I was disappointed by Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd, which gave a realistic depiction of CIA spies. By “realistic” we mean “boring.” The movie was just slow and, while I appreciate the realism De Niro showed, and some of the performances were interesting, it just wasn’t a movie I could dig into and enjoy, and it’s not a film I’ve felt like revisiting. De Niro is all about revisiting the movie, however, and is back to talking about creating two more Good Shepherd pictures.
While at the Karlovy Film Festival over the weekend, De Niro weighed in on the pending SAG strike and talked about his desire to make two more pictures about Matt Damon’s passive hero Edward Wilson. If made, the first sequel would bump action into the late Cold War Era (1989), and a third film would move to present day. Considering Damon’s character only got interesting as he got older, I’d much rather just see us jump to the third picture and let him be a curmudgeonly old man reminiscing of his days as a younger spy when hours would go by with nothing happening at all.
De Niro told Variety that he wasn’t currently researching information for the sequels, but his trip to central Europe gave him the opportunity to think about the material again. Here’s hoping De Niro will think about it during his Europe trip and then return to Hollywood and forget about The Good Shepherd all over again. At least the actor plans to collaborate with Martin Scorsese a couple more times, which generally yields better results than De Niro’s spy drama.
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I had such high hopes for the first film and it was extremely disappointing. I don't know how I feel about sequels unless there is a serious change in the pacing and characters within the movie.
Hey Rafe. I think I appreciated the film more than you did, and while I agree with you about Damon's performance normally, it's like Keanu Reeves and Neo, it fits very well.
Anyway, as I wrote about this morning, De Niro has been saying this since December 2006 and he's no further forward, no research done. I'm seriously wondering if this is going to happen, especially since he's now talking about two more films with Scorsese.
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I was disappointed by Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd, which gave a realistic depiction of CIA spies. By “realistic” we mean “boring.” The movie was just slow and, while I appreciate the realism De Niro showed, and some of the performances were interesting, it just wasn’t a movie I could dig into and enjoy, and it’s not a film I’ve felt like revisiting. De Niro is all about revisiting the movie, however, and is back to talking about creating two more Good Shepherd pictures.
July 7th, 2008 at 15:33
I had such high hopes for the first film and it was extremely disappointing. I don't know how I feel about sequels unless there is a serious change in the pacing and characters within the movie.