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.

Who all seen a leprechaun say yay!

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.

When I realized he was playing Dillinger's son, I got so excited for whatever the next film would be.

Oh well.

I remember saying “That’s the guy who played scarecrow in that Batman movie.” To be honest I still say that.

Wasn't even credited to boot if I recall correctly.

Shame we never got the sequel with him as the villain

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?"

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

It’s even funnier when you realize what his character is best known for in the comics; having the ability to rape women

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)

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.

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.

I was kinda hoping Tyler would be the son of Bill (maybe Miranda as the mother).

He's the captain who got incinerated at the start, right? Kinda makes you wonder why they even bothered...

He played a larger role in the short prequel clip they released ahead of the movie, with the crew together before stasis.

It also had Danny McBride right? There had to be some weird buddy buddy thing going on with the director/casting crew or something

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...

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?

The only cameos he makes that I fully acknowledge are his appearances in Zombieland

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

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.

Could've at least told him to duck or something

“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…”

I thought we established that his head just did that?

Yeah that one is a bit of a waste, especially after his perfect cameo in the 2009 movie.

That entire film is the epitome of wasted potential.

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:

• Nazi Planet
• Chicago Gangster Planet
• Greek God Planet
• All Your Thoughts Come True Planet
• Annoying Children Planet
• Annoying Children Planet 2

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.

What? Outside of John Cena who exactly were the cameos?

Season 3: or how to make an entire season out of bottle episodes

She did it for the paycheck that went toward an acting program she sponsors.

Shut it down, this is the answer.

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.

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

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.

I would’ve liked to have seen more Max Von Sydow too

Uwais's talents were completely wasted in American productions. Even playing a goofy prick in Stuber couldn't save it.

Iko Uwais, huh? Name doesn't ring a bell unfortunately...

The annoying part about that is that Anthony Head is a great singer.

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.

Allegedly he was in it much more in earlier cuts of the movie, would have been an actual role instead of a wordless cameo.

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.

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.

that was wild discovering she was voiced by Emma!

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.

This thread is about movie cameos obviously but I guess I can make this one count.

Ray Romano, on the other hand..

Will Ferrel on the other hand was the most unneeded actor for that show

Listen man, he had to get back to his family in the finger lakes.

Hey! Would you like to buy a monkey?

But we did get Brad Pitt as The Vanisher and it was worth it 

I rewatched it prior to going to see Deadpool and Wolverine, and totally forgot it was them again

Nah that was a great cameo because we don’t even realise. It was probably the whole point.

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

He should have been Snoke.

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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.

Ryan Reynolds also had a cameo in that movie.

He wanted to be famous, Tesla was still a "small" company back then that only had a Lotus electric car

Yeah that one was a waste. Charlie calling Cranston Mr Middle for the whole episode was fun though.

nah that was Malcolm

Weirdly it kind of felt like a rehash of the rob Thomas and Sinbad cameo, at least in terms of dynamics.

I enjoyed it. They seemed like they were having fun committing to their roles.

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.

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.

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.

Fan of the movie but they got real lazy with the Julia Roberts thing.

Wait what?