I've been inactive lately and a lot of my time has been spent in front of the computer. I like looking things up: music stuff, blogs, news, but mostly movie trivia. Last night I saw a half-hour special from around 1994 where Quentin Tarentino talks about Robert De Niro's movie career- especially his movies in the 70s.
He talks about how in 70s De Niro was the biggest name in acting and he worked with the strongest directors of that time: Coppola, Scorsece, Cisero. He has a lot of praise for his performances in Mean Streets, Godfather II, Taxi Driver, and Raging Bull, but what's interesting is that Tarentino get's critical of De Niro's later work. He says that he and his friend used to run to see De Niro's movies the day they came out but after a while it wasn't such a big deal. De Niro stopped being choosy about his projects and did more movies. I think that's a very good point, especially if you look at the movies De Niro's done over the past 15 years. I don't even have to list them; you know what I'm talking about.
I never payed a lot of attention to John C. Reilly. He was good in Magnolia and Dolores Claibourne, but the movie that I really like him in is one that I never thought I'd watch, never mind like: Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009). Reilly is great in that movie, just like everyone else in it- except for the lead, some boring kid.
There's a book I wanna read called Portrait of a Monster. It's about Joran van der Sloot. He's creepy, creepy guy and I can't believe he's only 24. He liked Natalee Halloway on May 30, 2005, and then he killed another woman exactly 5 years later. Lifetime made a movie about Halloway and I don't know who played van der Sloot but it wasn't who it should've been: Nick Stahl.
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