C or D: Wacky Ensemble Casts

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from magnolia to it's a mad mad mad mad world, film-lovers the3 world over must agree that these are films that fall into the "not good" category

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you suggesting that "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is a bad movie? Surely you jest.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i jest

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

god i hate it. D on this T.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.imperialclub.com/Movies/Mad/Mad13Big.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

god i forgot "love actually"

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't even bear to watch The Royal Tannenbaums cause I assumed it was in this vein.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm always excited by the WEC, but it invariably lets me down.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Nashville!

― andy, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that's a good one... would all the tarantino movies be considered WECs?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Confederacy of Dunces, A (2005)

Directed by David Gordon Green

Writing credits
Scott Kramer
Steven Soderbergh

Genre: Comedy

Plot Outline: An adaptation of the Pulitzer-Prize winning novel about Ignatius J. Reilly, would-be academic who suffers through a series of misadventures while living at home with his mother in 1960s-era New Orleans.

Credited cast:
Drew Barrymore .... Darlene
Mos Def .... Jones
Olympia Dukakis .... Santa Battaglia
Will Ferrell .... Ignatius J. Reilly
Lily Tomlin .... Mrs. Reilly

― amateur!!!st, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

If it's really based off of the book, that's not really going to be a WEC movie, since Reilly is obviously the main character. I don't think WEC's really have one main character.

― eat fudge banana swirl (Nick A.), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, that answers my question on the other thread about what Lily Tomlin's been up to lately.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

tee hee they alphabetized "mos def" under "def"

― amateur!!!st, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

That's actually a pretty good cast for that movie aside from Drew FUKCING Barrymore.

― eat fudge banana swirl (Nick A.), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Where does Rat Race fit in?

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

International House (1933)

Directed by A. Edward Sutherland

Writing credits
Neil Brant (story)
Walter DeLeon

Genre: Comedy

Plot Outline: Assorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention...television. (more)

User Comments: Madcap comedy set at a hotel in China (more)

Cast overview, first billed only:

Peggy Hopkins Joyce .... Herself
W.C. Fields .... Prof. Henry R. Quail
Rudy Vallee .... Himself
Stuart Erwin .... Tommy Nash
George Burns .... Doctor Burns
Gracie Allen .... Nurse Allen
Sari Maritza .... Carol Fortescue
F. Chase Taylor .... Colonel Stoopnagle (as Colonel Stoopnagle)
Budd Hulick .... Budd (as Budd)
Cab Calloway .... Himself
Bela Lugosi .... Gen. Nicholas Petronovich
Rose Marie .... Herself (as Baby Rose Marie)
Franklin Pangborn .... Hotel Manager
Edmund Breese .... Doctor Wong
Lumsden Hare .... Sir Mortimer Fortescue

Runtime: 70 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

― amateur!!!st, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ensemble casts are your problem not the film's.

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

If Drew Barrymore plays her cards right, she could have a fourth career as a kind of hipster Shelly Winters.

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you suggesting that "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is a bad movie? Surely you jest.

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), August 18th, 2004.

some nutso girl in my freshman dorm assembled a bunch of the people on her hall to watch this supposedly "classic" movie, which turned out to be the worst pile of shit i had seen to that date.

― amateur!!!st, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Cannonball Run II owns this thread.

― Dale the Panopticalist (cprek), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

some nutso girl in my freshman dorm assembled a bunch of the people on her hall to watch this supposedly "classic" movie, which turned out to be the worst pile of shit i had seen to that date.

Okay, I don't blame you for hating it in this instance. It's not a bad movie, but it's certainly not worthy of the "hey, everybody come over and we'll all watch it" treatment.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

don't forget The Muppet Movie

it even had Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy!

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

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