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Why Al Pacino Matters
NRO ^ | 29 Nov 2019 | Kyle Smith

Posted on 12/03/2019 12:38:51 PM PST by Rummyfan

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To: Michael.SF.

“”” Deniro was terrible”””””

He has been in about every gangster movie ever made and he is the same in every one.


21 posted on 12/03/2019 1:08:45 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: Meatspace

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1302006/?ref_=bo_se_r_1


22 posted on 12/03/2019 1:09:24 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: Rummyfan

The only part I had trouble with was Ray Romano as a mob lawyer.

They could have also used younger guys in the scenes that went back in the past. All the makeup in the world cannot erase thirty or forty years.


23 posted on 12/03/2019 1:09:55 PM PST by kempster
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To: Bratch

Well, at least DeNerdo has a lot of sole....................


24 posted on 12/03/2019 1:10:39 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: Bratch

Well, at least DeNerdo has a lot of sole....................


25 posted on 12/03/2019 1:10:40 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: ssaftler

Thanks for the feedback. Three hours? !!


26 posted on 12/03/2019 1:10:42 PM PST by lee martell
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To: cld51860
I want to watch “Irishman,” but I’m afraid DeNiro’s recent nonsense will now make his presence an annoying distraction.

I know just how you feel. I hate Robert DeNiro for his anti-Trump idiocy.

Nevertheless, because my TV just died and I don't plan to replace it (and I have free Netflix by mooching off my daughter's Netflix account), I bit the bullet and just recently watched The Irishman.

It really is a great movie, a true (as far as is known) story about the Mafia in the age of JFK and Jimmy Hoffa. No fake character names (as in Goodfellas, one of my all time favorite movies).

I watched it more because it was directed by Martin Scorsese -- who did an amazing job as always. It's said that this one is his last gangster film.

I hate to admit it, but DeNiro was excellent in it, as was Joe Pesci and Al Pacino.

So all I can say is phuck Robert DeNiro, but it's a great movie. I highly recommend it.

27 posted on 12/03/2019 1:12:15 PM PST by Maceman (Trump Trumps Hate!!!)
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To: Meatspace

Loved the Irishman. Pacino was outstanding.


28 posted on 12/03/2019 1:12:55 PM PST by Engedi (ui)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Pacino was great in Glengarry, Glen Ross.


29 posted on 12/03/2019 1:13:05 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cuban leaf
My wife and I watched a half hour of the Irishman and turned it off. We had anticipated it for a while and were really looking forward to it.

Mind if I ask why you turned it off (without spoilers)? My wife and I are looking forward to watching as well.
30 posted on 12/03/2019 1:13:52 PM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: cld51860

He was terrible in it, I was laughing at him the whole time. Besides the usual stupid faces he makes, there’s one scene where he has to beat up this guy, and they use computer graphics to make DeNiro look younger, but because in reality he’s almost 80 he could barely move and it looked fake as hell, he taps the guy and the guy goes right down, then DeNiro does these little baby taps with his foot lol lol. And Pacino looked absolutely ridiculous, he looked nothing like Jimmy Hoffa, what he looked like was Al Pacino with a wig glued to his head, a wig with a ridiculously low hairline. I didn’t think it was that great a movie at all. Goodfellas beats it by miles.


31 posted on 12/03/2019 1:14:52 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing about liberals.)
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To: Victor

Second Hand Lions is a gem most people seem to have missed.


32 posted on 12/03/2019 1:15:33 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: cuban leaf

There’s a after the Irishman movie session where Joe Peschi, DeNiro, Pacino and the director all talk about how they did the aging and new digital method they used.


33 posted on 12/03/2019 1:16:36 PM PST by Engedi (ui)
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To: kempster
The only part I had trouble with was Ray Romano as a mob lawyer.

I've actually been looking forward to seeing that.
34 posted on 12/03/2019 1:17:58 PM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

When I think of De Niro, I think of the Diceman’s impersonation of him...

https://youtu.be/mzybzb2BMi0?t=40


35 posted on 12/03/2019 1:18:11 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Loved Goodfellas and Casino.


36 posted on 12/03/2019 1:22:36 PM PST by Engedi (ui)
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To: Rummyfan
Pacino used to work at Norman Podhoretz's neocon magazine Commentary.

Back then, though, it was a left-liberal magazine and in any case, Al was just working in the mail room.

I doubt he's any kind of a conservative, but he did two portraits of very flawed liberals - a mayor in City Hall and a PR man in People I Know.

There wasn't any conservative message, it was just that if you want to show urban corruption nowadays, the people involved are likely to be Democrats and liberals.

Serpico was another tale of urban corruption.

37 posted on 12/03/2019 1:23:14 PM PST by x
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To: Rummyfan

Honestly, Pacino peaked very very early. His three important movies are Godfather, Godfather II, and Dog Day Afternoon. Everything after that has run from OK to awful.


38 posted on 12/03/2019 1:23:23 PM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: Rummyfan

Pacino made a great movie about Shakespeare’s Richard III. I knew he was smart after seeing that.

Bobby D is an ignorant hack.


39 posted on 12/03/2019 1:23:40 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Rummyfan
Al is referred to as Dunk now.
40 posted on 12/03/2019 1:28:17 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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