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tommydski wrote: Then again he could never pull off something along the lines of My Left Foot'.

Surfrider wrote:

kenoki wrote:i'm putting my money on daniel day lewis... when he's on screen i'm thinking, "wow! he's such an amazing actor!!" when deniro is on screen i'm like, "hey! it's deniro!"

For me, the last thing i want to be thinking when i'm watching a film is "this guy/gal is such an amazing actor!" I have always thought a really good actor doesn't give off the impression they are even acting. It's often when thinking back over something that it hits you how great someone's performance was, and for me at least, it more often than not is something really understated and hard to pinpoint. Just that they really appear to be a certain character.

Don't get me wrong, there's something i (sometimes) really like about the DDL style of performance as it can indeed be very compelling and captivating, but i never really feel i am really watching an actual character. I just feel like i'm watching DDL acting acting acting. And then some more acting.

De Niro. Yeah he's done some real stinkers, but i can't think of an actor who hasn't in the name of a nice deserved paycheck. Thinking about it though, De Niro has done an awful lot of shit hasn't hasn't he. I think i may give him the benefit of the doubt based on his genuinely awesome roles though.

tommydski wrote:Then again he could never pull off something along the lines of My Left Foot'.

nathan. wrote:

tommydski wrote:Then again he could never pull off something along the lines of My Left Foot'.

I'm not so sure of that. It's not the same disease, obviously, but De Niro did a phenomenal job in portraying a severe nervous disease in "Awakenings". In fact, of all the roles he's played, I think "My Left Foot" would be one of the one's De Niro would be most successful in of Day-Lewis'.

Octopus Alaska wrote:Deniro hasn't kicked anyone's ass in a movie with any credibility since Heat
(See thread on Michael Mann for my views on that)