Movies with singers/musicians acting which don't suck

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 20 Mar 2007, 12:16

I thought that this might be an interesting thread, there are many crappy movies out there which feature people who are either primarily singers and/or musicians by trade trying their hand at acting.

The purpose of this thread is to name as many movies of this variety that don't suck.
-Cameos in feature-length films count (except ones where they do nothing but sing as themselves).
-Extended music videos films like Thriller and short films don't.
-Actor who took up a singing side-career don't count. (Eg Tony Leung Chiu Wai, The Hoff, Cpt. Kirk).

2046 (Faye Wong)
Chungking Express (Faye Wong)
Fallen Angels (Leon Lai)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Bob Dylan & Kris Kristofferson)
The Manchurian Candidate (Frank Sinatra)
John Carpenter's The Prince of Darkness (Alice Cooper - cameo)
Stranger Than Paradise (John Lurie)
Down By Law (Tom Waits and John Lurie)
Paris, Texas (John Lurie)
Mystery Train (Joe Strummer)
Coffee and Cigarettes (The Rza and The Gza)
Ghost Dog (Rza - cameo)
Point Break (Anthony Kiedis)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

The bulk of these could be grouped under the "art films" banner, I've noticed.

EDIT:
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (David Bowie & Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Bamboozled (Mos Def)
Any Given Sunday (LL Cool J)
Bad Timing (Art Garfunkel)
The Man Who Fell To Earth (David Bowie)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Kris Kristofferson)
Fight Club (Meatloaf)
The Mighty (Meatloaf)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Kris Kristofferson)
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Sting)

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 20 Mar 2007, 13:11

Stick The Prestige in that list too, with David Bowie playing Tesla.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 20 Mar 2007, 13:39

Performance-Mick Jagger
Quadrophenia-Sting

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 20 Mar 2007, 14:08

Oh God! - John Denver - perfectly cast IMO.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 20 Mar 2007, 14:20

Days of Being Wild, Happy Together, Rouge, Ashes of Time, etc
Pretty much anything with Leslie Cheung.

Young & Dangerous Prequel, Metade Fumaca (sp?),Time & Tide (Nic Tse)

Fight Club (Meat Loaf)

Silence of the Lambs (Chris Isaak)

Romeo Must Die (Aaliyah, DMX)

Infernal Affairs 1 & 3, House of Flying Daggers, Century of the Dragon (Andy Lau)

Drunken Master 2 (Anita Mui)

Bullet in the Head (Jacky Cheung)

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 20 Mar 2007, 14:25

A Moment of Romance (Andy Lau)

What is he primarily? Actor or singer?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 20 Mar 2007, 14:25

Blade 1 (Kris Kristofferson), Blade 2 (Kris Kristofferson & Luke Goss)

thelostdragon wrote:A Moment of Romance (Andy Lau)

What is he primarily? Actor or singer?

He has an actor first according to wikipedia, I'd count him as an actor who took up a singing side-career, ditto for a lot of HK actors.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 20 Mar 2007, 14:26

Meat Loaf is in the Rocky Horror Picture Show too as the biker dude (I think) does that count?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 20 Mar 2007, 14:31

grim_tales wrote:Meat Loaf is in the Rocky Horror Picture Show too as the biker dude (I think) does that count?

Cameos in feature-length films count, not ones where they do nothing but sing as themselves though.

Wayne's World (Meatloaf)

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 20 Mar 2007, 14:33

School of Rock.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 20 Mar 2007, 14:37

thelostdragon wrote:School of Rock.

Awesome movie

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 20 Mar 2007, 14:38

thelostdragon wrote:School of Rock.

Jack Black = actor who sings.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 20 Mar 2007, 14:43

Blues Brothers (Aretha Franklin and others)

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 20 Mar 2007, 14:45

Jacky Cheung:-
Bullet in the Head
As Tears Go By

Can anyone think of good films which Takeshi Kaneshiro has been in aside from the WKW ones and HOFD? (Returner sucks)

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 20 Mar 2007, 14:54

Monster Ball - P Diddy
Heat - Henry Rollins
Bad Boys, Enemy of the State - Will Smith

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 20 Mar 2007, 15:09

EvaUnit02 wrote:Can anyone think of good films which Takeshi Kaneshiro has been in aside from the WKW ones and HOFD? (Returner sucks)

Space Travellers! Awesome film.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 20 Mar 2007, 15:27

Men In Black, Enemy of the State, Bad Boys - Will Smith

Blaizeyboy · Post by **Blaizeyboy** » 20 Mar 2007, 15:41

Dave Wang - a War named desire
Eason Chan - funeral march
Jay Chou - curse of the golden flower (he's also now a director)
Sally Yeh - the killer
Joey yung (yay!) crazy n the city
rene liu - double vision, a world without thieves
sammi cheng - love on a diet
karena lam - inner senses, july rhapsody, tirimisu

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 20 Mar 2007, 16:18

Agree - how could I forget that BB (the Killer)

dragonhero005 · Post by **dragonhero005** » 21 Mar 2007, 13:53

EvaUnit02 wrote: Can anyone think of good films which Takeshi Kaneshiro has been in aside from the WKW ones and HOFD? (Returner sucks)

Corey Yuen's "Hero", also starring Yuen Biao.
One of my absolute favourite films!

I think we can add Evita (Madonna).

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 21 Mar 2007, 14:14

dragonhero005 wrote:

I think we can add Evita (Madonna).

Movies that DONT suck, Dragonhero... movies that DONT suck.

dragonhero005 · Post by **dragonhero005** » 21 Mar 2007, 17:32

I knew someone would come up with that, but I understood the question and I'm serious!

You can just see that she feels every word she's singing...