Awful, annoying and Awesome movie cameos.

Turtwig

I'm currently on a marvel movies binge and the one thing that is really beginning to grind my gears is Stan Lee's cameos. They get borderline ridiculous! That said the films have some quality cameos and references. The unexpected appearance of another marvel stalwart taking the piss out of himself in a Thor movie being an notable example.

So what cameos did you guys like, hate, ignore, feel irritated by, thought were intelligent or had interesting back story to them. And why the fck can't they work on giving Stan Lee better cameos. Some almost seem like a parody of themselves.

Tl;dr Stan Lee cameos get pretty annoying, what makes a great cameo, what makes a poor one and OP needed to rant. Because it's actually been the biggest detractor of his marvel binge.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Alfred Hitchcocks cameo in "To Catch a Thief " was brilliant.

Welsh Megaman

In a perfect world, every film should have a Twisted Sister cameo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUsafOL0kew

the baby bull elephant

Loved Ryan Reynolds cameo in Ted. Doesn't even say a word but found it quite funny.

Turtwig

the baby bull elephant wrote: »

Loved Ryan Reynolds cameo in Ted. Doesn't even say a word but found it quite funny.

Wow! I think I may have totally missed that!

RobbingBandit

the baby bull elephant wrote: »

Loved Ryan Reynolds cameo in Ted. Doesn't even say a word but found it quite funny.

Following up on his pseudo gay cameo in Family Guy,loved the fact that the guy who does Joes voice is who he was with in Ted.

McSasquatch II

Lots of ones that irritate me alright. One that particularly grates (and for reasons that I can't explain) is Alanis Morrisette as God in Dogma. She doesn't even have any dialogue and yet still manages to piss me off! Others would include Shyamalan in all his movies, Tarantino in Django Unchained...

Speaking of Tarantino, this is one of my favourite cameos;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVxl__61vKI

Adamantium

Elon Musk, Space X Founder & CEO in Machete kills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_MGXAtX8fA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oPnAxs2xQU

krudler

Stan Lees cameos suck, there I said it, the only good one is in Amazing Spider-Man. Nothing wrong with doing it the odd time but every movie is just getting silly.

Tipsy McSwagger

The best cameo ever is Randolph & Mortimer from Trading Places showing up in Coming to America.

Harry Palmr

Walter Matuschanskayasky in Earthquake.

Marcel Marceau in Silent Movie (what the hell happened to this film, its vanished)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwea0LZQe9k

razorblunt

I've said the same about Stan Lee for ages too.
I'm also hating that fat ginger kid getting a prominent shot in lots of movies.


My favourite, I listed In the other thread , hot shots "I loved you in Wall Street"

MagicMarker

It's not even a very good cameo, but it's just so unexpected, and Arnie is awesome, hence it deserves to be in this thread.

ziedth

I always liked the Charlton Heston Cameo from Waynes world. A perfectly played gag.

Wolverine in X-men first class I got a big kick out of. It was just so unexpected

The coming too America one is a good shout.

PirateShampoo

Dunno if it counts as a cameo but Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder was brilliant.

CPSW

Great shout on the Charlton Heston cameo in Wayne’s World 2, great in gag where the original actor gets replaced by someone "better".

Bill Murray in Zombieland is a great one, especially how his cameo plays out.

Harelson: "Have you any regrets?"
Murray: "I dunno, maybe Garfield"



MfMan

If it can be counted then John Turturro's in The Big Lebowski is the granddaddy of them all, by a mile the best thing in the film.
"Nobody f**ks with the Jesus!"

bnt

I didn't think Alanis Morissette herself was annoying in Dogma, but her character was annoying because she (?) was written that way. It's a bit unfair to blame her for her character's traits.

Erin Brockovich herself pops up as a waitress in the movie Erin Brockovich, but I wouldn't have noticed had it not been publicised in advance, so I don't know how effective it was. Ditto for the likes of composer Howard Shore in one of the Lord of the Rings films (The Two Towers, I think). Probably my favourite of all has to be director Martin Scorsese in Taxi Driver, as a genuinely creepy passenger in Travis Bickle's cab.

Awesome? Philosopher Marshall McLuhan appears as himself in Woody Allen's Annie Hall, to berate a couple in a movie queue for misunderstanding his work. How very meta.

McSasquatch II

bnt wrote: »

I didn't think Alanis Morissette herself was annoying in Dogma, but her character was annoying because she (?) was written that way. It's a bit unfair to blame her for her character's traits.

Pedantry, ahoy.

Mickeroo

I loved Meatloaf and Dio's cameos at the start of the Tenacious D film Pick of Destiny. The rest of the film didn't quite live up to the opening few minutes but that part where Dio starts singing back to him from the poster is fantastic.

SherlockWatson

Oak76 wrote: »

Pedantry, ahoy.

Its not pedantry, tis common sense, Jaysus.

McSasquatch II

SherlockWatson wrote: »

Its not pedantry, tis common sense, Jaysus.

I never said I blamed Alanis Morrisette for her character's traits, or that I disliked Alanis Morrisette. I said that one of the cameos I disliked was that of Alanis Morrisette playing God in Dogma.

B.A._Baracus

CPSW wrote: »

Great shout on the Charlton Heston cameo in Wayne’s World 2, great in gag where the original actor gets replaced by someone "better".

Good little scene indeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eWsFFQP0gA

the baby bull elephant

Speaking of Wayne's World...

Agent Coulson

Billy Idol in The Wedding Singer.

MagicMarker

bnt wrote: »

Erin Brockovich herself pops up as a waitress in the movie Erin Brockovich, but I wouldn't have noticed had it not been publicised in advance, so I don't know how effective it was. Ditto for the likes of composer Howard Shore in one of the Lord of the Rings films (The Two Towers, I think). Probably my favourite of all has to be director Martin Scorsese in Taxi Driver, as a genuinely creepy passenger in Travis Bickle's cab.

Also, the real Jim Lovell has a cameo at the end of Apollo 13.

Mickeroo

Danny Glover's cameo in Maverick was decent too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiDlQgW1wO0

Penn

Peter Jackson and Cate Blanchett in Hot Fuzz surely have to rank among the top.

Welsh Megaman

Lance Armstrong in 'Dodgeball'.





*runs for cover*

razorblunt

Thought of two others last night, Pursuit of Happyness, last scene of the movie he walks past a guy and they nod at each other, that guy being the Chris Gardner.

Not really a cameo but a small part, watched Alien vs Predator last night, the Nordic dude from the 90s Statoil ad was in it. Instant nostalgia!

Skerries

R2D2 in Star Trek

minotour

I dont like to watch good movies on planes so i usually flick around all the sh1te grumbling away to myself while getting slowly wasted and puffing on my eCig. Good times....

Anyhoo, last flight i was on i pushed through Anchorman 2 and made it as far as the CameoFest towards the end, it was a complete hollywood circle jerk and confirmed I have no business watching modern "comedy"

Rant over...

snaphook

Hot Shots Part Deux

"I loved you in Wall Street!"*thumbs up*

It's hard to beat that one for me. It's utter genius.

JP Liz V1

Jonah Hill in Django Unchained was funny

Pierce_1991

The original 21 Jump Street TV show cops (Depp and someone else?) showing up at the end of the film was perfectly done.

Tyres from Spaced can also be seen as a bleach blonde headphone wearing zombie in Shaun of the Dead as well which was a nice touch.

grames_bond

I loved Django in 'A Million Ways to die in the West'

Watched 'Not another teen movie' for the firts time in years last night - there are a fair few great cameos in that movie too!

prospect

Arthur C Clarkes cameo in 2001 A Space Odyssey is my favourite.

tricky D

prospect wrote: »

Arthur C Clarkes cameo in 2001 A Space Odyssey is my favourite.

2010 surely???

prospect

Indeed, you are correct. He actually appears twice in the movie (although one of them is a photo)

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in 'X-Men: First Class' always gives me a good laugh...

Also, it's up there with the best use of the 'one f-bomb allowed in a PG-13 movie' rule.

A2LUE42

Sharknado 2

More Cameos than I could keep count of.

T-Bird

Does this count?:D

Looper007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnESedN4vSI

Can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet, best thing in the film. Gus Van Sant counting the money. Scott Mosier, Kevin Smiths long time producer is also great in this.

hidinginthebush

Porn legend Ron Jeremy has a quick part in Ghostbusters.



Also, what defines a cameo? Some of those mentioned (eg Alanis, john tutoro (sp?)) seem more like small parts than cameos.

gg2

Awesomist = Bruce Springsteen in High Fidelity... "Thanks Boss"

Mike Tyson in The Hangover

Jedwardian

Sean Penn in Being John Malkovich.

nelly river

Charlie Sheen, off his face and white as snow, in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Rumour has it Charlie wasn't even part of the cast, he just happened to be in the police station that day when the crew arrived for the shoot.

Turtwig

T-Bird wrote: »

Does this count?:D
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/indianajones/images/e/e4/Wellr2.jpg

Took me ages to see that. :eek:
Which Indy movie is that?

D-FENS

Hitchcock will always be the king of cameos, but I always loved Hunter S.Thompson in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas too.

Bad ones? I think the Anchorman movies went overboard with cameos in those fight scenes, the likes of that and countless other comedies/action movies have ruined the whole novelty of a good cameo.

And I'd argue a cameo needs to be an appearance by someone famous that has no bearing on the actual story, whereas ones like Christopher Walken in Pulp Fiction is more of a "bit part" - his speech about the watch is integral to Butch's story and he is one of a few characters, like Keitel and Roth, who make short appearances but have a distinct part to play in the movie

connollys

Justin Long in Zac and Miri make a Porno, excellant.

ancapailldorcha

Turtwig wrote: »

Took me ages to see that. :eek:
Which Indy movie is that?

I don't get it.