The 3rd Annual Al Pacino Versus Robert Deniro Weekend

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN!

AND

IN

All-Day Saturday at the Aerie Theater*

Lineup may include (in no particular order):

• Raging Bull
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Taxi Driver
• Scarface
• Mad Dog and Glory
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• Casino
• Scent of a Woman
• Cape Fear

Lineup will absolutely not include (because they suck):

• Heat
• Righteous Kill

Actual lineup will be much shorter due to the number of hours in a day, and the human body's natural inability to sit around for more than, like, eight straight hours doing nothing but staring at a screen.

If you're reading this, you're invited, but unless you're one of a very, very exclusive few (read: two) you're almost certainly going to fucking miss it god damn you.

p.s. If you're dying for a print of one or some of the posters I made then yes you can have one.




*this is just a room in my house




[UPDATE]

THIS YEAR'S WINNER IS AL PACINO. AL PACINO WINS THIS YEAR. TAKE THAT, ROBERT DENIRO.

The Final Lineup and awards for This Year:

• Dog Day Afternoon (AWESOME)
• Raging Bull (SPOUSAL ABUSETASTIC)
• Scarface (WAY FULL OF CUSSES)
• Mad Dog and Glory (BILL MURRYEST)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (HAD KEVIN SPACEY?)
• Taxi Driver (BEST "ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?")
  

I Forgot to Tell You about Al Pacino vs Robert Deniro Week

And I am infinitely sorry, I can’t believe it slipped my mind for the better part of a month. The trouble was that my scanner wasn’t working properly, and then I set the materials and records aside and buried them under someone else's stuff, and didn’t find them until about twelve minutes ago when I was looking for-

You know what? That's not important.

Important: The Second Annual Al Pacino Vs Robert De Niro tournament.
When: You missed it, it’s over.
What: People vote to show their opinion of who is better.
Why: Because while at work I sit at a desk about 12 feet from 6500 (and counting) DVDs, and not enough of them get checked out on the merits of whether or not they speak to Robert de Niro or Al Pacino being superior to one another.
How did it Turn Out: Robert de Niro won, which was not really a surprise given that his volume of work is, for the most part, more watchable. Pacino won last year, mostly because it wasn’t a real competition that time, and more just a weekend when we watched Dog Day Afternoon and Scent of a Woman and Taxi Driver, and you know how those stack up*. I wish that the library had Midnight Run† so I could have put that on display and declared De Niro the winner five seconds after the tournament began, rather than after a week and a half. Oh well.
The Best Part: it was illustrated.




Anyway: I hope this annual contest is not rendered moot by the upcoming Righteous Kill.


*If you don’t know: Taxi Driver is just ok, Dog Day Afternoon is excellent, Scent of a Woman is very good.

†Midnight Run is the best.