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28 JAN 2003 at 9:07pm

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Okay, here's one for you all - hopefully not a repeat of a previous thread.....

Quite a few of the AGs I've played have featured famous actors or film stars in their supporting casts as a selling point for the game. It was all the rage for quite a while - their photo all over the box when they actually only had a few lines of dialogue....  


So the question is - which appearances of famous faces were the best and which were the worst....  


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28 JAN 2003 at 9:10pm

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Only one I remember is Margot Kidder in UAKM. I thought she was hilarious!

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28 JAN 2003 at 11:21pm

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can't think of a worst, but i loved Christopher Lloyd (the Back To The Future doc) in Toonstruck

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28 JAN 2003 at 11:28pm

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ennis Hopper in Black Dahlia

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29 JAN 2003 at 2:50am

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Originally Posted By Revliskci (28 JAN 2003 9:10pm)
Only one I remember is Margot Kidder in UAKM. I thought she was hilarious!


I forgot about her in UAKM, your right!  


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29 JAN 2003 at 3:57am

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One effort that has been universally panned was Terri Garr in Under a Killing Moon (as Madame Cassandra). She was fairly famous at one time and was a pretty good actress (eg. in Tootsie). The main criticism was that she seemed to sleep-walk thru the role and appeared to just be reading the cue-cards.

Although the UAKM role is several years old, it occurred when her career appeared to be largely over. Since then, she's announced that she has multiple sclerosis so one wonders whether that had something to do with her poor performance. What a shame if that were true!

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29 JAN 2003 at 4:05am

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Originally Posted By SirDave (29 JAN 2003 3:57am)
One effort that has been universally panned was Terri Garr in Under a Killing Moon (as Madame Cassandra).

Do you mean Black Dahlia?
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29 JAN 2003 at 2:16pm

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Worst: Tim Curry

Best: Mark Hammill in Wing Commander 3,4 (no adventure games), Dean Erricson, Peter Gabriel, The guy who played the terminator 2 and gave his voice to the hero of The Dig.
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29 JAN 2003 at 2:49pm

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Its a toss-up between Terri Garr and Dennis Hopper, both out of Black Dahlia. Cue-card city....absolutely horrible. They both acted as if they were totally bored with it all. (Probably were...). All followed very closely with Tim Curry's voice acting in GK3.

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29 JAN 2003 at 4:40pm

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I loved Michael Dorn in Mission Critical and Mark Hammil in Wing Commander.





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29 JAN 2003 at 4:51pm

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OOPs! Yup, I meant Black Dahlia. Funny, it didn't seem right when I typed Under A Killing Moon cause I knew Margot Kidder was in that one!  

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29 JAN 2003 at 6:24pm

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I liked Tanya Roberts ('Charlies Angels'-TV and 'That 70's Show') in Pandora Directive. Not that she had a big part or that she did a great job or anything...she's just nice to look at!

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29 JAN 2003 at 7:26pm

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Best bad guy awards go to David Whalen (Winslow) in Black Dahlia and Christopher Walken (Detective Magnotta) in Ripper. These 2 guys really made you want to either punch them out or ROFL because they could be so over the top. I thought they were both great.


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29 JAN 2003 at 9:03pm

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Interesting!

I was thinking of Black Dahlia and Ripper myself when I posted the question.....

It really did seem like Burgess Meredith in the latter hadn't got long left to live and had no idea what he was doing. Poor bloke. He was excellent as The Penguin!

As for Dennis Hopper and Teri Garr..... oooh dear me....  :


Hasn't 'Of Light and Darkness' got James Woods in it? Surely that must go alongside the hyperactive lunacy of the Hopper/Walker ilk?


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29 JAN 2003 at 9:47pm

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Easily the worst:  Christopher Walken in Ripper.

One of my favorite celebrity surprises in a game was the unexpected appearance of my beloved Stella Stevens in Phantasmagoria.

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30 JAN 2003 at 4:45am
Deleted UserJurgen Prochnow in Privateer: the darkening. What was he doing there?!? a kind of cameo ? in a computer game?

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