Al Pacino Vs Robert De Niro: who is the best of the two?

IvaBigWun

Its has been a 4 decade long debate in the film industry. Who is the better of these two juggernauts of acting?

For me. Pacino just about nudges it. The main reason being that the last decade or so of his career hasnt gone to shiite like Bobby's did. De Niro's agent and manager should both be fired and hang their heads in shame for what they let their client sign up for.

Or maybe De Niro just wants an easy life?

That's my argument for Pacino for the moment but I'll put up a much longer explanation tomorrow as Im pressed for time now.

So Film lovers.

This guy



Or this guy?




At time moment Im split 55% for Pacino and the rest for De Niro, so maybe this thread could sway me.


Please note: no one line answers please. Give us some reasoning behind your choice.

Poly

De Niro, just so many great films come to mind. Goodfellas, The Mission, Taxi driver, Raging bull, Godfather, and of course the deer hunter.

I have to struggle to recall Pacino movies

TimeToShine

De Niro, Godfather aside he wins by quite a margin.

IvaBigWun

Poll added.

Tipsy McSwagger

Bill Murray

catallus

Bill Paxman taught those guys everything they know.

IvaBigWun

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Bill Murray

For you sir

Dog of Tears

De Niro's more versatile and has been in better movies.

Birneybau

Hoo Haa!

De Niro, always. There's something I can't take seriously about Pacino in a helluva lot of his roles.

Birneybau

catallus wrote: »

Bill Paxman taught those guys everything they know.

It's Bill Pullman you idiot! (Simpson's quote, not an insult) ; )

Hannibal

De Niro hands down. He's performed across different genres aswell.

Pacino has The Godfather, Godfather II, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Scarface, Godfather III, Scent of a Woman, Carlitos Way, Heat, Donnie Brasco, The Insider, Any Given Sunday and The Recruit.

De Niro has The Godfather II, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull, Once Upon a Time in America, King of Comedy, Untouchables, Midnight Run, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino, Heat, Sleepers, Cop Land, Jackie Brown, Ronin, Men of Honour, The Score.
I personally like De Niro in Analyze This and Meet the Parents, I know some people don't thimk he should be doing comedy but he has one of those faces that can pull it off.
He was also excellent in Silver Linings Playbook.

scouttio

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Its has been a 4 decade long debate in the film industry. Who is the better of these two juggernauts of acting?

For me. Pacino just about nudges it. The main reason being that the last decade or so of his career hasnt gone to shiite like Bobby's did. De Niro's agent and manager should both be fired and hang their heads in shame for what they let their client sign up for.



Please note: no one line answers please. Give us some reasoning behind your choice.

And whoever in camp Pacino thought appearing in Jack and Jill would be a good idea, needs to be shot.

For me, I just seem to enjoy De Niro's films more, so I'm going with him!
Give me Raging Bull over Dog Day Afternoon any day...or any afternoon.

Alfred Borden

I prefer Pacino but De Niro is by far the superior actor. Simply more versatile.

IvaBigWun

Raf32 wrote: »

I prefer Pacino but De Niro is by far the superior actor. Simply more versatile.

Sh*t. I dont know if I meant initially for the thread to be for "the best" or "your favourite".

Hmmm.

Alfred Borden

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Sh*t. I dont know if I meant initially for the thread to be for "the best" or "your favourite".

Hmmm.

I voted best anyways :pac:

Donnielighto

De Niro does some awful movies thouhg. I think Pacino is more consitent.

Wins moderately easily for me.

IvaBigWun

Raf32 wrote: »

I voted best anyways :pac:

And Id say everyone else did too so I'll leave it be

endacl

De Niro for me. Pacino never inspired Bananarama to write a song about him "talkin' Italian". Can't argue with Bananarama.

Falcon L

De Niro, by along way. Pacino is great, but a tad one dimensional.

IvaBigWun

Donnielighto wrote: »

De Niro does some awful movies thouhg. I think Pacino is more consitent.

Wins moderately easily for me.

Pacino was getting hammered in this 2:1 at the start but seems to be on the comeback now.

Links234

IvaBigWun wrote: »

For me. Pacino just about nudges it. The main reason being that the last decade or so of his career hasnt gone to shiite like Bobby's did.

Hasn't it? I don't know if I've seen anything he's done in the last 10 years apart from Righteous Kill which was awful, so like, what's he done that's been any good? Last thing I've seen DeNiro in was Limitless though

NotCominBack

DeNiro

And your poll should have had "say hello to my little friend" instead of that hoo ha crap

IvaBigWun

Links234 wrote: »

Hasn't it? I don't know if I've seen anything he's done in the last 10 years apart from Righteous Kill which was awful, so like, what's he done that's been any good? Last thing I've seen DeNiro in was Limitless though

Pacino has had some shiite over recent years but De Niro was king of the easy pay cheque for terrible, terrible films en masse.

IvaBigWun

NotCominBack wrote: »

DeNiro

And your poll should have had "say hello to my little friend" instead of that hoo ha crap

My poll. My choice.

gladrags

scouttio wrote: »

And whoever in camp Pacino thought appearing in Jack and Jill would be a good idea, needs to be shot.

For me, I just seem to enjoy De Niro's films more, so I'm going with him!
Give me Raging Bull over Dog Day Afternoon any day...or any afternoon.

No chance of the art of acting entering into the discussion then.

Raging Bull and DDA have different qualities.

Both were ground breaking works.

mikom

Pa Niro, for me.
Pa Niro is the king of all the travellers and will bate any man, any time, provided he has time to steep his fists in pedaral an hour beforehand.

Dirty Steve

People are going to say De Niro is better, but if you look back at each of their back catalogues, it's impossible to choose between the two, certainly if you've actually watched the majority of their films and not just the major ones.

Dempsey

De Niro, took on more challenging roles than Pacino did

NotCominBack

IvaBigWun wrote: »

My poll. My choice.

What film was that in?

My English is not perfect so excuse if I didn't understand.

Did you mean which is the better? Because neither is the best.

NotCominBack

[Deleted User] wrote: »

My English is not perfect so excuse if I didn't understand.

Did you mean which is the better? Because neither is the best.

If there's only 2 in it, and one is better than the other, then they are the best