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"Pacino, or De Niro?"

Simple really.

Which of these two is your favourite actor, and which is the best film you think they've each done.

Choices:

Al Pacino, or Robert De Niro?

De Niro, quite simply.

Mum says Pacino because she fancies him more. Amateur.

Stryke wrote:
> Heat's on tonight, 9pm, BBC Choice. I'll be watching, tis a damn good film, but
> not as good as...



.... nearly every other film, ever made. Ever.

Sorry, but Heat is nowhere near either De Niro's or Pacino's best at all.

Do you really expect anyone to finish that for you? :-)


Anyway, I thought it was on at 10:00.

I could be wrong. I don't have sky.

Heat's on tonight, 9pm, BBC Choice. I'll be watching, tis a damn good film, but not as good as...

I am the Tarrant wrote:
> I didn't rate Heat very highly. It kind of bored me. De Niro was ok in it,
> Pacino was alright, but poorly cast.

Plus it was just a remake of that other
> film by the same director, but with more money behind it.

Might have been
> "LA Takedown", anyone?


Yep it was L.A. Takedown. Both by Michael Mann. Pacino really just based his role completely in his same charatcer in Takedown. The guy who played De Niro's character though, was awful. He couldn't show any emotion in his voice. The only thing he was good at was getting angry....which is sort of an emotion which is a bit strange.

It's amazing the amount of dialog which was just kept exactly the same. It was unbelievably similar. I know it was a remake but I didn't think it would be that similar.

And the guy who plays Ralph in Heat (Xander Berkely) played Waynegrow in Takedown.

It only costs about 6 quid on DVD. You can get it from SR I think.

:)

Dr. Duck wrote:
> They have both done pretty dire films as well as the classics. ie, HEAT. That
> really did stink. It's probably summed up by the fact that the main dialogue of
> the film was about the relationship between the two lead characters, which was
> lame, badly thought out, artificial, and since everything they said was totally
> obviously implicit to the film, saying it was just patronising to the
> audience.


But Heat. How can I say anything good about either of them after
> thinking about Heat? I apologise if you like Heat.




YOU DAMN WELL BETTER APOLOGISE BOY, BEFORE I GET ANGRY!!!!! :-)


But anyway, I prefer De Niro.....I think.

And Snuggly, this has most probably been said but that film you talk of is called 'Scent of a Woman'. Oh and Chris O'Donell is a retard.

:)

Id say Deniro he fits into any genre and role whereas pacino snould stay to gangster movies, both very good actors and will go down as hollywood greats!

I didn't rate Heat very highly. It kind of bored me. De Niro was ok in it, Pacino was alright, but poorly cast.

Plus it was just a remake of that other film by the same director, but with more money behind it.

Might have been "LA Takedown", anyone?

Heat was good, anyway, I like de Niro, i've got most of his films!
De Niro De Niro De Niro De Niro De Niro De Niro De Niro

Hooray!

I'm not the only person to think HEAT wasn't actually *that* amazing, fantastic!

Some people kept rating it, saying how it was great etc etc yadda yadda, but I didn't think it was that special.