Robert De Niro's career

also he and j.depp should star in each other's biopics

He's fine in Meet The Parents, though he was GHASTLY as an SNL host.

Miccio is right, that was just a heartbreaking SNL appearance. Heartbreaking.

I never saw this SNL thing. It was that bad?

I would like to thank the American public for rejecting Everybody's Fine.

More AMEX adverts

Vince Lombardi

https://vine.co/v/M1TBvaPOwEL

best in years obv

http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5118/28/original/640.jpg

http://wearemoviegeeks.com/wp-content/uploads/FREELANCERS_-poster-560x826.jpg

lol @ FROM A PRODUCER OF RIGHTEOUS KILL AND STREET KINGS

Lock career.

seriously. a sad, inexplicable decline, from a guy who certainly can (or used to be able to) spot quality projects.

his best movie of the 2000s insofar as being a respectable ambitious effort is probably the good shepherd, though its by no means perfect. he had that really tremendous mid 90s run and then idk what happened. his most embarrassing role for me was probably in Machete, though objectively i guess righteous kill was probably the "worst". he needs to get back together w/scorsese. It'slmost twenty years since they made a film together. it not him, Michael Mann idk.

he was a supporting character in that critically-praised recent film about bipolar disorder, right?

yeah little fockers wasnt half bad

haha!

robert's face is really haunting there. he looks like his kid ran into him getting ice cream with his mistress.

the bag man (2014. dir. David Grovic)
http://cdn.wegotthiscovered.com/wp-content/uploads/robert-deniro-woodland-creature.jpg

he just looks really disappointed that there are officers on the take, shaking his head at their occupation of the grey area between cop and criminal.

he is so beautiful now
he's like a beautiful king
he should probably make a film with sorrentino to exploit this, this kind of tragic gulf between his stature & eligibility & where he is, now
beautiful robert deniro

were yall aware that this movie exists/was released theatrically:
http://beautifuldreams.blog.pt/files/2014/04/Grudge-Match-675x506.jpg

With a fan poster?

it's kind of amazing that stallone and de niro's once-different careers have followed winding paths to the point where a movie like that is not only not surprising but totally logical.

[as the fight starts]
Henry 'Razor' Sharp: [to the Kid] Gutsy move, going without a bra!
Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen: [to Razor] Yeah? I got a surprise for you: I took a dump on your porch!

Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen: I wanna beat you!
[hurls a machine at Razor]
Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen: Come on, come on! Come on! Come on!
[Razor charges at Kid]

Tranny Hooker: [Kid and Razor are dressed in green catsuits] You two some kind of superheroes?
Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen: Yeah, I'm the Green Champion and he's the Emerald Superpussy.

[training Kid]
B.J.: Did you just fart?
[gets up and walks away, choking]

Yeah, because the trailer for it showed before nearly every movie I watched in theaters last year xp

kind of funny that he isn't in the raging bull sequel but is in grudge match. was he busy shooting grudge match so he had to turn down raging bull 2? was that a moment of clarity for him?

I thought the reason he had to be in so many films he wouldn't have otherwise is because he's had children with lots of women who are demanding major money. I've never heard it officially stated, but I've heard critics saying that he actually has no choice but to make loads of films for the money.

Also that Kevin Bacon and Nicolas Cage have been more prolific because of business deals that went really bad. But Cage was always really prolific.

he is so beautiful now
he's like a beautiful king
he should probably make a film with sorrentino to exploit this, this kind of tragic gulf between his stature & eligibility & where he is, now
beautiful robert deniro

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exactly

He was fun in American Hustle but it's a low low bar. How much alimony does anyone need to pay?

Nothing’s more unnatural and awkward than DeNiro hamming it up

What’d I say to you?

If the part of this song about him "Never, ever [trying comedy] again" had remained true, it might've spared us Dirty Grandpa at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh9GEvMzA6I

Bagel salesman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdMpVZ42RLk

absolutely fucking risible

The UK really is like Japan, so many US actors slumming it in commercials.

how much money does robert de niro need, really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu8q3fcKNMk

De Niro, Pacino, Keitel... who's left?

Guy who played billy blanco from the bronx doing a Greggs ad?

I love Leguizamo and that would make me sad

Jeff Bridges in a shitty beer ad atm

Johnny Depp the next face of the Sun Life Over 50s Plan

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

Where's the Jack Nicholson adverts?

Jeff Bridges in a shitty beer ad atm

oh god yeah this is absolutely atrocious and kinda made me hate jeff bridges

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

Bob and Al hafta subsidize those 4-hr Scorsese epics

was wondering if james caan had done any ads and i can't seem to find any, which is heartening

It's funny thinking about the reverence and mystique conferred onto some of these hack one note clowns in the late 80's and what a joke they are now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kao5YQeohyQ

This is a genre of itself. Notice the diners sitting on the corner just like they did in the Sopranos.

was wondering if James Caan had done any ads* and i can't seem to find any, which is heartening

I thought I'd seen a Caan ad, but was confusing him w/Robert Loggia.

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

*Actually, there is a James Caan commercial on youtube, but it's for Rehab center, so it probably doesn't count.

Christ, the DeNiro bagel ad even uses a faux "Jump Into The Fire."

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

He's on a roll (not a bagel) at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02UES6ghcGs

Great photo, showed up on my FB wall (Cannes, 1976). Thought about posting it on the "Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same," as a joke.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTB0pnPVEAAl55K.jpg:large

what about de niro's father's career imo

I knew his mom was an established painter; somehow I forgot his father was, too.

there is a poll between De Niro and Pacino on twitter right now about who was hotter when they were young, with hundreds of thousands of votes

At a wedding and having a big debate rn. Please vote. Who was hotter?

— Ashley Reese (@offbeatorbit) May 14, 2023

Greil Marcus had Zero Day, a six-episode mini-series, in his Real Life column this month, so I started watching. Got through the first episode, but I think I'll bail. He really had it in there because of some random Sex Pistols association; that's happened, leaving five more episodes of De Niro as an ex-president. He's so nothing here--not the wild over-acting associated with late Pacino or Nicholson, but the far other end of the spectrum. He's found the movie equivalent of Truman Capote's famous line about Jack Kerouac: that's not acting, that's talking.

ive heard such bad things i might seek it out just for interests sake tbh

Somewhat the same premise as Sam Esmail's Leave the World Behind from two years ago, so a little late.

He's been in so many good movies and made so many interesting choices that I looked back at his filmography to try and figure out where it started to get shaky. I think it was around 1999 and "Analyze This" where "De Niro is good!" became more the exception than the rule.

who did the 'Phoning it In' skit with DeNiro & Pacino? SNL or Mad TV, can't remember but it was funny

De Niro has a gangster film coming out in which he plays both Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, which is certainly an interesting casting decision. The trailer looks OK, directed by Barry Levinson, which isn’t exactly the Scorsese imprimatur of quality, but it was written by Nicholas Pileggi, so…

Looking at his IMDB page, for me personally, the last film I liked him in was American Hustle, and the last films I really liked him in were Jackie Brown and Casino.

1) I've skipped far more than I've seen--lots of gaps.
2) It's not that I think he's bad in The Irishman or Killers of the Flower Moon, he just doesn't make any impression on me.

I don't know, I loved him in The Irishman, especially the section leading up to, during, and in the aftermath of the Hoffa murder. * I think Pesci was the best in that film of the main trio, though.

*You never know, someone might not have seen it.

FWIW, during his recent divorce trial, he let it be known that he had taken on terrible projects due to the cost of the proceedings. Pacino, Gene Hackman, Robin Williams have all admitted at one time that they made a series of terrible films they'd normally pass just to pay off a divorce. Per Wikipedia, DeNiro also had a divorce in 1988. He also got into the restaurant business sometime in the '90s or '00s. I don't think it's a stretch that all of these costly events may have played a role in what films to do, especially when certain comedies like the Analyse Whatever and Meet Whoever movies paid off big.

Forgot one detail re: Pacino - he was a victim of that Ponzi scheme which apparently wiped him out, and he admitted that was the reason why he took on so many bad films of late.

I suspect most of these dudes are just financial ding dongs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM44eaasx0Y

Estimating there's 37 objectionable lines in that.

DeNiro's 80's look better than I remembered but his 90's are pretty terrible, mostly salvaged by Scorsese.

He's so nothing here--not the wild over-acting associated with late Pacino or Nicholson, but the far other end of the spectrum

There's a Pacino vs DeNiro thread here somewhere and someone makes the point that they're both over the hill, but Pacino phoning it in means hilarious mugging while DeNiro phoning it in just means terminal boredom. This was probably like twenty years ago!

He was effective and playing exactly what Scorsese needed in Killers.

I thought he was good in Killers, that avuncular menace.

Same, I much prefer his restraint in that than if he'd done Nicholson-in-The-Departed mugging

I didn't particularly like him in Killers, but iirc I liked him in The Irishman.

robert deniro's carer

There's a note he hits at the end of Casino, where he's essentially saying "this is bullshit, I've had enough, I can't be bothered anymore", and it feels like he's been hitting that note ever since, in some form or another.

I can't think of a great movie since "Ronin", although I've missed a lot of them.

De Niro in the 90s was on a pretty good run, I mean, there are some great films and/or great performances in there. Aside from the three Scorsese movies he was in, he was also in Jackie Brown, Heat, A Boy’s Life, A Bronx Tale, Wag the Dog, Cop Land, and obv Ronin. Since then, it’s definitely been pretty grim, though I did think his work as both director and actor in The Good Shepherd was very good.

I'll defend The Good Shepherd too -- Matt Damon realizing the WASPy frigidity he developed in Bourne. Did need a goddamn editor though.