Best and Worst films from longterm Director/Actor collaborations
02-13-10, 12:19 PM
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Best and Worst films from longterm Director/Actor collaborations
What do you think are the best and the worst movies from established director/actor team-ups? For example, Kurosawa/Mifune, Scorsese/DeNiro, Scorsese/DiCaprio, Bergman/von Sydow, Anderson/Wilson etc.
02-13-10, 12:21 PM
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Re: Best and Worst films from longterm Director/Actor collaborations
Hate to say it, but Escape from LA is pretty damn bad for a Carpenter/Russell pairing.
Edit: Forgot about best... Carpenter/Russell: The Thing
Edit: Forgot about best... Carpenter/Russell: The Thing
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02-13-10, 12:24 PM
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Re: Best and Worst films from longterm Director/Actor collaborations
Carpenter/Russell...
Best: The Thing / Big Trouble in Little China / Escape From New York
Worst: Escape From L.A.
Best: The Thing / Big Trouble in Little China / Escape From New York
Worst: Escape From L.A.
02-13-10, 12:31 PM
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I can't really use the word "worst" for some of these guys so I'll use the term "least".
Scorsese/DeNiro
Best: Raging Bull
Least: Goodfellas
Scorsese/DiCaprio
Best: The Departed
Least: Gangs of New York
Kurosawa/Mifune
Best: Seven Samurai
Least: The Lower Depths
Haven't seen enough Bergman to judge.
Scorsese/DeNiro
Best: Raging Bull
Least: Goodfellas
Scorsese/DiCaprio
Best: The Departed
Least: Gangs of New York
Kurosawa/Mifune
Best: Seven Samurai
Least: The Lower Depths
Haven't seen enough Bergman to judge.
Yeah WTF????
02-13-10, 01:26 PM
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Re: Best and Worst films from longterm Director/Actor collaborations
Calling Goodfellas worst anything is laughable. I wouldn't say a single Deniro/Marty collaboraion has been bad, but if pressed would go with New York, New York as well.
02-13-10, 07:56 PM
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Tim Burton/Johnny Depp:
Best: Edward Scissorhands
Worst: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Best: Edward Scissorhands
Worst: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
02-14-10, 01:18 AM
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Re: Best and Worst films from longterm Director/Actor collaborations
George Lucas/Kenny Baker
Best:
Star Wars
Worst:
Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones
Best:
Star Wars
Worst:
Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones
02-14-10, 01:23 AM
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02-14-10, 06:46 AM
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John Ford/John Wayne
Best: THE SEARCHERS (1956)
Worst: A tough one, since they're mostly great, but I'd have to go with THE LONG VOYAGE HOME (1940), based on a Eugene O'Neill play, only because it's long and slow and talky and doesn't use Wayne's considerable strengths as an actor/star. I saw it once and I've never bothered to revisit it.
Scorsese/De Niro
Best: GOODFELLAS
Worst: I'd have to go with NEW YORK, NEW YORK as well.
Scorsese/Di Caprio
Worst: a toss-up between GANGS OF NEW YORK, THE AVIATOR and THE DEPARTED
Best: the trailer for SHUTTER ISLAND, but only because it looks like Ben Kingsley really puts little Di Caprio through his paces, possibly as punishment for ruining the three aforementioned films.
Best: THE SEARCHERS (1956)
Worst: A tough one, since they're mostly great, but I'd have to go with THE LONG VOYAGE HOME (1940), based on a Eugene O'Neill play, only because it's long and slow and talky and doesn't use Wayne's considerable strengths as an actor/star. I saw it once and I've never bothered to revisit it.
Scorsese/De Niro
Best: GOODFELLAS
Worst: I'd have to go with NEW YORK, NEW YORK as well.
Scorsese/Di Caprio
Worst: a toss-up between GANGS OF NEW YORK, THE AVIATOR and THE DEPARTED
Best: the trailer for SHUTTER ISLAND, but only because it looks like Ben Kingsley really puts little Di Caprio through his paces, possibly as punishment for ruining the three aforementioned films.
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02-15-10, 05:10 PM
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Re: Best and Worst films from longterm Director/Actor collaborations
Just watched it again today and it is certainly one of the best from these guys. Sandra Bernhard is not great, but De Niro is amazing in this. The scenes where he is imagining himself talking to Jerry with his mother shouting down to him always cracks me up.