Already mentioned in post #27. I only know because I was going to mention the same movie and was irked when it was already mentioned.
It’s okay. I took care of that.
Palatial movie theater, 1963. We have special balcony seats because my mother was in the management chain. I am a low single-digit number of years old. (There might have been a touring star or two in the audience… not unusual even for a secondary city in those days; my mother was kissed by a roster of A-listers and battalion of B-listers over the years.)
Said foot kicks said object.
From the balcony comes, “HA HA HA, HE KICKED THE BUCKET HA HA HA HA!”
My family claims the audience laughed harder at me than the screen. I can’t remember well enough to say.
She’s Having A Baby technically counts.
I take very strong exception to the description of this movie as “bloated.” It is indeed long, but appropriately so, and full of content that is actually necessary to the story. Many of the other movies are indeed full of filler put there as opportunities for cameos, but not The Longest Day.
As for IAMMMMW, I saw it as a teen when it came out, and found it mostly boring, and very disappointing considering the cast. My opinion of it has not changed in the past 50+ years.
I knew my then-wife-to-be’s college roommate adored this movie, and knew that I could get her to nod approvingly by, uh, praising with faint damns with a comment about how they’d squandered the opportunity presented by this-or-that clever and witty performer, who surely could’ve done so much more in an expanded role.
Unable to resist, I slowly said “it’s a shame that they squandered the Three Stooges.”
I gotta admit, at the age of eight I had yet to assimilate the phrase “He kicked the bucket.” :smack:
I laughed when it happened because I thought it was a funny moment (especially when Buddy Hackett says “If he jumps up again, I’m gettin’ the hell outta here!”), but I failed to grasp the full meaning of it until I heard my dad use the expression in describing the movie to someone else.
Surely you mean “damning with faint praise”? :dubious:
Yes, you could spin it that way. Or, you could spin it that they were making a meta-gag by having the kings of slapstick standing motionless for their cameo.
Nope; “damning with faint praise” would be saying something that literally counts as praise, but impliedly serves as damning criticism – saying, when asked to recommend someone for a promotion, that he’s, uh, punctual. If that’s me singing his praises, then he presumably has nothing else going for him, see.
Here, I would’ve been doing the opposite: impliedly lavishing praise on the movie, by making clear that my only regret was how they didn’t give Witty Charmer #9 just a trifle more screen time. If that’s me criticizing the film, then it’s presumably beyond reproach, apart from me wanting to see more of the performer she loved.
Except, of course, she had disdain for the Stooges.
I’m sorry, but the scenarios in my head for the Stooges should their services had been required are far, far funnier than anything which could have been committed to film.
Emergency crew standing at ready! Them???
Not to hijack with a discussion of a different movie, but even just relying on memory, I think they could’ve cut John Wayne entirely out of the movie and not lost anything.
Dr Fidelius:
My reaction when I saw them was that they looked pathetic. I felt bad for them that someone shoehorned them into a movie to stand there doing nothing.
Love Actually?
Murder On The Orient Express
Starring
Albert Finney
Lauren Bacall
Martin Balsam
Ingrid Bergman
Jacqueline Bisset
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Sean Connery
John Gielgud
Wendy Hiller
Anthony Perkins
Vanessa Redgrave
Rachel Roberts
Richard Widmark
Michael York
In 1974, some huge names and a whole bunch of “Actor’s actors” who were highly respected for their craft.
Yeah, I got it. I just didn’t want to pass up an opportunity to make you say “And don’t call me Shirley!” 
You maybe wouldn’t think of it this way, but consider last year’s top-grossing movie: it’s a Captain America sequel, once again starring Chris Evans; and Robert Downey Jr, who can also carry a movie, is second-billed; and Scarlett Johansson, who can also carry a movie, is third-billed; and Don Cheadle has been known to carry a movie; and Jeremy Renner has been known to carry a movie; and Chadwick Boseman has been known to carry a movie; and Elizabeth Olsen has been known to carry a movie; and Marisa Tomei has been known to carry a movie; and William Hurt has been known to carry a movie; and Anthony Mackie has been known to carry a movie; and Emily VanCamp has been known to carry a movie; and Martin Freeman has been known to carry a movie; and Alfre Woodard has been known to carry a movie; and Paul Rudd, like Paul Bettany, has been known to carry a movie.
So, what, the weak spot is the guy who earned those four straight Emmy nominations as the iconic Roger Sterling on Mad Men not all that long ago? Because I’m pretty sure it’s not Daniel Brühl, what with that Oscar nomination of his; or Stan Lee, who pretty much just racks up cameos for a living these days. (Wait, does Sebastian Stan count as a name actor? I’d argue that Sebastian Stan counts as a name actor.)
And then there’s Tom Holland, who is effectively getting a spinoff as Spider-Man on the strength of debuting his take on the role here – which doesn’t really count, but is weird in a way that other “and then he got to star in a big-budget movie” stuff isn’t.
For more recently “star studded ensemble casts”, I’d add:
Ocean’s Eleven (and it’s two sequels I suppose).
Hail, Caesar! (Clooney, Hill, Johansen, Brolin, Fiennes, Tatum, Swinton, McDormand)
This is the End (Franco, Rogan, Hill, McBride, Baruchel, and a shit-ton of cameos)
Tropic Thunder (Stiller, Black, Downey Jr, Baruchel, Hader, Nolte, McConaughey, a ton of cameos and Tom Cruise in his greatest role ever!)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Fiennes, Fiennes, Ronan, Brody, Dafoe, Norton, Goldblum, Keitel, Abraham, Law, Wilkinson, Schwartzman,Swinton, Wilson)
Nitpick: Bruhl was nominated for a Golden Globe for Rush but not an Oscar.
And no way on Earth is Sebastian Stan a name actor. I’d wager 95% of filmgoers know him as “the Winter Soldier guy” and not by his actual name.
Ah, looks like you’re right. Well, can we dicker over whether to add Frank Grillo? He was top-billed in two of those PURGE movies, each pulling in a little over $100m, one before CA:CW and one after. (Well, one before and one during, I guess.)
Yeah, but that’s kind of the point, right? He’s known as “the Winter Soldier guy” because of the role he played in a movie that got titled “The Winter Soldier.”
DAMN YOUR EYES! I knew as I was typing that that there was probably another one.
Also, MURDER BY DEATH is perhaps the only movie that reduced me to screaming laughter in a theater. Probably because I was 15 and stoned. Thank god the weirdness that was real-life Truman Capote was captured in at least one feature film.
“And…lots and LOTS of makeup.”