View Poll Results: What's your favorite Al Pacino performance?
Michael Corleone (The Godfather Trilogy)
50
32.26%
Frank Serpico (Serpico)
5
3.23%
Sonny Wortzik (Dog Day Afternoon)
15
9.68%
Steve Burns (Cruising)
0
0%
Tony Montana (Scarface)
37
23.87%
Ricky Roma (Glengarry Glen Ross)
3
1.94%
Frank Slade (Scent of a Woman)
16
10.32%
Carlito Brigante (Carlito's Way)
4
2.58%
Vincent Hanna (Heat)
17
10.97%
Lefty Ruggiero (Donnie Brasco)
8
5.16%
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What's your favorite Al Pacino performance?
07-15-05, 01:03 PM
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What's your favorite Al Pacino performance?
I'm starting this after observing the similar Robert DeNiro poll. These aren't all of his performances, obviously, but it's ten of what I think of as his most important ones. And for the sake of fitting in more, I grouped all the Michael Corleone performances as one, though there are a lot of differences in them. I picked Corleone and mostly for his imploding, invertly agonized performance in Godfather II.
07-15-05, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by dick_grayson
certainly not anything he's done in the past 10 years
My vote goes to Serpico.
07-15-05, 02:16 PM
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certainly not anything he's done in the past 10 years
The '70s were his real heyday - since then, he's mostly been a caricature of himself.
07-15-05, 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by dhmac
10 years - hell, with only a few exceptions, most of what he's done in the past 25 years have been loud, over-the-top performances.
The '70s were his real heyday - since then, he's mostly been a caricature of himself.
The '70s were his real heyday - since then, he's mostly been a caricature of himself.
well, I was going to say 25 years, but I thought I'd get trounced all over. I'm in total agreement with you.
07-15-05, 02:19 PM
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I went with SCARFACE and no I'm not a gangsta rappa. Also wanted to comment that I like his older stuff for his great acting, and I like his new stuff for his overacting (comedy gold!!!): " Cuz she's got a GREAT @SS. And you've got your head, ALL THE WAY UP IT!"
07-15-05, 03:03 PM
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HEAT (1995) ?!??!?!?
07-15-05, 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by duff beer
HEAT (1995) ?!??!?!?
Tony Montana (Scarface)
Tony Montana (Scarface)
2005-1995=10 years
It's called a ballpark guess. Also, I thought he just did the same acting job in it as he's done in several movies in recent years. But that's just my opinion.
07-15-05, 07:19 PM
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godfather and scarface are going to get the most votes.......
but i voted for Donnie Brasco. I loved his performance in that movie, and it is probably the only really good performance of his in the last 20 years.
that's right, I hated Heat.
but i voted for Donnie Brasco. I loved his performance in that movie, and it is probably the only really good performance of his in the last 20 years.
that's right, I hated Heat.
07-15-05, 07:30 PM
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The Godfather
The Godfather II
Not III, by that time his "acting" was godawful.
Sea of Love was his last great performance. I know a lot of folks shoot loads in their jeans because of his first scene with DeNiro in Heat, but I thought it was a bad performance in a middling movie.
The Godfather II
Not III, by that time his "acting" was godawful.
Sea of Love was his last great performance. I know a lot of folks shoot loads in their jeans because of his first scene with DeNiro in Heat, but I thought it was a bad performance in a middling movie.
07-15-05, 10:10 PM
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Vincent Hanna. Not his best, but my favorite. "Gimme all ya got!" "Ya get killed walkin' ya doggie!" "Cuz she's got a GREAT ASS!" "Don't waste my muthafuckin' time!" "What are you? A fucking owl?" And perhaps my favorite: "Ya know, you can ball my wife if she wants you to. You can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband's dead-tech, post-modernistic bullshit house if you want to. But you do not get to watch my fucking television set!!!"
Over-the-top caricature or not, that's gold.
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Over-the-top caricature or not, that's gold.
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07-16-05, 12:10 AM
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Originally Posted by dick_grayson
2005-1995=10 years
It's called a ballpark guess.
Also, I thought he just did the same acting job in it as he's done in several movies in recent years. But that's just my opinion.