For every Raging Bull there's a Rocky And Bullwinkle and a Little Fockers—has one of our greatest actors compromised his legacy with so many bad movies?
Odds are, Robert De Niro will, like Brando and several other great performers before him, always be remembered best for his most acclaimed performances rather than his many questionable late-career decisions. That said, it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to note that De Niro’s historical standing has been shaken, at least a little bit, by his own flippancy toward the projects he chooses.
In 1997, De Niro famously gave one of his most unusual and out-of-character performances in Quentin Tarantino’sback when Tarantino was an exciting if relatively new filmmaker with only two very good feature length movies under his belt. De Niro, nonetheless, agreed to work with him.
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