De Niro threw the towel in years ago. He's decent in Silver Linings Playbook but the vast majority of the second half of his career is an embarrassment.
Man who gives a shit, let him be. He wanted to make some dumb movies for his kids and his bank account. King of Comedy is good enough that I'll give him a pass whatever.
His vocal acting used to be great, but his body seems to belong to another. There's a scene in Once Upon a Time in America where he mooches around a chapel, neither coming nor going.
THING — naming wild animals in docos. I heard about some lions on TV earlier called Rosa, Ziggy, Prince, and Spotty. Anthropomorphisation's a clear acknowledgement that naming's a uniquely human convention, so of course it rams home the dubious goals of the programme-makers. Just call 'em Andrew and Paul, innit.
And it's always the same commentary: ‘We lost track of Skippy two days ago and haven't been able to track him since. I hope he's okay, because without support from Lassie, he could've died from starvation already.’.
Then it cuts to a figure in the distance, could it be...
We've done The Deer Hunter's wedding, right? Jesus, the weddings. De Niro returns home with a nice chunky sweater, but Streep's in a strop about something I can't remember. The deer gets away from him; man's no Eastwood.
Whenever they dub superdeep voices over women and kids, the actors always open their mouths wider to mime. But the force required to contract for deep voices prevents your mouth from opening that far without losing the bass.
I think twee acoustic is worse. Mainly because it goes on longer. By nature it drags a pop song out from 3 minutes to 7 minutes. 4 minutes of warbling.
Acoustic guitar in general makes me cringe into sultana of hate.
Who sings with their mouth? If you are getting tone from your mouth then the voice will have no depth or power anyway, the mouth is only there to shape it into words
"I spent years thinking Yorke was legit Downs-ish disabled and could only achieve lucidity through song" - Mr B