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Endgame, damn.

High School USA has the best 1960s-1980s sitcom cast, complete with Dawn Wells.

  • Michael J. Fox – J.J. Manners
  • Nancy McKeon – Beth Franklin
  • Crispin Glover – Archie Feld
  • Frank Bank – Mr. Gerardi
  • Crystal Bernard – Anne-Marie Conklin
  • Todd Bridges – Otto Lipton
  • Dana Plato – Cara Ames
  • Jon Caliri – Jerry
  • Angela Cartwright – Miss D'Angelo
  • Kelly Ann Conn – Swoozie
  • Bob Denver – Milton Feld
  • Elinor Donahue – Mrs. Franklin
  • Tony Dow – Principal Pete Kinney
  • Anthony Edwards – Beau Middleton
  • Steve Franken – Dr. Fritz Hauptmann
  • Jonathan Gries – Dirty Curt
  • Dwayne Hickman – Mr. Plaza
  • Lauri Hendler – Nadine
  • Barry Livingston – Mr. Sirota
  • Jerry Maren – Robot
  • David Nelson – Mr. Krinsky, janitor
  • Ken Osmond – Baxter Franklin
  • David Packer – Danny
  • Cathy Silvers – Peggy
  • Tom Villard – Crazy Leo Bandini
  • Kaley Ward – Chris
  • Dawn Wells – Miss Lorilee Lee
  • Michael Zorek – Chuckie Dipple
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9 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

and since nobody is taking my endgame nomination seriously, here is the list:

robert downey jr

chris evans

mark ruffalo

chris hemsworth

scarlett johansson

jeremy renner

don cheadle

paul rudd

benedict cumberbatch

brie larson

chadwick boseman

tom holland

zoe saldana

evangeline lilly

tessa thompson

rene russo

elizabeth olsen

anthony mackie

sebastian stan

tom hiddleston

john slattery

tilda swinton

jon favreau

hayley atwell

natalie portman

marisa tomei

taika waititi

angela bassett

michael douglas

michelle pfeiffer

william hurt

cobie smulders

linda cardellini

vin diesel

bradley cooper

gwyneth paltrow

josh brolin

chris pratt

samuel l jackson

ken jeong

carrie coon

robert redford

 

this isn't really a competition.

Yep.

I mean, if you want to make an argument that a CGI-heavy super hero movie isn't worthy of the discussion and we should only consider "serious" movies, go right ahead.  

But (1) Just on cast alone there's no other film that can compete, and (2) I got teary at the end of Endgame.

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It doesn't beat Endgame or the Longest Day, but Lincoln had a damn impressive cast that had more people known for their acting chops than their ability to draw big at the box office.

 

Daniel Day-Lewis

Sally Field

Adam Driver

Jared Harris

David Oyelowo

David Strathairn

Tommy Lee Jones

Hal Holbrook

James Spader

Bruce McGill 

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

David Costabile

Michael Stuhlbarg

Walton Goggins

Boris McGiver

Lee Pace

Gloria Reuben

John Hawkes

Tim Blake Nelson

Jackie Earle Haley

Peter McRobbie

Stephen McKinley Henderson

Lukas Haas

 

 

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12 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

and since nobody is taking my endgame nomination seriously, here is the list:

robert downey jr

chris evans

mark ruffalo

chris hemsworth

scarlett johansson

jeremy renner

don cheadle

paul rudd

benedict cumberbatch

brie larson

chadwick boseman

tom holland

zoe saldana

evangeline lilly

tessa thompson

rene russo

elizabeth olsen

anthony mackie

sebastian stan

tom hiddleston

john slattery

tilda swinton

jon favreau

hayley atwell

natalie portman

marisa tomei

taika waititi

angela bassett

michael douglas

michelle pfeiffer

william hurt

cobie smulders

linda cardellini

vin diesel

bradley cooper

gwyneth paltrow

josh brolin

chris pratt

samuel l jackson

ken jeong

carrie coon

robert redford

 

this isn't really a competition.

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Thread title should be changed to Which movie had the most awarded cast.

I was thinking of flicks that you couldn't imagine a different cast doing it properly.  The Big Lebowski came to mind immediately. I'd posit Star Wars- The Empire Strikes Back, because regardless of the number of iterations of  the franchise since, no cast has remotely captured the same magic.

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4 minutes ago, slorch said:

Thread title should be changed to Which movie had the most awarded cast.

I was thinking of flicks that you couldn't imagine a different cast doing it properly.  The Big Lebowski came to mind immediately. I'd posit Star Wars- The Empire Strikes Back, because regardless of the number of iterations of  the franchise since, no cast has remotely captured the same magic.

it reality, this is what got me thinking of wayne's world originally with the joke cameo from charlton heston.  you don't need or even want a super duper star in every role.

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13 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

and since nobody is taking my endgame nomination seriously, here is the list:

robert downey jr

chris evans

mark ruffalo

chris hemsworth

scarlett johansson

jeremy renner

don cheadle

paul rudd

benedict cumberbatch

brie larson

chadwick boseman

tom holland

zoe saldana

evangeline lilly

tessa thompson

rene russo

elizabeth olsen

anthony mackie

sebastian stan

tom hiddleston

john slattery

tilda swinton

jon favreau

hayley atwell

natalie portman

marisa tomei

taika waititi

angela bassett

michael douglas

michelle pfeiffer

william hurt

cobie smulders

linda cardellini

vin diesel

bradley cooper

gwyneth paltrow

josh brolin

chris pratt

samuel l jackson

ken jeong

carrie coon

robert redford

 

this isn't really a competition.

Damn. And how many of those were oscar winners?

I count... three at least. Redford, Tomei, Portman.

OK here's a site that counts 7 winners and 11 nominess:

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By that measure, I count seven winners among the names: Brie Larson, Natalie Portman, Marisa Tomei, Tilda Swinton, William Hurt, Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow.  Add to that 11 nominees: Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Benedict Cumberbatch, Angela Bassett, Michelle Pfeiffer, Bradley Cooper, Robert Redford, Josh Brolin and Samuel  L. Jackson. That’s 18 total.

BUT, he's only counting for awards for acting, not for e.g. directing, so e.g. Taika Waititi doesn't count in his list.

He mentions The Player as beating it:

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Robert Altman never met an ensemble cast he didn’t like and apparently he outdid himself with his 1992 ode to Hollywood, “The Player.”  The 12 winners: Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, Cher, James Coburn, Joel Grey, Jack Lemmon, Marlee Matlin, Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Rod Steiger, Louise Fletcher and Angelica Huston. The 12 nominees: Richard E. Grant, Dean Stockwell, Peter Falk, Gary Busey, Sally Kellerman, Sally Kirkland, Burt Reynolds, Lily Tomlin, Teri Garr, Nick Nolte, Elliott Gould and Karen Black. The total: 24!

 

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26 minutes ago, mchookem said:

i was drafting a post about how awesome The Player was and how i hadn't seen it in years and needed to look it up for a rewatch...

and then i realized i was thinking of Short Cuts 😄

which btw, also chock full of Oscar winners and nominees lol

 

and Huey Lewis, too!

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27 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

Damn. And how many of those were oscar winners?

I count... three at least. Redford, Tomei, Portman.

OK here's a site that counts 7 winners and 11 nominess:

BUT, he's only counting for awards for acting, not for e.g. directing, so e.g. Taika Waititi doesn't count in his list.

By that measure, I count seven winners among the names: Brie Larson, Natalie Portman, Marisa Tomei, Tilda Swinton, William Hurt, Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow.  Add to that 11 nominees: Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Benedict Cumberbatch, Angela Bassett, Michelle Pfeiffer, Bradley Cooper, Robert Redford, Josh Brolin and Samuel  L. Jackson. That’s 18 total.

that article was written in june, 2019.  since then, scarlett johansson and chadwick boseman became nominees (there might be others).

taika (writing) and redford (directing/producing) have oscars as well so i guess 9 is the number all in, just counting speaking roles.

the player has bigger numbers, but the cameos were the running gag throughout the movie, so i still think there's an asterisk.

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1 minute ago, henrygandorf said:

that article was written in june, 2019.  since then, scarlett johansson and chadwick boseman became nominees (there might be others).

taika (writing) and redford (directing/producing) have oscars as well so i guess 9 is the number all in, just counting speaking roles.

the player has bigger numbers, but the cameos were the running gag throughout the movie, so i still think there's an asterisk.

Yeah, if the character name is "himself" I don't feel like that counts.

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7 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

that article was written in june, 2019.  since then, scarlett johansson and chadwick boseman became nominees (there might be others).

taika (writing) and redford (directing/producing) have oscars as well so i guess 9 is the number all in, just counting speaking roles.

the player has bigger numbers, but the cameos were the running gag throughout the movie, so i still think there's an asterisk.

 

Endgame sucked, so there's an asterisk.

 

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15 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

and since nobody is taking my endgame nomination seriously, here is the list:

robert downey jr

chris evans

mark ruffalo

chris hemsworth

scarlett johansson

jeremy renner

don cheadle

paul rudd

benedict cumberbatch

brie larson

chadwick boseman

tom holland

zoe saldana

evangeline lilly

tessa thompson

rene russo

elizabeth olsen

anthony mackie

sebastian stan

tom hiddleston

john slattery

tilda swinton

jon favreau

hayley atwell

natalie portman

marisa tomei

taika waititi

angela bassett

michael douglas

michelle pfeiffer

william hurt

cobie smulders

linda cardellini

vin diesel

bradley cooper

gwyneth paltrow

josh brolin

chris pratt

samuel l jackson

ken jeong

carrie coon

robert redford

 

this isn't really a competition.

Dude you forgot the hottest one:

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

You're a funny guy, High Plains Drifter.  That's why I'm going to kill you last.

Speaking of movies with all-star casts. Ya got Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, prepubescent Alyssa Milano, uh... Bill Paxton, uhhh... that guy who was in Predator too, and uh ... that one guy with the accent...

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Cast
Ewa Aulin as Candy Christian
Charles Aznavour as Hunchback Juggler
Marlon Brando as Grindl
Richard Burton as MacPhisto
James Coburn as Dr. Abraham Krankheit
John Huston as Dr. Calvin Dunlap
Walter Matthau as Brigadier General Smight
Ringo Starr as Emmanuel
John Astin as T.M. Christian / Jack Christian
Elsa Martinelli as Livia Christian
Sugar Ray Robinson as Zero
Anita Pallenberg as Nurse Bullock
Lea Padovani as Silvia Fontegliulo
Florinda Bolkan as Lolita
Marilù Tolo as Conchita
Nicoletta Machiavelli as Marquita
Umberto Orsini as The Big Guy
Enrico Maria Salerno as Jonathan J. John (G3)
Joey Forman as the cop (Charlie)
Fabian Dean as the sergeant
Buck Henry as mental patient

Screenplay by Buck Henry from the Terry Southern novel.
All this star power and still not that good.

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2 hours ago, TexPx said:

All this star power and still not that good.

yeah, this is why im kinda meh on the Endgame cast. not that they're not all great... but did they really all play roles that nobody else could have played? was their actual acting in that movie that amazing? i mean i'll admit i am not a Marvel fan and also that i never even watched Endgame lol... but even if i were/had i can't imagine the acting was just so incredible that that's what that movie is revered for.

 

 

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34 minutes ago, mchookem said:

yeah, this is why im kinda meh on the Endgame cast. not that they're not all great... but did they really all play roles that nobody else could have played? was their actual acting in that movie that amazing? i mean i'll admit i am not a Marvel fan and also that i never even watched Endgame lol... but even if i were/had i can't imagine the acting was just so incredible that that's what that movie is revered for.

i'm not a comic book movie fanboy by any stretch, but the 8-10 good to great movies (out of like 25 total) that end the story with infinity wars and endgame is fantastic storytelling through film and anyone who says otherwise is a fucking hater and or pretend movie-snob/dork.

i understand what you're saying, but in actuality, it's the opposite.  the reason there are so many headliners is because they all headlined their own origin story movies, and then the movies started overlapping casts with each other.  so yes, is the answer to "roles nobody else could've played".  when cumberbatch plays dr strange in a decent movie with a so-so cast, you understand his story and role, and then when his story overlaps with other stories, all the main stars are part of it.

those last two movies bring a lot of shit back from literally 12 years of movies, so pretty much everybody in any of those movies appears in the final movie.  none of them were cameos, they were all reprising roles they played in previous movies, if that makes sense.

it's a lot of time, but like i said, the ~10 movie journey is fucking worth it.  pretty remarkable cinematic achievement.

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