Pacino or De Niro?

[The Boss]

Padroni del metodo: Both legends trained at the Actors Studio

[saddler79]

Gotta be Pacino for me. Not based upon the classic films that both have made but Pacino's performance in Scent of a Woman is simply outstanding. The length of some of the scenes where Pacino doesnt even blink is amazing.

de Niro certainly runs him close though.

[steedee]

De Niro... just.

Your right about Scent of a Woman but De Niro was equally as good in just as tough a role in Awakenings.

[Black_cat]

Alfredo James Pacino all the way, oh, my! The steely gaze of the Godfather, "You broke my heart, Fredo, you broke my heart", the humility of the petty mobster in "Donnie Brasco", the ultimate hotness that is Frankie, the perfectly timed explosion in "Glengarry Glen Ross"...Rough voice, velvet brown eyes and always female costars towering over him.
Hell yeah, Pacino! *purr purr rowr*

[spike]

Definitely De niro for me! His performance in 'the taxi driver' is STILL a cut above anything he has done before or since..

[Looki]

They're both too wonderful for me to make a pick. Sorry

[alcotty321]

Ill be honest i cant choose , what a horrible decision to make !

[hotpot]

Both are brilliant actors in their own right and remind me of each other in so many ways .

[Waya]

De Niro for me, and I gotta share a little anekdotte, which you might enjoy.

My brother was a priest when he lived here in Russia - Name's Arseny. Anyways. He used to be an outside expert for the movie company here in Saint Petersburg - Lenfilm, you might've heard of them. So at one time he is waking up totally hung over to a phone call from them: "You need to come over right now, there is an American actor who needs to find out about how to play a russian priest!" The first thing my honorable (cough) brother said was: "I aint going out today for no money in the world, BUT if you drop by that special shop you buy some good beer and you drop by my place, I'll tell the dude anything he wants to know". So you have to know that it was in the 70's, I'd guess - so it was still communism, or rather socialism, and the only place you could get good beer from (as in foreign beer) was a shop called Berjozka, where you had to pay with foreign cash, be it pounds or US dollars. And getting your hands on the foreign cash was not as easy as it might sound. So. A translator and the actor drop by my brother's place and they start drinking and my brother tells the actor stuff about the russian priests and all that. But at some point he stops and sais to the actor "Dude, I know you from somewhere! I've seen your face!" The actor laughs and they go on. Later on when they all was drunk as dogs and the actor went back to the hotel, the translater comes back and goes: "Do you know who it was?"
"No, but I know I've seen him somewhere!"
"Well, you just drank with the American star Robert De Niro!"

[Mignon]

HAHAHAHA! Excellent little story! Thanks, Waya!

But I still can't make up my mind on the topic....

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[Snookster]

Both all time greats, but just De Niro for me with his flexibilty in other types of roles in recent years with comedies Meet the Fockers, Anger Management and Stardust.

[cue1]

De Niro for me, and I gotta share a little anekdotte, which you might enjoy.

My brother was a priest when he lived here in Russia - Name's Arseny. Anyways. He used to be an outside expert for the movie company here in Saint Petersburg - Lenfilm, you might've heard of them. So at one time he is waking up totally hung over to a phone call from them: "You need to come over right now, there is an American actor who needs to find out about how to play a russian priest!" The first thing my honorable (cough) brother said was: "I aint going out today for no money in the world, BUT if you drop by that special shop you buy some good beer and you drop by my place, I'll tell the dude anything he wants to know". So you have to know that it was in the 70's, I'd guess - so it was still communism, or rather socialism, and the only place you could get good beer from (as in foreign beer) was a shop called Berjozka, where you had to pay with foreign cash, be it pounds or US dollars. And getting your hands on the foreign cash was not as easy as it might sound. So. A translator and the actor drop by my brother's place and they start drinking and my brother tells the actor stuff about the russian priests and all that. But at some point he stops and sais to the actor "Dude, I know you from somewhere! I've seen your face!" The actor laughs and they go on. Later on when they all was drunk as dogs and the actor went back to the hotel, the translater comes back and goes: "Do you know who it was?"
"No, but I know I've seen him somewhere!"
"Well, you just drank with the American star Robert De Niro!"

Brilliant!!!

DeNiro for me as well... He is mixing his roles better whereas I always feel that Pacino is playing & replaying the same character over & over again!!!

[Burwat Champ]

De Nero, just about.

Raging Bull was a great performance.

[ADR147]

mean streets, taxi driver, raging bull, the deer hunter, midnight run,casino and the superb goodfellas - got to be the bad boy de niro.

[the montrealer]

HI My pick is Rober Deniro in the Godfather also in Casino also in the Taxi Driver. Because he is Italian oh my gosh they are both Italian Actors Ha Ha Leonard from Canada