# I would go see any move, plot-unknown, if \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ was in it **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293 "2017-07-01T17:59:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/1 "2017-07-01T17:59:41Z")
Jason Sudeikas Jane Lynch Ken Jeong ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/2 "2017-07-01T18:04:08Z")
Formula One ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/3 "2017-07-01T18:11:12Z")
Jennifer Lawrence. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/4 "2017-07-01T18:22:19Z")
Humphrey Bogart…I love zombie movies. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/5 "2017-07-01T18:27:43Z")
My sister. (That’s about the only way an actor/ess would get an automatic watch just by being present.) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/6 "2017-07-01T18:53:45Z")
Tom Hanks. He is good. And Bogart. He was great. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/7 "2017-07-01T19:02:49Z")
Jeff Bridges. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/8 "2017-07-01T19:12:43Z")
Tim Curry. ---
**Author:** ![Davebd1985](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@Davebd1985](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebd1985)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/9 "2017-07-01T19:25:32Z")
Jame’s Bond Denzel washington Charlie Chaplin ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/10 "2017-07-01T20:26:09Z")
Michael Keaton. He’s picky, not looking for validation, and not worried about what people will think, so any film he does is likely to be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/11 "2017-07-01T20:46:25Z")
Also Daniel Day-Lewis. But he is only doing one more film. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/12 "2017-07-01T21:35:16Z")
So, we’re all in agreement, then? If Daniel Day-Lewis comes out of retirement to play an aging James Bond – with Jennifer Lawrence as the Bond girl, and Michael Keaton as the Bond villain – in a production featuring Tim Curry as M, and Denzel Washington as Q, and Tom Hanks as Felix Leiter, and Jeff Bridges as the eccentric genius who hasn’t yet realized that his holographic simulations of Bogie and Chaplin can be repurposed for in-real-life photoshopping of world leaders, then we’ll all buy tickets if Sudeikis and Jeong and Lynch are the bickering Formula-One-Is-Their-Cover-Identity henchmen who set the blackmail plot in motion by kidnapping **Mr Shine** ’s sister? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/13 "2017-07-01T21:37:09Z")
Simon pegg and/Or Nick frost if, and only if directed by Edgar Wright. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/14 "2017-07-01T21:38:29Z")
I’m in! As long as there is no CGI! ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/15 "2017-07-01T21:42:18Z")
Cary Grant? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/16 "2017-07-01T23:45:00Z")
James Garner Steve McQueen ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/17 "2017-07-02T00:54:58Z")
Bette Davis. ---
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Charlton Heston Laurence Olivier John Hurt ---
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I can’t think of any actors for which this is true. That said, there are a few actors that have an excellent track record of both performing very well and being picky about choosing roles that are interesting and are in projects with other compelling talents. But I can’t think of any whose reputation in those regards is so good that I could make such a blanket statement. If Tilda Swindon is in Michael Bay’s Transformers 47 movie I’m still gonna pass. But her presence on the billing for anything else is still a positive factor. Daniel Day Lewis might be the closest actor I can think of to this. There are some directors where I’m pretty close to making such a call (e.g. the Coen brothers or maybe a non-superhero Nolan movie), but even then I can’t make such an absolute statement. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293/20 "2017-07-02T01:31:28Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > So, we’re all in agreement, then? If Daniel Day-Lewis comes out of retirement to play an aging James Bond – with Jennifer Lawrence as the Bond girl, and Michael Keaton as the Bond villain – in a production featuring Tim Curry as M, and Denzel Washington as Q, and Tom Hanks as Felix Leiter, and Jeff Bridges as the eccentric genius who hasn’t yet realized that his holographic simulations of Bogie and Chaplin can be repurposed for in-real-life photoshopping of world leaders, then we’ll all buy tickets if Sudeikis and Jeong and Lynch are the bickering Formula-One-Is-Their-Cover-Identity henchmen who set the blackmail plot in motion by kidnapping **Mr Shine** ’s sister? I sense that you’re joking here, but I would watch the _crap_ out of this movie. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-would-go-see-any-move-plot-unknown-if-__________-was-in-it/790293.md?page=2)