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Post by thereallt on Mar 20, 2020 22:23:17 GMT
I'm positive it's going to be Tom and Leo. But Leo finishing over DeNiro is flat out laughable. No need for hyperbole. Leo is every bit as good as DeNiro, assuming he hasn't now surpassed him. Not even close. DeNiro's run in the 70's alone smokes Leo's entire career. I respect what Leo has done since turning 30. But his career before that was the acting equivalent of a boy band singer.
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Post by The Kid on Mar 20, 2020 22:26:05 GMT
No need for hyperbole. Leo is every bit as good as DeNiro, assuming he hasn't now surpassed him. Not even close. DeNiro's run in the 70's alone smokes Leo's entire career. I respect what Leo has done since turning 30. But his career before that was the acting equivalent of a boy band singer. And what's wrong with Justin Timberlake?
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Post by 🤯 on Mar 20, 2020 23:10:06 GMT
No need for hyperbole. Leo is every bit as good as DeNiro, assuming he hasn't now surpassed him. Not even close.  DeNiro's run in the 70's alone smokes Leo's entire career.  I respect what Leo has done since turning 30.  But his career before that was the acting equivalent of a boy band singer. Uhh... Don't act like DeNiro hasn't turned out some turds after he turned 30. I'm curios now, let's go; DeNiro's Top 5 vs. Leo's Top 5...go!
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Post by thereallt on Mar 20, 2020 23:36:37 GMT
Not even close. DeNiro's run in the 70's alone smokes Leo's entire career. I respect what Leo has done since turning 30. But his career before that was the acting equivalent of a boy band singer. Uhh... Don't act like DeNiro hasn't turned out some turds after he turned 30. I'm curios now, let's go; DeNiro's Top 5 vs. Leo's Top 5...go! OK..... 1.Goodfellas 2.Godfather Part II 3.Raging Bull 4.Taxi Driver 5.Once Upon A Time in America
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Post by Da Gr8t I Is on Mar 20, 2020 23:39:12 GMT
Really nice guy. He always takes the time out to talk to people.
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Post by 🤯 on Mar 20, 2020 23:48:44 GMT
Uhh... Don't act like DeNiro hasn't turned out some turds after he turned 30. I'm curios now, let's go; DeNiro's Top 5 vs. Leo's Top 5...go! OK..... 1.Goodfellas 2.Godfather Part II 3.Raging Bull 4.Taxi Driver 5.Once Upon A Time in America Wait, are those your favorites? Because they're certainly not his best. Anyway... Leo wins with: - Wolf of Wall Street - Aviator - Departed - Django Unchained - Blood Diamond Or really, insert any Leo movie post-Titanic, and his Top 5 matches or beats DeNiro's Top 5 performances.
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Post by thereallt on Mar 20, 2020 23:56:39 GMT
Please. DeNiro's performance in Raging Bull smokes Leo's performance in Wolf of Wall St., Goodfellas completely haa it's way with The Departed, Taxi Driver is easily a better performance than Blood Diamond. Godfather Part II vs. The Aviator? Don't make me laugh.
The only one of these that's even close in terms of performance is Once Upon in America and Django.
Shit Leo gets trounced in his own movies performance (*cough* Titanic *cough* Gangs of New York*) I don't remember that ever happening to DeNiro
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Post by Lionheart on Mar 20, 2020 23:59:30 GMT
OK..... 1.Goodfellas 2.Godfather Part II 3.Raging Bull 4.Taxi Driver 5.Once Upon A Time in America Wait, are those your favorites? Because they're certainly not his best. Anyway... Leo wins with: - Wolf of Wall Street - Aviator - Departed - Django Unchained - Blood Diamond Or really, insert any Leo movie post-Titanic, and his Top 5 matches or beats DeNiro's Top 5 performances. Are you high? I like Leo WAY more than De Niro, think Leo is a better actor, and STILL can see those movies you listed don’t hold a candle to the ones LT listed at ALL.
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Post by Da Gr8t I Is on Mar 21, 2020 0:03:22 GMT
Neither Denzel or Pacino made my list. Suck it UT , and The Kid , You’re beef is going to be with god , but it might be up to me to arrange the meeting. ![](https://media0.giphy.com/media/x5rqM6KWJ07sc/giphy.webp?cid=790b761120ac0f053998d282739b579c0cbd36fb9906d37f&rid=giphy.webp)
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Post by Emperor on Mar 21, 2020 0:03:57 GMT
What a lovely conversation this is.
Leo is better in this movie than De Niro is in that one. No he isn't. Yes he is!
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Post by 🤯 on Mar 21, 2020 0:04:00 GMT
Wait, are those your favorites? Because they're certainly not his best. Anyway... Leo wins with: - Wolf of Wall Street - Aviator - Departed - Django Unchained - Blood Diamond Or really, insert any Leo movie post-Titanic, and his Top 5 matches or beats DeNiro's Top 5 performances. Are you high? I like Leo WAY more than De Niro, think Leo is a better actor, and STILL can see those movies you listed don’t hold a candle to the ones LT listed at ALL. Movies or their performances? Also, hyperbole bro. WoWS def competes as a movie, if not beats.
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Post by Lionheart on Mar 21, 2020 0:38:57 GMT
Are you high? I like Leo WAY more than De Niro, think Leo is a better actor, and STILL can see those movies you listed don’t hold a candle to the ones LT listed at ALL. Movies or their performances? Also, hyperbole bro. WoWS def competes as a movie, if not beats. Yeah, haven’t seen it. I meant movies though and the rest can’t compete head to head with that other list. Go back to the schoolyard, PI.
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Post by Lionheart on Mar 21, 2020 0:41:08 GMT
What a lovely conversation this is. Leo is better in this movie than De Niro is in that one. No he isn't. Yes he is! The whole point of this subforum / these lists is to talk about movies and the performance of actors in them. Go back to the schoolyard, Emperor.
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Post by Emperor on Mar 21, 2020 0:47:59 GMT
We're not really talking about performances, though. People are just flinging around "my guy is better than your guy" with no justification. What does that achieve?
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Post by Lionheart on Mar 21, 2020 0:48:37 GMT
We're not really talking about performances, though. People are just flinging around "my guy is better than your guy" with no justification. What does that achieve? Go back to the schoolyard, Emperor.
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Post by Emperor on Mar 21, 2020 0:50:05 GMT
We're not really talking about performances, though. People are just flinging around "my guy is better than your guy" with no justification. What does that achieve? Go back to the schoolyard, Emperor. What does that achieve?
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Post by The Kid on Mar 21, 2020 1:04:14 GMT
Okay, so DEPARTED and GOODFELLAS are the two greatest movies ever made. We'll start by saying that.
Also Taxi Driver is trash. Such an overrated movie and it's so hard to watch again. I don't know if I would do it for money. It's brutal. Once upon a time in America is great, Godfather 2 is the 3rd greatest movie ever made and Raging Bull is a one time watch only.
Titanic is a fucking classic. Titanic smokes Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and Once Upon a Time in America. As does Wolf of Wall Street. Django is amazing, too. I mean, honestly, DeNiro makes great gangster movies. Leo makes great movies, period.
So if we're going to be honest, they both made legendary movies. Leo is the way better actor, though.
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Post by The Kid on Mar 21, 2020 1:06:09 GMT
Also, just checked my list. My top 5:
1- Leo 2- Denzel 3- Pacino 4- DeNiro 5- Big Willy Style
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Post by Shootist on Mar 21, 2020 2:11:41 GMT
Leo has a long way to go to catch De Niro. I'll be fine if Hanks finishes number 1. Leo would be one of the more questionable number 1's since we started doing these lists.
Titanic over Raging Bull and Taxi Driver, thanks, I needed a good laugh. De Niro made you feel that sense of isolation in Taxi Driver. He rode that fine line of going insane so well giving you glimpses of humanity in trying to court Cybil Sheppard and caring for Jodie Foster. Raging Bull beyond the physical changes he went through encapsulated how depraved and pathetic the human condition can become. He nailed it in that last third of the movie.
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Post by The Kid on Mar 21, 2020 2:14:31 GMT
Leo has a long way to go to catch De Niro. I'll be fine if Hanks finishes number 1. Leo would be one of the more questionable number 1's since we started doing these lists. Questionable? Try 'no question #1'.
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Post by thereallt on Mar 21, 2020 2:28:19 GMT
This is hilarious on so many levels. You call out Taxi Driver and Raging Bull for being overrated yet cite one of the most overrated films of all-time as a comparison. And even better you cite a film in which Leo GETS SMOKED by his fellow actors. Seriously Leo AT BEST has the fifth best performance in the whole movie.
If DeNiro and Leo were on screen together DeNiro would treat him like the little boy he is. Lord knows Daniel Day Lewis did.
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Post by Lionheart on Mar 21, 2020 2:45:50 GMT
Titanic is like the worst Leo movie of them all.
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Post by 🤯 on Mar 21, 2020 3:22:15 GMT
Titanic is like the worst Leo movie of them all. Eh, disagree. Gilbert Grape was pretty bad as far as an entertaining movie goes. At least Titanic had great tits.
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Post by The Kid on Mar 21, 2020 4:32:59 GMT
This is hilarious on so many levels. You call out Taxi Driver and Raging Bull for being overrated yet cite one of the most overrated films of all-time as a comparison. And even better you cite a film in which Leo GETS SMOKED by his fellow actors. Seriously Leo AT BEST has the fifth best performance in the whole movie. If DeNiro and Leo were on screen together DeNiro would treat him like the little boy he is. Lord knows Daniel Day Lewis did. I think little bit Leo was on screen with DeNiro once upon a time ago.
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Post by Ness on Mar 21, 2020 9:29:37 GMT
Deniro wasn't in Departed. All I needs to know in this war.
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Post by Emperor on Mar 21, 2020 12:30:34 GMT
Titanic is like the worst Leo movie of them all. Eh, disagree. Gilbert Grape was pretty bad as far as an entertaining movie goes. At least Titanic had great tits. God damn, 🤯. First you shit on Shadow of the Colossus, now this?!
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Post by Emperor on Mar 21, 2020 12:31:08 GMT
Deniro wasn't in Departed. All I needs to know in this war. De Niro as Costello would have been a lot better than Nicholson hamming it up and ruining the whole movie.
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Post by 🤯 on Mar 21, 2020 12:45:01 GMT
Eh, disagree. Gilbert Grape was pretty bad as far as an entertaining movie goes. At least Titanic had great tits. God damn, 🤯. First you shit on Shadow of the Colossus, now this?! At least Grape was good enough to commit two hours to. Can't say the same about about Shadow. And Grape even overcame the hurdles of having Juliette Lewis in it AND a straight Depp performance. Talk about handicapped! Deniro wasn't in Departed. All I needs to know in this war. De Niro as Costello would have been a lot better than Nicholson hamming it up and ruining the whole movie. 100% agree with this. Even Depp's Whitey Bulger would've been better. Did Jack just have a totally different read on the script and/or direction? His performance is so confusing.
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Post by UT on Mar 21, 2020 15:09:20 GMT
And right on cue , here comes Leo to defend his honor. When Leo is on , I absolutely love him. TWOWS , Titanic , Departed are some of my favorite movies ever and Leo is a huge reason why to all of them. Even his lesser movies like The Beach are awesome because of Leo (and I won't stand for the Gilbert Grape hate 🤯) and he really does have the CHANCE to go down as the GOAT I think but it depends on what happens with the rest of his career. To put him up against De Niro isn't even fair at this point , De Niro has probably the most incredible resume in movies (definitely Top 3) and has been around for 2 decades longer. He's also had some ups and downs like Leo and came from a different spot - De Niro was never going to be the lead in a Titanic type movie and I don't see Leo being able to go into Raging Bull or Taxi Driver and pull of the same manic performance that De Niro nailed. They are different types of actors but I will say that De Niro is probably the better all around actor but Leo at his heights is definitely the better movie star. De Niro even at some of his most powerful times wasn't afraid to take chances and have some fun either. Leo dipped his toe into comedy with Wolf of Wall Street and was incredible at it - I would love to see what his version of a Midnight Run looks like and him to show some range in that direction. Imagine Leo taking Goslings role in The Nice Guys? Can he do it to the same effect and same charm? Who knows? Anyways yeah , De Niro > Leo FOR NOW , but Leo is far from done and has a whole different act yet too come. Let's just hope that run includes a lot more Wolf of Wall Streets and a lot less Revenants. For the record I had Leo at #6 on my list right now , a fair ranking I thought. #2 is probably a bit high but PW does love him so I'm not overly surprised.
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