10 Movies That Changed Your Mind About Actors You Loved

9. Robert De Niro - Meet The Fockers

Despite not being renowed as a comedy actor (or for being particularly funny), Robert De Niro has featured in a lot of comedy movies over the course of his career - some of them good, some of them bad, a lot of them downright terrible. Towards the end of the '90s and in the early 2000s, De Niro started to appear in more and more comedy vehicles, the most famous of which is Meet the Parents, which had him playing a former CIA agent who will stop at nothing to prove that his daughter's new fiance has something to hide. It wasn't vintage De Niro, but it was funny. Fans of the actor could handle their man delving into the occasional comedic role now and again, of course - it's not like he hadn't done it before in movies like Midnight Run, after all. But after Meet The Parents, we got Meet the Fockers, which isn't a super terrible movie per se, but one that signalled to De Niro fans that he wasn't taking his career quite as seriously anymore. Since then, he's been more prolific than ever, starring in an insane six films in 2013 alone; does he say no to anything? Meet The Fockers seemed to start off this period of middling De Niro.