Actor Spotlight: Robert De Niro

Feel free to talk about your favorite roles of his.

Best known for some of these:
Little Fockers
Dirty Grandpa
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
Sharktale
The War with Grandpa


Feel free to list ideas for other threads here

 

Heat is one of my all time favorite favorites, so I pick that one.

 

Every Scorsese collaboration is an A+ performance, he took on a Marlon Brando character and was just as good/better than Brando, he’s the better performance in Heat (a film that needs him and Pacino both to do what they’re doing but what De Niro is doing is tougher). He’s got as strong a case for being the GOAT as anyone. Haven’t seen Cop Land or Once Upon a Time in America, very interested in those. Love Jackie Brown but think of Forester and Grier first when I think of that movie. The Irishman shows he’s still got it, too, as good or better than any of the other performances nominated for lead actor awards that year.

Also Joker is the worst thing he’s done post-2000.

 

Yeah I think he might be my GOAT. Maybe PSH, but probably De Niro

 

Post method era, Brando is my go-to GOAT contender. PSH, DDL, De Niro, Pacino, all up there. If Denzel more consistently made better movies he’d have a place in the conversation. Cagney is the proto-method blueprint and came alive in ways actors weren’t doing at the time.

 

Raging Bull is the obvious answer but Taxi Driver is probably my favorite.

Also I feel like his Goodfellas performance is somehow a bit underrated? He’s always been my favorite performance in that movie, how he turns on a dime from being warm and friendly to quietly menacing. Like when he tells Karen to go see about the fur coats.

Also he’s so great in The Irishman obviously.

 

The Dirty Grandpa dig is supposed to be a joke, but it actually is a little funny.

 

I liked Dirty Grandpa way more than I expected to.

 

PSH and Bale are my personal favorites but de niro probably has two of the three or four of my favorite performances i’ve seen in heat and deer hunter

 

In terms of essentials (lesser essential, I guess), I'm missing his early DePalma stuff, Bang the Drum, Once Upon a Time, Cape Fear, NY,NY (?), Wag the Dog, Cop Land, Awakenings

 

The phone call scene in the Irishman is probably my favorite performance by him.

 

One of the few things my father ever put on the wall was a signed plaque with a still from Casino by DeNiro. He hid it somewhere after he said something bad about Trump, though.

 

oh, it’s the roulette scene in vietnam for me

 

His classics are undeniable, but then he pops up in movies like Machete and I love it.

 

I worked at an amc in high school - Hide and Seek one of the most refunds requested in the 2 years I was there, on my shifts anyway lol many displeased senior citizens

 

I don’t know if I could even pick.

 

Big Bobby fan.

 

Am I missing some sarcasm here

 

No

 

Hasn't been mentioned yet besides my gif because obviously everyone likes his drama/serious work over comedies, but him and Billy Crystal was a great pairing in Analyze This

 

I think Analyze This was the first R movie my mother took me to.