A
Scorsese, Taxi Driver
"See that window, see that window you see it? you see it? Yeah you see it. I'm gonna kill that nigger with my wife. Aren't I edgy? Aren't I? I couldn't find a single actor on the face of the planet that could deliver these great lines I wrote for myself as well as I could. You see, cabbie? You see? Yeah you see."

or

B
Tarantino, Pulp Fiction
"Is there a sign on the front of my house that says dead nigger storage? Aren't I edgy twenty years later?"
Or really any of his films in which he ruins an otherwise good movie by putting his freakish face in frame.

or

C
Woody Allen...enough said.


Mel Brooks is not eligible for this competition because he's actually funny. And even when he's not, he's Mel Brooks.




[Edited on January 24, 2013 at 10:35 PM. Reason : .]

1/24/2013 10:27:22 PM

Are those direct quotes?

1/24/2013 10:31:14 PM

Not a terrible cameo, but relevant to the thread



Peter Jackson writing himself a cheesy death scene in return of the king.

1/24/2013 10:35:21 PM

At least Hitchcock usually tried to hide his fat rolls in the background.

Kubrick was the cheesy voice on the radio with a bad New York accent in Full Metal Jacket, but again, he hid his fat off screen.

[Edited on January 24, 2013 at 10:38 PM. Reason : .]

1/24/2013 10:36:18 PM

I'm not sure that playing the lead role in a vast majority of your films is the definition of a cameo.

1/24/2013 10:44:14 PM

I know you must think I'm,

you know--

You must think I'm pretty sick or something.

Right?

You must think I'm pretty sick?

Right?

I bet you really think I'm sick, right?

Hmm?

You think I'm sick?

You think I'm sick?

You don't have to answer that. I'm paying for the ride.

1/24/2013 11:15:38 PM

is this a troll thread?

tarantino in pulp fiction is one of the best parts of the movie

woody allen in woody allen movies are the best parts of his movies

this is the dumbest thing i've ever seen

1/24/2013 11:20:11 PM

Of course they're the best parts, the directors choose them for themselves. (or at least they would be the best parts, if played by a competent actor).

Michael Palin was moaning in an interview I saw the other day about how he wrote this great part for himself in one of those terrible 80's movies he did after python and then had to give it to John Cleese to appease him.

1/24/2013 11:30:26 PM

tarantino's cameo in desperado was good...wasn't his movie but you didn't specify.

1/24/2013 11:39:28 PM

somebody hurt smc a long time ago and he's taking it out on this message board

1/24/2013 11:53:15 PM

just like the OP, i have a deep racist hatred for white people

1/25/2013 12:36:48 AM

^^ Was that the one where he's telling that awful joke in a Mexican bar? The best I can say of that is he needed the most annoying gringo on the planet for that gag, and in that one scenario he was the perfect actor.

Scorsese has a role in Round Midnight where he similarly parodies himself in someone else's movie as the stereotypical annoying New Yorker, so I like to think that at least he was aware of how much he sucked in Taxi Driver.

[Edited on January 25, 2013 at 1:54 AM. Reason : .]

1/25/2013 1:40:59 AM

Director cameos are a self-indulgent narcissistic move that always takes me out of the movie. Tarantino is the worst offender because he can't act worth a shit and is ugly as a mofo.

1/25/2013 3:19:09 AM

Shyamalan is way worse than Tarantino.

1/25/2013 3:44:20 AM

martin scorsese and quentin tarantino don't owe you shit.

if films of that caliber come at the price of a small goofy director cameo the so be it.

1/25/2013 4:02:22 AM

I cringe throughout the entire "dead nigger storage" set. It stops being a movie. Even if he were an ugly, bad actor, it wouldn't be as bad if he weren't totally unsuited for that character.

1/25/2013 11:52:07 AM

I like Francis Ford Coppola's cameo in Apocalypse Now

1/25/2013 12:02:05 PM

Quote :

"It stops being a movie. "

1/25/2013 12:29:15 PM

Quote :

"Even if he were an ugly, bad actor, it wouldn't be as bad if he weren't totally unsuited for that character."

how was he totally unsuited for that character?

1/25/2013 12:49:11 PM

^^^ He plays an annoying documentary director shouting at the soldiers "don't look at the camera!" and just generally getting in the way. Yeah I like that one, and Kevin Smith's Silent Bob character, since he was smart enough to not give himself any lines.

1/25/2013 12:52:19 PM

kevin smith's non-lines are more annoying than any of the lines mentioned in this thread.

1/25/2013 1:36:57 PM

Nawww dude, mimes are way cool!




[Edited on January 25, 2013 at 2:30 PM. Reason : .]

1/25/2013 2:28:33 PM

Jon Favreau

1/26/2013 2:31:15 AM

Tarantino's cameo in Django as an Australian miner or whatever totally took me out of the movie for a bit. Movie was badass overall though.

1/27/2013 10:41:35 AM

A contender appears...

1/30/2014 8:28:59 PM

it's not a cameo when you're the star of the movie

1/30/2014 8:33:55 PM

I'm not sure the "black sheep" premise of the movie works. Weren't most early western pioneers just yankees that were so annoying that they were kicked out of the east coast?

1/30/2014 8:45:33 PM

Robehe's Rodriguez was also in Desperado. One of Baneras' buddies with the guitar case guns.

But he's mexican so it doesn't count right?

And Jay and Silent Bob are awesome.

1/30/2014 9:01:58 PM

1/31/2014 10:56:07 AM

^

1/31/2014 10:26:18 PM

Quote :

"Tarantino, Pulp Fiction "Is there a sign on the front of my house that says dead nigger storage? Aren't I edgy twenty years later?" Or really any of his films in which he ruins an otherwise good movie by putting his freakish face in frame. "

I, too, thought this was one of the most enjoyable parts of the movie.

2/1/2014 12:08:31 AM

This shit is racist for leaving out shyamalan and spike

2/1/2014 12:24:19 AM

I mentioned Shyamalan.

2/1/2014 12:48:02 AM

why the taxi driver hate? that character showed you all the sick twisted people that run loose in the night

2/1/2014 2:20:35 PM

Was King ever a director? I thought he just cameo'd a'la Stan Lee

2/1/2014 4:18:48 PM

^
Once, and only once:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091499/

2/1/2014 4:56:10 PM

2/1/2014 7:58:42 PM

blanks said:

Quote :

"tarantino's cameo in desperado was good...wasn't his movie but you didn't specify."

Please don't be an idiot. He did specify: director cameo. That is specifically when the director of a movie makes a small appearance in the movie he's directing. Tarantino didn't direct Desperado, so that's a cameo, not a director cameo. Words have meaning. It's not a "director cameo" just because it's a cameo by a guy who directed another movie. Jesus Christ.

2/2/2014 9:47:50 AM

Quote :

"King himself described the film as a "moron movie" and stated his intention to never direct again soon after. In a 2002 interview with Tony Magistrale for the book Hollywood's Stephen King, King stated that he was "coked out of [his] mind all through its production, and [he] really didn't know what [he] was doing.""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Overdrive

2/2/2014 10:18:52 AM