re: How was Al Pacino not the lead actor in The Godfather?

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I mean, is there a more glaring example of a dramatic overacting then Sharon Stone in that movie, her character and even Pesci's drift over into paradoy

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I agree Pesci's had some self-awareness that was off-putting, but at the end of the day, he's asked to play these composite characters, based on real folks and he has to make some choices at the end of the day.

Stone - on the other hand - I tend to rate her performance fairly high. Having seen my fair share of women folks "freaking the frick out" - her key scenes are convincing, believeable and true to the source material.

I believe that people familiar with the Rosenthals gave Stone high marks on her portrayal and that's good enough for me.

If anything, Deniro came off as a little wooden, but my best guess was this was based on research (Deniro still cared at that point in his career - although that was at the tail end of that).

On the other hand, the voice-over narratives by Denrio and Pesci were good storytelling tools, but not nearly as good as Liotta's in Goodfellas - true story - Liotta made the recording engineer sit across the table from him, so he would be telling the story to someone, rather than just read it dryly into a microphone - I think that worked out well.