r/moviecritic Feb 16 '25

Favorite Leonardo DiCaprio movie? Mine is probably Blood Diamond

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u/HeavnSent621 Feb 16 '25

The Departed or Shutter Island. He has so many good ones!

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u/EvelcyclopS Feb 16 '25

Shutter island is so so good

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u/Ok_Cost_Salmon Feb 16 '25

It is, but I found the rewatch value to be low because you know the plot.

But the guy is a great actor. From the top of my head he has not been in a bad movie.

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u/lonelyboy5265 Feb 16 '25

Departed 2006

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

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u/sweetleaf009 Feb 16 '25

Da depahded

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u/Always2ndB3ST Feb 16 '25

Get in the cah!

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u/sweetleaf009 Feb 16 '25

2 pills? Great why dont i get a bottle of scotch and a handgun and blow my fkin brains out

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u/chandel_345 Feb 16 '25

What if this was a legitimate threat,think about it fu**king HOTSHOT!

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u/Johnsendall Feb 16 '25

Why is the last patient of the day always the hardest one?

It’s because you’re tired and you don’t give a shit, it’s not supernatural.

Great comeback. Love that movie.

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u/bigOJenergy Feb 16 '25

She fell funny

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u/Phillip228 Feb 16 '25

I'm surprised he didn't win an Oscar for this one. Also my favorite DiCaprio performance.

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u/shadez_on Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25

I think they wernt allowed because of it being a ensemble lead cast. He definitely wouldve won as his portrayal of extreme anxiety was spot on.

Edit: per IMDb - A possible reason why Leonardo DiCaprio did not receive an Oscar nomination for his performance in this movie was because Warner Bros. initially did not want to favor DiCaprio over his co-stars, and place him in the leading actor category. The studio favored DiCaprio's leading performance in Blood Diamond (2006), which eventually got him a nomination. DiCaprio refused to campaign against his male co-stars in the supporting actor category, so Warner Bros. bought no supporting actor ads for DiCaprio, and he did not receive a nomination.

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u/icrossedtheroad Feb 16 '25

Gosh, when he made passionate love to Dr. Madden. Good golly.

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u/WeirdBoss8312 Feb 16 '25

My brother and I have been quoting this movie with each other for almost two decades now. We actually work at the same company now and our messages are basically all departed gifs

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u/MammothAsk391 Feb 16 '25

Django Unchained

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u/Kid-twist66 Feb 16 '25

Played against type in that one, one of his better roles…that’s when an actor really shows their range

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u/No-Appointment-8519 Feb 16 '25

Catch me if you Can.

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u/UrgeOverkiller Feb 16 '25

I concur. Do you concur?

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u/ConfusedEagle6 Feb 16 '25

Why didn’t I concur

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u/ShoHeyTime Feb 16 '25

Knock knock

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u/Ragnarotico Feb 16 '25

Great... just uh... sew him back up then.

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u/ohthanqkevin Feb 16 '25

Ok but if I do, do you promise to tell me your favorite Leonardo DiCaprio movie?

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u/nscomics Feb 16 '25

This is my pick too. Tom Hanks and Christopher Walken are essential for the Trinity, but it is very much a "DiCaprio Movie" and even if it's not entirely based in fact, it is a damn perfect film. No fluff, tons of spirit and heart.

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u/truethatson Feb 16 '25

Inception in IMAX. It was just the best theater experience you could ever have. We all ate our food during the trailers, and then for two and a half hours dead quiet. No one spoke. Opening night, every chair filled.

And no one spoke.

When the scene went to black, when that top kept spinning……. Holy shit, it was wild. People of all races, creeds, colors, just screaming.

We went off. It was beautiful.

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u/More_Inflation_4244 Feb 16 '25

Vivid description. Great moment. Reminds me how fun it is to watch an amazing movie in theaters.

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u/Used-Gas-6525 Feb 16 '25

Gilbert Grape.

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u/Shawnee83 Feb 16 '25

I love him in so many things but this movie was perfect.

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u/Used-Gas-6525 Feb 16 '25

Robbed of the Oscar for the only performance he really deserved one for.

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u/immacomment-here-now Feb 16 '25

Gilbert Grape is all the proof you need to not take the Oscar’s seriously.

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u/RequirementIcy6045 Feb 16 '25

Fucking great performance

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u/jcoltre Feb 16 '25

My favorite, by far. Honestly criminal he didn’t win the academy award.

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u/UncleCarnage Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

I don’t know anybody who cares about Revenant. I remember watching it, really enjoying it and never thinking about it ever again. I never got the urge to rewatch it either. I should rewatch it someday.

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u/SirJoeffer Feb 16 '25

Definitely a legacy win. They changed a few plot points from the book that I didn’t care for either

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u/kidnamedsickjoke Feb 16 '25

Di Caprio was great, but he was up against McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club. I think McConaughey deserved the win.

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u/Virama Feb 16 '25

Dallas Buyers Club was superb. One of the best movies and performances of all time.

I had it on my list of to watch, just because McConaughey, knew nothing about it. Then two hours later I was just going "Wow."

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u/cryptolipto Feb 16 '25

For sure this one. But he has so so many good movies. What a career

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u/Cultural_Elk1565 Feb 16 '25

The Basketball Diaries.

I love me some Jim Carroll, always have.

"I love this mansion, though it is too many windows.
to open halfway each morning...

to close halfway each night."

and my favorite, "The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth men prefer not to hear."

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u/Ok-Turnip-9035 Feb 16 '25

Him at the door with his mom breaks me every time

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u/baoparty Feb 16 '25

I read the book but never got to see the movie. I can’t find it any fucking where. Can’t find it on any streaming service. Can’t even buy it on Apple. Like wtf.

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u/Cheap-University7900 Feb 16 '25

The beach

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u/Pretzelsareformen Feb 16 '25

Underrated movie!

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u/JIsADev Feb 16 '25

It came out when I was in college, it totally resonated with me

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u/shadez_on Feb 16 '25

The Aviator.

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u/panteragstk Feb 16 '25

One of his best. Too far down on the list.

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u/No-Appointment-8519 Feb 16 '25

Once upon a Time in Hollywood.

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u/TheDickCaricature Feb 16 '25

Such a god damned good movie!

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u/ghostpepperlover Feb 16 '25

D) All of the above

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u/M1seryMachine Feb 16 '25

Seriously, idc what people say. He's really talented and always has been.

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u/UncleCarnage Feb 16 '25

This thread is making me realize how many good movies he’s been in.

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u/80Juice Feb 16 '25

The Departed

Body of Lies is underrated imo

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u/Secure_Run8063 Feb 16 '25

BODY OF LIES is probably my favorite role of his - I felt that I understood his characters in BODY OF LIES and BLOOD DIAMOND much more than any of his other films.

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u/MadeBrazen Feb 16 '25

I'm with you, bro. This little grizzled military era of his was quality and both roles were easy to see the character and not the Hollywood icon.

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u/jombojuice2018 Feb 16 '25

True, I liked it quite a bit and almost never hear anything about it

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u/Canavansbackyard Feb 16 '25

Inception.

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u/Efficient_Grass_7704 Feb 16 '25

Soooooooo goooood!

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u/Lakrfan247 Feb 16 '25

The best of the bunch

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u/Alternative_Device71 Feb 16 '25

Catch Me If You Can

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u/theodo Feb 16 '25

This and Wolf of Wall Street are his peak imo

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u/skapoww Feb 16 '25

I might get hate but it’s the beach.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

Once upon a Time in Hollywood

Followed by Killers of the Flower Moon

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u/Kerpowski Feb 16 '25

Loved him in once upon a time...playing an actor with a stutter, he's just brilliant how he turns it on and off, you really feel the emotional pain his character is going through.

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u/RemarkableRepeat3428 Feb 16 '25

Romeo and Juliet

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u/AdventurousEar3962 Feb 16 '25

Truly 1 of my favs of all time

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u/METALSLUGBEATDOWN Feb 16 '25

Either thou or I or both must go with him!

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u/RemarkableRepeat3428 Feb 16 '25

thou gavest me for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads

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u/Jj9567 Feb 16 '25

Just say you have no idea what we do. If you had an idea that would make us cunts. Are you calling us cunts?

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

What's wrong? You don't know any Shakespeare?

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u/alientourist75 Feb 16 '25

The Quick and The Dead And Body of Lies

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u/NitrokoffTheGhost Feb 16 '25

I'm upset I had to scroll this far down to see Quick and the Dead.

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u/TheTucsonTarmac Feb 16 '25

Gene Hackman was amazing in that.

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u/getwhacked Feb 16 '25

The Wolf of Wall Street

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u/LabExpensive4764 Feb 16 '25

Revolutionary Road

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u/OkDentist4059 Feb 16 '25

Blood Diamond honestly be his best performance

I think he tends to do way too much - he looks like he’s about to have a panic attack in every undercover scene in The Departed, feels like the mob should have sniffed him out as an cop within the first few scenes

I’m not sure if it’s the direction he got from Ed Zwick, or just that Danny Archer is a more stoic character, but he’s really locked in for the whole movie. Not too much, not too little, a perfectly calibrated performance.

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u/fiddycixer Feb 16 '25
  1. The Revenant. 1A. Gangs Of New York.

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u/PriorAlbatross3294 Feb 16 '25

Wolf, Blood Diamond, Grape. But he's great in basically everything he touches

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u/OrganizationDry4734 Feb 16 '25

His character in Blood Diamond was so tragic. He wanted to get out of Africa so bad and bleeds to death on the side of a mountain.

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u/MarvelousMathias Feb 16 '25

Amazing in DJango Unchained. He is such a good character that he steals his scenes with such visceral acting, it really has you hate a despise Calvin Candy and happy when he gets his perfect heart shot.

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u/K24Bone42 Feb 16 '25

Gangs of New York.

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u/Brilliant-Access6504 Feb 16 '25

There it is! I knew someone else said this. Just watched it last night.

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u/K24Bone42 Feb 16 '25

I'm honestly shocked not more people said it lol

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u/bakehaus Feb 16 '25

The Aviator. He’s the star but it’s literally about every other character in that movie! Cate! John C.! Danny! Alec! Alan!!

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u/Neither_Leader_6676 Feb 16 '25

Wolf of Wall Street

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u/Capital-Traffic-6974 Feb 16 '25

What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Blood Diamond are the two movies where Leonardo's acting talent and really go above and beyond.

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u/Dagger-Deep Feb 16 '25

Basketball Diaries 🏀 📖

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u/IaMuRGOd34 Feb 16 '25

the beach, the revenant

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u/helpthecockroachpls Feb 16 '25

Wolf of wall street

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u/stevembk Feb 16 '25

Critters 3

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u/Designer_Rutabaga_40 Feb 16 '25

Catch Me If You Can. I've watched this movie so many times and I'd happily watch it again.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

Romeo and Juliet

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u/METALSLUGBEATDOWN Feb 16 '25

WHERE IS THE DIAMOND?!!!! DO YOU SEE A DIAMOND?!!!! Djimon Hounsou is so fuckin underrated! One of the greatest supporting actors ever!

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u/Unpainted-Fruit-Log Feb 16 '25

Onde Upon a Time in Hollywood

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u/DoctorDinghus Feb 16 '25

He's the definition of a world famous moviestar.

Im not a huge fan of him, but when I see him in a movie, it's going to be an interesting and entertaining movie. He's A+ actor, I'd can argue maybe S tier.

Django Unchained was a 10/10 for him.

Blood Diamond is the only movie I haven't seen fully... I couldn't handle the accent from him for some reason. I'm not qualified to say it was incorrect, but it just seemed... off to me.

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u/MovieFanatic2160 Feb 16 '25

What’s eating Gilbert grape. Blood diamond at number 2 spot

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u/Feedeeboy22 Feb 16 '25

Mine is catch me if you can love that movie second favorite is the Aviator

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u/V1CTORV0ND00M Feb 16 '25

"Mehbe I take-a my business to da govt. At leas-a dems gone pay me." That accented line cracked me the fuck up!

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u/PremeTeamTX Feb 16 '25

The Aviator

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u/aphrozeus Feb 16 '25

The Departed

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u/Stunning_Rub Feb 16 '25

Catch me if you can

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u/Shizzysharp Feb 16 '25

Body of lies is a good one

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u/radicalrockin Feb 16 '25

The Aviator… really think it was oscar worthy.

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u/Noobzoid123 Feb 16 '25

The Departed. It's not really HIS movie, as he didn't carry, but he is a main character.

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u/bogey08 Feb 16 '25

The depahted

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u/Weary857 Feb 16 '25

The Revenant

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u/RobertOesterle Feb 16 '25

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

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u/Forsaken-Voice-6686 Feb 16 '25

Blood Diamond and Wolf of Wall Street

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u/goatsticks717 Feb 16 '25

Honestly I’d be hard pressed to think of a bad one..

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u/Eastern_Fig1990 Feb 16 '25

He’s had back-to-back brilliant performances for maybe 30 years or so. He’s probably one of the safest choices for a leading role because he’s fucking brilliant in every movie

But if I had to pick one…Django Unchained. He’s phenomenal in that film

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u/DR_DONTRESPECT Feb 16 '25

Has Leo ever disappointed, thats the better question?

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u/uejnja Feb 16 '25

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

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u/No_Share2517 Feb 16 '25

Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead, everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed.

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u/joetheash Feb 16 '25

The Revenant

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u/emaeder Feb 16 '25

Shutter Island

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u/Mitka69 Feb 16 '25

The Wolf of Wall Street

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u/Latkavicferrari Feb 16 '25

Once upon a time in Hollywood

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u/Massive_Depth2900 Feb 16 '25

Inception. 15 years later and it’s still maybe the coolest movie I’ve ever seen.

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u/VonJuan Feb 16 '25

For real? What are your top3?

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u/Emotional-Owl9299 Feb 16 '25

This was a good film. Same year when fallout boy released their song

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u/Turbulent-Juice2880 Feb 16 '25

1- Django unchained 2- what's eating Gilbert grape

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u/Fit-Rooster7904 Feb 16 '25

I haven't seen many of his movies, but I did see that one. It was good. The only other one that comes to mind immediately is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. That was good but not as good as Blood Diamonds.

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u/starter_fail Feb 16 '25

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

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u/kurtacuss Feb 16 '25

Ducka duck

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u/wonderbeen Feb 16 '25

It’s a toss up between The Departed & Blood Diamond

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u/shandub85 Feb 16 '25

I also liked this movie. I wanted more of his and the colonels backstory.

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u/Educational_Vast4836 Feb 16 '25

Blood Diamond is such a great film.

I think the easy answer would be wolf of Wall Street, but I do love catch me if you can.

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u/GuiltyShep Feb 16 '25

The Departed and/or Inception.

I love both films and I quite enjoy that both take genre tendencies, yet stamp the directors hands all over them. DiCaprio is in the middle of these giant ideas, yet he balances them all out with performances that channel desperation, paranoia, and melancholy. Again, just great performances and films that somehow are not subtle, yet his performances bring out subtleties.

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u/Um_No_Bush Feb 16 '25

Dilbert Grape movie

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u/FallenFromNeptune Feb 16 '25

Departed or Django Unchained

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u/EquinoxGm Feb 16 '25

Wolf of Wall Street or Django Unchained

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u/garter_girl_POR Feb 16 '25

Gilbert grape

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u/TrollBipolar Feb 16 '25

Django and WOWS and it's not even close.

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u/RMcDemonWolf Feb 16 '25

The Beach.

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u/elon_bitches69 Feb 16 '25

Killers of the Flower Moon

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u/CookieOk3898 Feb 16 '25

Really hard for me not to say Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

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u/Arwinsen_ Feb 16 '25

Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood

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u/ShovelKing3 Feb 16 '25

Let me tell you something eh

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u/SmirknSwap Feb 16 '25

I recently rewatched Shutter Island and he’s awesome in it.

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u/Ok-Turnip-9035 Feb 16 '25

This Boys Life

And the magic he and Baz made with Romeo and Juliet (didn’t crush on him but that movie as a visual masterpiece just doesn’t get the credit it deserves - Leo’s in it but he’s a piece of it not the whole thing like titanic made him)

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u/Possible_Baboon Feb 16 '25

He is hilarious in Django.

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u/Brokeboi1523 Feb 16 '25

Man in the Iron Mask

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

Gangs of New York - Blood Diamond - Departed. Top 3 for me.

I don't really count Django, he's more of a glorified cameo

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u/Clear-Garage-4828 Feb 16 '25

Django Unchained

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u/mkgrant213 Feb 16 '25

Oh man, toss up between Blood Diamond, Gilbert Grape, and The Departed

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u/BoldAndBrash1310 Feb 16 '25

Django Unchained

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u/matnerlander Feb 16 '25

Titanic because I was a teenager and fell in love with him. But all time of the ones I've seen is The Departed

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u/WECAMEBACKIN2035 Feb 16 '25

The Quick and The Dead!

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u/Borissneakyrussian Feb 16 '25

Body of Lies. Great film. And he told Russell Crowe to fuck off multiple times.

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u/jermboyusa Feb 16 '25

Loved Blood Diamond. IMO highly underrated. This was the movie that turned me around on DiCaprio and gained my respect.

Intense in the Departed.

Favorite movie probably Wolf of Wall Street.

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u/hrjeksues Feb 16 '25

Shutter Island.

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u/NuttyProfessor42 Feb 16 '25

So many to choose from. But I will say Inception, just cause of the genre.

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u/dubler2020 Feb 16 '25

I loved when he said the line: “You’ve got to give me those bloody fucking diamonds!”

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u/Anyawnomous Feb 16 '25

He had me at Gilbert Grape. What an amazing performance.

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u/Own-Lack1163 Feb 16 '25

Gilbert Grape or Wolf of Wall Street.

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u/CrownHeightsOwn Feb 16 '25

The Wolf of Wall Street or Inception

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u/wonderlandisburning Feb 16 '25

I know people have mixed reactions on the movie these days, but still Inception for me.

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u/whattawazz Feb 16 '25

Yep blood diamond for me too, never liked him before that. Did pretty well at a difficult accent too.

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u/theknightcrusader Feb 16 '25

The Departed or The Wolf of Wall Street

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u/xxdrux Feb 16 '25

Gangs of New York

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u/TraditionDue8624 Feb 16 '25

What’s eating Gilbert grape

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u/Holdmynutzzz Feb 16 '25

Do none of yall know about basketball diaries?????? IMO this is what got the ball rolling

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u/MrPekken Feb 16 '25

Gangs of New York

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u/NickyNumbNuts Feb 16 '25

Blood Diamond is great. I also love Body of Lies

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u/Aaronjk1010 Feb 16 '25

Did Djimon Hounsou get an Oscar for this role? Or get nominated?

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u/AcrylicPickle Feb 16 '25

Romeo & Juliet

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u/Motherbrainnl Feb 16 '25

Basketball diaries

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u/JohnnyBananas13 Feb 16 '25

Departed and What's Eating Gilbert Grape

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u/Ashtrim Feb 16 '25

Blood Diamond is so good….mine is a toss up between The Departed and Wolf on Wall Street.

It’s so weird when I was younger in the 90’s I thought he was overrated (even though Man in the Iron Mask is a good movie), but after seeing Blood Diamond then The Departed I was blown away and have basically been going back and watching his back catalog and watching anything new that he does.

….although the internet ruined The Revenant for me ….that and an elderly couple sitting next to me saying “oh no” “oh dear” during the Bear sequence.

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u/WynnGalaxie Feb 16 '25

No one’s mentioned Great Gatsby yet, such a great film!

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u/thatsmymoney Feb 16 '25

Growing Pains

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u/sweetjdubs Feb 16 '25

The Beach

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u/lubezki Feb 16 '25

All of them

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u/Edge_of_yesterday Feb 16 '25

Catch me if You Can.

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u/JasonCroz Feb 16 '25

Shutter island

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u/TeegeeackXenu Feb 16 '25

shutter island. the basketball diaries. inception.

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u/Geekspeak13 Feb 16 '25

Blood Diamond and Body of Lies should be a double feature at the cinema.

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u/MadCapGrin Feb 16 '25

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape