What is your favorite movie in which you don't know any of the actors?

[YDload]

Probably 2001: A Space Odyssey for me.

Also, notice that on the main forums page, this thread appears as "What is your favorite movie..." so some people might be confused and put down wrong answers without reading the thread. let's laugh at them :D

[FakePlasticTrees]

The Great Escape


I only recognize two actors out of the entire cast.

[YDload]

The Great Escape


I only recognize two actors out of the entire cast.

but thats still ANY of the actors. i know less names than that from Boondock Saints but i wouldnt put down that movie (besides the fact that i dont like it more than 2001)

[FakePlasticTrees]

Oh well, my bad.

[Kage]

Oh god, I don't know. Too many to name, really.

Oldboy, I guess.

[Tillius]

Oldboy probably.

That's all I could think of coming into this thread.

[Gnarmageddon]

City of God
Eraserhead

[Tillius]

Ah, yes.

City of God. That one would have to be mine.

[thedeadwalk!]

Night of the Living Dead
Apocalypto
The Host

Don't want to say City of God or Oldboy. Can't pick a favorite.

[Krabsworth]

Ocean's Eleven

[Crapdragoon]

thats hard for me to do cause i always look up movies after i watch them

[Seafroggys]

yeah, I'd have to say 2001 for me as well. Great movie, but cast entirely with unknowns, who are still unknown.

As for animated movies, the first one that springs to mind is Aladin, since if I recall there aren't any celebrity voices. Where Lion King had James Earl Jones and Jonathan Thomas, and all modern animated movies are full of celebrity voice actors anyway. I think Aladin was last in an era in that sense.

[bradc1988]

Aladdin had Robin Williams if I remember.

City of God.

[YDload]

yeah, I'd have to say 2001 for me as well. Great movie, but cast entirely with unknowns, who are still unknown.

As for animated movies, the first one that springs to mind is Aladin, since if I recall there aren't any celebrity voices. Where Lion King had James Earl Jones and Jonathan Thomas, and all modern animated movies are full of celebrity voice actors anyway. I think Aladin was last in an era in that sense.

most Disney/Pixar movies still don't have a lot of celebrity voices because they're not stupid like Dreamworks. they know that they need voice actors, not just actors. some regular actors just happen to be really good at using their voices only (like Robin Williams of course), but for the most part it's just no-names who are heard but not seen.

[3074326]

Pan's Labyrinth

Didn't even have to think about it!

[planewreck]

I'll have to say Pan's Labyrinth as well.

This reminds me I still haven't seen 2001. I own it, so I might watch it now.

[Pop music sucks]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365376/

[Hedgedive]

Pan's Labyrinth

Didn't even have to think about it!

this ^_^

I can't even pronounce their names

[Seafroggys]

Aladdin had Robin Williams if I remember.


dammit, I forgot! He was the genie.

But yeah, it gets crazy sometimes. That movie Robots, I looked at the DVD packaging and saw like 10 big name stars on it, I'm totally "holy crap".

[Pop music sucks]

Well, Doug Jones played Pale Man/Faun in Pan's Labyrinth. He was Abe Sapien (under suit, David Hyde Pierce provided an uncredited voice-over of Abe) in Hellboy.

He was also Silver Surfer in FF4: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

[AlienEater]

Probably a foreign film of some kind

but there are a lot of movies with actors I've never heard of

[Kithkin]

Supertroopers

picking foreign movies is cheating.

I think Aladin was last in an era in that sense.

Aladdin had Robin Williams and Gilbert Godfrey and some guy from Full House.

[mi oromardi lisse miruvor]

the warriors

[-Listy-]

the warriors

:chug:

[EightMilesHigh]

Lawrence Of Arabia.

[FakePlasticTrees]

and some guy from Full House.



Dave Coulier?

[fingers mccoy]

me you and everyone we know

[EightMilesHigh]

Waking Life
Pi

[Kage]

The Element of Crime is another notable one.

[planewreck]

me you and everyone we know
ooooh maaannnnnnnn thisx6547657865876

[Wow]

Supertroopers


Elephant.

[Seafroggys]

Lawrence Of Arabia.

it had Alec Guiness, and didn't it have Peter O'Toole?

[ATC]

An everlasting piece, Coffee and cigarettes, Mr Holland's Opus

[Kage]

You're kidding...you didn't know any of the actors in Coffee and Cigarettes?

[exodus]

How can you really have a favorite* movie in which you don't know any of the actors? If one liked it so much to the point then they would be smart enough to get off their *** and look it up, bingo! ____ starring:

[Kage]

I think it just means you hadn't heard of any of the actors before watching it.

[exodus]

I think it just means you hadn't heard of any of the actors before watching it.
Then how can it be your favorite movie if you haven't even seen it?

Anyways, I guess I can say Scarface, I only know Al Pacino and Michelle Piefer, but thats it.

[Kage]

What the hell are you talking about? Haven't you ever watched a movie that had no actors that you knew about before you watched it? For example, I watched The Element of Crime because I loved the director's other movies, but I'd never heard of any of the actors in it.

[EightMilesHigh]

You're kidding...you didn't know any of the actors in Coffee and Cigarettes?

er'body knows bill murray

[enjoimx]

shaun of the dead

[YDload]

How can you really have a favorite* movie in which you don't know any of the actors? If one liked it so much to the point then they would be smart enough to get off their *** and look it up, bingo! ____ starring:

i look up every movie i watch but i forget who the actors in 2001 are now. and even though it's my favorite movie in which I don't know any of the actors (this is the important part), that doesn't mean it's one of my top 10 movies of all time or anything. it would probably be eclipsed by several other films whose actors are known to me.

[EightMilesHigh]

it had Alec Guiness, and didn't it have Peter O'Toole?

i forgot alec guiness. and i didnt really know who peter o'toole was in it before i saw it.

[simplephotographinthesun]

cinema paradiso
28 days later
billy elliot
full monty

[Erratic]

Pan's Labyrinth

[Tillius]

cinema paradiso
28 days later
billy elliot
full monty

You don't know of Cillian Murphy?

Or the guy who played Frank?

[simplephotographinthesun]

You don't know of Cillian Murphy?

Or the guy who played Frank?

first viewing :p

i was aware of brendan gleeson's work vaguely but not his name

[bradc1988]

How can you really have a favorite* movie in which you don't know any of the actors? If one liked it so much to the point then they would be smart enough to get off their *** and look it up, bingo! ____ starring:

This is probably one of the most retarded things I've ever read on this forum.

[DJ Ducksauce]

Pan's Labyrinth

Shaun of the Dead

Hot Fuzz(Still haven't learned their names)

Pretty much any zombie movie minus Land of the Dead because it has John Liguizamo(sp?).

Except for Rosario Dawson(who wasn't in the original broadway) and Anthony Rapp(small role in Road Trip), I didn't know the cast of RENT which has really grown on me. I've had the songs in my head for 2 weeks now.

[Happymeal]

probably Vertigo or Y Tu Mama Tambien

[Der Übermensch]

City of God I'd say.

Names of Actors before the first time I saw it would be Le Samourai, but afterwards, the lead is now one of my favs...

[Seafroggys]

An everlasting piece, Coffee and cigarettes, Mr Holland's Opus

Richard Dreyfuss dude!

[pikester]

Waking Life


Ethan Hawke was definately in this movie. Or atleast a partially animated representation thereof.

[exodus]

You don't know of Cillian Murphy?

Or the guy who played Frank?

I just refer to the the 2nd dude as the fat guy from Lake Placid

[Der Übermensch]

Supertroopers
Brian Cox?

Lawrence Of Arabia.
Peter O'Toole? Alec Guiness?

Waking Life
Ethan Hawke?

[AmericanWeiner]

star wars

[I_WEAR_RED_PANTS]

does it count if you know of the actors but dont know their names....i still dont know the names of any of the actors in harry potter

[exodus]

does it count if you know of the actors but dont know their names....i still dont know the names of any of the actors in harry potter

Yes

[ATC]

Richard Dreyfuss dude!

When I watched Opus, I didnt know him, and wikipedia tells me he was in Down and out in Beverly hills and Jaws, which I've seen, but dont exactly remember.

Coffee and cigarettes was the only movie where I knew almost everyone, which is one of the premises of the movie. Guess I screwed up that edit.

[Seafroggys]

He was also in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Always, American Graffiti.

[ATC]

Haven't seen any of those :(
I mostly rely on my roommate's impeccable taste for my movies as I'd rather not get myself an account at Limelight. I've heard great things about American Graffiti so I should check it out,eh?
We watched this movie awhile ago about the guy that did American Splendor. Documentaries are the devil. Sorry, went off on a tangent there.

[AlienEater]

I had never heard of anyone in Serenity when I first saw it

[Kurrpt]

"An Everlasting Peice"


friggin funny that movie was

[Riziger]

i'm very sorry to say this but honestly.... Resevoir Dogs. Serenity as well, didnt know the actors names although i had watched a couple of episodes of the series

[Seafroggys]

I had never heard of anyone in Serenity when I first saw it

Well, I guess that's true when I saw Firefly, since I watched it before Serenity.