# Really Bad Movie - Really Large Famous Cast **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012 "2005-03-30T23:09:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/21 "2005-03-31T21:36:04Z")
I was going to mention Nothing But Trouble, but then I looked it up on [imdb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102558/) and found the cast wasn’t nearly as big as I thought. Maybe since John Candy and Dan Aykroyd played multiple characters, I got thrown off. But, whew! That movie is a true stinker. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/22 "2005-03-31T21:39:02Z")
You want Bad with Big casts filled with Big Stars? Look at 1978’s **The Swarm** : Michael Caine Henry Fonda (!!) Fred Mac Murray Richard Widmark Richard Chamberlin Olivia de Havilland (!!) Jose Ferrer Katharine Ross Slim Pickens Patty Duke Lee Grant Alejandro Rey Cameron Mitchell Bradford Dillman ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/23 "2005-03-31T21:52:25Z")
There’s bad, and then there’s truly unforgivable. _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_ Johnny Depp Benicio Del Toro Tobey Maguire Ellen Barkin Gary Busey Christina Ricci Mark Harmon Cameron Diaz Katherine Helmond Michael Jeter Penn Jillette Craig Bierko Lyle Lovett Flea Laraine Newman Harry Dean Stanton Debbie Reynolds Steve Schirripa Verne Troyer Christopher Meloni ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/24 "2005-03-31T22:53:39Z")
I loved Mars Attacks! and I liked Fear and Loathing… and Mystery Men. but what about Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back? (way too much for me to type up) ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/25 "2005-04-01T00:54:42Z")
I also think you guys are conflating bad movies that were serious attempts with movies where they just got a bunch of pals to do cameos because it was fun. Sort of like how it was ‘cool’ in Hollywood to do a guest appearance on ‘Batman’ way back when (or The Simpsons today, for that matter). Things like ‘Cannonball Run’ or ‘Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back’ have the ‘fun to make’ factor thrown in. Reading Kevin Smith’s journal about JASBSB can be hilarious. Like they knew they could get Mark Hamill but only for like a day and a half so that had to be scheduled four months in advance and it had BETTER work type of thing. And the ultimate ‘this’ll be fun what the hell’ flick: **The Muppet Movie** Discounting all the regular muppet performers… Charles Durning Edgar Bergen (with Charlie, of course) Milton Berle Mel Brooks James Coburn Dom Deluise Elliot Gould Bob Hope Madeline Kahn Carol Kane (uncredited) Cloris Leachman Steve Martin Richard Pryor Telly Savalas (uncredited) Orson Welles (!!!) Paul Williams Carroll Spinney (BIG BIRD!) IMDB also lists Tim Burton and John Landis as uncredited Muppet performers but I don’t know the truth of that. Face it, that’s the king. The Muppet Movie rocks. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/26 "2005-04-01T01:16:29Z")
Going over the list, it’s clear **Won Ton Ton, the Dog that Saved Hollywood** is the winner. A truly awful film by any standard, with a [cast list](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075436/fullcredits) almost as long as **The Player** (which doesn’t qualify, since it’s a good movie). Walter Pidgeon, Dean Stockwell, The Ritz Brothers, Jesse “Maytag Repairman” White, Johnny Weismuller . . . the list goes on. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/27 "2005-04-01T03:02:41Z")
**Movers & Shakers**. This movie features Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Gilda Radner, Bill Macy and Steve Martin, yet is screamingly unfunny to the point of being unwatchable. It was written by Charles Grodin. Avoid. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/28 "2005-04-01T03:47:08Z")
Wow, great choices by everyone. You’d think that the list was complete. Nope … far from it. Hard to Beleive Hollywood has cranked out so many of these unbelivable clunkers: **The Conqueror** (1956) John Wayne Susan Hayward Pedro Armendáriz Agnes Moorehead Thomas Gomez John Hoyt William Conrad Ted de Corsia Leslie Bradley Lee Van Cleef Peter Mamakos Leo Gordon Richard Loo **Meteor** (1979) Sean Connery Natalie Wood Karl Malden Brian Keith Martin Landau Trevor Howard Richard A. Dysart Henry Fonda (again !!!) Joseph Campanella ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/29 "2005-04-01T04:47:28Z")
For more in the same vein, see [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=306339&highlight=casting+directors+drugs) from three weeks ago… ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/30 "2005-04-01T05:07:27Z")
Rat Race was \* not\* a bad movie. Any movie that could set up gags like John Lovitz-as-Hitler thing or the cow hitting the bus windshield is a work of comedy genius. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/31 "2005-04-01T05:28:40Z")
[Nothing But Trouble](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0102558/fullcredits) ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/32 "2005-04-01T07:20:33Z")
Geez, I thought Mad Mad World or Cannonball Run II were at the top, but Won Ton Ton beats them both put together. Has anyone actually seen that movie? ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/33 "2005-04-01T13:50:25Z")
I’ve never seen “Prêt-à-Porter,” but I’ve heard it’s one of Robert Altman’s relative stinkers: Marcello Mastroianni Sophia Loren Kim Basinger Stephen Rea Anouk Aimée Rupert Everett Lili Taylor Ute Lemper Forest Whitaker Richard E. Grant Julia Roberts Tim Robbins Laren Bacall Lyle Lovett Tracey Ullman Sally Kellerman Linda Hunt Teri Garr Danny Aiello Sam Robards Hary Belafonte Cher Elsa Klensch Thierry Mugler Sonia Rykiel Jean-Paul Gaultier Christian Lacroix Issey Miyake Gianfranco Ferré Naomi Campbell Christy Turlington Björk David Copperfield Linda Evangelista Claudia Schiffer Alot of them playing themselves in cameos, but still. ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/34 "2005-04-01T14:04:43Z")
**Roadside Prophets** was packed with cameos. I suppose I shouldn’t include it here, because I really enjoyed the movie, but since I have yet to find a positive review of it, I guess it’ll count as a bad movie. It’s cameo-laced, too! It stars John Doe, the lead man from X, but there are others: Adam Horovitz John Cusack Timothy Leary Arlo Guthrie David Carradine It seems like there are more cameos than that, but it could be that that’s all, and it just _seemed_ like there were more. The movie came out in 1992 and I saw it a couple of times when it was new, but I haven’t seen it since. I’m trying to track down a copy of it. I found a VHS tape selling on line for sixty bucks once, but I can’t say I’m _that_ much of a fan of this movie! Still, I’d like to find it. Here’s a _New York Times_ review that implies that I’m a pretentious jerk: [http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?title1=&title2=ROADSIDE%20PROPHETS%20(MOVIE)&reviewer=Stephen%20Holden&pdate=19920327&v\_id=41601](http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?title1=&title2=ROADSIDE%20PROPHETS%20%28MOVIE%29&reviewer=Stephen%20Holden&pdate=19920327&v_id=41601) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/35 "2005-04-01T20:23:18Z")
How about **[The Greatest Story Ever Told](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0059245/fullcredits)**: Max von Sydow, Carroll Baker, Pat Boone, Victor (“King Tut”) Buono, José Ferrer, Van Heflin, Charlton Heston, Martin Landau, Angela Lansbury, Janet Margolin, David (“Illya Kuryakin”) McCallum, Roddy McDowall, Dorothy McGuire, Sal Mineo, Nehemiah Persoff, Donald Pleasence, Sidney Poitier, Claude Rains, Telly Savalas, Joseph Schildkraut, John Wayne, Shelley Winters, Ed Wynn, Michael (“Cochise”) Ansara, Robert Blake, Jamie (“Klinger”) Farr, David Hedison, Russell (“The Professor”) Johnson, Mark (“Sarak”) Lenard, Robert Loggia. I count seven Oscar winners in the list (Ferrer, Heston, Landau, Poitier, Schildkraut, Wayne, and Winters). ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/36 "2005-04-01T22:30:36Z")
Pauly Shore is Dead had a ton of em: Ben Stiller Sean Penn Fred Durst Tom Sizemore Chris Rock Whoopi Goldberg Heidi Fleiss Ellen DeGeneres Kurt Loder Pamela Anderson Todd Bridges Tommy Chong Andy Dick Snoop Dogg Perry Farrell Isaac Hanson Taylor Hanson Zac Hanson Nicky Hilton Paris Hilton Kato Kaelin Tommy Lee Michael Madsen Mark McGrath Matt Pinfield Sally Jessy Raphael Sam Rubin Adam Sandler Britney Spears Jerry Springer Scott ‘Carrot Top’ Thompson Vince Vaughn Montel Williams Then there’s “Amazon Women on the Moon” which I loved, but since it got a 5.5 star rating on IMDB, I’m throwing it in: Arsenio Hall Phil Hartman Michelle Pfeiffer Griffin Dunne Joe Pantoliano Sybil Danning David Alan Grier BB King Roxie Roker Rosanna Arquette Steve Guttenberg Henry Silva Rip Taylor Slappy White Jackie Vernon Henny Youngman Charlie Callas Steve Allen Ed Begley Jr Kelly Preston Howard Hesseman Andrew Dice Clay Carrie Fisher and the USC Trojan Marching Band ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/37 "2005-04-01T23:43:29Z")
Wait there’s more !!! **The Silver Chalice (1954)** Virginia Mayo Pier Angeli Jack Palance Paul Newman Joseph Wiseman Alexander Scourby Lorne Greene Jacques Aubuchon E.G. Marshall Michael Pate Natalie Wood Booth Colman Robert Middleton Ian Wolfe Lawrence Dobkin Albert Dekker Strother Martin Arthur Space Going back many years for this one: **Alice In Wonderland (1933)** Its cast included: Gary Cooper W.C. Fields Cary Grant Edward Everett Horton \*\*Cleopatra \*\*(1963) Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton Rex Harrison Hume Cronyn Cesare Danova Kenneth Haigh Andrew Keir Martin Landau Roddy McDowall Francesca Annis John Doucette John Hoyt Carroll O’Connor Jacqui Chan Wow that must have been Jacqui Chan’s first movie !!! Were there are fight sequences in Cleopatra ??? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012/38 "2005-04-01T23:44:11Z")
I just saw **Frank Miller’s Sin City** and it qualifies. Yecch! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-bad-movie-really-large-famous-cast/297012.md?page=1)