Awful, annoying and Awesome movie cameos.

Turtwig · 26-07-2014 08:17PM #1

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 · 26-07-2014 09:15PM

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

Welsh Megaman · 26-07-2014 09:21PM

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

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

the baby bull elephant · 26-07-2014 09:34PM

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

Turtwig · 26-07-2014 09:35PM

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 · 26-07-2014 09:37PM

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 · 26-07-2014 10:09PM

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 · 26-07-2014 10:11PM

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 · 26-07-2014 10:38PM

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 · 26-07-2014 10:50PM

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

Harry Palmr · 26-07-2014 10:57PM

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 · 27-07-2014 12:29AM

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 · 27-07-2014 12:33AM

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 · 27-07-2014 09:59PM

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 · 28-07-2014 06:22AM

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

CPSW · 28-07-2014 10:42AM

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 · 28-07-2014 11:27AM

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 · 28-07-2014 01:46PM

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 · 28-07-2014 01:52PM

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 · 28-07-2014 01:53PM

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 · 28-07-2014 01:55PM

Oak76 wrote: »

Pedantry, ahoy.

Its not pedantry, tis common sense, Jaysus.

McSasquatch II · 28-07-2014 01:59PM

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 · 28-07-2014 03:11PM

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 · 28-07-2014 04:02PM

Speaking of Wayne's World...

Agent Coulson · 28-07-2014 05:02PM

Billy Idol in The Wedding Singer.

MagicMarker · 28-07-2014 05:06PM

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 · 28-07-2014 05:17PM

Danny Glover's cameo in Maverick was decent too:

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

Penn · 28-07-2014 05:27PM

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

Welsh Megaman · 28-07-2014 06:01PM

Lance Armstrong in 'Dodgeball'.

*runs for cover*

razorblunt · 29-07-2014 08:39AM

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 · 29-07-2014 09:54AM

R2D2 in Star Trek

Awful, annoying and Awesome movie cameos.

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