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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #25 on: December 16, 2009, 06:53:28 PM »
Dicaprio is annoyingly pretty.

That said, I think the guy is very talented, and if he ages well, will be a fine actor in his once he's over 40.

Some good things just need time to age.
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #26 on: December 16, 2009, 07:15:13 PM »
Quote from: Bigjake on December 16, 2009, 06:53:28 PM
Dicaprio is annoyingly pretty.

That said, I think the guy is very talented, and if he ages well, will be a fine actor in his once he's over 40.

Some good things just need time to age.

actually, he's particualary good in things where the director ignores his pretty. The Basketball Diaries, he plays a herion addict (its a biography of carrol the punk poet god) and gets the *expletive deleted*it kicked out of him a few times. trust me, by the end you can barely tell he's a pretty boy, and it's more due to his acting ability to ignore the pretty.
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #27 on: December 16, 2009, 07:48:35 PM »
This casting is about as ridiculous as having Brad Pitt play Achilles in "Troy".
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #28 on: December 16, 2009, 08:25:45 PM »
Kirk Douglas, Tony Curits and Ernest Borgnine will always be the only true Vikings !!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052365/

Some of the lines from movie are the best....

Einar: [to Lord Egbert] You stay here and draw maps. I will go and kidnap the girl.

Einar: Oh, stop shouting. You sound like a moose giving birth to a hedgehog.

Einar: [to Ragnar on his return] I drink to your safe return in English ale. I wish that it were English blood.



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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #29 on: December 16, 2009, 08:59:30 PM »
I was put off by him at first, Titanic I guess, but I came around.
 
I think he was excellent in The Aviator, as Howard Hughes, and in The Departed.
 
Great scene in Aviator where Hughes shows up the senator at the senate hearing.

The Departed is one of the most gripping movies I've ever seen.  DiCaprio did a tremendous job portraying stress as an undercover cop.  Very frantic and disturbing ending, too.

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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #30 on: December 16, 2009, 10:54:19 PM »
I will admit I thought in The Aviator and Blood Diamond he did well.
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #31 on: December 16, 2009, 11:03:25 PM »
I honestly can't think of any movie of his I've seen, but I'm pretty sure I have.
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #32 on: December 16, 2009, 11:18:11 PM »
*joins BLS and MB under the nomex blanket*

I liked the modernized Romeo and Juliet, too.  =D

I am of the opinion that Di Caprio needs to be exiled for a month to a desert island with nothing but moonshine and habaneros, and somehow be forced to shout at the top of his lungs every day for that month until his voice finally drops a bit.  =D

Seriously, it's the one thing about him I can't stand.
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #33 on: December 16, 2009, 11:25:25 PM »
Quote from: Balog on December 16, 2009, 11:03:25 PM
I honestly can't think of any movie of his I've seen, but I'm pretty sure I have.

 :O how on earth did you escape the monstrosity that was "The Titanic"?!?!?!

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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #34 on: December 16, 2009, 11:49:54 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on December 16, 2009, 11:25:25 PM
:O how on earth did you escape the monstrosity that was "The Titanic"?!?!?!



I am not now, nor have I ever been, a teenage girl. Why would I have seen it?  ???
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #35 on: December 16, 2009, 11:57:44 PM »
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #36 on: December 17, 2009, 12:27:29 AM »
Quote from: Balog on December 16, 2009, 11:49:54 PM
I am not now, nor have I ever been, a teenage girl. Why would I have seen it?  ???

you have a wife. isn't that how must adult men got dragged into that one?
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #37 on: December 17, 2009, 12:32:21 AM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on December 17, 2009, 12:27:29 AM
you have a wife. isn't that how must adult men got dragged into that one?

By the time we started dating she was 19 and had outgrown such foolishness.
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #38 on: December 17, 2009, 07:06:32 AM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on December 17, 2009, 12:27:29 AM
you have a wife. isn't that how must adult men got dragged into that one?

My wife had no interest at all in seeing Titanic.  Therefore, I have yet to see it as well.  I say "yet" because I have two female daughters.  I'm sure one will want to see it eventually.

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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #39 on: December 17, 2009, 07:29:18 AM »
Yeah well, I was on a 6th form coach trip to Florence aged 17. Loud, shrill, incessant teenage girls ensured that Titanic was put on during the 28 hour return trip.

I was almost ready to confess to anything, but morale and British stiff upper lip returned when the male contingent put up a brave cheer as he sank to the bottom.
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #40 on: December 17, 2009, 08:29:25 AM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on December 16, 2009, 11:25:25 PM
:O how on earth did you escape the monstrosity that was "The Titanic"?!?!?!



My wife went with my daughter after I said  "Let me guess, the ship hits an iceberg, sinks and a lot of people drown?"


Yep, I the same guy that when we go to Vegas to see my F-I-L and walk into a hotel/casino ask "I wonder how they pay for all this?"
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #41 on: December 17, 2009, 09:20:20 AM »
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Titanic was not the worst movie I've ever seen.  I quite enjoyed watching the ship sink, the guy falling off the stern and hitting one of the screws on the way down.

The early parts?  The love story?  Oops, I kind of fell asleep.  Sorry.   :laugh:
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #42 on: December 17, 2009, 11:05:32 AM »
Blood Diamond rocked. I have personally been to where the Cape Town scenes were filmed.
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #43 on: December 17, 2009, 11:50:44 AM »
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Titanic was not the worst movie I've ever seen.  I quite enjoyed watching the ship sink, the guy falling off the stern and hitting one of the screws on the way down.

i laughed in the theater. seriously. i did.  couldn't help it. he bounced.  :lol:
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #44 on: December 17, 2009, 02:00:27 PM »
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How well did DiCaprio do with a South African accent?
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #45 on: December 17, 2009, 03:22:10 PM »
I'm King of the Fjords!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #46 on: December 17, 2009, 04:09:23 PM »
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How well did DiCaprio do with a South African accent?

Pretty questionable according to most of the saffas I'm acquainted with.

We had a thread a while back listing actors who can do a passable English accent - got one more. If you get to see the BBC's Merlin then you might be as surprised as I was to learn that the guy who plays Merlin is from Northern Ireland.
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #47 on: December 17, 2009, 04:42:07 PM »
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i laughed in the theater. seriously. i did.  couldn't help it. he bounced.  :lol:

LOL... So did I.

The guy who falls flailing away... WAHHHHHHH! Then BOOOOOOOOONNNGGGG! Hit's the big brass stanchion anchor winder things... then just goes spinning really fast into the water.  :laugh:

Nekkid Kate Winslet's bewbs was an okay consolation prize. I will admit that much.

I think the movie really needs a "Mystery Science Theater 3000" treatment with peanut gallery comments. Like when the officers are debating to unlock the gates of the 3rd class steerage decks. "Keep those tater-eatin' Paddies locked up! There'll be an oil slick when the ship sinks if you don't!"   :lol:
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #48 on: December 17, 2009, 05:08:48 PM »
Quote from: Warren on December 17, 2009, 03:22:10 PM
I'm King of the Fjords!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lmao.   :laugh:
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Re: Leonardo DiCaprio: Viking Warrior
« Reply #49 on: December 17, 2009, 05:23:08 PM »
I liked him in Blood Diamond. That's it. Mostly if a film has DiCaprico in it, I avoid it.

Can't picture DiCaprici as a Viking.  Sort of like having him play King Leonidas, just doesn't fit.
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