When done right, they add a little something to the production. When done wrong, they’re about as comfortable as a punctured water bed.
Cameos can be brilliant (see Mike Myers in Inglorious Basterds) but often they’re indulgent and just completely unnecessary.
Here’s 9 cameo ideas the scriptwriter should’ve put a line through ten seconds after drunkenly scribbling on a napkin.
Violent Femmes – Sabrina the Teenage Witch
The reasons this one so objectionable is because the Violent Femmes are just so much better than this. Their debut album is one of the finest first albums of all-time.
However, professing your love for them now can lead to the following response…. “They’re that band that was on Sabrina, aren’t they?” For shame.
Clip via Canal de 21stcenturychick
Colin Farrell – Veronica Guerin
Farrell’s scene was bloated, unnecessary and full of metaphorical winks to an audience that wasn’t brought in on the joke.
When a star of Farrell’s magnitude offers their support to a project, it would be ridiculous to refuse, but surely they could have found a better scene than this for him.
Clip via Nomoredrama2000
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
I have never been to Australia. I can count the amount of Australians I know on two hands. I am not a huge fan of any Australian soap operas.
Yet, I still know this is a rubbish Australian accent. It fits in this movie about as well as I would in a shampoo advert.
Clip via Abdeldjalil E.
Alan Shearer – GOAL
Shearer’s “there are no more weights” moment in the GOAL movie could induce a cringe in a coma patient.
Clip via eteist1
Lance Armstrong – Dodgeball
This wasn’t a very good idea. Watching Lance’s speech about never giving-up makes me want to take a shower.
Clip via Martin Whitaker
Stan Collymore – Basic Instinct 2
The below video shows Sharon Stone being touched up by former Nottingham Forest striker Stan Collymore… what a unnervingly odd sentence that is.
Everyone in the fight scene- Anchorman 2
Was this funny? Am I missing something?
All I saw was comedic masturbation and the milking of a cash cow which should have been killed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY5Ug1OW5O4
Clip via 0tak0n
Hulk Hogan – Gremlins 2
Mr Hogan goes to the cinema in his full Hulk outfit and that’s not even the most upsetting thing about this scene.
We should probably blame Woody Allen for this. After Annie Hall everyone wanted to break the fourth wall… yes, even Gremlins 2.
Vanilla Ice – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret Of The Ooze
This scene has aged as well as that Fabian Delph Villa jersey your mate bought during the summer.
Vanilla Ice now sells real estate and is no longer involved in music. The property industry’s gain is the music industry’s gain.
Clip via exscind
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