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1 hour ago, henrygandorf said:

pretty remarkable cinematic achievement

unique, even

And yeah. Try to find me another Iron Man now that you've seen RDJ in the role. Or hell, even BEFORE he had the role. He was the perfect fit: Charming famous playboy with substance abuse issues.

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While not exactly blessed with dramatic acting chops, in terms of just a raw number of celebrities who were at the peak of their game at the time (acting, stunt, athletics, dancing, comedy, crooning, TV variety)...you gotta have "Cannonball Run II" up there...

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1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

While not exactly blessed with dramatic acting chops, in terms of just a raw number of celebrities who were at the peak of their game at the time (acting, stunt, athletics, dancing, comedy, crooning, TV variety)...you gotta have "Cannonball Run II" up there...

No. No, I don't think I will.

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Okay then back to "True Romance."  4 Oscar winners-Walken, Hopper, Oldman, and Pitt.  Plus Jackson was nominated for one.  That's five big names.  Plus on the bench- Patricia Arquette, Christian Slater, Tom Sizemore, Chris Penn, Michael Rapaport, Bronson Pinchot, and Val Kilmer.  And oh yeah, the greatest television actor of all time:  James Gandolfini 

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2 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

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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1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

Okay then back to "True Romance."  4 Oscar winners-Walken, Hopper, Oldman, and Pitt.  Plus Jackson was nominated for one.  That's five big names.  Plus on the bench- Patricia Arquette, Christian Slater, Tom Sizemore, Chris Penn, Michael Rapaport, Bronson Pinchot, and Val Kilmer.  And oh yeah, the greatest television actor of all time:  James Gandolfini 

You think Rapaport's an asset? 

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12 minutes ago, mchookem said:

still thinking about this...

Magnolia

possibly more stellar than Boogie Nights...so much overlap (i think at least nine?) but subbing Cruise and Robards for Wahlberg and Reynolds 🤔 

man i just love Paul Thomas Anderson movies 🙂

state and main is a personal favorite and uses a lot of the same people. macy and mamet go way back. 

another great cast. 

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There was no next one.  Sammy was the only Black man in the movie.  I like how Dean's musical interlude was him performing an actual lounge show crooning in a glamorous casino.  And Sammy's musical interlude was as a filthy garbage man dancing on top of a refuse trucks.  As much as the Rat Pack did to help with racial hegemony in the performing/recording arts...progressive Hollywood just kept shitting on Sammy Davis, Jr.  

Even Mr. Roper was cool in that movie.  The best part about the film is that as cool and capable as these guys were, in the end-they fail.  Miserably.  They lost a friend, a fellow veteran, a member of their crew, and all that cash.  But they still looked cool all bummed out.  The reboots were entirely different in that regard.

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We get it, Avengers has a lot of big names trying to acting in front of green screens before the radioactive green ball of glook explodes and erases the time machine before the murder orb sucks in the bear-man and wait until after the end credits!

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1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

There was no next one.  Sammy was the only Black man in the movie.  I like how Dean's musical interlude was him performing an actual lounge show crooning in a glamorous casino.  And Sammy's musical interlude was as a filthy garbage man dancing on top of a refuse trucks.  As much as the Rat Pack did to help with racial hegemony in the performing/recording arts...progressive Hollywood just kept shitting on Sammy Davis, Jr.  

Even Mr. Roper was cool in that movie.  The best part about the film is that as cool and capable as these guys were, in the end-they fail.  Miserably.  They lost a friend, a fellow veteran, a member of their crew, and all that cash.  But they still looked cool all bummed out.  The reboots were entirely different in that regard.

The one with Clooney was better 

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If we are going on quality of acting, lots of room for secondary characters, and not just have it be "look at all these statute winners," I'd argue, along with Heat, Aliens has one of the better overall casts you will see in a movie.  Everyone nails their lines and scenes, from start to finish, especially Paul Reiser and Bill Paxton. 

Carrie Henn's performance, in retrospect, is very flat, but it actually works as a traumatized child within the space of the film. 

Boogie Nights really doesn't have a flaw either, other than Heather Graham can't act, but she sure is good at being hot. 

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  Such range of acting couldn't be achieved by the likes of the casts set forth above.  No way you could replace these actors with Pacino, DeNiro, or the Endgame actors.

John Cleese - The Black Knight, Peasant 3, Sir Launcelot the Brave, Tim the Enchanter, Taunting French Guard, Second Swallow-Savvy Guard

Eric Idle - Dead Collector, Peasant 1, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot, Brother Maynard, Roger the Shrubber

Graham Chapman - King Arthur, Voice of God, Middle Head, Hiccoughing Guard

Terry Jones - Dennis's Mother, Sir Bedevere, Knight of Camelot, Prince Herbert, Left Head

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28 minutes ago, usmc0331horn said:

JFK has to be up there imo. It has practically everyone.

 

 

12 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

Jack Lemmon's performance at the muddy horse track when Costner is asking him about Guy Bannister (Ed Asner) pistol whipping him in a drunken rage on the night of JFK's assassination is a freaking master class.

 

6 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

standout performance from john candy as well, stepping outside his usual comfort zone.

some great character actors in there as well, especially on garrison's team.

Yeah, that was a good one.  And Donald Sutherland, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Walter Mathau, Sissy Spacek, Ed Asner, and more.

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14 hours ago, YGIFS said:

Okay then back to "True Romance."  4 Oscar winners-Walken, Hopper, Oldman, and Pitt.  Plus Jackson was nominated for one.  That's five big names.  Plus on the bench- Patricia Arquette, Christian Slater, Tom Sizemore, Chris Penn, Michael Rapaport, Bronson Pinchot, and Val Kilmer.  And oh yeah, the greatest television actor of all time:  James Gandolfini 

- Patricia Arquette, Michael Rapaport and fucking Bronson Pinchot - wtf. All horrible.

- Val Kilmer had about 30 seconds of screen time dressed as Elvis and you can't even see his face

- Brad Pitt also had about 30 seconds of screen time - laying on a sofa with a bong. 

 

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Half these MCU or whatever it's called are actors who appear for 30 seconds wearing masks too.  In that era, Kilmer, Arquette, Rapaport, and Pinchot were still up and coming pseudo-stars.  They didn't have to carry the movie, there were far bigger names mentioned that did so.  Nobody said the cast in "best" cast had to be all at their career summit at the same time.  Though that's another interesting discussion.  Gandolfini is only in three scenes in "True Romance" and he never won an Oscar, doesn't mean he didn't steal everything he moment he was on camera.  Walken is in the movie for 1 scene, for 5 minutes...and it's easily one of the ten best scenes in 1990s cinema.  Hopper is in the film barely more than that and hits it out of the park.  Same with Gary Oldman.  Sizemore gets 'Heat' because of how good Kilmer and Penn thought he was in True Romance.  Slater is obviously the lead but I like that didn't try to chew scenery.  

They're not everybody's cup of tea but films by Paul Anderson, Wes Anderson, and Quentin Tarantino tend to bring together a brilliant blend of up-and-coming younger talent, with established thespians that can do all of comedy/drama/violent, and what we sometimes think of as has-beens who come back to life through their work and scripts.  

Not a huge leap to say this, many of us all feel this way-arguably one of the greatest directors of all-time (certainly my favorite), Stanley Kubrick.  He has a handful of massive stars in some of his movies.  But most of his work is not remembered by superstar casting.  There's 3 or 4 films with 3 or 4 big names, but look at Barry Lyndon, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, even Eyes Wide Shut, and Paths of Glory.  Not exactly ensemble cast starpower up and down the marquee.  Best films overall though.  

tl;dr I took the thread to indicate good to great movie with great to excellent cast that has to number more than just the top 2 or 3 on the bill.  And it can, and should, involve "who went on to stardom", who was at the top of their game, and maybe even some career reboots that were fun to watch as an extra perk.

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2 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Half these MCU or whatever it's called are actors who appear for 30 seconds wearing masks too.  In that era, Kilmer, Arquette, Rapaport, and Pinchot were still up and coming pseudo-stars. 

Again, lol, wtf. Your delusional posting has no limit.

 

- True Romance was released in 1993

- Bronson Pinchot was in Perfect Strangers for years, Beverly Hills Cop and Risky Business, all mid-80s. He was lucky to get cast in anything.

- Val Kilmer had been in Top Secret!, Real Genius, Top Gun, Willow, The Doors, etc. years before. He wasn't an up and coming anything.

 - Not sure why you keep posting Patty Arquette and Rappaport, who were and still are B-list movie/TV actors.

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Okay, well I enjoyed the cast and the film.  Bronson Pinchot is a national treasure.  Not sure what the fuck happened to Val Kilmer though.  He actually should have stayed in the comedy lane, he was great in those roles and really brought it back with "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang."  But True Romance still had the 5 oscar nominees I mentioned and my love of Bronson and your hatred of Rapaport are duly noted.  It was a cursory mention of them, you can ignore the big names if you want.  You hate everything I post, I get it.  Show me on the fandango where I upset you.  

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6 hours ago, YGIFS said:

There was no next one.  Sammy was the only Black man in the movie.  I like how Dean's musical interlude was him performing an actual lounge show crooning in a glamorous casino.  And Sammy's musical interlude was as a filthy garbage man dancing on top of a refuse trucks.  As much as the Rat Pack did to help with racial hegemony in the performing/recording arts...progressive Hollywood just kept shitting on Sammy Davis, Jr.  

Even Mr. Roper was cool in that movie.  The best part about the film is that as cool and capable as these guys were, in the end-they fail.  Miserably.  They lost a friend, a fellow veteran, a member of their crew, and all that cash.  But they still looked cool all bummed out.  The reboots were entirely different in that regard.

How about a spoiler there, bitch. 

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Scott Pilgram deserves an honorable mention

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How about a spoiler there, bitch. 

My bad, bro.  It's only been 63 years. But the reboot does track well alongside the original until the one guy dies and they lose all the money in a fire.  Angie Dickinson was smoking hot in it.  And a very young Shirley McClaine gets wooo'd by Dean Martin.  Eerily, Bergdhorf's character dies suddenly at the age of 50 in the original movie.  Only one of the crew they lose despite the dangers.  Bernie Mac died in real life, only one of the 11 cast, at the age of 50.  

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This is the End

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11 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

This is the End

The majority of that cast need to be dropped into a giant wood chipper.

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From the Oppenheimer thread these two Nolan entries are pretty ridiculous. 

Interstellar:

McConaughey

Chastain

Hathaway

Chalamet 

Lithgow

Caine

Damon

Casey Affleck

Wes Bentley

Topher Grace

 

Oppenheimer: (courtesy of @atomheartbevo)

Cillian Murphy

Florence Pugh

Robert Downey Jr

Emily Blunt

Jack Quaid

Matt Damon

Rami Malek

Josh Peck

Tom Conti

David Dastmalchian

Josh Hartnett

Gary Oldman

Casey Affleck

Sadie Stratton

Gustaf Skarsgard (the other Skarsgard kid)

Kenneth Branagh

Jason Clarke

Alden Ehrenreich

Matthew Modine

Tony Goldwyn

Scott Grimes

Robert Pugh

Louise Lombard

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In Cold Blood, 1967. Robert Blake and Scott Wilson were spot on look a likes as the 2 killers. Plus they filmed the movie at the actual locations of where it all happened. Meet up bus station, the home where the murders happened and where the trial took place. 

And speaking of Scott Wilson, he was also a cast member of In the Heat of the Night, 1967. Another great cast, Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant and Larry Gates.

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5 minutes ago, Brandywine said:

In Cold Blood, 1967. Robert Blake and Scott Wilson were spot on look a likes as the 2 killers. Plus they filmed the movie at the actual locations of where it all happened. Meet up bus station, the home where the murders happened and where the trial took place. 

And speaking of Scott Wilson, he was also a cast member of In the Heat of the Night, 1967. Another great cast, Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant and Larry Gates.

And one additional trivia note, both movies feature scores written by Quincy Jones. 

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Not too shabby

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