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Since about 1998 De Niro's career and reputation has been on a slow downward spiral. It's not just the crap comedies, the straight to video dreck, the hackneyed thrillers, the phoned-in performances, it's the overall feeling that he's completely sold out. Here's the latest thing. Can you imagine the De Niro of the 70's and 80's doing a thing like this? It's not like he needs the money, why do it?

 

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He did have an important role in Joker at least. That’s got to be the best movie he’s been in in at least 20 years.

Is it a big part?

 

He's worth $500 million, and yet he's doing cringeworthy shit like that car ad...

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He did have an important role in Joker at least. That’s got to be the best movie he’s been in in at least 20 years.

Is it a big part?

 

He's worth $500 million, and yet he's doing cringeworthy shit like that car ad...

 

He's in multiple scenes and he's totally necessary for the movie. So yeah, I can say he has a big part in that sense. He does well in it.

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I don't remember Jack Nicholson's career hitting the skids like De Niro and he's worth around the same amount and he did the smart thing and retired in 2013. Nowadays his career is looking a lot more impressive than De Niro's.
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He did have an important role in Joker at least. That’s got to be the best movie he’s been in in at least 20 years.

Is it a big part?

 

He's worth $500 million, and yet he's doing cringeworthy shit like that car ad...

 

He's in multiple scenes and he's totally necessary for the movie. So yeah, I can say he has a big part in that sense. He does well in it.

What part is it?

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Yeah, he's done pretty much anything that will pay him. Maybe the six kids are expensive? Or he had to pay a big divorce settlement? It's kind of depressing to see, though.
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He got to the point where he had nothing to prove anymore and just stopped caring. But still does it because they pay him a ton to play the goofy old man.

 

Joe Pesci was the smart one. He retired from full time acting years ago. He did what he wanted to do, got his money and got out.

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He got to the point where he had nothing to prove anymore and just stopped caring. But still does it because they pay him a ton to play the goofy old man.

 

Joe Pesci was the smart one. He retired from full time acting years ago. He did what he wanted to do, got his money and got out.

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I could say the same for Johnny Depp post POTC. DeNiro has done some indies as well instead of just paycheck but even some of them aren’t good. The Comedian was a new low for him.

 

Hell, Stallone was less worse than him in the awful one joke premise (ROCKY AND LAMOTTA! HAHAHA!) that was Grudge Match ffs. At least Sly put in SOME effort. DeNiro was just mugging it for the check. Sick with Copland for a good movie with both of them.

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He did have an important role in Joker at least. That’s got to be the best movie he’s been in in at least 20 years.

Is it a big part?

 

He's worth $500 million, and yet he's doing cringeworthy shit like that car ad...

 

He's in multiple scenes and he's totally necessary for the movie. So yeah, I can say he has a big part in that sense. He does well in it.

What part is it?

 

He’s a talk show host

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He got to the point where he had nothing to prove anymore and just stopped caring. But still does it because they pay him a ton to play the goofy old man.

 

Joe Pesci was the smart one. He retired from full time acting years ago. He did what he wanted to do, got his money and got out.

 

It's been a while since I've seen that movie. I will have to revisit it soon.

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I don't remember Jack Nicholson's career hitting the skids like De Niro and he's worth around the same amount and he did the smart thing and retired in 2013. Nowadays his career is looking a lot more impressive than De Niro's.

 

I give Bobby a 22-2 movie record...though I skipped all of those 21st century terrible looking flicks. It started to go to shit around Analyze This or that Meet the Parents/Fockers fluff with Stiller around 20 years ago. I think Ronin in the late 90s was the last of his string of good/decent movies he had.

 

Jack I have at a 13-2 record but there was nothing I intentionally skipped.

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I don't remember Jack Nicholson's career hitting the skids like De Niro and he's worth around the same amount and he did the smart thing and retired in 2013. Nowadays his career is looking a lot more impressive than De Niro's.

 

I give Bobby a 22-2 movie record...though I skipped all of those 21st century terrible looking flicks. It started to go to shit around Analyze This or that Meet the Parents/Fockers fluff with Stiller around 20 years ago. I think Ronin in the late 90s was the last of his string of good/decent movies he had.

 

Jack I have at a 13-2 record but there was nothing I intentionally skipped.

Yeah it was when he did those shitty comedies the Fokkers and Analyze This etc. After that he went straight downhill.

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Since about 1998 De Niro's career and reputation has been on a slow downward spiral. It's not just the crap comedies, the straight to video dreck, the hackneyed thrillers, the phoned-in performances, it's the overall feeling that he's completely sold out. Here's the latest thing. Can you imagine the De Niro of the 70's and 80's doing a thing like this? It's not like he needs the money, why do it?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzuF7ndMDCQ

 

Maybe he just likes the screen time no matter how shitty it is?

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He surprises me from time to time. He’s usually pretty good when he plays a parent, or grand parent. Silver Linings Playbook comes to mind.

 

He’s done a lot of bad stuff in the last 2 decades - that’s for sure.

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It was Michael Caine who advised actors to take every role they were offered because they never know when the offers will just stop coming. Lots of people do odd stuff to keep themselves amused in their later years; maintaining the kind of intensity he had for roles like Raging Bull was never gonna last. Hell, Ritchie Blackmore is touring renaissance faires or some such, isn't he? If DeNiro wants to turn out dreck, he's earned the cred. I'll just go back and watch "Midnight Run" again.
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If DeNiro wants to turn out dreck, he's earned the cred.

 

Using that thought, would you have been okay if Rush ended up playing nursery rhymes on kiddie instruments and out of tune ukeleles?

 

:P

 

If Geddy's next project was the "Big Book of Big Bad Wolves" in nursery rhyme form, I would shake my head, say "wtf?," and wish him well. Then I'd go listen to "Xanadu" again!

 

:huh:

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If DeNiro wants to turn out dreck, he's earned the cred.

 

Using that thought, would you have been okay if Rush ended up playing nursery rhymes on kiddie instruments and out of tune ukeleles?

 

:P

 

If Geddy's next project was the "Big Book of Big Bad Wolves" in nursery rhyme form, I would shake my head, say "wtf?," and wish him well. Then I'd go listen to "Xanadu" again!

 

:huh:

 

Of course you’d listen to Xanadu again. But you wouldn’t want the nursery rhyme rubbish the same as Treeduck doesn’t want and doesn’t understand Bobby’s terrible run for the last twenty years.

 

I don’t agree with the thought that since someone’s done great things, they’ve earned the right to do crappy work. For one thing, it’s so unRushlike (even though this thread is about Bobby). Sure they’re free to make crap but to me that’s just lazy. And that’s what DeNiro has been looking like to me this century [with the exception of his role in Joker last year]: lazy. No crime committed but it’s a little sad to see a former powerhouse like him take on (now) a couple of decades worth of sorry roles and movies.

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Just because you`ve got great credibility, it doesn`t turn sh*t into gold. Nobody forgave Eddie Van Halen, Van Halen III. (Although I don`t personally hate it). De Niro appearing in car adverts, Harvey Keitel and car insurance... I can`t help but shake my head. I guess the number of years of earning are looking a bit limited and you`ve got more and more family than you had when you could pick film roles, so you figure just stuff your pockets before you`re dribbling on your shirt and thinking it`s 1973.
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If DeNiro wants to turn out dreck, he's earned the cred.

 

Using that thought, would you have been okay if Rush ended up playing nursery rhymes on kiddie instruments and out of tune ukeleles?

 

:P

 

If Geddy's next project was the "Big Book of Big Bad Wolves" in nursery rhyme form, I would shake my head, say "wtf?," and wish him well. Then I'd go listen to "Xanadu" again!

 

:huh:

 

Of course you’d listen to Xanadu again. But you wouldn’t want the nursery rhyme rubbish the same as Treeduck doesn’t want and doesn’t understand Bobby’s terrible run for the last twenty years.

 

I don’t agree with the thought that since someone’s done great things, they’ve earned the right to do crappy work. For one thing, it’s so unRushlike (even though this thread is about Bobby). Sure they’re free to make crap but to me that’s just lazy. And that’s what DeNiro has been looking like to me this century [with the exception of his role in Joker last year]: lazy. No crime committed but it’s a little sad to see a former powerhouse like him take on (now) a couple of decades worth of sorry roles and movies.

Doing bad work, especially continuously for over 20 years, undermines the good work and forces you to even reevaluate it.

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He got to the point where he had nothing to prove anymore and just stopped caring. But still does it because they pay him a ton to play the goofy old man.

 

Joe Pesci was the smart one. He retired from full time acting years ago. He did what he wanted to do, got his money and got out.

 

It's been a while since I've seen that movie. I will have to revisit it soon.

 

It’s on Showtime streaming this month. I’ve got it in my iTunes and Movies Anywhere cloud.

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