Hey Mary, I thought you were spanish? If so, you know this was released here on Xmas and was badly reviewed and didn´t make many waves at the Box-office either - I´ll be surprised if the whole thing doesn´t go straight to video almost anywhere else!

I'm not spanish.... I'm Chinese

And I am stupid... :wink: Don´t know why I thought that, sorry.

Anyway, yeah... have the feeling this movie is going nowhere. Does it have a release date at least?

6/10/2005 in US.

New trailer
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fineline/the_bridge_of_san_luis_rey.html


I heard that this movie is very bad.

However, this movie is still a [must-see] for me because Robert De Niro is in it.

Looks bad.

Mah, I was never that into De Niro's film selection anyways. There are a couple big guys that really rose to prominence in the early seventies, and they're riding on the wave of the genre and directors of the time. Of the lot, De Niro has by far the least range and the least creative film selection.

People like Pacino may have some really terrible films to their names, but they also have superb ones, and weak ones where their acting single-handedly raised the movie to higher levels.

I feel like Redford, Hoffman, Pacino, De Niro, Hackman, Keitel, all came out of this era.

I like the rest of them, but when ever I hear his name I fail to really manage to gather up any interest in either the man or his movies.

There's so much wrong in this posting that I won't even bother to rip it apart. For now.

Go right ahead!

Didn't like Mean Streets,
thought Taxi Driver was the highlight of his career,

and then went on not to really love:

The Deer Hunter (though he acted alright in it)
Goodfellas
Mad Dog and Glory

Didn't Bother with the Second Godfather since I didn't like the first one enough to go for round two,

And pretty much only liked Wag the Dog and Jackie Brown from anything he did after Raging Bull.

JB he was part of an ensemble cast, which helped.

I've always thought he's a bit flat in his "tough" roles. and that his strength is actually comedies (Meet the Fockers aside).

He's going about 4-5 movies that I like out of his entire catalogue (of ones I've seen), and for movies I disliked that he still cted decently in, only an additional one.

Meh, he doesn't suck, I just really never warmed up to him.

Enlighten me...

Um.. I guess it'd be pretty hard to "enlighten" you, after what you've written in your 2nd posting.

That's all your personal, very subjective opinion and I'm pretty sure I can't change anything about it. Of course, you can have your opinion, however, I still refer to it as "wrong" or at least "weird" in this case. From my personal point of view and from an objective one.

It's just that De Niro has one of the most impressive filmographies in the history of cinema. You may like only 5 films of his, but it'd be nice if you just left your subjective viewpoint, which seems to be characterized by dislike and unconcern for no apparent reason, for a moment, and tried to look at this from a neutral point of view. I mean, dismissing The Godfather: Part 2 seems already pretty ignorant and just saying that you dislike this or that film without giving any specific reasons, while basically all of them are regarded as classics, is a little weak as well.

I didn't really intend to go into detail with this posting, since I understand that this is a hopeless case of a "I have my opinion, you have yours" discussion anyway, but what the heck, here's a list of De Niro films that I consider to be masterpieces/classics.

Mean Streets (1973)
The Godfather: Part 2 (1974)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Raging Bull (1980)
The King of Comedy (1983)
Once upon a time in America (1984)
Brazil (1985)
The Mission (1986)
Angel Heart (1987)
The Untouchables (1987)
Goodfellas (1990)
Awakenings (1990)
Casino (1995)
Heat (1995)

+ Jackie Brown (1997) and Wag the Dog (1997) and many more good ones.

Looks pretty impressive to me. No matter what your opinion on all of these is, you have to admit, that they have gained a certain status, most of them were regarded as masterpieces upon their release and as classics now, and I say, deservedly so. I don't think there are many actors who have a stronger (and more diverse) filmography and that many masterworks.
Also, note that not all of these are early 70s films, no matter how much you stretch that term. In fact, only 1-2 of them are.

Furthermore, I think that all of the listed films feature excellent or even monumental performances by De Niro. And there's definitely a great versatility (and creativity) in both the choice of films and the choice of roles. And yes, I didn't even mention the comedy roles (aside from the King of Comedy, if you want to call that one a comedy), those would broaden the spectrum even more.

To bring this to a conclusion I recommend this website:

http://www.thefab.net/movies/m02_de_niro.htm

If that's not a creative and diverse choice of films/roles, I can't think of many that actually are.