Robert De Niro non-iconic poll

WALL OF SHAME.

He certainly worked a lot b/w 1999 and 2002, eh?

He's pretty good in the dire The Last Tycoon, and needed no makeup to play Frankenstein.

Blech.

woah there was a Night and the City remake? I checked the cast list- Jack Warden, Alan King, Jesscia Lange? How could that not have been good...

Very easily.

Widmark played Harry Fabian as a desperate river rat. De Niro plays the character more like a riff on Rupert Pupkin, the goofy talk show fan he played in Scorsese's "King of Comedy." There is a scene set in Elaine's restaurant, when Fabian hassles the real-life Regis and Joy Philbin for attention for one of his schemes.

^^from the ebert review

Is Midnight Run considered iconic, then?

Mad Dog and Glory's a decent film.

when Fabian hassles the real-life Regis and Joy Philbin for attention for one of his schemes

a coffee table book that turns into a coffee table?

I still may have to rent this.

I almost voted The Fan but then I voted The Score instead because I can throw the latter on just about any time and enjoy it. Totally overcooked but still enjoyable

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/features/000428/moviepreview/img/rocky.jpg

I've never seen this, but he looks like he's having a good time.

Is Midnight Run considered iconic, then?

Abso-damn-lutely. What a terrible list of films in this poll from such an amazing actor.

I liked The Good Shepherd quite a bit, but I am kind of an espionage fanboy.

i remember liking 'stanley & iris'
i think i will vote for 'we're no angels' tho

also i mean i kinda love that he does all this stuff

hilarious poll

going with meet the parents. he's genuinely funny in that. for a second i thought it was cut too and i was like ooh that's cruel.

Flawless is a good film, everyone should see it. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a drag queen and De Niro is his bigoted policeman neighbour, and both give a great performance. The only major flaw in the movie is that is has a needless thriller subplot, but the (anti)chemistry between De Niro and Hoffman totally makes it worth the watch.

Richard Price wrote the screenplay for the Night and the City remake -- was supposed to be for Scorcese, but he ended up passing.

I like Mad Dog and Glory OK.

He gives the best performance in The Good Shepherd, and is totally fine in True Confessions.

A bunch of those are better than Cape Fear.

i think i saw The Mission in high school, but can't remember anything about it.

It's good. Great last shot.

surprised the mission is on here! it's good!

tempted to vote 'analyze this'

voted mad dog and glory

xp: you know omar made it, right?

^_^

I seem to recall him being OK in "This Boy's Life" but it's been a while and I only saw it once, so "Meet the Parents."

going with the mission

De Niro is a little too sketch-comedy-ready in "This Boy's Life" and is outacted by DiCaprio.

the Mission is an incredible film. certainly should be iconic. it's the best in this list (that I've seen, which is admittedly a pretty small sampling)

Brazil!

I love Meet the Parents (2000), Analyze This (1999), and Angel Heart (1987).

Hide and Seek (2005) is a very enjoyable crap movie.

Yeah, voted The Mission here. Also, all-time favorite scores list.

nice, where'd you score it?

From Ennio Morricone himself.

Know your source.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)

wtf? when did I miss this movie getting made?

it was awful

Also, I'm biased towards De Palma obv, but how is his Meet the Parents perf not iconic and his Greetings/Hi Mom perfs are?

xpost - I'm sure it was, I just didn't ever know of its existence until just now.

I was just going to ask about 'Greetings' and 'Hi, Mom!'. Please not iconic.

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angel heart is terrible in ludicrously entertaining ways.

lisa bonet drenched in chicken blood.

LOUIS CYPHER. didn't see THAT one coming, didja?

lots of shots of rotating ceiling fans HMMMMM.

ya. great last shot

including the mission in this list is a chall ops

a chall ops directed at everything we hold dear

voted for The Score, so easy to watch. his performance is phoned in but it works for the character.

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The last half-hour of 15 Minutes, after De Niro checks out, is the most ludicrous nonsense I've seen in quite some time. As late De Niro goes, he's actually pretty good before that.

i should have included "Cop Land" in this one.

The Fan wasn’t good overall, but playing a sports-radio-obsessed nut definitely fit his skill set.

So was 'Wag the Dog' robbed or is it iconic?

The Fan wasn’t good overall, but playing a sports-radio-obsessed nut definitely fit his skill set.

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character is sort of a remix of his taxi driver/king of comedy thing, no?

Those two, and even the Jackie Brown character in some ways.

So was 'Wag the Dog' robbed or is it iconic?

I think what's on and what's not is fine, allowing for some subjectivity. Myself, I wouldn't distinguish between The Last Tycoon and New York, New York--I'd have them both on (in that they're both in the middle of his peak years, and he's good in both) or both off (in that they're both minor in terms of the films around them).

True Confessions was considered something of a little masterpiece when I were a lad. It’s really fallen off the radar since I guess.

i watched that on a strong recommendation a few years ago. i like some of the other films by that director, ulu grosbard, a lot. but i found it, just ok.