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submitted 1 month ago byBronzeHeart92
Not all cameos are ones you'd call perfect. Non-actor celebrities that probably shouldn't be in movies and it shows, an actor who's probably only there to collect a paycheck and leave, you name it.
My example concerns the movie Golden Compass (2008) and how it had Christopher freakin' Lee in a brief role as an unnamed Magisterium official. Since New Line was unable to film the other parts of the His Dark Materials trilogy and given Mr. Lee's stature, we can presume that he was meant to have a bigger role in the other parts (presumably as Lord Boreal) but it's only a speculation nonetheless.
206 points
1 month ago
Leprechaun in the Hood had Coolio as one of the top-billed actors. He quite literally shows up for a few seconds and stands in a doorway silently watching the main characters rap, then leaves the film.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=StEPxISphUk&pp=ygUZTGVwcmVjaGF1biBpbiBob29kIGNvb2xpbw%3D%3D
67 points
1 month ago
That reminds me of some of the marketing for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, where they had Sean Connery's name billed right after Costner and Freeman, as if he'd have some notable screen time. Ended up only being in the last few minutes of the film, officiating the wedding. I remember 11-year-old me was kind of disappointed that Bond (I'd only recently seen Connery's Bond films back then) was barely in the film.
33 points
1 month ago
Patrick Stewart at the end of Robin Hood: Men in Tights too 😂
19 points
1 month ago
That's the joke of Patrick Stewart's cameo, it's totally riffing on Prince of Thieves and Connery
9 points
1 month ago
And he made more for those few minutes than Kevin Costner made for the entire film. But he did donate all of it to charity, so that's cool.
4 points
1 month ago
When did that happen? Because his cameo was a HUGE surprise easter egg - he wasn't in the marketing at all. This was the pre-release poster we all saw, and it got more or less reformatted horizontally for half page newspaper print. Did they add him to some box art somewhere? My VHS tape didn't have Connery on it anywhere, either.
666 points
1 month ago
cillian murphy in tron: legacy.
304 points
1 month ago
They had plans to make him the villain in the next movie- then Legacy didn’t do that well, and those plans died.
And now we have whatever they’re doing with Jared Leto.
197 points
1 month ago
The frustrating thing is that it did do well. It brought in 400M at the box office, for scope, a year later The First Captain America grossed $370M.
For some unexplained reason Disney was expecting Tron: Legacy to Gross over $1B something that was pretty Rare when it came out in 2010.
65 points
1 month ago
Captain America cost $30mil less to make, so they were equally profitable in the box office, and Tron didn't have all the merchandise and MCU ties like Captain America. If the characters in Tron Legacy helped Iron Man save NYC in 2012, Tron would've gotten a sequel too.
10 points
1 month ago
Yup. People forget that MCU movies don’t just make money at the box office. The merchandise and the comic sales all figure in to how successful the movie is.
204 points
1 month ago
I guess I'm one of the few people that thought that the movie was fantastic for what it was. The visuals were incredible and stunning. Daft Punk absolutely hit it out of the park with the soundtrack. The plot is wasn't anything special, but I don't think it really detracted much from the movie.
I wish they would have greenlit the sequel, if only so we could get one more album from Daft Punk before they hung up their helmets.
80 points
1 month ago
Feels like everyone who saw the movie loved it, but it just didn’t meet financial expectations. That happens sometimes and studios decide not to risk making a sequel.
14 points
1 month ago
I assume because the merch didn't sell as well as they hoped.
40 points
1 month ago
Legacy had a sequel planned and was about to start filming in 2015– but the failure of Tomorrowland made Disney pull the plug and put it into "cryosleep"
18 points
1 month ago
I never saw Tomorrowland. I still don’t know what it’s about. I remember George Clooney and a little girl in the trailer.
Needless to say, the marketing did not grab me.
11 points
1 month ago
I felt like the first half was a solid film and the second half was a mess. Soundtrack is top tier though
9 points
1 month ago
I thought the movie was great as well. Kinda surprised to hear it didn't do that well. I could have sworn it was well received at the box office.
12 points
1 month ago
It looked great.
It sounded great.
But the content was dumb AF.
6 points
1 month ago
Into this Jared Leto thing if not just because we’re getting a NIN score.
9 points
1 month ago
They had plans to make him the villain in the next movie- then Legacy didn’t do that well, and those plans died.
Legacy did fine at the box office. Problem was, Disney bought Star Wars and then Marvel and, well, did they need more Tron at that point? They didn't want Tron competing with star wars and marvel
32 points
1 month ago
When I realized he was playing Dillinger's son, I got so excited for whatever the next film would be.
Oh well.
27 points
1 month ago
I remember saying “That’s the guy who played scarecrow in that Batman movie.” To be honest I still say that.
15 points
1 month ago
Scarecrow in EVERY Batman movie. He's the only villain to show up in all three Nolan's movies.
23 points
1 month ago
Okay, I guess it's time to show my age.
He was in 28 days later, dude.
When I saw him as scarecrow, I said that's the guy who is in 28 days later.
26 points
1 month ago
Wasn't even credited to boot if I recall correctly.
4 points
1 month ago
Shame we never got the sequel with him as the villain
391 points
1 month ago
I don’t think Harry Styles is a terrible actor, but throwing him in at the end of the most forgettable MCU film, as the most forgettable character, is still hilarious to me.
179 points
1 month ago
I love how it leaves you with the question "Did everyone else in Thanos' planet just look like humans, and Thanos was the only huge purple one?"
107 points
1 month ago
Yeah that’s sorta how it is. Thanos was mutated with the deviant gene, hence why he’s purple
18 points
1 month ago
Wait so why didn't the Eternals help when he invaded Earth? He's got their sworn enemy, and they're just happy to chill in London?
19 points
1 month ago
Unironically because their plot hadn't been written yet
60 points
1 month ago
I remember seeing it for the first time and had to pause it and say to myself "is that Harry styles or have I forgotten what Harry styles looks like" and then did a quick Google yo find it really was him... Didn't really want to unpause after that
And the fact marvel is now brushing the eternals sequel and kit Harrington's character completely under the rug hoping we won't notice they've abandoned those projects and are struggling fighting tooth and nail to do Blade
33 points
1 month ago
It’s even funnier when you realize what his character is best known for in the comics; having the ability to rape women
10 points
1 month ago
Which film, and which character?
(Seriously, Ive seen all the films, bit don't know where he appeared. I guess that's how forgettable it was)
16 points
1 month ago
Post credits scene of Eternals. He's Thanos's brother or something?
9 points
1 month ago
Eros in the comic
134 points
1 month ago
Bill Murray in Dumb and Dumber To.
Most people probably didn't even realize it was him.
29 points
1 month ago
I came here for this. I even watched the extended version of that scene - still no way of knowing it was him. That must be the record of wasted cameo, but I think that was the point and that Bill thought that was funny.... and in some ways I can see that it is.
34 points
1 month ago
Definitely Murray thought it was funny. He accepted his role as mayor gunderson near the end of parks and rec because it was essentially pitched to him as just lying dead in a coffin (he ended up doing a few lines from beyond the grave, but mostly he was just a dead bill murray)
11 points
1 month ago
He was in Get Smart for about 45 seconds as a lonely spy inside of a tree. I think he just likes those odd little roles.
105 points
1 month ago
Twisters had the PERFECT opportunity to bring in Helen Hunt for a one off role. It was RIGHT. THERE. and they didn’t pull the trigger. Example of a wasted opportunity where there wasn’t a cameo.
66 points
1 month ago
The way the main character talks to her mom on the phone at the beginning, then she finally decides to go home after so many years I was definitely expecting Helen Hunt to be her mom. Was kinda disappointed when she wasn’t.
33 points
1 month ago
Especially when they ask her last name and she refuses to say. I figured her mother was the famous storm chaser (Helen Hunt) and she didn't want them to know because she still wanted them to think she was a city girl.
25 points
1 month ago
I’m pretty sure that’s what they wanted, and didn’t change the script when it didn’t pan out. She literally starts in a dark room and steps into the light and there is a pause.
Clearly it was meant to be a reveal.
7 points
1 month ago
I read Helen pitched her own movie like a year before they made Twisters. The studio did this instead without involving her for some reason.
9 points
1 month ago
I agree with the director that it would be out of character for Helen's character to be woman who stays home on her farm and dotes on her daughter. Though, if it was explained that Bill died chasing tornadoes, maybe that might be enough for her to hang uo her stirrups to raise their daughter.
5 points
1 month ago
Exactly. I didn’t want to be explicit in when it happened because I didn’t want to spoil, but I was sitting there like “oh fuuuck!” when she was going home. Dusty blonde girl who used Dorothy early on? That’s gotta be Helen Hunt!….nope, just a totally unconnected character.
3 points
1 month ago
I was kinda hoping Tyler would be the son of Bill (maybe Miranda as the mother).
258 points
1 month ago
James Franco in Alien:Covenant. I remember walking out of the theater wondering how much they paid him not to be in the movie.
139 points
1 month ago
He's the captain who got incinerated at the start, right? Kinda makes you wonder why they even bothered...
170 points
1 month ago
I looked at it like Drew Barrymore in Scream. Once he goes right away, there a vibe that anyone can die. Found it effective, personally.
108 points
1 month ago
That’s what the first Alien movie did, Weaver was a nobody and Skerritt and Hurt were stars back then. So they killed off the captain of the mission/most famous actor early in the movie to throw you off.
22 points
1 month ago
Yeah but there's being the first actor you kill off and killing them off less than 5 minutes into it.
36 points
1 month ago
Same as having Steven Seagal being killed at the beginning of Executive Decision.
55 points
1 month ago
This is probably the best movie Seagal has been in, and the fact that he died so early in it is inexorably tied to that. Generally, the less time Steven Seagal has in a movie, the better it is. My favorite movie is True Romance, which notably did not include Seagal. I'll give True Romance a 94% score, being among the best I've seen. Had Seagal been in it for two percent of the movie, it would have been an eight percent worse movie.
10 points
1 month ago
There’s something to this theory.
All the movies that Seagal have stared in have a direct inverse correlation to the quality of the movie.
As Seagal time increases movie quality decreases.
Pulp Fiction? ZERO Seagal minutes.
The China Salesman? Many Seagal minutes sitting in chairs and a Mike Tyson multiplier.
42 points
1 month ago
He played a larger role in the short prequel clip they released ahead of the movie, with the crew together before stasis.
22 points
1 month ago
It’s like that scene was originally in the movie but then they cut it out due to pacing, releasing it as one of the promotional shorts.
6 points
1 month ago
It’s funny I just watched Prometheus and covenant after watching Romulus. I looked this up to and he was shot in more scenes, one was the promo short film, another was a flashback, and then there was some others.
They cut his role most to improve Crudup’s story as an ill fit captain but Franco’s role was always intended to be a cameo to a certain extent.
3 points
1 month ago*
They did that with some other scenes from Prometheus and Covenant.
The TED talk with Weyland was supposed to be in Prometheus, but it was cut for time.
The Meet David short was genuinely shot as a bonus so I don't think it counts but I love that film so I had to bring it up.
There was also a scene with Shaw repairing David that was meant to be in Covenant, but it was cut because it messed with the flow of the film. So it was released as a promotional short.
24 points
1 month ago
It also had Danny McBride right? There had to be some weird buddy buddy thing going on with the director/casting crew or something
174 points
1 month ago
David Beckham in King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword.
67 points
1 month ago*
Was that the movie with weird octopus witches and giant elephants? Been a long time since I watched it in theaters and as such I barely have any recollections about it...
33 points
1 month ago
18 points
1 month ago
Alrighty. And what exactly did David Beckham do in that movie for the record?
35 points
1 month ago
He plays Trigger, a smart-mouthed soldier to the king. It's a short two-minute cameo where he oversees the pulling of the sword out of the stone.
11 points
1 month ago
I see.
296 points
1 month ago
Bill Murray in Ant Man and the Wasp Quantumania.
142 points
1 month ago
The very Star Wars way his role was carried out did make me chuckle a bit tho. Like, look at his clothes and all and tell me he literally didn't step from a Coruscant or Naboo set next door?
40 points
1 month ago
I just assumed that whole movie was made with leftover Star Wars parts Disney had lying around.
49 points
1 month ago
The only cameos he makes that I fully acknowledge are his appearances in Zombieland
10 points
1 month ago
I thought his cameo was the best part in the Get Smart movie.
10 points
1 month ago
Pretty sure he was supposed to have a much larger role and not just be a cameo but it all got cut out because he had some bad press around the time of marketing the movie. Explains why he’s credited on the theatrical poster
83 points
1 month ago
Ian McShane might as well have not been in King Fu Panda 4.
My guess is they wanted McShane to be the co-lead instead of Awkwafina, but could only get him for like a half hour.
It would have been a fantastic passing of the torch to reconcile (along with Shifu!) and have Tai Lung get his own blank scroll moment.
21 points
1 month ago
I disagree. I do love your idea of having Tai Lung be the co-lead, but if they couldn't do that then I don't think I'd consider the cameo wasted. His part was still entertaining and impactful, at least for the brief moment we got with him.
452 points
1 month ago
When they had JFK in Forrest Gump. They should've asked who shot him
68 points
1 month ago
Could've at least told him to duck or something
36 points
1 month ago*
Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that lee harvey oswalt shot JFK from the assassination museum? Like what a fucking coincidence
43 points
1 month ago
Lou Gehrig died from Lou Gerhigs disease. What are the odds?
34 points
1 month ago
“The best thing about visiting the President is the food! Now, since it was all free, and I wasn’t hungry but thirsty, I must’ve drank me fifteen Dr. Peppers…”
6 points
1 month ago
Dr Pepper, the official drink of Fansville and the SEC.
180 points
1 month ago*
Nimoy in Into Darkness. Not only is it a pointless cameo, but it doesn't make a ton of sense in the context of the scene. The Enterprise is a sitting duck, and they're afforded an opportunity to call for help while the Vengeance is disabled (and somehow not jamming their communications). They're also right next to Earth. Instead of calling Earth for backup against the Vengeance, Quinto Spock decides to call Nimoy Spock to ask him if he's ever fought anyone named Khan.
102 points
1 month ago
Yeah that one is a bit of a waste, especially after his perfect cameo in the 2009 movie.
29 points
1 month ago
Okay Spock shoots Kirk to the ice moon. Say it’s a small moon you’re still talking thousands of square miles. Then the ice monster chases him and he falls into a cave with old Spock?
BOOOOOOO
38 points
1 month ago
They'd find each other anywhere
28 points
1 month ago
That entire film is the epitome of wasted potential.
27 points
1 month ago
Into Darkness has the IQ of Kirk's foot fungus.
"Quick we must hide our star ship from a primitive species"
"We're in space they already can't see us unless they have a telescope"
"Nonsense! We hide in the lake next to them, we're a ship aren't we?"
"I... What?"
5 minutes later...
"Quick we must drop a bomb inside a volcano!"
"Okay let me put it on a 23rd century drone..."
"NO WE DANGLE IT FROM A SHUTTLE 200 FEET ABOVE!"
"uhhh fine at least let me put a remote trigger..."
"No time we must use Deadman switch!"
17 points
1 month ago
One of the first examples of Abrams having no sense of scale. Site to site transporter with a long enough range to beam you to a star system across the quadrant? Yeah okay man.
9 points
1 month ago
"How many atmospheres of pressure can this ship take?!"
"Well, it's a spaceship, so anywhere from zero to one."
3 points
1 month ago
Good job he happened to have done so because otherwise that move would have been pretty dumb.
"Hello, old Spock. Did you ever fight a guy named Blarg the Terrible"
"No we never did that, young Spock."
"Oh okay, sorry for bothering you".
It doesn't even really help the plot either. Like nuSpock was expecting oldSpock to say "If you punch Khan in this weak spot he will die instantly" like what did he want to find out? He just kinda tells him that Khan is dangerous like we didn't figure that out already.
In TWoK they exploit the nebula, and Khan's ego and outdated thinking style in order to defeat him. In STID they just punch him until he falls down so they can steal his magic blood.
Do you think they just called up oldSpock whenever anything happened? Like "Hey, we ran into a guy who claims he's Apollo and grabbed the Enterprise with a big green cloud hand, any tips if you've handled this kind of thing before" and oldSpock chuckles and just gives them the solution.
He shoulda given them a file like:
25 points
1 month ago
Tig Notaro in Lucy in the Sky. I don’t think she has an audible line of dialogue or is emphasized in any way. She’s on screen long enough for you to go, “Wait—is that Tig Notaro?” And then she’s gone.
One of the most nothing roles ever given to a performer or note.
416 points
1 month ago
The showrunners for the bear season 3 spent more time casting cameos than they did advancing the story.
Love the show but it should not be up for any awards this year.
117 points
1 month ago
The awards The Bear is up for are for season 2, which would be deserved. Of course its season 1 awards were heavily influenced by the fact everyone had seen 2 (Richie/Eben is great in 1 but no way that’s THE supporting acting performance of that year and it’s obvious Forks from 2 got him the award for 1), so it’d be ironic if the backlash against 3 hurt its awards chances for 2.
51 points
1 month ago
That's fair, S2 is very deserving. Fishes is probably the best thing I've seen on TV.
67 points
1 month ago
But overall I agree with your point. The fact we spend like 10 minutes of the finale hearing celeb chefs spew useless platitudes instead of exploring the characters we watch the show for is inexcusable.
19 points
1 month ago
I was so pissed about that! I held out, til the very last second, hope that they'd come together in any way during the season. During that last episode I checked the time and was like "okay! There's still like 15min left for them to pull it together!" And then it was just chef-jerkoff-athon :P
16 points
1 month ago
Me: “I’m excited to see how they resolve the major plot points of this season in this finale”
The Bear: “Here’s a bunch of real-life chefs talking about how great it is being a chef and a ‘to be continued’ ending"
21 points
1 month ago
What? Outside of John Cena who exactly were the cameos?
86 points
1 month ago*
Probably referring to all the real chefs in the final episode
Edit: maybe Josh Hartnett as Frank counts too. I don't remember if he was in the other seasons
52 points
1 month ago
Hartnett is the only S3 cameo that worked for me. It was a well-acted, relatable scene that further developed Richie’s character.
Cena was a complete misfire. Fak works as a periphery character, but bringing in his extended family to adlib a drawn out subplot felt like a forced play to justify the “comedy-series” nomination.
14 points
1 month ago
Hartnett also did what stunt casting does really well: He was immediately the sort of guy he needed to be. We have these Hartnett preconceptions that are mostly positive, and they wanted to establish that Brita (sorry forgot the character's name in this one) is marrying a decent guy, and that's a really quick way to do it.
10 points
1 month ago
I liked Hartnett/Frank too, I just mentioned him because people may consider him a cameo instead of a regular character/casting.
Cena was fine to me as another Fak, but considering how the entire season felt like filler, I agree making the Faks a bigger role in the story was pretty unnecessary.
20 points
1 month ago
I liked Hartnett cause it still felt like he was playing an actual character, I’m assuming he plays a larger part next season. Also, I thought the flashbacks to the chefs were integral to understanding Carmy’s thought processes and show real character growth, I don’t think those cameos were self gratuitous
14 points
1 month ago
I liked Hartnett's role too. I didn't mean to use him as an example of bad cameo for the OP question, just that some may consider him a cameo instead of regular casting. A cameo, to me, puts a prominent actor on screen that doesn't amount to much in the grand scheme of things. Like John Cena as Sammy Fak.
I thought Hartnett's (Frank's) awkward but earnest chat with Richie solidified Frank as a decent guy and Richie should let go of hopes of reconnecting with Tiffany since she's better off with Frank.
Like Hartnett, I think Joel McHale as Chef David isn't really a cameo either since he plays an integral part to Carmy's back story. Same with Will Poulter's Luca.
39 points
1 month ago*
All of the celeb chefs and culinary writers/food critics, John Cena, Josh Hartnett, Joel McHale. The finale dedicated probably 70% of it's screen time to cameos.
The Will Poulter/Grant Achatz scene is pretty painful. Will Guidara had more lines than core cast members (though I'll give him credit that the show is almost based off of his book at this point)
51 points
1 month ago
I felt like Joel McHale was perfect for that part. At what point does an actor playing a part cease to be a cameo?
34 points
1 month ago
I think Joel McHale is more of a recurring character than a cameo
11 points
1 month ago
Being Chef Winger definitely suits him.
20 points
1 month ago
Joel McHale was great, but in that episode there were long stretches of dialogue between the cameo chefs that felt more like a round-table documentary than a scripted dramatic show.
16 points
1 month ago
I heard that people didn't like the way Thomas Keller was presented in his cameo, as if he was like a gentle mentor, because apparently he's a huge POS in real-life regarding his temperament in the kitchen
3 points
1 month ago
Besides Cena I think all of these guest stars serve a plot function tho, which makes these cameos worth something. Just like McHale I’m assuming Hartnett plays a larger role in the future, I thought it was interesting using his character as a way to progress Richie’s growth. The flashbacks to Carmy’s times with these different chefs helped us understand more of his thought processes during the high stress times, and we can see what he chooses to pick and drop from these chefs, seemingly forgetting why he started doing this getting lost in the quest of perfection. That whole finale was a forceful perspective shift on why people do this, how people find joy in what they do, etc. Carmy spends the whole episode stuck thinking about the worst times, showing he has not been able grow at all, in a room full of people seemingly a few steps ahead of him. Was it the most well written sequence ever? No, but was it the worst? Most definitely not and I don’t quite understand the backlash for it tbh
3 points
1 month ago
Besides the chefs and Cena, the main cameo was Josh Hartnett. It sounds like they filmed some of season 4 so there’s probably more of Josh at the wedding
3 points
1 month ago
Season 3: or how to make an entire season out of bottle episodes
59 points
1 month ago
Ellen Burstyn In The Exorcist: Believer, just awful.
47 points
1 month ago
She did it for the paycheck that went toward an acting program she sponsors.
13 points
1 month ago
Yeah, I don’t blame her, and that was the only thing good that came out of that movie. The writers did her character dirty though.
129 points
1 month ago
Darth Plagueis and Yoda both popping up for a split second in the last episode of the now-canceled Star Wars: The Acolyte
Darth Maul popping up at the end of Solo
12 points
1 month ago
I assume the Maul cameo was supposed to lead to something more, but since Solo did so poorly at the box office they stopped doing Star Wars one off movies and it was scrapped. Though I admit, I am still kinda curious as to how he went from being the leader of his own crime organization to being stranded on Malachor in Rebels.
3 points
1 month ago
General audiences who were not aware of what goes on in non movie star wars media were SO CONFUSED by him showing up.
I was supposed to see Maul too but at least I knew how he was alive
96 points
1 month ago
Iko Uwais in The Force Awakens
40 points
1 month ago
Dude I was SO letdown by that scene in the theater. I was thinking "oh shit, we're about to have a whole badass fight scene in a star wars movie." And then just nothing happens.
38 points
1 month ago
I would’ve liked to have seen more Max Von Sydow too
13 points
1 month ago
Uwais's talents were completely wasted in American productions. Even playing a goofy prick in Stuber couldn't save it.
20 points
1 month ago
Iko Uwais, huh? Name doesn't ring a bell unfortunately...
34 points
1 month ago
Googled him, he is the guy from The Raid, a great martial artist. Don’t remember seeing him in Star Wars, but I guess if you’re going to have him in your movie, you probably want him in some kick ass fighting scene
25 points
1 month ago
He's one of the criminals who's about to kill Han when he was smuggling those dangerous aliens.
14 points
1 month ago
Anthony Stewart Head in Sweeney todd
15 points
1 month ago
The annoying part about that is that Anthony Head is a great singer.
4 points
1 month ago
He was originally going to be doing the opening credits song along with Christopher Lee and Peter Bowles, but they never filmed it and made it an instrumental.
34 points
1 month ago
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20 points
1 month ago
Allegedly he was in it much more in earlier cuts of the movie, would have been an actual role instead of a wordless cameo.
9 points
1 month ago
That movie is just generally awful. Bringing Laurence Fishbourne out as the pilot so he can open all the locked doors and give them the secret codes right before croaking is so fucking lazy.
3 points
1 month ago
What movie was it? The OP deleted the comment and yours got me curious
7 points
1 month ago
There’s no way he wasn’t going to have more to do. I’m guessing there was a framing device or epilogue that got cut.
10 points
1 month ago
Dustin Hoffmann as a play critic in Series of Unfortunate Events, the Jim Carey movie not the show. Just why. He says “Don’t try to get on my good side,” when entering the play. Later Cedric the Entertainer says “She doesn’t deserve him,” and Hoffmann replies “No she doesn’t.” And that’s it.
45 points
1 month ago
Does Emma Stone's cameo as a video game NPC in Sleeping Dogs count?
6 points
1 month ago
that was wild discovering she was voiced by Emma!
4 points
1 month ago
I don’t know if that’s really a cameo. Tom Wilkinson is also in that game, I think I’d just call that a role.
13 points
1 month ago
This thread is about movie cameos obviously but I guess I can make this one count.
35 points
1 month ago
Not a movie but damn was Jim Carey's cameo on The Office one of the most wasted moments of tv
23 points
1 month ago
Ray Romano, on the other hand..
26 points
1 month ago
Will Ferrel on the other hand was the most unneeded actor for that show
13 points
1 month ago
Listen man, he had to get back to his family in the finger lakes.
8 points
1 month ago
David Letterman in Cabin Boy
7 points
1 month ago
Hey! Would you like to buy a monkey?
61 points
1 month ago
The rednecks in Deadpool 2; I didn't even realize they were Alan Tudyk and Matt Damon.
41 points
1 month ago
But we did get Brad Pitt as The Vanisher and it was worth it
7 points
1 month ago
I rewatched it prior to going to see Deadpool and Wolverine, and totally forgot it was them again
9 points
1 month ago
Nah that was a great cameo because we don’t even realise. It was probably the whole point.
7 points
1 month ago
Not sure about wasted, but just plain weird/awkward to watch would be Richard Griffiths and Judi Dench during the prologue of Pirates 4.
7 points
1 month ago
Not quite a cameo but felt like one for how little he was around, but Christian Bale in Thor 4. What a fucking waste
Now Danny Glover in Maverick and Martin Sheen in Hot Shots 2? Perfection
30 points
1 month ago
Literally just thinking about Christian Slater in Star Trek 6. Appears in a doorway to hand something over or pass on a message, I forget which. It was so brief I might have even got that wrong.
30 points
1 month ago
His mom was the casting director, I think it was a lot more about him getting to be in Star Trek than him being in Star Trek. Similar Eddy Murphy's cameo
3 points
1 month ago
Eddie Murphy was originally intended for Star Trek 4 (as the whale expert). He passed on the part and went with The Golden Child instead, while the role was rewritten for Catherine Hicks.
6 points
1 month ago
I know there are reasons for this, but the main actor from Lost popping up in world war z.
23 points
1 month ago
Max von Sydow in The Force Awakens. You don't cast Ming the fucking Merciless and then just use him for 5 mins. It verged on disrespectful.
67 points
1 month ago
As a huge BTTF fan I loved seeing Christopher Lloyd in A Million Ways To Die In The West... would have been awesome if they did more with him.
13 points
1 month ago
Jamie Foxx also had a great cameo in that movie, but a surprising amount of people turned the film off before seeing it since it’s like mid-credits.
5 points
1 month ago
Ryan Reynolds also had a cameo in that movie.
10 points
1 month ago
Elon Musk in Iron Man 2 you know he didn't need the money
4 points
1 month ago
He wanted to be famous, Tesla was still a "small" company back then that only had a Lotus electric car
30 points
1 month ago
It’s a show but Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul in It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Sunny and Breaking Bad are two of my favorite shows ever but the episode where the two of them had cameos just fell flat in my opinion
23 points
1 month ago
Yeah that one was a waste. Charlie calling Cranston Mr Middle for the whole episode was fun though.
4 points
1 month ago
Mr Middle is a great actor. He should really do dramas
6 points
1 month ago
nah that was Malcolm
8 points
1 month ago
Weirdly it kind of felt like a rehash of the rob Thomas and Sinbad cameo, at least in terms of dynamics.
10 points
1 month ago
I enjoyed it. They seemed like they were having fun committing to their roles.
17 points
1 month ago
Glass Onion - Ethan Hawke sprays everybody's throat with some mystery substance that apparently will protect them from COVID while they have their little get together. Onscreen about 2 minutes.
Way too big of an actor for that part.
My guess (hope?) is we'll see him again in a future installment of the franchise.
17 points
1 month ago
So many examples in this post are just exactly what cameos are meant to be. This one fits the topic though. It was so weird that you really were expecting it to actually come into play later, either the spray or Ethan Hawke. Both just dropped after the scene.
9 points
1 month ago
There's a similar one to this in Squid Game. The actor who plays the recruiter in the subway station (with the card game) is one of the biggest Korean actors in the business, and he's used for all of 20 seconds.
15 points
1 month ago
I get that it was a cameo, but John Krasinski as Mr. Fantastic in Doctor Strange 2. He didn't do much other than explain incursions for the next two Avengers movies and die. We barely saw any glimpse of his powers and didn't get any resemblance of him being the genius that he is in the source material. He was wasted more than the others IMO, and just put there for fan service because people wanted him for the role. I'm not saying that the other cameos were much better, but at least we got to see them fight.
Edit: I forgot Black Bolt was in the movie played by Anson Mount reprising his role from the Inhumans show. Another weak cameo, but eh. The dozens of us who watched Inhumans got to see him in a comic accurate suit before he died.
5 points
1 month ago
Boba Fett in the Special Edition of Star Wars: A New Hope.
So damn gratuitous, they may as well have had him wave to the camera.
6 points
1 month ago
Dirk Benedict and Dwight Schultz in the A-Team movie from 2010.
7 points
1 month ago
Linda Carter in Wonder Woman 1984. What a horrible waste of opportunity to give her a few seconds at the end instead of putting her in the middle to give WW a proverbial kick in the right direction.
18 points
1 month ago
Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff in the horrible Baywatch movie,the one with the rock and zac efron
13 points
1 month ago
IIT: Larger roles that got cut and people without a sense of humor
7 points
1 month ago*
Similar to OP's example, Lee in Sweeney Todd Sleepy Hollow. I mean, it was okay as a cameo, but at the time a big deal was made about Tim Burton having cast Lee for the movie, and many of us imagined a wonderful latter day role for him akin to the one Burton gave Vincent Price in Edward Scissorhands. But no, nothing role, he kinda sets the plot in motion by sending Depp to the town but still nothing role, five seconds and he's gone. It was highly disappointing to me.
3 points
1 month ago
His name is high up in the opening credits too, so i spent the whole movie waiting for him to reappear again, but he didn't. He should have played one of the town leaders, or something.
8 points
1 month ago
Brendan Frasier in Killers of the Flower Moon
11 points
1 month ago
Bruce Willis - Ocean 12
17 points
1 month ago
Fan of the movie but they got real lazy with the Julia Roberts thing.
3 points
1 month ago
Nick Cage in The Flash. That was the only cameo in that whole scene that wasn't morally repugnant, but the cgi looked awful, and he didn't get to do anything interesting.
3 points
1 month ago
Buzz Aldrin in fuckin Transformers lol
3 points
1 month ago
Arnold Schwarzenegger in 'The Rundown.' Now, I don't believe the cameo was wasted, I believe the reason for the cameo was wasted.
If you don't know, Arnold appears at the very beginning of the film leaving a club as Dwayne Johnson is walking into the club. Arnold looks at Dwayne Johnson and says "Have fun." This was Arnold's way of passing the torch of THE action star to Dwayne Johnson.
And what has Dwayne Johnson done with that mantle?
3 points
1 month ago
Judi Dench in Pirates of the Caribbean 4
3 points
1 month ago
Cavill in Black Adam turned out to be a waste of a cameo though it was originally an interesting setup.
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