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[robotrock]

does this count

I love this casting. Earlier today I was thinking about how Matthew McConaughey is in this movie, and all he does is throw a TiVo at a helicopter.

I love this movie.

 

[dysonEA]

Billy Crystal in the Princess Bride.

 

[Messypandas]

Bruce Willis in the Sixth Sense. Dude died in the first few minutes.

 

[radios shipping overview]

She has a brief cameo.

I'll raise you:

She's a minor character. To be fair, the original posters were more realistic about her role.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Morgan Freeman in Oblivion. Thankfully he's not on the film's other poster.

 

[Captain.Falafel]

Marlon Brando - superman

Edit fuck throw apocalypse now and a bunch of other stuff in there too. Brando was a master at this.

15 minutes on screen out of 150 and he stole the show.

 

[Arkam]

Anthony Hopkins is only on-screen for something like 16 minutes in Silence of the Lambs

Maybe, but is in about 6 scenes. And you have to remember they are only a side character in the films plot. He just happens to be the best character.

 

[Oersted]

Lawrence Fishburne in the newest Predator movie.

Yeah, I noticed that about Godzilla too. They used all his scenes for the marketing, basically.

This happens with Christopher Walken quite a bit.

The Godzilla/Cranston example is pretty egregious though.

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Lee Byung-Hun

in Terminator Genisys

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Featured pretty prominent in advertising, but those were all his scenes.

Drew Barrymore in Scream

Sam Jackson in Deep Blue Sea.

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"A fuckin Shark ate me!"

Thats standard in these movies since Alien atleast.

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Kill

the well-known actor to create a sense of anything could happen. But since they tend to be quite formulaic,

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its quite clear who will survive.

 

[AlexMeloche]

Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle?

She even won awards, even though she's not on-screen for a long time.

 

[jimmyd]

Samuel L. Jackson and The Rock in The Other Guys

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Morgan Freeman in Oblivion. Thankfully he's not on the film's other poster.

Freeman is a major part of the film's twist, exposition, and climax. Not a very good example imo.

Samuel L. Jackson and The Rock in The Other Guys

Doesn't the trailer show them exiting the film?

 

[fluffydelusions]

Samuel L Jackson

 

[Silver Arrows]

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Lee Byung-Hun

in Terminator Genisys

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Featured pretty prominent in advertising, but those were all his scenes.

Sad too, because he's actually one of the best Korean acting imports out there, and I wish that he'd get more serious English roles, not balls to the walls action flicks.

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too bad he's a reprehensible little asshole

 

[Tugatrix]

Judi Dench won an Oscar for being in Shakespeare in Love for only 8 minutes

That movie won best picture award over Saving Private Ryan so don't look so surprised by that

 

[crimzonflame]

Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross

 

[Zalman]

Snake in Metal Gear Solid 2.

 

[BigBeauford]

I don't think Afleck made it too far here.

 

[luslanz]

Ewan McGregor dies 5 minutes into the movie.

 

[The Albatross]

Marlon Brando - superman

He invented phoning it in.

Edit fuck throw apocalypse now and a bunch of other stuff in there too. Brando was a master at this.

I hadn't seen this so I looked it up... I had no idea that Brando was in this, and saw him looking much younger than he looks in the Godfather, even though that was filmed in '72 and Superman, '78. So I just learned a new thing... that he was in his 40s filming the Godfather, and they put tons of makeup on him to look old.

I had no idea, I seriously thought Brando was in his 60s when this was filmed.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross

Was he already a top billing actor back then?

 

[Wag]

Marlon Brando in Superman a The Movie. Long film and he's barely in it but gets essentially top billing IIRC. His pay was huge - and if adjusted for inflation would likely remain huge today. Least he was pretty solid in the role.

Fat Jor-El is best Jor-El? 😁

 

[Prosopon]

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[The Flash]

Double kill

 

[Platy]

"janet leigh as marion crane", the HUGE GIRL ON THE POSTER, is the girl who dies in the famous shower scene in THE MOVIE'S INTRO

 

[crimzonflame]

Was he already a top billing actor back then?

Well his name's third on the poster.

 

[lazygecko]

Not an actor/casting thing, but the principle behind misleading folks is the same. My dad really likes Quentin Tarantino movies and always drags me with him to see them in the cinema. There was this one movie called Hostel 2 which had his name attached to it as a producer or something. It was just a sleazy torture porn movie.

 

[Curler]

House of Wax. My friends rented it because Paris Hilton had a death scene in it. She was basically the main cover image and yeah that was quick!

 

[truly101]

"janet leigh as marion crane", the HUGE GIRL ON THE POSTER, is the girl who dies in the famous shower scene in THE MOVIE'S INTRO

Not sure if that counts. I always thought it was genius how the movie starts from her POV and she dies halfway through. Its like Hitchcock wanted the audience to feel abandoned and alone with Anthony Perkins once shit gets real.

 

[whitemex88]

What am I missing here?

 

[EGM1966]

Fat Jor-El is best Jor-El? 😁

Ironically yes I'd say. Funny thing about Brando roles like this or Apocalypse Now is how he seems to deliver what ends up a terrific performance while also seeming disengaged as though phoning it in.

 

[kiguel182]

Godzilla is the kind of example that I felt robbed watching the movie. I was tricked into giving them money pretty much.

 

[tomtom94]

Bruce Willis in the Sixth Sense. Dude died in the first few minutes.

very good

On topic, Brad Pitt in Inglorious Basterds. I mean he's in it, but...

 

[Skatterd]

He's in it for a bit, but still it seems to throw people for a loop.

 

[tuffy]

Have to agree with this, expected a lot more action than I received, especially since Russell plays more of a nerd than a bad ass, if I recall correctly. Movie pissed me off.

That's exactly what I liked about Executive Decision. Having martial arts dude as part of the team makes one think it's going to play out like his "Die Hard on a Ship/Train" movies, but killing him off early defies expectations. Instead, the movie plays out as something more tense and interesting.

 

[Ogni-XR21]

What am I missing here?

Probably that for a movie called Godzilla there was very little Godzilla to be seen.

 

[StopMakingSense]

Have to agree with this, expected a lot more action than I received, especially since Russell plays more of a nerd than a bad ass, if I recall correctly. Movie pissed me off.

Bah, nonsense, Executive Decision is awesome.

 

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Gywneth Paltrow in Contagion

 

[maxcriden]

Viola Davis won an Oscar for what I think was a single, pretty brief scene in Doubt. Or was nominated at least. I think she was nominated for Extremely Loud etc. and wasn't in that much either.

 

[firebricks3]

Michael Keaton is in like 8 minutes total of Beetlejuice

 

[RedShift]

From the marketing for the first Expendables movie you'd think Bruce Willis and Schwarzenegger were in it for a lot more than their one scene. I didn't see the sequels but I guess they fixed that?