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Al Pacino's best role? (1 Viewer)

So?

  • Scareface

    Votes: 29 22.0%

  • Godfather

    Votes: 26 19.7%

  • Godfather II

    Votes: 34 25.8%

  • Godfather III

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Donnie Brasco

    Votes: 4 3.0%

  • Dogday Afternoon

    Votes: 18 13.6%

  • Scent of a woman

    Votes: 13 9.8%

  • Serpico

    Votes: 5 3.8%

  • Any given Sunday (beacuse I'm gay) NTTTWWT

    Votes: 3 2.3%
  • Total voters
    132
Dog Day is such a great movie. And he was awesome. It gets my vote.

 
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Sonny in Dog Day Afternoon>everything else :2cents:

ATTICA!!!!!!!! ATTICA!!!!!!!

I will say that Lefty in Donnie Brasco was a close second, it is among the few Pacino roles where he is believable.  Terrible in the Godfather movies, the only thing flawed about those first two movies IMO.  He was the central character in III, and hence the disaster. 

Scarface is great, but his acting is meh. 

 
Doctor Detroit said:
Sonny in Dog Day Afternoon>everything else :2cents:

ATTICA!!!!!!!! ATTICA!!!!!!!

I will say that Lefty in Donnie Brasco was a close second, it is among the few Pacino roles where he is believable.  Terrible in the Godfather movies, the only thing flawed about those first two movies IMO.  He was the central character in III, and hence the disaster. 

Scarface is great, but his acting is meh. 
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Agree about Dog Day, just incredible. Him and Cazale on screen together is just special stuff. Leon for creepiest character ever?

But c'mon, awful as Corleone?  Especially II. He's so intense. 

 
William Munny said:
Agree about Dog Day, just incredible. Him and Cazale on screen together is just special stuff. Leon for creepiest character ever?

But c'mon, awful as Corleone?  Especially II. He's so intense. 
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I think II>I but it's all about Vito, not about Michael. 

 
Scent of a woman was his best acted role by far. Everyone remembers the big speech at the school, but seeing him humbled at his brothers thanksgiving, he just ran the gamut of emotions for a complex character and nailed them all.

 
Since when does his best role have to be his best "acted" role?  Seems like those are two different polls.

Best role for me is easily Scarface.  Best acted then no, not Scarface.

 
Watching Serpico with a friend in NY once could have been the longest three hours one could spend in Midtown.

No thanks. 

I miss Pacino movies for a reason, I guess. 

 
Doctor Detroit said:
Sonny in Dog Day Afternoon>everything else :2cents:
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Agree.

Last week, PBS American Experience had a wonderful 2hour tribute to Sidney Lumet - perhaps the most underrated director of all time - and, like the Mel Brooks one of a couple yrs ago, it was centered on Lumet sitting & talking. A very on-top-of-it kinda guy who made movies for 75 yrs (child star even), there was only one point where you really hear wonder in his voice. 

Dog Day was such departure from anything that had been done that everyone was pretty sure it wasn't going to work, including Lumet. That changed in the read-thru. Pacino so instantly & completely internalized Sonny that all the problemic things the script had him saying - about identifying, fat wife, Attica, the idea he could still get out free & clear - made complete & casual sense as soon as it came out of his mouth. Pacino blew his oldproallpro director out the the water as much as he did us. nufced

 
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