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What are some other terrible movies with amazing casts?



I can think of one right off the top of my head:

Outbreak

Dustin Hoffman
Rene Russo
Morgan Freeman
Kevin Spacey
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Donald Sutherland
Patrick Dempsey

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A lot of people whould agree on "Man of Steel" with Oscar nominated names like:

-Amy Adams
-Michael Shannon
-Russell Crowe
-Kevin Costner
-Laurence Fishburne
-Diane Lane

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Nine

Daniel Day-Lewis
Nicole Kidman
Marion Cotillard
Penelope Cruz
Judi Dench


I shall now pause for giggles

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I'm surprised Sean Penn acted in Gangster Squad.

What is your problem with Nine?! I haven't seen Man of Steel yet put it looks great and I've heard good things.

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All The King's Men (2006)
Ironically featuring another over-the-top performance by Sean Penn as well as:

Kate Winslet
Jude Law
Anthony Hopkins
Patricia Clarkson
James Gandolfini
Mark Ruffalo



Hang on tightly, let go lightly

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Holy cow, you are right about that one. Sean Penn was so egregious in ATKM that it played like a parody. Now, Huey Long could be argued to be a pardoy of himself, but Penn wasn't even close to getting it right.

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How about this Jaws-ripoff crapfest: Tentacles (1977)

Henry Fonda
John Huston
Bo Hopkins
Shelly Winters
Claude Akins

It's really the first two on this list that raise a brow. Fonda and Huston must've been in the twilight of desperation. Of course, there are plenty of disaster flicks from the 70s with big-name casts that probably are equally worthy.

For a more recent example, check out the cast of the awful Movie 43: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333125/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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A WIN, sir.

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Ocean's Eleven
-George Clooney
-Brad Pitt
-Julia Roberts
-Matt Damon

Closer
-Jude Law
-Natalie Portman
-Julia Roberts
-Clive Owen

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Ocean's 11... Ocean's 12... Ocean's 13...

11 wasn't that bad, though. At least the director made a conscious effort to be tongue-in-cheek. I think they tried to be serious with Gangster Squad, but when it was unintentionally funny and corny they pretended it was meant to be that way. Like Pee Wee: "I meant to do that."

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Mars Attacks!!!!!

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Kiss Of Death (1997)

Nicholas Cage
Samuel L Jackson
Ving Rhames
Helen Hunt
Michael Rappaport

And the "star" of the movie and main reason that it sucked, Mr red-headed douche himself:
David Caruso.

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Hey, I don't know why we are talking about this here. This movie isn't even that bad. But here's one:

Contagion (2011)

Marion Cotillard
Kate Winslet
Jude Law
Bryan Cranston
Gwyneth Paltrow
Matt Damon
among others I missed or didn't recognize.

Most disaster movies are terrible but that one's surprisingly bad. It helped me fall asleep on the plane though, so at least there's that.

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