13 Silly Celebrity Cameos Where They Literally Could Have Gotten Someone from a Temp Agency

You’d think we’d all be excited to see a famous face pop up out of nowhere. That’s the movie’s goal anyway. Those sneaky little filmmaking devils sit in the back of a test screening, waiting to see an audiences’ reaction when Matt Damon or whoever rears their pretty head. Not that we have a thing for Matt Damon specifically, it’s just, you know… Oh whatever, that’s not even the point! The point is, there are countless examples of fun, satisfying cameos, but sadly, these ain’t them.

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It’s hard to quantify exactly why something “works” or not. You just feel it. There’s either an audible laugh, a satisfied head nod, or a scrunched face like someone plucked an “off” note on a guitar. They’re all involuntary reactions, and movie nerds everywhere scramble to find out why. Today, we were those nerds. In these 13 jarring or lackluster cases, they just shoehorned a famous face in there when the role could’ve gone to any old day player.