Surprised the frak out of me when I found out that Christopher Meloni played the psycho hillbilly named Freakshowin Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle.
This happens to me all the time with Sean Bean. Before LOTR, the only thing I’d noticed him in was the Sharpe series. Now he seems to be in every other action movie regardless of when it was made.
Sean Bean was one of the IRA terrorists in Patriot Games ,that was one of his early roles.
Of course, it helps that his mom is Mary Jo Slater, who was the casting director for Star Trek VI.
I recently saw The Fugitive for the first time since I saw it in the theater, and was surprised to see Joe Pantoliano in a major role.
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Sylvester Stallone was in that movie too
I was flipping channels a few weeks ago, and paused for a few moments to watch the beginning of Death Wish. One of the punks who attacks Charles Bronson’s wife and daughter is played by Jeff Goldbloom.
Watch the movie Krull. You will see a whole lot of people who later became famous. Yet you rarely see the two stars anymore.
As a work of cinematic art, Dungeons & Dragons is utter garbage. As a D&D campaign . . . Well, I’ve played in worse. Heck, I’ve refereed worse. But it has Dr. Who (Tom Baker) as the Grand Druid, and Riff-Raff (Richard O’Brien) as the Guildmaster Thief!
This may cause problems next time I watch Lord of the Rings.
Yup.
There’s another thing about Sean Bean : his character always, always dies before the end of the movie. Boromir ? Dead. The aforementionned IRA terrorist ? Dead. The Cleric in Equilibrium ? Dead 5 minutes in. Martin Septim in the game Oblivion ? Dead, dammit !
Harrison ford in Witness was on the other night. Seen it lots but this time I recognized Viggo Mortensen as one of the Amish {or whatever} in the community.
Mortensen is the weapons officer in Crimson Tide. James Gandolifini is also an officer in that movie.
My husband just turned on Jurassic Park, and we TOTALLY forgot that Samuel L. Jackson had anything to do with the Motherfucking Dinosaurs in that Motherfucking Park. 
His character lives (but gets arrested) in National Treasure - the first one. Hate to break it to you. 
Rumor has it that Jackson only agreed to be in the Star Wars prequels because Lucas agreed he would be killed.
Is it really possible I’ve watched the last 3 episodes of Masterpiece Theatre’s adaptation of Little Dorrit and only just noticed that old man Dorrit is Tom Courtenay?! :smack:
Back to the Future, the original from 1985 features a very young Billy Zane as one of Biff’s sidekicks.
Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky) in the Fiddler on the Roof.
Tommy Lee Jones in Love Story.
I noticed that about a month ago and was surprised.
Last night I was watching Tombstone, and realized that the card dealer who Wyatt Earp bitchslaps and humiliates was played by a slightly chubby Billy Bob Thornton.
Or, the other day, my wife was watching “Yours, Mine and Ours”, with Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball, and we were surprised to see Tim Matheson (Otter, from Animal House) playing the oldest brother.
He doesn’t get killed in Ronin, but he does get fired!