Tuesday 16 January 2018

10 Great Films with All-Star Casts

10 Great Movies with All-Star Casts

10 Great Movies with All-Star Casts

Last weekend, audiences got to look at Kenneth Branagh’s brand new compilation adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, and today they may be looking for different movies packaged with celluloid titans. Thus, we’ve compiled a listing of 10 Great Movies with All-Star Casts, which you may check out in the gallery below!

What begins as a lavish train journey through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most fashionable, suspenseful and exciting mysteries ever told. In the novel by best-selling writer Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a railway, where everybody’s a suspect. 1 individual must race against time to solve the mystery until the murderer strikes again.

Along with directing Murder on the Orient Express, Kenneth Branagh, also a five-time Academy Award nominee, will star as detective Hercule Poirot. Academy Award winner Penelope Cruz plays   Pilar Estravados, Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe is Gerhard Hardman, Academy Award winner Judi Dench portrays Princess Dragomiroff, Academy Award nominee Johnny Depp plays Ratchett, Josh Gad appears as Hector MacQueen, Derek Jacobi is now  Edward Masterman, “Hamilton” celebrity Leslie Odom Jr. plays Dr. Arbuthnot, Academy Award nominee Michelle Pfeiffer portrays Mrs. Hubbard, also Daisy Ridley plays Mary Debenham.

What are your favorite movie with all-star casts? Tell us in the comments below!

The Expendables 3 (2014)
This is the End (2013)
Love Actually (2003)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Short Cuts (1993)
The Outsiders (1983)
1941 (1979)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

The Expendables 3 (2014)

STARS: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Antonio Banderas, Jet Li, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren, Kelsey Grammer, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Kellan Lutz, Ronda Rousey, Victor Ortiz, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger

Even though the original 2010 mercenaries-on-a-mission movie featured Eric Roberts, Bruce Willis and a truly eccentric performance by Mickey Rourke, it was actually the third movie that shot out all the stops concerning packing the movie like an overstuffed sardine tin filled with stars. Unfortunately it did not translate to large box office, along with the series is currently in limbo.

This is the End (2013)

STARS: Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Michael Cera, Emma Watson, along with cameos from Rihanna, Mindy Kaling, Jason Segel, Martin Starr, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Paul Rudd, Aziz Ansari, Kevin Hart, David Krumholtz, Channing Tatum along with the Backstreet Boys

This meta humor features several of the Apatow crew that became effective in the mid-2000s playing themselves well as Hollywood douches caught up in the apocalypse. Michael Cera earns extra points for playing a whole battle version of themself.  

Love Actually (2003)

STARS: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Rowan Atkinson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Andrew Lincoln, Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton, January Jones, Elisha Cuthbert, Shannon Elizabeth, Denise Richards along with Claudia Schiffer

British writer/director Richard Curtis assembled together all the rom-com superstars for this sprawling movie focusing on several couples attempting to find romance. He even managed snag a few future stars like The Walking Dead‘s Andrew Lincoln.                

Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

STARS: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Scott Caan, Casey Affleck, Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould

Director Steven Soderbergh remade the 1960 Frank Sinatra extravaganza by putting together a modern-day Rat Pack of superstars, including future Oscar winner Affleck. The formula interpreted into two films to make an Ocean’s Trilogy, as well as an upcoming all-female spinoff titled Ocean’s Eight.

The Thin Red Line (1998)

STARS: Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Nick Nolte, John C. Reilly, John Travolta, Miranda Otto, Jared Leto, Thomas Jane, John Savage, Tim Blake Nelson and Elias Koteas

After taking a break from filmmaking for twenty five years following the critically-acclaimed Days of Heaven, director Terrence Malick managed to wrangle a massive, enormous cast of stars and future stars. Regrettably, because of the experimental character of Malick’s process many actors wound up with decreased roles or entirely on the cutting room floor, like Mickey Rourke, Bill Pullman, Lukas Haas and a whole three-hour voiceover from Billy Bob Thornton.  

Mars Attacks! (1996)

STARS: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Rod Steiger, Tom Jones, Lukas Haas, Natalie Portman, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Christina Applegate, Jack Black, Joe Don Baker and Sylvia Sidney

Working in the height of his weirdo forces, Tim Burton made this sprawling, epic satire of both 1950’s flying saucer films. Regrettably it came out several months following the genuine Freedom Day, and audiences shied away from what is both technically and cast-wise, the much better movie.

Short Cuts (1993)

STARS: Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Jack Lemmon, Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Anne Archer, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Chris Penn, Lili Taylor, Robert Downey Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Tim Robbins, Frances McDormand, Lyle Lovett, Huey Lewis, Buck Henry, Peter Gallagher, Tom Waits, Lily Tomlin and Alex Trebek

Depending on the short stories of Raymond Carver, experienced outfit director Robert Altman (MASH, Nashville, The Player) gathered arguably his very best roster of actors for this sprawling collection of interconnected stories set in Los Angeles. The structure had a profound inspiration on Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia.  

The Outsiders (1983)

STARS: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Diane Lane, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, Leif Garrett and Tom Waits

Francis Ford Coppola gathered one of the most impressive casts of rising young thesps to play the greasers of all S.E. Hinton’s YA masterpiece. A number of the actors involved became famous as “The Brat Pack” in the ’80s.

1941 (1979)

STARS: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Christopher Lee, Tim Matheson, Toshirō Mifune, Warren Oates, Robert Stack, Treat Williams, Nancy Allen, Eddie Deezen, Slim Pickens, Wendie Jo Sperber, John Candy, Patti Lupone, Michael McKean, Joe Flaherty, Mickey Rourke and Elisha Cook Jr..

One of director Steven Spielberg’s few career disappointments, 1941 is a anarchic World War II comedy that’s full of equally older and (at the time) brand new faces that pushes all the boundaries of scale and great taste. The movie has aged well through time, along with the director’s cut (where the fantastic however sadly-forgotten Bobby Di Cicco is the actual guide) plays better than the theatrical version.  

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

STARS: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark along with Michael York

Prior to Kenneth Branagh’s version there was Sidney Lumet’s star-studded version of Agatha Christie’s iconic mystery. Albert Finney is delightfully eccentric in a near-kabuki degree functionality as Hercule Poirot, and there’s a terrific sense of air throughout.  

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