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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not sure if Leo is a good actor or is just really good at choosing roles, but the combo is always good.[/quote]

This. I don't think he has the range of other actors and I don't always feel completely convinced. However, he does a very good job of choosing both roles and directors (made easier by the fact that almost anyone will work with him and he has his pick of roles) and tends to pick roles that play to his strengths in the kind of understated, naturalistic acting he does. For him, it's all in the nuance. Like in One Battle After Another, his character is a version of a character he's played before, but the nuance is that he's spent the last couple decades smoking a lot of weed. And he does a really good job in weaving this into the role and milking it for both drama and humor. But it's not virtuosic. I'm not, like, transported.

The broadest he's ever gone is that plantation owner in Django Unchained, and while it's a memorable performance, it's not his best work. He does much better sticking within a narrower range, but then really exploring the subtleties within that range.[/quote]

His career has thrived for so long for a reason. It pains people to admit he’s a good actor and it’s not just that he picks roles and directors. A weaker actor would deliver more flops.[/quote]

Thank you for saying this.  For some reason, there is some unspoken bias against him (he should have won the Oscar for The Wolf of Wall Street): I dunno if it’s because he’s so cagey about his private life, that he was kind of a pretty boy in the nineties, or Titanic - which is a great movie, by the way - or what.

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It’s knee jerk contrarianism. He’s popular and mainstream and makes good movies so contrarians need to go against the grain. It’s like hating a band you used to love once they become popular. It’s not that they have an especially refined taste in movies they just need to be different.[/quote]

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