De Niro vs Pacino

[maddog]

Gay question, just gay.

These two should NEVER be compared against each other. They are both like legends, but if someone literally forced me to choose then I'm thinking Pachino for the scarface movie.

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Agrees... But to choose.. DeNiro because of Godfather 2.

He plays Vito Corleone so well, almost better then Brando did in the original.

Although Pacino has done good movies lately, but he killed the Godfather in part 3. He shouted way too much to be how he is described in the book. Unless when he got older he started to shout.

Besides, Meet the Parents owned.

[Mick]

I have to go with Robert De Niro.

I'm not fond of Al Pacino's acting. Granted, he's a great actor...but he just gets on my nerves.

Say what you want about it, and call me a blasphemer, but I feel that "Scarface" wasn't that great a movie. Al Pacino just annoyed me with the way he talked. But that's my opinion.

I just like Robert De Niro a lot more. I loved him in "Taxi Driver", and "Casino" was a classic too.

But Pacino...

I feel that he was only good in the first two Godfather movies.

[Javs]

Like many other people, I think both are excellent actors. However, Robert Deniro is my all-time favorite actor, simply because he has been the star or co-star of so many of my favorite movies. I adore the Travis Bickle character (Taxi Driver), probably my favorite movie character of all time. One of his earlier films "Mean Streets" that Harvey Keitel also starred in is another great film. Mean Streets is a good film to see Deniro in the early stages of his acting career. Throw in other movies such as Deer Hunter (which has another great actor in Christopher Walken, and the late John Cazale who co-starred with Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon), Raging Bull (based on the life of Boxer Jake La Motta, co-starring Joe Pesci), Casino, and Goodfellas (another two with Joe Pesci and a score of other great actors). I was particulary impressed with the way Deniro portrayed Jake La Motta in Raging Bull. After reading the book Raging Bull, you had to really commend Deniro for playing Jake La Motta's character almost to perfection.

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I totally agree with you on the Raging Bull part.. Although, Im pretty damned suprised your the first personto mention Deniro's performance in this movie. His performance was nothing but simply amazing

Edited July 24, 2004 by Javs

[VerbalPuke]

I totally agree with you on the Raging Bull part.. Although, Im pretty damned suprised your the first personto mention Deniro's performance in this movie. His performance was nothing but simply amazing

I'm surprised myself, I always thought Raging Bull was a classic that everybody had seen. One interesting thing about that movie is Joe Pesci's role in it. In the movie his role is actually a combo of Pete (Jake's best friend) and Joey, Jake's brother. Deniro also managed to whip himself into fantastic shape for the younger years of Jake's career, and then put on more weight for the later years of Jake's life. Talk about dedication.

[Guest Pirate Chasin' Booty]

DeNiro was quality in his early days and every now and then he releases something good but the majority of his recent stuff is shite, similar scenario with Pacino.

Both are highly overrated though, they are quality actors, but I can't help but feel too many people say they like them just for the sake of saying they like them.

I love Taxi Driver and Deer Hunter and I know of so many people that I could tell didn't like them but made out they were good just because they wanted to be the good ol' fanboys. I can respect anyone that can watch one of these movies and have to balls to say 'This here is dog shit'.

I say old school DeNiro wins.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Insomnia was great.

Back in my younger years I preferred DeNiro, watching Taxi Driver is like getting an acting lesson from the great man.

However, Al Pacino has put up some of the greatest roles in film history, most notably Michael Corleone (Godfather I & II), Tony Montana (Scarface), Sonny Wortzik (Dog Day Afternoon), Carlito Brigante (Carlito's Way), Lefty Ruggiero (Donnie Brasco)....Gah the guy's a genius.

And for that reason he is better than DeNiro. However in my opinion , DeNiro is also one of the top 5 actors in the world, ever......