Robert De Niro's worst acting
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — City by the Sea
Silver_Dollar — 17 years ago(February 02, 2009 09:40 AM)
The end sequence which De-Niro almost breaks in to tears in trying to persuade his son to disarm was unbearably cringeworthy. The facial expressions and the shaky voice was utterly unbearable!
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jeanniemotherof3 — 14 years ago(May 15, 2011 07:48 PM)
Exactly, as he is in every scene of every movie he has ever been in, He never fails to BECOME his character. So warpedRecord I agree with you. Watch Heat if you have never seen it, it's my favorite movie of all time with him as Neil MCaully
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WarpedRecord — 14 years ago(May 16, 2011 11:15 AM)
I have and love "Heat," and De Niro is outstanding in it.
I can't imagine anyone calling this De Niro's worst performance. Maybe they haven't seen that many of his films, or maybe they just want the standard gangster/tough guy he so often plays. I think he was superb here.
Honstly, I've never seen De Niro give a bad performance, but he cranks so many films out that many of them don't deserve his talent: "What Just Happened" and all those "Fockers" films come to mind immediately. -
WarpedRecord — 14 years ago(May 21, 2011 07:44 AM)
Yes, comedy is not De Niro's forte unless it's an extremely dark comedy. I much prefer him in drama because he's so good at playing intense characters.
Did you see him hosting "Saturday Night Live" a few months ago? It just seems like he was snickering the whole time, and the writing didn't match his talent. -
WarpedRecord — 14 years ago(May 23, 2011 08:39 PM)
I absolutely love "King of Comedy"! That's probably second only to "Taxi Driver" as my favorite De Niro film. Now
that
is the kind of comedy he should be doing dark and weird. "The Fan" is very good also; I just bought that, in fact, after renting it years ago. I'm a big fan of stalker movies.
One interesting, excellent, overlooked one is "Flawless," with De Niro as a disabled ex-cop getting voice lessons from the transexual next door, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Really great to see those two pros together. -
jeanniemotherof3 — 14 years ago(May 23, 2011 09:47 PM)
Oh thank you! I am going to have to watch Flawless this weekend. I am like you in that King of Comedy is only second to Taxi Driver. Did you happen to see Stone? If yes, what did you think? also Awakenings, This Boys Life? and Once Upon A Time In America? I have not seen it yet. Also I want to see Mean Streets, share what you think of these movies if you get a chance. I love Stalker movies also. WarpedRecord, I think you have great taste in movies!! Thank you for all your great input.
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WarpedRecord — 14 years ago(May 24, 2011 09:23 AM)
Thanks very much for your kind word, Jeanniemotherof3! You have excellent taste in movies as well.
I have not seen "Stone" yet, but I'll definitely seek it out. I have such a backlog of films that it often takes me a few years to get to recent releases.
"Awakenings" is beautiful and tremendously depressing. I'd love to see it again when I am up to it, but now is not the time. De Niro is brutally excellent in "This Boy's Life": "Shut your pie hole!" "Mean Streets" is excellent as well, a gathering of some of the finest actors of the '70s beyond very early in their careers.
I have "Once Upon a Time in America," but I haven't watched it yet it's an epic, and I save those for when I can give them maximum attention.
A few other great De Niro films are "Wag the Dog" (very comedic) "Cop Land," "Marvin's Room," "Cape Fear," "New York, New York," "Midnight Run" (another very comedic role) and "Frankenstein," where he's unrecognizable as the Creature.
The man is very prolific maybe too much so because he seems to hammer out a lot of films at random these days. Probably the film of his I was most disappointed in was "Godsend," but generally his name in the credits is enough to pull me in. -
atheismo — 16 years ago(September 10, 2009 04:52 PM)
Man, i gotta tell you this:
I just saw this film right now, and the scene you mentioned is just 10 Minutes ago. Though De Niro might look weird while playing a crying man, it's all still totally believable. As Roby said, everyone does it differently. De Niro's acting was good. i don't know, how old you are.
And also this. While we all have seen hundreds and hundreds of films, i'm quite sure, there are those few special moments, we never ever forget again after we've seen 'em. The film as a whole might just have been average, but this one very scene
I had this with just 4 or 5 scenes and i can just remember one other right now, but "City by the Sea", a more than OK film, without being a milestone in cinematographic history, had one of those rare moments!
And guess what: It took about 5 seconds, and all we see is De Niro. Without saying a word, he made me rewind that very scene several times. That was acting at its finest.
De Niro's worst role? I don't think so.