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What a shame. I want my Jake La Motta back. Where have all the powers gone? Where is the young Vito Corleone?

So give me a stage
Where this bull can rage
And though I can fight,
I'd much rather recite
That's entertainment!
That's entertainment...

And to anyone that argued that he is brilliant in a comedy role, as Jake La Motta, yeah, you right, but the role itself isn't particularly or specifically a comedic role. You don't take your dose of Raging Bull enough to say things like that. The film is about the life of an explosive, self-destructive and disturbed boxer and his ascension to god status, followed by a sharp, tragic decline into a lowlife crap.

No one ever say that Raging Bull is a comedy, or Jake La Motta is a comedic role. It's about the script anyway.

You wanna assess his quality in comedy? Try Sharktale. Try Meet the Parents. Meet the Fockers. And thousands of awfully uninspiring, dull, pathetic, flawed, without any pint of fun whatsoever comedy role he did. Then compare him to Christopher Walken. Compare him to Jack Nicholson. Compare their take into comedy role. Then, and only then, you can start an argument about De Niro's so-called "comedic capability". You wanna talk about comedy, then take it to the field of comedy.

Oh, and by the way, Raging Bull was released in 1980. That was De Niro's finest time, his prime, his peak, his moment in the top of the food chain. You can't compare it with the aura-lacking shell of former actor he is now.