most random movie ever?

I haven't seen this since it came out, but your LOL description makes me wanna see it again.

I don't mean to talk down to you, but it's only "random" in hindsight. It is extremely star-studded, but at the time that it was made and released this was not quite the case

This movie was (partly) written and directed by Derek Cianfrance. At the time that this movie was produced, he was the true rising star. His previous film was Blue Valentine, which garnered a lot of buzz and delivered an Oscar Best Actress nom to one of its stars, Michelle Williams

As a writer and/or director, getting an Oscar-nominated performance out of one of your lead actors is just about the easiest way to attract ambitious up-and-comers and established stars seeking more validation

Bradley Cooper was already famous, but wasn't quite as "respected" as he eventually ended up becoming (after American Hustle, American Sniper, and A Star is Born cemented him as a critical darling)

Ryan Gosling starred in Blue Valentine, and he seems to enjoy multi-collaborations with filmmakers, so he was bound to return

Ray Liotta is iconic because of Goodfellas, but he's lower B-tier in terms of prestige if we're being honest. He's done way too much VOD dreck to really be surprised that he'd take this part

Bruce Greenwood, as much as I like him, falls under a similar umbrella as Liotta. He's a character actor who brings a certain level of "presence" and maturity to his roles, but he isn't going to fetch a major price tag

Mahershala Ali, Dane DeHaan, and Ben Mendehlson were close to stardom, but not nearly close enough to demand bigger roles in what was probably being sold as a prestige picture

Basically, you are equating these professional actors with their most recognizable pop-culture characters and exclaiming "wow!", when in reality it says more about the industry that every talented actor eventually gets swallowed up into the modern tentpole black hole apparatus

It's an example of great casting, it's a credit to the producers who selected the talent. Oh and the movie is brilliant too. Not random

Like, I see that you have 5k posts, but you clearly don't know much at all about the movie industry or movies in general if this is what you took away from this film. Actually, I question your intelligence as a whole if you cannot grasp the concept of actors who aren't that famous YET getting roles in hyped movies along with other actors, who ARE currently famous and actors who WERE famous, or still are, but have sort of washed out to some extent

It's how the industry has worked since forever. If you look hard enough you could find multiple other examples of this. I won't bother to do the work for you, just spend more time on wikipedia and Imdb and watch more movies

i love this movie watched it with my childhood friend while we were living out of a car in Iceland. great times!!

i just rewatched about half of this last night (before put the dvd of The Batman on) as was on late night tv again , and i musta forgot a whole bunch of stuff bc again i was like 'hey thats ray liotta!' and 'whhaat its that guy!' and 'oh yeh i member this bit' etc and then rememberd this dumbass review i wrote lol