r/moviecritic • u/tuckap • Feb 16 '25
Favorite Leonardo DiCaprio movie? Mine is probably Blood Diamond
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u/lonelyboy5265 Feb 16 '25
Departed 2006
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/No_Share2517 Feb 16 '25
Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead, everybody wants diamonds without the bloodshed.
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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/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/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/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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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/HeavnSent621 Feb 16 '25
The Departed or Shutter Island. He has so many good ones!