What movies have the greatest casts?

[Beernuts]

I adore the original Iron Man. I thought it was going to build on the more serious tone of the Nolan Batman films. I liked the serious, adult superhero tales films like The Dark Knight and Iron Man told us. Iron Man has some pretty serious things it says about the U.S. war in Afghanistan and the military-industrial complex. And Tony Stark was the perfect character to explore those consequential themes in the way that they did.

Obviously they went in another direction.

I'm like you... I can only take A-list actors there to cash a PHATTTTT check quipping stupid lines at each other and pretending to punch each other in the face in front of a green screen so seriously.

There are exceptions to that... I'll defend the fight choreography and cinematography in The Winter Solider and its themes about surveillance and intelligence agencies gone rogue. But that's about it.

Not that anybody watching really noticed them.

And the plots are always the same...some god like evil villain from a distant world is attacking earth and the only group that can save us is a group of superhero's that must ban together and put aside their internal conflicts while wearing tight fitting clothes.

 

[ISUTex]

Lord of the Rings

Elijah Wood, Vigo Mortensen, Sean Austin, Sean Bean, Ian Mcellen, Orlando Bloom, Bernard Hill, Liv Tyler, Andy Serkis, John Rhys-Davies, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Christopher Lee, Ian Holm, Karl Urban, David Wenham, Martin Csokas, Brad Douriff and Miranda Otto.

Not bad.

 

[ForbinsAscynt]

True Romance
Christian Slater
Patricia Arquette
Dennis Hopper
Gary Oldman
Christopher Walken
Brad Pitt
Val Kilmer
James Gandolfini
Samuel L Jackson
Chris Penn
Michael Rapapport
Tom Sizemore

 

[Sigmapolis]

Lord of the Rings

Elijah Wood, Vigo Mortensen, Sean Austin, Sean Bean, Ian Mcellen, Orlando Bloom, Bernard Hill, Liv Tyler, Andy Serkis, John Rhys-Davies, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Christopher Lee, Ian Holm, Karl Urban, David Wenham, Martin Csokas, Brad Douriff and Miranda Otto.

Not bad.

I know The Hobbit trilogy was disappointing in comparison to The Lord of the Rings, which is aging better and better every year. I have seen a five-hour edit of The Hobbit that is *really* good, though, and would serve as an acceptable prequel to the three LOTR films to make a very enjoyable tetralogy.

That being said, The Hobbit did have a great cast...

Martin Freeman
Ian McKellen
Richard Armitage
Cate Blanchett
Hugo Weaving
Christopher Lee
Sylvester McCoy
Lee Pace
Orlando Bloom
Evangeline Lilly
Luke Evans
Thomasin McKenzie
Stephen Fry
Benedict Cumberbatch
Billy Connolly
Andy Serkis

Sort of a shame to see much of it going to waste.

 

[VeloClone]

I know The Hobbit trilogy was disappointing in comparison to The Lord of the Rings, which is aging better and better every year. I have seen a five-hour edit of The Hobbit that is *really* good, though, and would serve as an acceptable prequel to the three LOTR films to make a very enjoyable tetralogy.

That being said, The Hobbit did have a great cast...

Martin Freeman
Ian McKellen
Richard Armitage
Cate Blanchett
Hugo Weaving
Christopher Lee
Sylvester McCoy
Lee Pace
Orlando Bloom
Evangeline Lilly
Luke Evans
Thomasin McKenzie
Stephen Fry
Benedict Cumberbatch
Billy Connolly
Andy Serkis

Sort of a shame to see much of it going to waste.

Where did you see that? I would like to take a look. I am a huge Middle Earth nerd going way back to middle school/high school but I thought that thing Jackson did to The Hobbit was a travesty.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Where did you see that? I would like to take a look. I am a huge Middle Earth nerd going way back to middle school/high school but I thought that thing Jackson did to The Hobbit was a travesty.

Easy to Google but...

https://goldfishblues.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/the-hobbit-the-bilbo-edition-3-0-the-final-cut/

I'll note I bought all three of The Hobbit films on DVD. So, I never felt guilty about watching an edit -- I already owned this, this was just mixing up the order of and cutting scenes.

It does a much better job of following the actual story of a hobbit named Bilbo.

I consider it the definitive version of The Hobbit on screen (for now).

 

[1UNI2ISU]

Catch Me If You Can:

Tom Hanks
Leonardo DiCaprio
Christopher Walken
Martin Sheen
Amy Adams
James Brolin
Jennifer Garner
Ellen Pompeo

 

[Sigmapolis]

Scott Pilgrim v. The World

Michael Cera
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Kieran Culkin
Anna Kendrick
Brie Larson
Alison Pill
Aubrey Plaza
Ellen Wong
Chris Evans
Brandon Routh
Jason Schwartzman
Mae Whitman

 

[TitanClone]

Black Hawk Down is loaded with A listers

 

[CtownCyclone]

O Brother Where Art Thou?

Clooney is outstandingly hilarious. Tim Blake Nelson serves a great gopher. John Turturro is insanely good (and I generally can't stand him...DO...NOT...SEEK...THE...TREASURE), John Goodman as the Bible-thumpin' Cyclops, Charles Durning as the Guvnah of the Great State of Mississippi, Pappy O'Daniel, Daniel Cooley as the hell-fire sheriff, Ray McKinnon as the bona fide suitor, Stephen Root as the blind radio station DJ, and everyone else, just perfection. And don't get me started on the Sirens. Yowza.

Well ain't this place a geographic oddity. 2 weeks from everywhere!

 

[TLBCLONE]

At first glance I thought the title was

"What movies have the greatest cats?"​

and I was going to say Alien.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Well ain't this place a geographic oddity. 2 weeks from everywhere!

Well, I don't want Fop, goddamn it! I'm a Dapper Dan man!

 

[brett108]

Casey Affleck is one of the worst actors ever, but the rest of that cast is good. Actually I don't like Bernie Mack either. But the rest of the cast other than those two...

Isn’t he like the only one with an Oscar?

 

[mramseyISU]

Major League is one of my favorites.

Going a little further back I really like The Dirty Dozen.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Major League is one of my favorites.

Going a little further back I really like The Dirty Dozen.

 

[mramseyISU]

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After 8 years of coaching youth baseball the kids I had could probably recite 3/4 of the one liners from that movie by heart. When my son is pitching for the high school team if he misses a spot one of his teammates without fail will say something about Vaseline on the ball.

 

[0u812]

How about "My Cousin Vinny"?

My Cousin Vinny is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn, written by Dale Launer, and produced by Launer and Paul Schiff. It stars Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei, Mitchell Whitfield, Lane Smith, Bruce McGill, and the final film appearance of Fred Gwynne.

 

[JimmyChitwood]

Goodfellas

 

[Antihawk240]

1st one that came to my mind: Lonesome Dove - 1989
Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, Diane Lane, Angelica Huston, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Robert Urich, Chris Cooper, Ricky Schroeder

 

[ISUcyclones11]

Oppenheimer - Cilian, RDJ, Blunt, Damon, Malek, Branagh. Gary Oldman even had a scene (took me half an hour to figure out who Truman was played by because i couldn't even tell)

and a bunch of others who have had leading roles in TV shows or smaller movies