re: Greatest Movie Ensembles of All-Time

Posted by thatguy1892

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 2:15 am to tadelatt

Wet Hot American Summer is a good one.

Posted by chinese58

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 9:26 am to Jcorye1

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Best speech of all time.

I've heard that speech a couple of times in my career. The advertising sales position I worked for 30 years was for a company that had that kind of outlook. They paid a small salary but high commissions. I outlived at least a dozen sales managers and and six general managers in those 30 years as they had the same kind of expectations from their management. Told a couple of Baldwin character types I'd be there long after they were gone. Told one of them that in front of 30 other sales people during his day one, "Third prize is you're fired" speech. The other sales people took me out to lunch the day he got fired. It was a fun place to work.

Posted by chinese58

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 9:39 am to yurintroubl

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Playing By Heart (1998)

Dennis Quaid in PBH made me think of:
Traffic (2002)
Dennis Quaid
Don Cheadle
Erika Christensen
Benicio del Toro
Michael Douglas
Albert Finney
Stephen Baur
Luis Guzmán
Benjamin Bratt
Amy Irving
James Brolin
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Topher Grace
Salma Hayek (uncredited)
plus a bunch of well known Hispanic actors

Playing By Heart Spoiler question...

Doesn't Jolie fall in love with a "very sick" guy in that?

2 ...

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 9:40 am to chinese58

FRom the war movie genre---Kelly's Hero's.

Posted by sicboy

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 9:42 am to PsychTiger

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For action stars, The Expendables I and II

I think there's a difference between putting together a solid cast that works and just calling up a bunch of action movie stars and letting them have fun.

Great suggestions so far.

I'll throw Heat in there.

Al Pacino
Robert Deniro
Val Kilmer
John Voight
Tom Sizemore
Ashley Judd
Wes Studi
Mykelti Williamson (Bubba from Forrest Gump)
William Fichtner
Natalie Portman
Hank Azaria
Dennis Haysbert
Danny Trejo
Henry Rollins
Tone Loc

Posted by chinese58

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 9:56 am to TygerDurden

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For you older movie board readers....how about:

"Its A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"

Good one. Another really, really old one that should make the list for the combination of the quality & the quantity of the cast, is Grand Hotel

Greta Garbo
Lionel Barrymore
John Barrymore
Joan Crawford
Wallace Beery

At the time it was made it was by far the largest A list grouping ever. Films evolved from having unknown actors to one star, two stars (romances) to ensemble casts. It was one of the first "Blockbusters".
All of the posters empathized the greatness of the cast.

Posted by K9

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 10:07 am to chinese58

The Royal Tennabaums

Hackman
Wilson Bro's
Glover
Paltrow
Murray
Stiller
Huston

Posted by chinese58

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 10:34 am to sicboy

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Heat

Jon Voight

Loved the look he was throwing down for it.

Posted by PJinAtl

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 10:49 am to TygerDurden

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Its A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Has to be near, if not at, the top.

I would also nominate:

The Longest Day(1962): Eddie Albert, Paul Anka, Henry Fonda, Roddy McDowall, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger, John Wayne, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Peter Lawford and a good many more.

Midway (1976): Dabney Coleman, Erik Estrada, Henry Fonda, Glenn Ford, Charlton Heston, Robert Mitchum, Pat Morita, Tom Selleck, Hal Holbrook and several others.

And although it was before a good many of them became stars, American Graffitti (1973): Ron Howard, Harrison Ford, Richard Dryfuss, Cindy Williams, etc.

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 11:12 am to PJinAtl

Can we call Lonesome Dove a movie?

Duvall, TL Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Robert Urich, Anjelica Huston, Ricky Shroder, Chris Cooper, Steve Buscemi

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 11:15 am to tadelatt

The Blues Brothers

John Belushi
Dan Akroyd
Cab Calloway
John Candy
James Brown
Ray Charles
Aretha Franklin
Steve Lawrence

These people also were briefly in the movie:
Steven Spielberg
John Landis
Carrie Fisher
Paul Reubens
Chaka Khan
Mr. T
Twiggy

Posted by Cdawg

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 11:26 am to MaroonWhite

Cannonball Run

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 11:45 am to tadelatt

Eddie Murphy
Redd Foxx
Richard Pryor
Charlie Murphy
Robin Harris
Jasmine Guy
Della Reese
Michael Lerner
Danny Aellio
Lela Rechon
Miguel Nunez
Reynaldo Rey

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 12:10 pm to tadelatt

I thought I ended this thread with A Bridge Too Far.

There is no movie that has ever been made that can compete with this list of heavy hitters:

Sean Connery
Ryan O'Neal
Gene Hackman
Michael Caine
Anthony Hopkins
James Caan
Maxamillian Schell
Elliot Gould
Laurence Olivier
Robert Redford

Nothing else even sniffs this list.

Posted by Kafka

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 12:33 pm to Scoop

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 12:41 pm to GCTiger11

Yeah I read the thread title and departed was the first to come to mind. I don't know exactly what the thread means though. There are movies with more stars but I'm looking at it as biggest/best casted movie. A couple of the best casted movies I can think of are the departed, assassination of Jesse James, and the town.

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Posted by Marciano1

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 12:48 pm to GCTiger11

The Departed is No. 1 for me

Pulp Fiction
LA Confidential

Posted by SDtiger16

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Posted on 1/19/13 at 12:52 pm to beaverfever

The departed is the best though the thin red line has a good one.

George Clooney
Sean Penn
Nick Nolte
Woody Harrelson
Jim Caviezel
John Cusack
Elias Coteas
Adrian Brody
John travolta

This post was edited on 1/19/13 at 12:53 pm