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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I'm glad you said 'at Norton's age' in reference to Dennis Hopper, who's been a diminishing talent for quite some time now.
Most actors are bound to a certain period of their life that will forever define them. Jack Nicholson is a perfect case in point in that his entire career is now largely defined by the series of movies he made between One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Shining. Actors that have managed to remain interesting throughout the duration of their career are few and far between. Paul Newman never really did. Robert DeNiro LOOKED like he was able to but then descended into a kind of pointless self-parody. For that reason, Marlon Brando remains one of the true Hollywood greats in that he can be identified with so many varying roles in films as different as A Streetcar Named Desire, Last Tango in Paris and The Godfather.
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I think de niro has been fantastic throughout. from his early movies to raging bull, to taxi driver, to godfathers never forget that he was already old in goodfellas, a genius movie. also he was the single best thing in ronin, an underrrated movie. his comedies are something else. anything with benstille has the stink of shit around it.