I'm really surprised to find no posts here re: this inspired pairing. I have often read how much both men have hated the
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KyleH87 — 14 years ago(February 21, 2012 12:41 PM)
I would place Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci in Raging Bull slightly higher. It's pretty hard to beat that pair. If you're referring more to how attractive the two men are to women than how well they look together on-screen, then yeah, Redford and Newman would probably gain the top spot.
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Burning_Sosobra — 9 years ago(June 24, 2016 12:11 PM)
Don't get me wrong, Stakeout is a fun movie, though I'll never see Another Stakeout because it's just the same plot as the first, just with the addition of Rosie O'Donnel, who is utterly disgusting. But Dreyfuss and Estevez is your idea of an "epic" pairing of actors? Dreyfuss is a decent actor, but Estevez would never have been famous, even as brief as his movie career was, if not for being Martin Sheen's son. Just seems like an odd choice. De Niro and Pacino, Eastwood and Hackman, De Niro and Pesci, are examples of amazing actors being paired together. Estevez and Dreyfuss doesn't even come close to the previously mentioned pairings. Now if you had said Dreyfuss and Bill Murray from What About Bob?, then you'd be more on the right track.
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foster1234 — 11 years ago(September 08, 2014 11:00 AM)
I haven't read this whole thread, and some great movies, and pairings have been mentioned
But most the movies I saw mentioned were one time events for the pair
I cannot think of a pairing as successful as Redford and Newman in multiple movies, and where they became great personal friends
There's the Mel Gibson, Danny Glover franchise, same movie really 3-4 times, and I get the feeling they didn't like each other off set, or didn't gain the friendship that Newman and Redford had
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a_bunch_of_genes — 11 years ago(September 25, 2014 12:27 PM)
I agree with some of the previous posts. Caine-Connery pairing in the Man Who Would Be King is great. Mel Gibson-Danny Glover is good. Let me throw some more. Jack Lemmon-Walter Matthau in several movies. Likewise Woody Allen-Diane Keaton. William Shatner-Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek. Simon Pegg-Nick Frost in Shaun of the Dead. Tom Hanks-Tim Allen in Toy Story. Not a duo but Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss were a compelling trio in Jaws.