Leo DiCaprio is Over-rated
Ok so I went to watch the Aviator on Christmas day with the fam. Now I have to say the movie was ok. DiCaprio’s performance was pretty good. I think that it ran a little long… But when we were leaving the theater one of the people in the crowd said that DiCaprio might be the greatest actor working today. I don’t know about that… In fact I don’t even know that he is the best in his generation…
Let’s take a look at his body of work….
Pre-Titanic
Now I could discuss his fine work on “Growing Pains” as Luke Brower but I mean why bother? We all know this is when Mike Seaver made the turn from a troublemaker to a good person which killed the show. (Along with Boner leaving for the army, which still brings tears to my eyes.)
He was briefly in “Poison Ivy” which on its own stands has the highlight of Tom Skerritt’s career. Do you think Skerritt sits at home and thinks about the fact that he was in Poison Ivy and also uttered one of the cheesiest lines in movie history in Top Gun with a big shit eating grin on his face?
“This Boys Life” was a solid movie… It had De Niro in it so it is automatically good… You know De Niro the greatest actor ever before he decided to do crappy comedies? This was a solid performance and I really can’t knock it.
“What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” …. The most overrated performance in anyone’s career is when they play someone that is mentally handicapped. I mean can it be that hard? Doing an accent would have to be 100arder then acting like someone that is mentally deficient. I mean Chris Burke was able to play a Down syndrome person on “Life Goes On” and he was retarded… wait never mind
“The Quick and the Dead” any movie that is shown on TNT 8 billion times sucks…
“The Basketball Diaries” the movie itself was not bad. I just can’t get past the basketball in the movie. It might be the worst sports scene in any movie sans “Teen Wolf”. This team was supposed to be the best team in NYC at the time and they played like a team of 6th graders.
“Romeo and Juliet” it all comes down to this. In the version we used to have watch in school they had a brief scene where we got to see a breast shot. In this version… No breast shot……
Titanic era and up to Gangs of New York
My god… the biggest pile of crap ever… I am still bitter that I got dragged to the movies to watch this. Why do so many people like this movie? Yes the special effects were cool but I mean the script was horrible, the story was poor, and ugh… well we did get to see Kate Winslet… So I guess it evens out..
“The Man in the Iron Mask” eh… it was ok… I haven’t watched it in years but it was better then the other crappy three musketeer type movies that were released around the same time. I still don’t get that about Hollywood. Why do they release three movies that are all like each other around the same time? We had the body switch era, the three musketeer phase, the disaster movie phase, the asteroid phase, and now the Alexander movie phase.
“The Beach” some people really like this movie. For some reason I am drawn to watch it when it is on HBO at night. Every time I sit through it though I feel disappointed for some reason, I think the concept was there the execution was poor though. The video game scene in the jungle irritates me to no end….
“Gangs of New York” I loved the first twenty minutes of the movie and I loved the last twenty minutes… The middle could have been edited down greatly. I love Scorsese but his last two movies have been so freaking long. While I understand that this is supposed to be an epic it drags at times. DiCaprio was great in it though and I think that it was his best performance of his career. The movie was owned by Daniel Day Lewis… He was the real reason to watch this movie.
“Catch Me If You Can” This was a nice movie. Walken is in it so it automatically is good. I don’t it was a challenge to act in it. Light and breezy…
“The Aviator” this was a long movie… I think his performance was good and again it was because he was working with Scorsese. It was a long, long, long movie and it felt like it.
So over his career I have only found less then a handful of his movies better than average.
His body of work is not that strong. I think he is overrated.
