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Worst movie with the most famous actors in the cast.

Started by dead-ced-dead, August 22, 2021, 05:50:29 PM

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Dr Rock

Starring   
Peter Sellers
Ursula Andress
David Niven
Woody Allen
Joanna Pettet
Orson Welles
Daliah Lavi
Deborah Kerr
William Holden
Charles Boyer
Jean-Paul Belmondo
George Raft
John Huston
Terence Cooper
Barbara Bouchet
Gabriella Licudi
Tracy Reed
Tracey Crisp
Kurt Kasznar
Elaine Taylor
Angela Scoular


edit I'm not sure if all of them are big names, or were at the time - and can't be arsed to check. Cheers

lebowskibukowski

If you are talking "over here" famous, you'd be hard pressed to beat 2012's "Run For Your Wife", with a well-known cast list so long I cannot be fucked to replicate it on here, but some of the stand outs being...

Danny Dyer
Russ Abbot
Rolf Harris
Robin Askwith
Les Dennis
Sarah Harding
Judi Dench
Noel Edmonds


Brundle-Fly


Brundle-Fly

I know Mars Attacks! (1996) got utterly panned at the time and it is a bit of a one-joke mess, but I really loved it.

Jack Nicholson
Glenn Close
Annette Bening
Pierce Brosnan
Danny DeVito
Martin Short
Sarah Jessica Parker
Michael J. Fox
Rod Steiger
Tom Jones
Lukas Haas
Natalie Portman
Christina Applegate
Joe Don Baker
Pam Grier
Paul Winfield
Jack Black


Ignatius_S

Quote from: Dr Rock on August 23, 2021, 10:38:16 AM...edit I'm not sure if all of them are big names, or were at the time - and can't be arsed to check. Cheers

Casino Royale is rather messy, but very enjoyable and elements of it (like the soundtrack) work very well. Plagued by production issues, particularly with Sellers' behaviour, it could have turned out a lot worse.

At the time, it wasn't a flop and in more recent years has been reassessed in a positive way.

Ignatius_S

Quote from: lebowskibukowski on August 23, 2021, 11:49:51 AM
If you are talking "over here" famous, you'd be hard pressed to beat 2012's "Run For Your Wife", with a well-known cast list so long I cannot be fucked to replicate it on here, but some of the stand outs being...

Danny Dyer
Russ Abbot
Rolf Harris
Robin Askwith
Les Dennis
Sarah Harding
Judi Dench
Noel Edmonds

As a film, it's like most of ones adapted from a Cooney play - not great by any stretch of the imagination but a serviceable enough comedy.

A film like Passing Shots (a black comedy where someone played Chris Rea, after being told he's got a terminal disease, decides to murder everyone who he has something against) is far, far worse.  At least with Run For Your Wife there is some fun playing 'spot the cameo', whereas in Parting Shots, every time someone like John Cleese, Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Sir Ben Kingsley, Joanna Lumley and Bob Hoskins, it's just bewildering to see them. Basically, Michael Winner just got old mates to appear in it, but even so....

kngen

Taking 'most famous actors' to mean the calibre of their fame (rather than the amount of famous actors), I naively expected something slightly better than complete dogshit from The Score, starring Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and Ed Norton (riding the wave of his Fight Club megastardom). Oh, and Angela Bassett, who seemed to have been crowbarred into the film to keep De Niro awake and vaguely engaged.

In hindsight, I laugh at how foolish I was to think that this assemblage of end-of-cycle, powering-down[nb]Or powering off in the case of Brando, as it was his last ever film.[/nb] talents would be anything other than visual porridge, but I do have vivid memories of sitting there, my enthusiasm quickly draining from me, thinking: 'How the fuck can this be so shite?'

Quote from: kngen on August 23, 2021, 02:03:20 PM
Taking 'most famous actors' to mean the calibre of their fame (rather than the amount of famous actors), I naively expected something slightly better than complete dogshit from The Score, starring Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and Ed Norton (riding the wave of his Fight Club megastardom). Oh, and Angela Bassett, who seemed to have been crowbarred into the film to keep De Niro awake and vaguely engaged.

In hindsight, I laugh at how foolish I was to think that this assemblage of end-of-cycle, powering-down[nb]Or powering off in the case of Brando, as it was his last ever film.[/nb] talents would be anything other than visual porridge, but I do have vivid memories of sitting there, my enthusiasm quickly draining from me, thinking: 'How the fuck can this be so shite?'

I think by that point Brando had surrendered any trace of dignity he had left, he spent almost the entire shoot filmed with his lower half obscured as he refused to wear trousers.

Probably not Frank Oz's finest hour I'd say.

kngen

Quote from: Ron Maels Moustache on August 23, 2021, 02:59:26 PM
he spent almost the entire shoot filmed with his lower half obscured as he refused to wear trousers.


That's infinitely more entertaining than anything in the actual film.

Ant Farm Keyboard

Sextette (the Mae West swan song featuring Timothy Dalton, Tony Curtis, George Raft and Keith Moon, among many others) is abysmally bad.
And then you have Richard Driscoll's Eldorado, where tons of actors had cameos to justify the embezzlement of money by the director.

Alberon

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on August 23, 2021, 12:04:00 PM
I know Mars Attacks! (1996) got utterly panned at the time and it is a bit of a one-joke mess, but I really loved it.

I love it too. Commercially unsuccessful perhaps but not a 'worst movie' contender by any regards. The ridiculous glee the Martians have arsing about as they invade Earth is just fantastic.

Shit Good Nose

Not only do I genuinely like The Score, I've always thought it was a genuinely decent film.  Never understood why so many people think it's terrible.

Mr Banlon

Quote from: Ant Farm Keyboard on August 23, 2021, 05:35:10 PM
Sextette (the Mae West swan song featuring Timothy Dalton, Tony Curtis, George Raft and Keith Moon, among many others) is abysmally bad.
And then you have Richard Driscoll's Eldorado, where tons of actors had cameos to justify the embezzlement of money by the director.
They did a Smershpod side-episode on Sextette : https://play.acast.com/s/smershpod/sidespecial-sextette

McChesney Duntz

Oh, I've got one! Mad Dog Time (1996), a vanity/inanity project from showbiz scion Larry Bishop (son of Rat Pack medium-low-talent Joey), a supposed gangster comedy full of a fuckload of tedious dialogue and excruciating wordplay. Hideous. Cast:

    Jeff Goldblum as Mickey Holliday
    Richard Dreyfuss as Vic
    Gabriel Byrne as Ben London
    Ellen Barkin as Rita Everly
    Diane Lane as Grace Everly
    Gregory Hines as Jules Flamingo
    Kyle MacLachlan as Jake Parker
    Burt Reynolds as Jackie Jackson
    Larry Bishop as Nicholas Falco
    Henry Silva as Sleepy Joe
    Michael J. Pollard as Red
    Christopher Jones as fake Falco
    Billy Idol as Lee Turner
    Angie Everhart as Gabriella
    Billy Drago as Wells
    Paul Anka as Danny
    Rob Reiner as Albert
    Joey Bishop as Gottlieb
    Richard Pryor as Jimmy the Gravedigger
    Frank Licari as Vic's Guy

Many of whom appeared, presumably, as a favor to the auteur, or due to blackmail, or some such thing. (Dreyfuss and Reiner were high school pals of Bishop, for starters; Albert Brooks was, too, and even had a comedy duo with him while still in school - I'm sure he was approached and turned it down unceremoniously, which makes me love him even more than I already did.) It really is jaw-droppingly bad; as with a lot of such films, it inspired a beautiful pan from Roger Ebert - https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mad-dog-time-1996.

I guess Tarantino was a fan, or something, as he executive-produced an equally-bad LB neo-biker pic called Hell Ride as well as giving him a cameo appearance as the strip-club manager in Kill Bill Vol. 2. (To be fair, I quite liked him in that.)

McChesney Duntz


Noodle Lizard

Rat Race and Mars Attacks! are both perfectly fine for what they are,  even if hardly a career highlight for some of their bigger names. The latter is actually good, I think.

Movie 43 is the indisputable answer to this thread, but I might also nominate Clint Eastwood's immediately forgotten J. Edgar, starring Leonardo DiCaprio at the peak of his frowny Oscar-baiting crusade, with an all-star supporting cast. It is utterly terrible, and has the doubler of also being helmed by a respected director, who used to be a famous actor. I think that maxes its potential for this thread.

dissolute ocelot

Putting a ton of stars in a terrible, turgid epic movie is nothing new, if you've seen The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) with a cast list that goes on nearly as long as its 4 hour running time. Max von Sydow, Sidney Poitier, Charlton Heston, John Wayne, Donald Pleasance, Jose Ferrer, Martin Landau, Angela Lansbury, Claude Rains, Robert Loggia, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas, Sal Mineo, Van Heflin, Pat Boone, and many more, often appearing for a few seconds, saying "Gee! It's Jesus!" and fucking off.

Also, David Lynch's Dune, if you're allowing cult-famous. And the original Ocean's 11. (I'm sure there must be some 70s disaster movie as well, although Airport doesn't really manage a ton of stars.)

mothman

I saw Mad Dog Time in the cinema for some reason. Oh, I remember why - it was the 1997 "all films for a pound" Sunday and we were killing time until we could get in to the U.K. public premiere of Independence Day at the Empire Leicester Square...

Bad Ambassador

Quote from: mothman on August 24, 2021, 12:55:08 PM
I saw Mad Dog Time in the cinema for some reason. Oh, I remember why - it was the 1997 "all films for a pound" Sunday and we were killing time until we could get in to the U.K. public premiere of Independence Day at the Empire Leicester Square...

Joke's on you, it came out a year earlier.

I saw Dark City that day.

mothman

So it did! Huh. Weird. Oh, no, it was The Fifth Element we saw that day! Sorry, losing it obvs...

kngen

Quote from: dissolute ocelot on August 24, 2021, 10:23:20 AM
(I'm sure there must be some 70s disaster movie as well, although Airport doesn't really manage a ton of stars.)

Towering Inferno's cast is pretty stellar -    
Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Jennifer Jones, George Wallace, and, uh, OJ Simpson.[nb]I could have sworn Shelley Winters was in it, too, giving her the distinction of being the Disaster Movie queen, given she was in The Poseidon Adventure, too. But she wasn't, so she isn't.[/nb]

It's also pretty great, so doesn't really belong here. Sorry.

beanheadmcginty

I'm glad no one has nominated either of the Cannonball Run films as they are clearly brilliant.

Dusty Substance

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on August 23, 2021, 12:04:00 PM
I know Mars Attacks! (1996) got utterly panned at the time and it is a bit of a one-joke mess, but I really loved it.

Rewatched it last year and had an absolute blast! Love how Jack Nicholson plays two different characters for no reason at all and Danny De Vito is an above the title name on the poster but is credited as "Rude Gambler".

Hurly Burly is a terrible film with a pretty great cast:
Sean Penn
Kevin Spacey
Robin Wright
Chazz Palminteri
Garry Shandling (playing a character named Artie)
Anna Paquin
Meg Ryan


Another Shandling film with a good cast is the so-bad-I-switched-off-after-30-minutes What Planet Are You From?

Garry Shandling
Annette Bening
Greg Kinnear
Ben Kingsley
Linda Fiorentino
John Goodman
Judy Greer
Richard Jenkins
Janeane Garofalo
(pre-fame) Octavia Spencer





dissolute ocelot

Quote from: kngen on August 24, 2021, 06:09:28 PM
Towering Inferno's cast is pretty stellar -    
Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Jennifer Jones, George Wallace, and, uh, OJ Simpson.[nb]I could have sworn Shelley Winters was in it, too, giving her the distinction of being the Disaster Movie queen, given she was in The Poseidon Adventure, too. But she wasn't, so she isn't.[/nb]

It's also pretty great, so doesn't really belong here. Sorry.
Yeah, Towering Inferno and Poseidon Adventure are the good 70s disaster movies. Plus Airplane! (1980), of course.

Has nobody mentioned Cats? Also, Avengers: Age of Ultron.

peanutbutter


"A man (Matthew McConaughey) is reluctant to tell his fiancee (Kate Beckinsale) that his parents, uncle and brother (Gary Oldman) are dwarfs."

Not an absolutely stacked cast but hard to grasp how several names would sign on to something by a guy with fuck all of a track record with that plot description

AsparagusTrevor

Quote from: peanutbutter on August 25, 2021, 09:45:01 AM
"A man (Matthew McConaughey) is reluctant to tell his fiancee (Kate Beckinsale) that his parents, uncle and brother (Gary Oldman) are dwarfs."

Is Gary Oldman playing all of those then, like an Eddie Murphy type of thing?

Flouncer

Quote from: Ignatius_S on August 23, 2021, 12:20:42 PM
As a film, it's like most of ones adapted from a Cooney play - not great by any stretch of the imagination but a serviceable enough comedy.

A film like Passing Shots (a black comedy where someone played Chris Rea, after being told he's got a terminal disease, decides to murder everyone who he has something against) is far, far worse.  At least with Run For Your Wife there is some fun playing 'spot the cameo', whereas in Parting Shots, every time someone like John Cleese, Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Sir Ben Kingsley, Joanna Lumley and Bob Hoskins, it's just bewildering to see them. Basically, Michael Winner just got old mates to appear in it, but even so....

Parting Shots sprang to mind when I saw this thread. It's easily one of the worst films I've ever seen! It's kind of compelling to watch just on the strength of how awful it is. It has a really jarring element to it: we're supposed to be sympathetic to Chris Rea's character, but he's just going around murdering people he has a bit of a grievance with. I remember the scene where he kills his ex-wife being particularly unpleasant, but Winner seems to think the audience is going to be cheering him on at that point - I suppose we shouldn't expect much better from the director of the Death Pish series. I got as far as the second of those before deciding I didn't need to go any further. Little wonder he never directed another film after Parting Shots.

Egyptian Feast

Quote from: Flouncer on August 25, 2021, 09:55:49 AM
I suppose we shouldn't expect much better from the director of the Death Pish series. I got as far as the second of those before deciding I didn't need to go any further.

I can understand why you'd give up after the horrible second film, but the third in the series is a masterpiece, of a sort. One of the most enjoyably ludicrous action films of all.

batwings

Quote from: Shit Good Nose on August 23, 2021, 07:41:38 PM
Not only do I genuinely like The Score, I've always thought it was a genuinely decent film.  Never understood why so many people think it's terrible.

I liked it too. Haven't seen it in a long time so might need to revisit it, see if it holds up.

the science eel

Quote from: ImmaculateClump on August 22, 2021, 06:34:38 PM
I watched "the dead don't die" a few weeks ago and at the start, the big names kept flashing up, people I recognised and I kept thinking "woah, what are these people doing in this presumably low budget horror film?".

Bill Murray
Adam Driver (star wars cunt)
Tom Waits
Steve Buscemi
Danny Glover
Caleb Landry Jones (the ginger lad from antiviral)
Tilda Swinton
Iggy Pop!
Selena Gomez

It was dogshit.

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