Robert De Niro's career

also he and j.depp should star in each other's biopics

He's fine in Meet The Parents, though he was GHASTLY as an SNL host.

Miccio is right, that was just a heartbreaking SNL appearance. Heartbreaking.

I never saw this SNL thing. It was that bad?

I would like to thank the American public for rejecting Everybody's Fine.

More AMEX adverts

Vince Lombardi

https://vine.co/v/M1TBvaPOwEL

best in years obv

http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5118/28/original/640.jpg

http://wearemoviegeeks.com/wp-content/uploads/FREELANCERS_-poster-560x826.jpg

lol @ FROM A PRODUCER OF RIGHTEOUS KILL AND STREET KINGS

Lock career.

seriously. a sad, inexplicable decline, from a guy who certainly can (or used to be able to) spot quality projects.

his best movie of the 2000s insofar as being a respectable ambitious effort is probably the good shepherd, though its by no means perfect. he had that really tremendous mid 90s run and then idk what happened. his most embarrassing role for me was probably in Machete, though objectively i guess righteous kill was probably the "worst". he needs to get back together w/scorsese. It'slmost twenty years since they made a film together. it not him, Michael Mann idk.

he was a supporting character in that critically-praised recent film about bipolar disorder, right?

yeah little fockers wasnt half bad

haha!

robert's face is really haunting there. he looks like his kid ran into him getting ice cream with his mistress.

the bag man (2014. dir. David Grovic)
http://cdn.wegotthiscovered.com/wp-content/uploads/robert-deniro-woodland-creature.jpg

he just looks really disappointed that there are officers on the take, shaking his head at their occupation of the grey area between cop and criminal.

he is so beautiful now
he's like a beautiful king
he should probably make a film with sorrentino to exploit this, this kind of tragic gulf between his stature & eligibility & where he is, now
beautiful robert deniro

were yall aware that this movie exists/was released theatrically:
http://beautifuldreams.blog.pt/files/2014/04/Grudge-Match-675x506.jpg

With a fan poster?

it's kind of amazing that stallone and de niro's once-different careers have followed winding paths to the point where a movie like that is not only not surprising but totally logical.

[as the fight starts]
Henry 'Razor' Sharp: [to the Kid] Gutsy move, going without a bra!
Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen: [to Razor] Yeah? I got a surprise for you: I took a dump on your porch!

Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen: I wanna beat you!
[hurls a machine at Razor]
Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen: Come on, come on! Come on! Come on!
[Razor charges at Kid]

Tranny Hooker: [Kid and Razor are dressed in green catsuits] You two some kind of superheroes?
Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen: Yeah, I'm the Green Champion and he's the Emerald Superpussy.

[training Kid]
B.J.: Did you just fart?
[gets up and walks away, choking]

Yeah, because the trailer for it showed before nearly every movie I watched in theaters last year xp

kind of funny that he isn't in the raging bull sequel but is in grudge match. was he busy shooting grudge match so he had to turn down raging bull 2? was that a moment of clarity for him?

I thought the reason he had to be in so many films he wouldn't have otherwise is because he's had children with lots of women who are demanding major money. I've never heard it officially stated, but I've heard critics saying that he actually has no choice but to make loads of films for the money.

Also that Kevin Bacon and Nicolas Cage have been more prolific because of business deals that went really bad. But Cage was always really prolific.

he is so beautiful now
he's like a beautiful king
he should probably make a film with sorrentino to exploit this, this kind of tragic gulf between his stature & eligibility & where he is, now
beautiful robert deniro

― schlump, Sunday, May 11, 2014 3:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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exactly

He was fun in American Hustle but it's a low low bar. How much alimony does anyone need to pay?

his best movie of the 2000s insofar as being a respectable ambitious effort is probably the good shepherd

This was an interesting, flawed movie that could def have worked with more, I dunno, energy? Matt Damon well cast as Jason Bourne's father.

i don't think i'll ever get over what a disappointment a bronx tale is/was. probably my most loathed film of all time

new nancy Meyers joint

The Intern will chronicle a 70-year-old man who finds himself as an intern at a fashion website.

De Niro will play the intern, while Hathaway is set to take on the role of the successful website founder.

Is it a combination of the alimony and continually looking after his Tribeca stuff

Zac Efron and Robert De Niro are getting more company in their Lionsgate road trip pic Dirty Grandpa. Parks and Recreation’s Aubrey Plaza has signed onto the comedy about an uptight twenty-something (Efron) who embarks on a road trip before his wedding to bond with his recently widowed grandfather (De Niro) only to find that his grandpa is a foul-mouthed lunatic on a mission to get laid during Spring Break.

Plaza will play Lenore, a savvy, beguiling party girl looking for fun on Spring Break.

i assume this ends with de niro hauling ass to lollapalooza after asking plaza if she's ever done the horizontal mambo

Definitely will have a sneezing-on-grandma's-ashes scene.

RdN's ambition to seek deeper nadirs for his career is daunting.

The Intern (2015)
Comedy - 25 September 2015 (USA)

A comedy about a fashion website that brings in an elderly intern.

Director:
Nancy Meyers
Writer:
Nancy Meyers
Stars:
Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro, Rene Russo | See full cast and crew »

he's the new Ruth Gordon

(sorry Ruth)

if ol' wikipedia can be trusted...

movies released between 1970-1974 featuring robert de niro: 8
movies released between 1975-1979 featuring robert de niro: 6
movies released between 1980-1984 featuring robert de niro: 5
movies released between 1985-1989 featuring robert de niro: 7
movies released between 1990-1994 featuring robert de niro: 12
movies released between 1995-1999 featuring robert de niro: 13
movies released between 2000-2004 featuring robert de niro: 12
movies released between 2005-2009 featuring robert de niro: 7
movies released between 2010-2014 featuring robert de niro: 18

with three in post and two in pre for 2015

he had that good run with casino/heat/jackie brown/wag the dog/ronin, and then other than the good shepherd there hasn't been anything decent since. any decent arguments for any de niro roles since the '90s?

i thought he was amusing in meet the parents but already checked out in the sequel

i haven't seen it in ages but The Score felt of a piece with that 90s run, mellow heist movie

both those movies are over a decade old now

all i can remember about good shepherd was that faux-coppola bit where he hugs somebody while his daughter's lover is thrown off a plane

yeah the score was pretty alright. a bit too stunty with the 'three generations of great actors' casting, but a decent heist flick.

i kinda wonder if brando kept de niro on his toes by negative example in that

"holy fuck, i don't mind hack work but i don't want to come off like THAT"

there is something accurate in it abt 'frat boys running black ops' but i suspect the tone was a bit too operatic for that conceit.

still liked it, it felt like he was at least not trying to be a hack.

he's the best thing in american hustle

ward very OTM

that's like saying he's the best turd in a pile of shit

didn't mind The Good Shepherd -- needed editor and sense of humor.

laffed during nude wrestling though

it is like that except he was actually good in it xxp

good shepherd was so boring, de niro was fine in it though i guess

only thing I remember about the good shepherd is joe pesci came out of retirement for a minute and he looks about 100

since lethal weapon 4 pesci was in the good shepherd and love ranch, that's it.

http://img.spokeo.com/public/900-600/joe_pesci_2013_02_16.jpg

huh never heard of love ranch, it was my understanding that he was actually retired & only did the good shepherd cameo as a favour

i tried to watch love ranch and everyone seems to be doing someone else a favor being involved in that movie only it's unclear who they're doing a favor FOR

sounds hot

other than the good shepherd there hasn't been anything decent since. any decent arguments for any de niro roles since the '90s?

i made a poll about this! +pacino (who won i believe). pretty grim exercise iirc.

i won't even link The Intern's trailer

This could get interesting.... De Niro is being sued by an Italian film maker called Stefania Grassi for plagiarism over a work of hers which she claims she originally asked de Niro to star in and they had extensive contact before he dropped out. The denial is Quite something:

“The idea that two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro provided Oscar winner Eric Roth with a script from an unknown Italian writer so that Mr Roth could use it to write the 14-minute short film Ellis, about Ellis Island and early immigrants’ experience, is not only preposterous, it is libellous,” De Niro’s lawyer said on Friday in a statement.

And the video of the linked comparison video she has posted to YouTube is worth a watch.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/16/robert-de-niro-denies-plagiarising-italian-director-short-film-ellis-stefania-grassi

He, Scorcese, and DiCaprio just made a 15-minute short film (#ContentMarketing) for a casino in Macau. Each actor got $13 mil.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-a-casino-macau-landed-836394

W/r/t Ellis and The Man in Tails - Ellis looks lightly embarrassingly heavy handed whereas The Man in tails looks intersting actually. It has the look of so,e of those Jarman super-8s.

Score through lightly up there ^

RdN's ambition to seek deeper nadirs for his career is daunting.

― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 January 2015 19:55 (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Deeper nadir should be very easily worked into a deniro pun but I'm an emotional wreck after the match so can someone get that pls

Robert Nadiro is the easy shot here but I think we can do more.

Yeah agreed. Maybe I'll sleep on it. I'll put on a deniro movie.

recommend the godfather part ii

Analyze Da Udda Ting.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/05/robert-de-niro-you-need-to-ring-terrence-malick-now

in this guardian 'advice for actors' section, they seemed to think he should work with terrence malik. i think that could be awful, and i also doubt RDN wants to work with someone of his generation. maybe someone like dennis villeneuve, paolo sorrentino, or windig refn could be good. i actually think jacques audiard would do really well with de niro. i guess i am picking directors who are all interested in masculinity, which RDN might have had enough of, but apart from them, theres always paul thomas anderson, though his last two films have been interesting but very flawed IMO, so looking outside the US might be a good idea.

http://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/675x380/2015/11/macau_casino_opening.jpg

The movie is so incredibly consistent in failing to land an honest laugh that about an hour into it, its not being funny becomes laughable: I began giggling with a kind of metaphysical embarrassment for everyone involved in the enterprise, and, eventually, for all of humanity itself. I see, scrawled in my notebook, the words “What is happening to our world?”

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dirty-grandpa-2016

Saw the poster for this yesterday (not having previously known anything about the film) and became immediately depressed over how De Niro's participation in something like this no longer surprises me.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/Dirty_Grandpa_teaser_poster.jpg

surprised Aubrey P would take the role honestly xp

btw playing a standup comic in a Taylor Hackford film written by Art Linson. Not expecting Pupkin in Winter.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/leslie-mann-jennifer-aniston-robert-de-niro-comedian-1201683404/

I get the feeling he was in a method bubble for so, so long that he didn't even realize he could just churn out shitty easy comedies for a lot of money. Like, maybe he'd go up to Scorsese and ask "Marty, why do so many of these actors have bigger houses in nice places?" And Scorsese would be all "I don't know, Bobby. Hey, you want some ice cream? Why don't you have a seat here in your modest apartment and I can run out and get you some. You don't want to be out there, anyway, it's so dirty and dangerous."

Kind of like the author Richard Russo, I read some interview with him once after he had written/sold his first screenplay 20 or so years into his career, and he was amazed at how much he made for doing so much less work than it takes to write a novel.

On the day of his wife’s funeral, Dick (De Niro) guilt-trips his grandson Jason (Efron) into helping him honor his late spouse by taking the same journey from Georgia to Boca Raton that they made each year. Though his wedding to prim Meredith (Julianne Hough) is fast approaching, Jason — a corporate lawyer who works for his dad, David (Dermot Mulroney) — reluctantly agrees to this task, only to just about throw up on one of his many polo shirt-and-khaki outfits when he goes to pick up Dick and finds the man pleasuring himself to porn, and casually referring to his climax as “a No. 3.”

Traveling in Meredith’s pink Mini Cooper, which Dick derisively refers to as a “giant labia,” the duo first stop at a golf course, where Dick begins his film-long habit of poking Jason in the ass with objects and/or his finger, all while espousing his consuming need for coitus.

http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2016/01/dirty-grandpa.html

There are many ways you could go in attacking something like Dirty Grandpa. The easiest is to lament the fall of arguably the greatest actor from the greatest period in the history of film, to rend clothing and ululate about how De Niro has begun cashing checks in his dotage. It's tempting to use clever turns of phrase like "Aging Bull" as shorthand to avoid engaging with it. The hard way to approach Dirty Grandpa is to try to draw it into the larger conversation of what's happened to the state of our state when stuff like this is right there on the verge of being accepted as the new social lingua franca. It's the movie version of Donald Trump and Sarah Palin. There's no thesis, just provocation upon non sequitur provocation.

"I want to fuck a horse and drink its blood" --Deniro in Dirty Grandpa

Surprised this article hasn't come up here before (though not sure of the argument)

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/this-theory-on-why-robert-de-niro-is-making-bad-films-is-wildly-depressing-a7111161.html

A counterpoint, from Reverse Shot:

Best Raging Bull: Robert De Niro in Dirty Grandpa
Like many other worthy comedies distributed in the drippy doldrums of late January, Dirty Grandpa was stomped on by cruise-controlled critics who took its release date and narrative scenario—a mouthy old horndog tries to re-enact Spring Breakers with his grandson in the name of inter-generational bonding—as indicators of de facto badness. Au contraire: this second film by the Oscar-nominated Ali G and Borat scribe Dan Mazer is a work of surprisingly clear-eyed vision: it’s a 90-minute leer in the general direction of Zac Efron, whose good-sporting, essentially decorative presence—i.e. stumbling around a police station lockup in an orange crop top reading “Stop Staring at My Tits”—gently redirects the masculine thrust of the material. The satirical key is the contrast between Efron’s hard-bodied blitheness and De Niro’s spirit-is-willing/flesh-is-weak intensity as the titular Grandpa; the way that the older man simultaneously resents, envies, and competes against his genetic inheritor is funny and truthful in ways that transcend the drab formalities of the plot. To some extent, Mazer is exploiting his gleefully slumming star’s aura, but darned if De Niro doesn’t seem more liberated than in any role in recent memory. This is what committed comic acting looks like.

Gleefully slumming star? This is what committed comic horrifically ham acting looks like.

i surprisingly laughed a lot @ dirty grandpa; its 100% ridiculous but idk i also think its kinda fun the lines that bobby d has to deliver convincingly, and does

it's a total abortion

like worse than al pacino in that fucking adam sandler film

He's working with Scorsese (and Joe Pesci and Al Pacino) again on The Irishman.

What a shocker, another #Resistance anti-Trumper turns out to just want a more polite form of exploitation. https://t.co/7o4kVFNkkw

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) June 11, 2018

hard to believe the man whose best performance of the last 20 years might well be in dirty grandpa would nowadays be more interested in disaster capitalism than art

I probably went to A Bronx Tale in 1993 hoping for something really good--De Niro was still a pretty good bet at the time. Forgot about it immediately. If you can give De Niro a pass for the slavish Goodfellas imitation (Jungle Fever, too), it actually holds up pretty well. Pesci's bit at the end is nice.

i don't think i'll ever get over what a disappointment a bronx tale is/was. probably my most loathed film of all time
― NI, Tuesday, May 13, 2014 10:57 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Someone who couldn't give him a pass, I guess.

Palminteri really looked like a contender for awhile there, this and Bullets Over Broadway were his absolute peak though. His career went much better than Lillo Brancato Jr's however...

Should mention him, too--he was good (and wrote it, of course). So were the young actors who played C and Jane.

Taxi Driver 2: The Legend of Bickle's Gold
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, September 12, 2003

still a treasure

I would really like to see Midnight Run again. I saw it in the theater but I don't remember it much at all, but I remember liking it. The idea of a buddy cop action comedy with Robert DeNiro and Charles Grodin is pretty wacky.

Nothing’s more unnatural and awkward than DeNiro hamming it up

What’d I say to you?

If the part of this song about him "Never, ever [trying comedy] again" had remained true, it might've spared us Dirty Grandpa at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh9GEvMzA6I

Bagel salesman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdMpVZ42RLk

absolutely fucking risible

The UK really is like Japan, so many US actors slumming it in commercials.

how much money does robert de niro need, really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu8q3fcKNMk

De Niro, Pacino, Keitel... who's left?

Guy who played billy blanco from the bronx doing a Greggs ad?

I love Leguizamo and that would make me sad

Jeff Bridges in a shitty beer ad atm

Johnny Depp the next face of the Sun Life Over 50s Plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ManyCesoujg

Where's the Jack Nicholson adverts?

Jeff Bridges in a shitty beer ad atm

oh god yeah this is absolutely atrocious and kinda made me hate jeff bridges

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdf_XybtFjU

Bob and Al hafta subsidize those 4-hr Scorsese epics

was wondering if james caan had done any ads and i can't seem to find any, which is heartening

It's funny thinking about the reverence and mystique conferred onto some of these hack one note clowns in the late 80's and what a joke they are now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kao5YQeohyQ

This is a genre of itself. Notice the diners sitting on the corner just like they did in the Sopranos.

was wondering if James Caan had done any ads* and i can't seem to find any, which is heartening

I thought I'd seen a Caan ad, but was confusing him w/Robert Loggia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZIzRqDOSZo

*Actually, there is a James Caan commercial on youtube, but it's for Rehab center, so it probably doesn't count.

Christ, the DeNiro bagel ad even uses a faux "Jump Into The Fire."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InzueIgtTbo

He's on a roll (not a bagel) at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02UES6ghcGs

Great photo, showed up on my FB wall (Cannes, 1976). Thought about posting it on the "Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same," as a joke.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTB0pnPVEAAl55K.jpg:large

what about de niro's father's career imo

I knew his mom was an established painter; somehow I forgot his father was, too.

there is a poll between De Niro and Pacino on twitter right now about who was hotter when they were young, with hundreds of thousands of votes

At a wedding and having a big debate rn. Please vote. Who was hotter?

— Ashley Reese (@offbeatorbit) May 14, 2023

Greil Marcus had Zero Day, a six-episode mini-series, in his Real Life column this month, so I started watching. Got through the first episode, but I think I'll bail. He really had it in there because of some random Sex Pistols association; that's happened, leaving five more episodes of De Niro as an ex-president. He's so nothing here--not the wild over-acting associated with late Pacino or Nicholson, but the far other end of the spectrum. He's found the movie equivalent of Truman Capote's famous line about Jack Kerouac: that's not acting, that's talking.

ive heard such bad things i might seek it out just for interests sake tbh

Somewhat the same premise as Sam Esmail's Leave the World Behind from two years ago, so a little late.

He's been in so many good movies and made so many interesting choices that I looked back at his filmography to try and figure out where it started to get shaky. I think it was around 1999 and "Analyze This" where "De Niro is good!" became more the exception than the rule.

who did the 'Phoning it In' skit with DeNiro & Pacino? SNL or Mad TV, can't remember but it was funny

De Niro has a gangster film coming out in which he plays both Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, which is certainly an interesting casting decision. The trailer looks OK, directed by Barry Levinson, which isn’t exactly the Scorsese imprimatur of quality, but it was written by Nicholas Pileggi, so…

Looking at his IMDB page, for me personally, the last film I liked him in was American Hustle, and the last films I really liked him in were Jackie Brown and Casino.

1) I've skipped far more than I've seen--lots of gaps.
2) It's not that I think he's bad in The Irishman or Killers of the Flower Moon, he just doesn't make any impression on me.

I don't know, I loved him in The Irishman, especially the section leading up to, during, and in the aftermath of the Hoffa murder. * I think Pesci was the best in that film of the main trio, though.

*You never know, someone might not have seen it.

FWIW, during his recent divorce trial, he let it be known that he had taken on terrible projects due to the cost of the proceedings. Pacino, Gene Hackman, Robin Williams have all admitted at one time that they made a series of terrible films they'd normally pass just to pay off a divorce. Per Wikipedia, DeNiro also had a divorce in 1988. He also got into the restaurant business sometime in the '90s or '00s. I don't think it's a stretch that all of these costly events may have played a role in what films to do, especially when certain comedies like the Analyse Whatever and Meet Whoever movies paid off big.

Forgot one detail re: Pacino - he was a victim of that Ponzi scheme which apparently wiped him out, and he admitted that was the reason why he took on so many bad films of late.

I suspect most of these dudes are just financial ding dongs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM44eaasx0Y

Estimating there's 37 objectionable lines in that.

DeNiro's 80's look better than I remembered but his 90's are pretty terrible, mostly salvaged by Scorsese.

He's so nothing here--not the wild over-acting associated with late Pacino or Nicholson, but the far other end of the spectrum

There's a Pacino vs DeNiro thread here somewhere and someone makes the point that they're both over the hill, but Pacino phoning it in means hilarious mugging while DeNiro phoning it in just means terminal boredom. This was probably like twenty years ago!

He was effective and playing exactly what Scorsese needed in Killers.

I thought he was good in Killers, that avuncular menace.

Same, I much prefer his restraint in that than if he'd done Nicholson-in-The-Departed mugging

I didn't particularly like him in Killers, but iirc I liked him in The Irishman.

robert deniro's carer

There's a note he hits at the end of Casino, where he's essentially saying "this is bullshit, I've had enough, I can't be bothered anymore", and it feels like he's been hitting that note ever since, in some form or another.

I can't think of a great movie since "Ronin", although I've missed a lot of them.

De Niro in the 90s was on a pretty good run, I mean, there are some great films and/or great performances in there. Aside from the three Scorsese movies he was in, he was also in Jackie Brown, Heat, A Boy’s Life, A Bronx Tale, Wag the Dog, Cop Land, and obv Ronin. Since then, it’s definitely been pretty grim, though I did think his work as both director and actor in The Good Shepherd was very good.

I'll defend The Good Shepherd too -- Matt Damon realizing the WASPy frigidity he developed in Bourne. Did need a goddamn editor though.