3. Australian Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
Is there anybody aside from Quentin Tarantino who actually enjoys Quentin Tarantino cameos? Has anybody ever actually laughed out loud (without irony) upon realising that, hey, wait a second, isn't that the director of this movie suddenly having a go at some acting? What's that crazy character doing here? I don't think so. In fact, I'm willing to bet at least 95% of Tarantino fans put their heads in their hands and sigh whenever he pops up. Okay, so Tarantino's cameos aren't always bad enough to derail every movie in its entirety: he's okay in Pulp Fiction, I guess, but only because he's relatively subdued. In Django Unchained, it's a different story, because we get to watch him adopt a foreign accent, and this time it's Australian. The worst thing about this cameo is its timing: it comes at the point in the movie where most people would be expecting the story to wrap up, and to suddenly find ourselves having to cringe at a tubby Tarantino gives the movie an obnoxious and bloated feel.