re: Casino or the Godfather

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Casino is entertaining and has some great performances but it's a mess.

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It's worth it for Stone's performance and Deniro as a cerebral tough guy, rather than muscle. He was mis-cast, but he still had a lot of the old Deniro in him and put in an A minus performance, anyway.

In many ways this is the first movie with the Deniro/Pesci partnership where Joe clearly outclassed him. In Raging Bull, it was a literal big brother/little brother situation - in Goodfellas, while Pesci stood out and won the oscar, the parts were written that way - he was supposed to be bigger - both gave A + performances, but Pesci's character was just more memorable.

By the time they got to Casino - Pesci was born to play the character and Deniro was, as I said, mis-cast. Also, this is the only movie where Sharon Stone appears to be a great actress. She also delivered an Oscar quality performance.