ever watch a movie you haven't seen in a while and see some actor playing a small, or maybe not small, part, but when you first saw it they weren't big, and so you forgot about them and then they became big, but you still forgot they were in it and then you see it and you're like "whoa"?

this has happened to me in the past with john goodman in revenge of the nerds, james gandolfini in true romance, and just now i was watching monkey shines and it has jimmy james from news radio and stanley tucci.

anyway...dicksus.

Steve Buscemi as the waiter in Pulp Fiction suprised me when I saw it for the 24th time last week.

I love Grosse Pointe Blank, but hadn't watched it for years until this weekend, when I had a ton of "Holy shit!" moments:

Jenna Elfman as the weird chick in a neck brace at the reunion;
Carlos Jacott (Jack from the first season of "She Spies") as a reunion-goer;
Barbara Harris played Blank's insane mom-- it's the first time I realized that;

...and I had completely forgotten that Aykroyd and Arkin were in it.

A gem of a move. Dialogue, action, lovely.

Some of the ones I can remember...

Nicolas Cage, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz in Fast Times
Jon Favreau in PCU (and Rudy)
Julianne Moore in Hand that Rocks the Cradle
Russell Crowe in LA Confidential
Jim Carrey in Earth Girls are Easy
Gary Oldman in JFK
Viggo Mortensen in Crimson Tide
Liam Neeson in Krull
Bill Paxton in Terminator (and Weird Science)
Vin Diesel in Iron Giant
Pee Wee Herman in Midnight Madness
Billy Bob Thornton in Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town
Jerry O'Connell in Stand By Me

Maybe also Vin Diesel in Saving Private Ryan.

Eric Idle, Leonard Nimoy, and Orson Welles in Transformers: The Movie (god I love that film)

Enemy of the State is chock full of "I didn't know they were in this"

Seth Green
Jake Busy
Jason Lee
Barry Pepper
Jack Black
Jamie Kennedy
Tom Sizemore
and a pair of Cosby Kids

Tenacious D are in Biodome.

I also remember seeing some old movie on TV once which had Jim Carrey as a gay comedian.

I was fucking blown away when I watched City Slickers again recently and recognised Billy Crystal's son as Jake Gyllenhaal.

Also, Forrest Gump's son is Haley Joel Osment.

Dude, I saw this amazingly crappy movie called The Keep on cable a while back with a friend.  It was shot in 1982, and it's about Nazis that occupy a romanian castle with a demon of some sort in it.  It's really bad, bad script, bad acting, horrible special effects, and the hair, oh god the hair.

Here are some people in it:

Scott Glenn
Jurgen Prochnow
Gabriel Bryne (AS A NAZI!)
IAN MCKELLAN!

And it was directed b motherfucking Michael Mann!!!1

Hot damn.