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That's just it -- he does give it all he has but he has very little to give. The roles he plays are great roles, as in they already do the job for him. He's rarely bad as such because he gets good parts. Tell me one single role DiCaprio has ever done (aside from Gilbert Grape, I'll give him that) that would not have been improved by another actor. Is there any other role he has played that only he could have played? iSheep posted:I agree with this post. I do not understand the internet circlejerk for Leo to get "His Oscar".
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Stare-Out posted:Tell me one single role DiCaprio has ever done (aside from Gilbert Grape, I'll give him that) that would not have been improved by another actor. Josh in Critters 3.
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Stare-Out posted:That's just it -- he does give it all he has but he has very little to give. The roles he plays are great roles, as in they already do the job for him. He's rarely bad as such because he gets good parts. Tell me one single role DiCaprio has ever done (aside from Gilbert Grape, I'll give him that) that would not have been improved by another actor. Is there any other role he has played that only he could have played? He would've improved Goodfellas if he was old enough at the time.
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computer parts posted:He would've improved Goodfellas if he was old enough at the time.
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you can tell he's a good actor by how much he squeals and spits
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Improve... Goodfellas...?
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He would've stirred that tomata' sauce real good.
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Loved this. It's gorgeous, visceral, intense and absolutely riveting. The acting is superb, especially by Hardy. I think this is Iñárritu's best movie.
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It was ok, not great. I was waiting for the Star Wars bit the whole time and lo and behold.......
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Saw this last night. It was pretty good. I wouldn't call it great. The fight with the bear was well done, pretty much exactly how I imagined it when reading the book. I get why they made Leo have a son (So you would hate Hardy more then he inevitably kills him), but I don't think that it was necessary. I wish they spent more time on the first grueling hours after Glass is abandoned and is fighting for his life inch by inch . RCarr fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Jan 2, 2016 |
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caiman posted:Loved this. It's gorgeous, visceral, intense and absolutely riveting. The acting is superb, especially by Hardy. I think this is Iñárritu's best movie. quote:While weather undeniably was a huge obstacle, several crewmembers say a threshold issue was a failure to understand, as one puts it, "what a period film outdoors on this scale was really going to cost." Given cinematographer Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki's decision only to use natural light, there was a short window each day when the production could film. Inarritu is making extensive use of the tracking-shot technique that he deployed to dazzling effect in Birdman, so changes in weather could mean trouble. "It's 4 o'clock, and you've got an hour and a half of daylight, and it's not the light he wants to shoot in," says a crewmember. "If you want to seamlessly stitch [the footage] together, it's not going to match." What's not to like about this movie? The action scenes/everything are also better than that cowboy Agatha Christie drama.
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Illinois Smith posted:The parts before the bear attack and the battle scenes in general kind of feel like Inarritu's audition for a Blood Meridian movie. Yes please.
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Never read book or followed the process of it being made but this is easily my favorite movie of the last few years. Pretty much every single thought I had got subverted. At first I thought Fitzgerald and Glass were going to be heading towards being bros all the way up until he killed the son, then I thought Fitz was going to kill the kid that came with him to cover it up, then I thought FItz was going to turn a new leaf over guilt, then I thought Glass saving the woman was going to lead to a tear jerker moment where she yells NO DON'T KILL HIM HE SAVED ME! Nope, all that got you was a passing indifference. Only complaint was that it's hard to understand a lot of the dialogue. Definitely going to rewatch a few times with subtitles.
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osietra posted:What's not to like about this movie? The action scenes/everything are also better than that cowboy Agatha Christie drama. The blurb you quoted reminds me of a specific element I especially loved: the exquisite camera work. Man, the more I think about this movie the more I absolutely adore it.
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Jan 4, 2016 19:56
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Hey, it's ya boy Leo. Watch me emerge from this horse corpse vagina, born into a new man.
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Loved this movie. Also think it has the best cinematography of the year, and that's coming from someone who loved Deakins' work on Sicario.
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Leo just lacks the natural charisma that the best actors have. When you watch him, you always feel that he feels a camera is on him. Also like the other posters said, he puts himself in really good roles. He's in really good movies but he's not really good in movies. How many times have you seen a movie because he's in it? Basically he wouldn't have a career if River Phoenix didn't die.
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Yeah, Dicaprio has always been enjoyable to watch, but he never disappears into his roles. When Tom Hardy's onscreen it's "Wow this half-scalped fucker is MEAN," but when Dicaprio's onscreen it's "Leo looks neat with that beard."
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I've been in DiCaprio's corner since around The Departed but I feel like if you're still not seeing what makes him a good actor after The Wolf of Wall Street you're actively trying not to. as for how he can't disappear into his roles like Tom Hardy does, well Leo's been one of the most famous actors on the planet since roughly 1997 whereas Hardy's a character actor whose breakout role was in a grubby little indie flick in 2008.
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Oh I think he's a good actor just not a great one. I enjoy watching him a lot.
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Jan 5, 2016 18:11
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Leo perhaps suffers from overexposure at this point. Everyone has seen all of his movies because they're all popular, so everyone has seen his entire range as an actor.
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Jan 5, 2016 18:23
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Dicaprio is great in Catch Me if You Can, Inception, and Departed. Basically, when great directors work with him, he can 'disappear' more into the role because they bring everything else out more. Without that, he's too obviously "acting" in many of his roles. (I liked him a ton in this as well)
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speshl guy posted:Leo perhaps suffers from overexposure at this point. Everyone has seen all of his movies because they're all popular, so everyone has seen his entire range as an actor. that feels like a fair assessment. i definitely think he deserved the oscar over McConnaughey, though maybe not over Ejiofor. it was too amoral of a performance to win over those two in that year, though.
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KidVanguard posted:Basically he wouldn't have a career if River Phoenix didn't die. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-mLIdLZZeI
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The Departed Leo was just him employing his "any strong emotion means I must scream" method. I like him alright, like I said, he's a blank slate so his characters are always super easy to relate to but he never plays the role, he plays Leo playing the role. That's the problem I have with him. Anyway, I saw this today and it's my favorite film of the year, just ahead of Sicario. It's stark, still, looks loving gorgeous, it takes its time perfectly, Leo is serviceable as usual in it and Hardy kills it dead. I was drawn in from the start and it didn't let go until the credits were rolling. Great movie.
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caiman posted:The blurb you quoted reminds me of a specific element I especially loved: the exquisite camera work. Man, the more I think about this movie the more I absolutely adore it.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I've been in DiCaprio's corner since around The Departed but I feel like if you're still not seeing what makes him a good actor after The Wolf of Wall Street you're actively trying not to. That millionaire playboy sure is great at being a millionaire playboy.
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Judakel posted:That millionaire playboy sure is great at being a millionaire playboy. Pretty much, yeah. Is your argument that it's not acting because Leo knows what it's like to have money?
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Pretty much, yeah. Is your argument that it's not acting because Leo knows what it's like to have money? My argument is that he is not a good actor. And furthermore
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Stare-Out posted:That's just it -- he does give it all he has but he has very little to give. The roles he plays are great roles, as in they already do the job for him. He's rarely bad as such because he gets good parts. Tell me one single role DiCaprio has ever done (aside from Gilbert Grape, I'll give him that) that would not have been improved by another actor. Is there any other role he has played that only he could have played? No one could possibly have been as perfect as The Kid in The Quick and the Dead. Probably no other 16 year old looking motherfucker in history could credibly bed prime Sharon Stone and obliviously butt heads with supervillain Gene Hackman while also being utterly punchable AND adorable
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That's actually true.
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DeimosRising posted:No one could possibly have been as perfect as The Kid in The Quick and the Dead. Probably no other 16 year old looking motherfucker in history could credibly bed prime Sharon Stone and obliviously butt heads with supervillain Gene Hackman while also being utterly punchable AND adorable i always forget about that one for some reason, it's a rad performance.
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this movie did a great job at making me feel really loving cold. Also I thought dicaprio did a great job in it
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DeimosRising posted:No one could possibly have been as perfect as The Kid in The Quick and the Dead. Probably no other 16 year old looking motherfucker in history could credibly bed prime Sharon Stone and obliviously butt heads with supervillain Gene Hackman while also being utterly punchable AND adorable Ah yes, that masterpiece of fine acting.
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Judakel posted:Ah yes, that masterpiece of fine acting. Quick and the Dead owns you loving pleb.
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Judakel posted:Ah yes, that masterpiece of fine acting. "Fine acting " in the bougie "fine art" sense that you mean it would be wholly out of place in a Sam Raimi Western but hey man, don't let me distract you from being a joyless prick all the time
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DeimosRising posted:"Fine acting " in the bougie "fine art" sense that you mean it would be wholly out of place in a Sam Raimi Western but hey man, don't let me distract you from being a joyless prick all the time He is not particularly good in that film. I would have enjoyed a bit more creative a choice.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I've been in DiCaprio's corner since around The Departed but I feel like if you're still not seeing what makes him a good actor after The Wolf of Wall Street you're actively trying not to.  e: thing about Tom Hardy is that he keeps not getting roles as good as Bronson. I mean Bronson is still his best film, you know?
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Blue Ruin was a much better movie and it didn't require filming for 8 months in horrendous conditions. That CGI bear was awful and the movie needed to be edited to be way shorter. On the other hand, the opening was dope.
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bruvs be4 luvs
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Dubplate Fire posted:Blue Ruin was a much better movie and it didn't require filming for 8 months in horrendous conditions. That CGI bear was awful and the movie needed to be edited to be way shorter. On the other hand, the opening was dope.  I felt like the bear scene was one of the greatest technical achievements I've ever seen in a movie.
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