cameos.

Yes, I saw New Moon. Yes, I liked it. No, I didn't like Dakota Fanning's cameo.

It made no point! She's a completely A-List actress...starring for 2 minutes, has 12 words, and adding absolutely nothing to the storyline...in a complete A-List movie. Couldn't the studio have saved themselves the probably major paycheck for her appearance on someone a little more D-List? And then it got me thinking about advertising and how her appearance in the previews, posters, and L.A. and New York premieres probably got more people who weren't planning on seeing it to see it because of "the amazing cast". Well...it worked. And I was disappointed with it. Lame. (P.S. Dakota Fanning's entire box office succes can be summed up with 9 numbers: $810,225,006!! Her role should have been bigger...just sayin.).

And then it got me to thinking about another A-List actor who made and appearance in a movie just for the sake of either 1) a paycheck, or 2) to get people drawn to the theater.
No other movie cameo comes to more personal dis-satisfaction than The Rock in The Mummy Returns. WHAT??? His face was plastered on all the posters/commercials/previews/books/magazines/dvd covers...all in attempt to get 14 year old boys to get to the theater (of which was my first midnight premiere ever as a sophomore in high school...I went with Diane, Annette, and Zac...). Anyway, it worked, and I'm still quite bitter. Not only was he only in 2 and 1/2 minutes of the movie,

but he didn't say a SINGLE word. NOT ONE WORD!! AND THEN, to top off the embarrassment of the first minute that he was in the movie, he comes back at the end (for his final minute and a half) as the Computer Graphic Scorpion King. It wasn't even him!

Super lame.

Other nominees for terrible cameos in highly advertised movies:

Sigourney Weaver in Vantage Point
Audrey Hepburn in Always

Keith Richards in Pirates 3

Reese Witherspoon in Penelope

Steve Carrell in Bewitched

Mel Gibson in Fairytale

Queen Latifah in Stranger Than Fiction

Kathy Bates in anything.