Greatest Cast of All Time

[PyroChamber]

Who do you think is the best cast ever brought together for a movie?

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Easily One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, everybody is perfectly cast and give fantastic performances.
A close second is the cast for The Long Good Friday for the same reasons as One Flew.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

The longest day?

 

[Edenbeast]

 

[livrule]

Mmmmmmmm, good question.

Heat had an amazing cast, De Niro, Pacino, Kilmer, Portman it goes on ....

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Star Wars Episode 4 A New Hope.
Pirates Of The Caribbean. C.O.T.B.P.
Harry Potter 1.
Lord Of The Rings F.O.T.R

A 4 way tie for me i can't choose.

 

[Two-Face]

The Godfather had a pretty good cast.

 

[Electrix]

I think the X-Men Trilogy had a good cast. There's Ian Mckellen, Patrick Stewart and Brian Cox. Three great actors. Then you have Oscar winners Anna Paquin and Halle Berry. Hugh Jackman, James Marsden and Aaron Standford are good actors. Ellen Page a great young actress. Famke is great. Alan Cumming is also quite good.

 

[ImTheWombat]

Shadows and Fog

Starring Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, David Ogden Stiers, Donald Pleasence, Lily Tomlin, Jodie Foster, Kathy Bates, John Cusack, John C. Reilly, Philip Bosco, Kate Nelligan, Kurtwood Smith, Robert Joy, and William H. Macy.

Thats a pretty ****ing good cast.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Just waiting, just waiting, for someone to say, "Batman Begins"....

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

Superman. Hackman, Reeve, Brando, Stamp...

Thin Red Line also had a great cast, as well as some future stars (Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel, etc).

The Right Stuff had a good ensemble too.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Closer

Jude Law, Juia Roberts, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman

 

[Storm22]

I would say LOTR and the X-Men movies. Both have a great cast.

 

[Cinemaman]

 

[The Chairman]

My gosh, I have lot

JFK for me is the best. Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthou, Ed Asner, Donald Sutheland, Wayne Knight, Vincent D'onoforio, Laurie Metcalf and John Candy. Hard to find a more prestigious cast.

Honorary Mentions:

Heat - In addition to Pacino and Deniro sharing the screen for the first time, you get John Voigt, Tom Sizemore, Ashley Judd, Val Kilmer, Hank Azaria, Ted Levine, Dennis Haysbert, Amy Brenneman William Fichtner and Natalie Portman all providing support.

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World - It's quite simply the best cast ever assembled for a comedy. Some of the greatest legends in the comedic field from Milton Berle to The Three Stooges to Buddy Hackett to Buster Keaton to Jimmy Durante (plus over 40 more, by my count) all in the same film is a joy to watch.

Pulp Fiction - a cliched choice, but the ensemble is impressive nonetheless. Not to mention that John Travolta, Sam Jackson, Uma Thurman and arguably Bruce Willis all turn in their finest performances here, and are backed a heck of a group of supporting players.

The Outsiders - great assembly by Francis Ford Coppolla of many 1980s' icons. Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Ralph Maccio, Diane Lane and C. Thomas Howell arguably the finest perfromances of their careers. Heck, even Tom Cruise turns in a solid supporting role.

Almost Famous - My favorite movie of all time, and a great cast to boot. Virtually no A - listers, but a solid gathering of some of the most underrated actors in Hollywood. In addition to Kate Hudson giving one of the greatest performances of all time, Patrick Fugit, the amazing Billy Crudup, Jason Lee, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Anna Paquin, Fairuza Balk, and Frances McDormand all provide a solid supporting cast.

Glengary Glenross - I'll admit, I've yet to see the movie, but the cast does peak my interest. Just the sheer thrill of seeing Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon share the screen is enough for me, but to be backed up by the likes of Kevin Spacey, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris and Alec Baldwin in arguably his finest hour just adds to it. Great cast all the way.

True Romance - Truly one of the best. Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette turn in their finest performances, and are backed up by the likes of Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken, Val Kilmer, James Gandolfini, Tom Sizemore, Chris Penn, Michael Rapaport, Sam Jackson, and Balky from Perfect Strangers.

The Departed - a fantastic cast assmebled by quite possibly the finest director of the last 30 years. Leo DiCaprio cements himself as one the finest actor working today, and Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg also prove their worth to a great degree. Add a supporting cast that includes veterans Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin and of course, Jack Nicholson, and you get to date the best mainstream ensemble of the 21st century.

 

[SuperFerret]

Ghostbusters had an awesome cast. Not one of those characters could've been played half as well by anyone else.

 

[xwolverine2]

Just waiting, just waiting, for someone to say, "Batman Begins"....

katie holmes

 

[Cherry Treats]

The Dirty Dozen. One badass film and even better cast.

The Departed because... Jesus. Nicholson, Sheen, Baldwin, DiCaprio, Damon etc. I'm in love.

Ocean's Eleven. You can't get much cooler cast than Pitt, Clooney and Garcia. Let's just pretend that Scott Caan wasn't involved.

Monty Python and The Holy Grail. It's The Pythons, dammit.

 

[Edenbeast]

Superman. Hackman, Reeve, Brando, Stamp...

Thin Red Line also had a great cast, as well as some future stars (Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel, etc).

The Right Stuff had a good ensemble too.

How could you forget Pa Kent Glenn Ford ?!

 

[The Chairman]

Oh, and The Ten Commandments has a an amazing cast as well. Heston, Brynner, Edward G. Robinson, Vincent Price and literally thousands of others (not all main characters, of course). Shame today's Biblical epics can't be more like this.

 

[The Chairman]

Ocean's Eleven. You can't get much cooler cast than Pitt, Clooney and Garcia. Let's just pretend that Scott Caan wasn't involved.

The original cast was cooler. The Rat Pack >>>>>>>> Other People.

 

[Cherry Treats]

The original cast was cooler. The Rat Pack >>>>>>>> Other People.

Yeah, but the orginal movie was pretty ****ty (almost unwatchable) and the remake, well... wasn't. Which is why I like The Remake Cast better.

 

[kytrigger]

The Longest day was billed as 42 stars in the same movie and probably had the greatest cast for it's time. Another that gets no mention but had a terrific cast was Dick Tracy.

 

[Mr Jide]

The departed

 

[The Chairman]

Yeah, but the orginal movie was pretty ****ty (almost unwatchable) and the remake, well... wasn't. Which is why I like The Remake Cast better.

I haven't seen either, but Clooney and Pitt ain't got nothin' on Sinatra and Dino. To each his own, though.

Another that gets no mention but had a terrific cast was Dick Tracy.

Agreed. The cast for that one is incredible. Though Madonna could've been replaced.