Gazzzza, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

it can be, if you want it

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

he originally wanted to call his autobiography "in like me!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

better if it had an ellipse: "in like... me"

http://www.icr.ac.uk/everyman/tacheback/images/photo_flynn.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

"in like... moi!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743246934.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

http://lpc1.clpccd.cc.ca.us/lpc/express/Entertainment/Tis.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

I read the Flynn autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways...it was very entertaining!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

Back to school : Whoo-Haaa!

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

AWW!! WHAT A BIG MAN YOU AHH!

― pr00de, where's my car? (pr00de), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2008/11/03/a-video-compilation-portraying-the-evolution-of-al-pacinos-yelling-and-speaking-voice/

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:12 (seventeen years ago)

that godfather test reel is great!

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:24 (seventeen years ago)

He really is much better than the other actors reading for the part -- you can immediately sense his subdued resentment at the whole family enterprise whereas I'm not sure exactly what the others are going for.

― autosocratic asphyxiation (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:30 (seventeen years ago)

s1ocki is the only person who ever makes sense in these threads

― welcome to the own zone population you (cankles), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 17:30 (seventeen years ago)

had never caught The Panic in Needle Park (Al's 1st starring role) til last night, maybe the best American heroin movie til Drugstore Cowboy. A must if you're a fan of old grungy NYC locations too.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 15:20 (seventeen years ago)

Here he'll get to howl instead of shout, we can hope:

Al Pacino will play the title role in "King Lear," an adaptation of the Shakespeare play that will be directed by Michael Radford.

Radford, who wrote the script, is making his second Shakespearean foray with Pacino after their 2004 collaboration "Merchant of Venice," which cast Pacino as Shylock.

Pic will be produced by Barry Navidi, who teamed with Pacino on "Merchant" as well as the upcoming "Salomaybe?," which Pacino directed and stars in. That film, based on the Oscar Wilde play, is in post-production.

Salomaybe??

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 18:33 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

i'm really sad i found this challopsy thread

― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Monday, 19 April 2010 01:38 (fifteen years ago)

don't be sad, early ILM is essentially an infinite loop of challops. try to read it in that light and your tears will turn into yawns.

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 19 April 2010 01:45 (fifteen years ago)

He was on 60 Minutes last night. What a strange guy

― Bill Magill, Monday, 19 April 2010 18:10 (fifteen years ago)

in the kevorkian HBO dealie he sounds like michael corleone 1.0

― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 19 April 2010 22:50 (fifteen years ago)

Just watched Heat for the first time in a while and seriously, WTF AL? The movie would have been so much better with just about any other movie star in his role. And mid-90s Al as a badass supercop was a really bad decision aside from all the insane acting decisions he made.

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 19 April 2010 23:15 (fifteen years ago)

^^^^^^ RONG on a million levels -- god it's like there's a challop contest and everybody's rushing to get their entries today. The scene with DeNiro in the diner has muted tension that you can cut with a knife, not to mention the subtle facial expression Pacino shows when the mother of a slain adolescent cries on his shoulder...a combination of sadness, disgust, and desensitization.

But he yelled in about 5 minutes of the movie, so obviously he sucked, amirite?

― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Monday, 19 April 2010 23:27 (fifteen years ago)

you could get killed walkinyodoggie

― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 03:44 (fifteen years ago)

But he yelled in about 5 minutes of the movie, so obviously he sucked, amirite?

― Phoenix in Flight (Cattle Grind), Monday, April 19, 2010 11:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

He certainly sucked in those 5 minutes.

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 04:11 (fifteen years ago)

the part where he tells his wife that he's gotta stay sharp and snaps his fingers is pretty bad too.

― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 04:11 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYZr8wSkvXo&feature=related

― █▓▒░ 97 people sleep immediately after seeing this video ░▒▓█ (dyao), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 12:34 (fifteen years ago)

pacino, walken are gods walking among us and i'm glad people point cameras at them and show the results to millions of people for very reasonable prices.

de niro, though- he's just boring, isn't he? boring guy.

― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 12:39 (fifteen years ago)

deniro may be boring IRL, but he's a much more accomplished actor than pacino and walker.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 20 April 2010 13:01 (fifteen years ago)

IRL? don't remember making that distinction.

― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 13:27 (fifteen years ago)

oh, my mistake. you think deniro's boring as an actor? o_0.

maybe nowadays (his late-period career choices are bizzare). not in his prime, tho.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 20 April 2010 13:45 (fifteen years ago)

Just find it incredibly hard to get interested in or empathise with any of his performances. yeah, 'less is more' and all that, but unless the role suits perfectly I tend to find him a bit of a non-event.

― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 13:55 (fifteen years ago)

Have you seen King of Comedy? His best performance imo, although maybe I only feel that way because the film has a very different surface tone to a lot of his more high profile 70s work.

― I'm being a smartass here, but in a fun way (NotEnough), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)

hah, I feel one of the flaws of the King of Comedy is precisely the way in which Deniro is unable to sand off his sharp edges, too often I found myself thinking "this is Deniro playing Deniro playing rubert pupkin"

― █▓▒░ 97 people sleep immediately after seeing this video ░▒▓█ (dyao), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:12 (fifteen years ago)

His best 'fun' performance that I've seen is maybe Jackie Brown

Haven't seen King of Comedy.

― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:15 (fifteen years ago)

!!! get thee to a DVD rentery forthwith

― Dr. Morbius' Moist Deployment (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:51 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU6TBPQRM0c&feature=related

― Dr. Morbius' Moist Deployment (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:54 (fifteen years ago)

de niro, though- he's just boring, isn't he? boring guy.
― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Tuesday, April 20, 2010 5:39 AM (4 hours ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm81LSKJC2k

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:55 (fifteen years ago)

just watched jackie brown for the first time in years, i love deniro as a fuck-up almost as much as i love him as a consummately professional spy.

― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:12 (fifteen years ago)

yeah jackie brown is some real against-type casting. his child-rapist moustache is a nice touch.

deniro is really good in a quiet role in true confessions w/ robert duvall.

― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 18:33 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

omg SIMONE. this movie is amazing.

― metally ill (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 June 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)

You mean "S1m0ne."

― jaymc, Monday, 6 June 2011 16:06 (fourteen years ago)

As sublime as he is in two of the three Godfathers, I now believe this one scene must be factored into any comprehensive evaluation of Pacino:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR7y7g8h1y4&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

― clemenza, Monday, 6 June 2011 16:10 (fourteen years ago)

Obv, tight budget couldn't cover a dancin coach for Al.

― Aimless, Monday, 6 June 2011 19:16 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

Devil's Advocate is on HBO Go.

I'm a FAN of MAN.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 10 April 2015 02:45 (ten years ago)

four months pass...

Never seen these commercials before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnYfrV_X6ZM

― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 23 August 2015 16:35 (ten years ago)

"thizazgookoffy"

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 August 2015 18:01 (ten years ago)

five years pass...

can't stop thinking about japanese dub al pacino pic.twitter.com/0lGX9YhXuA
— ▀▀▀▀▀▀ (@immolations) October 20, 2020

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 08:54 (five years ago)

four years pass...

He reads his autobiography thing on Spotify
“Great ass!”

― calstars, Sunday, 24 November 2024 20:12 (one year ago)

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