I'm not talking BAD actors, just give examples of actors that go waaaaay over the top and mention specific scenes or lines.
Nicholas Cage (Wickerman): "How'd it get burned? How'd it get burned?! HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!"
Willem DeFoe (Boondocks Saints): "There was a fire-fight!!"
Keanu Reeves (Dracula): "RRRGGGGFFFFRRRRRGGGHHHRRRR!!!" :bouncegiggle:
Also...
Me in a play at school portraying Hades.
"You stupid little christians think I'm the devil?! There is no devil! No god! No heaven! There is only the underworld! There is only misery! THERE IS ONLY ME!"
Mommies Dearest as a whole. The hamminess manages the impossible: making a film about child abuse somewhat funny.
Jeremy Irons in Dungeons and Dragons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28snhq40C8o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZne8XjVajM
Someone tell him to stop eating the scenery! They can't afford to make anymore to replace it!
The guy who played Deathstalker in DEATHSTALKER II!
Best closing dialogue in B-Movie history:
STALKER: "So do you really think our deeds will become legend?"
QUEEN: "More than that! Thousands of years from now, actors will be hired to re-create our exploits!"
STALKER: "Wow! I sure hope they get a good looking guy to play me!!"
(Winks at the camera and credits roll)
.Nicholas Cage (again!) in the BAD LIEUTENANT:PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS. (Great movie,by the way!)
.Vincent Price in THEATER OF BLOOD.
.Bela Lugosi in the PHANTOM CREEPS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKU7gdHcYb4&feature=related
Treat Williams in PRINCE OF THE CITY.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 26, 2011, 04:34:13 AM
.Nicholas Cage (again!) in the BAD LIEUTENANT:PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS. (Great movie,by the way!)
.Vincent Price in THEATER OF BLOOD.
.Bela Lugosi in the PHANTOM CREEPS.
Great calls RC. Glad you liked BL:POCNO. An amazingly bad/good perf by Cage, reigning King of the Hams! "Shoot him again! His soul is still dancing!"
Lugosi, you could pick a dozen performances by him. This is probably my favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHkXFsK6UUg&feature=related
The 10 Commandments (1956) is ripe with hammy overacting. You can count on hammy acting and purple prose in almost every scene. I wouldn't have it any other way. Some fo the best scenes are between Charlton Heston and either Anne Baxter or Yul Brynner. I couldn't find any whole, unedited scenes on youtube, so enjoy this pretty good fan trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guGEM8de0AY
Quote from: bob on August 25, 2011, 08:25:05 PM
Mommies Dearest as a whole. The hamminess manages the impossible: making a film about child abuse somewhat funny.
Good call. Faye Dunaway is a fine actress, but she is the ultimate ham in this film. I really like what
Variety said about it: "Dunaway does not chew scenery. Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it whole, costars and all."
I couldn't agree more.
However, there are some ways in which this film is entertaining, but certainly they are bad movie reasons.
Two words: Brian Blessed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_dWpCy8rdc&feature=related
William Shatner in every other Star Trek episode-!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bZKEhgieoc&feature=related
:buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:
Eric Roberts in The Pope Of Greenwich Village
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTmyD-_pMVU
An oldie but a goodie-ALL the actors (and I use that term loosely) in the 1932 MANIAC.
Is this guy related to Nicholas Cage? :question:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmyUM6knmmw
or this guy in REEFER MADNESS-
The roots of speed metal! :buggedout:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQHyM6uJ3RA&feature=related
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 26, 2011, 05:13:37 PM
An oldie but a goodie-ALL the actors (and I use that term loosely) in the 1932 MANIAC.
Is this guy related to Nicholas Cage? :question:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmyUM6knmmw
MANIAC is like an encyclopedia of bad acting. You see it all: overacting, underacting, funny voices that don't work, an actress who can't even play a corpse....
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 26, 2011, 05:45:44 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 26, 2011, 05:13:37 PM
An oldie but a goodie-ALL the actors (and I use that term loosely) in the 1932 MANIAC.
Is this guy related to Nicholas Cage? :question:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmyUM6knmmw
MANIAC is like an encyclopedia of bad acting. You see it all: overacting, underacting, funny voices that don't work, an actress who can't even play a corpse....
Whats really wild...monkey man here ends up tearing her blouse off and for a split second you see her pre-code boobies! ZOINKS! :buggedout:
Quote from: Flick James on August 26, 2011, 03:17:24 PM
Quote from: bob on August 25, 2011, 08:25:05 PM
Mommies Dearest as a whole. The hamminess manages the impossible: making a film about child abuse somewhat funny.
Good call. Faye Dunaway is a fine actress, but she is the ultimate ham in this film. I really like what Variety said about it: "Dunaway does not chew scenery. Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it whole, costars and all."
I couldn't agree more.
However, there are some ways in which this film is entertaining, but certainly they are bad movie reasons.
I do not disagree: but having grown up with a parent whose parenting style was all too similar, I found many of Dunaway's scenes chillingly realistic and familiar. Still, I can see how it would look to the majority of viewers: over-the-top and even laughable. Count yourselves lucky. :wink:
There are bad ham's like David Hasslehoff and Erik Estrada, who are weak actors that over compensate. However, there are great actors who like to ham it up too. William Shatner is a damn fine actor, but there are some who feel like his isn't because he has the tendancy to go over the top. Same with Bela Lugosi. But if you examine Shatner and Lugosi, you will find a lot of genuine emotion in they're performances. There are some so called "great actors" like Brad Pitt, that deliver the same bland performance, no matter how much emotion they put in. Most people wouldn't know a good actor from a bad one because of hype. But talent will stand the test of time. I'm a huge Clint Eastwood fan, and it's hard to believe that there was a time people considered him a bad actor, but today we all know that he is amazing.
I'm surprise noone has brought up an actor who hams it up almost every role:
TOM CRUISE!
I could post examples but we'd be here all day.
Quote from: Flick James on August 28, 2011, 10:02:29 AM
I'm surprise noone has brought up an actor who hams it up almost every role:
TOM CRUISE!
I could post examples but we'd be here all day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-q__knBahs
I actually thought Tom Cruise was excellent in Magnolia.
Quote from: Circus Circus on August 28, 2011, 10:13:29 AM
Quote from: Flick James on August 28, 2011, 10:02:29 AM
I'm surprise noone has brought up an actor who hams it up almost every role:
TOM CRUISE!
I could post examples but we'd be here all day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-q__knBahs
I actually thought Tom Cruise was excellent in Magnolia.
Well, I did say "almost every role," didn't I? :wink:
Actually, I'm agreed on Magnolia. Fine performance. But even there I would argue there's a little pork product on display.
I hate Tom Cruise, but I have to reluctantly admit that he's not a bad actor. That said, he is a ham and that just adds to the list of many things that annoy me about him.
Funny thing about actors who can be a bit hammy at times, a lot of them also tend to be my favourites personally. William Shatner, Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, Charlton Heston - I could watch those guys all day and all night. I see Brad Pitt get criticized a bit but I still love his performance in 12 Monkeys which featured another guy who can be hammy at times - Bruce Willis, another guy I like more oft than not.
agreed with Nic Cage in the Wickerman. I don't think he's a bad actor but in that remake he becomes ludicrous
nice clip from darkplace...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjOEcoMy2fI
The biggest ham: Joss Ackland as Arjen Rudd in Lethal Weapon 2.
Watch ham cure: SPENCER TRACY from CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS (1937) to DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1941)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgrlfKzc8t4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3M1wEe3hUs
I do think TRACY got very good when he was older in films like BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK, INHERIT THE WIND, JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG, others...
Crispin Glover in The River's Edge...........Game Over!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNgP0Px5rlI
Alan Rickman in 'Die Hard'.
But isn't that part of his appeal?
:question:
"MUST.....STOP.....EMOTING.....!"
(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l79/RCMerchant/tumblr_lpvrvgoMQU1qbhtrto1_500.gif)
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 26, 2011, 09:48:48 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 26, 2011, 04:34:13 AM
.Nicholas Cage (again!) in the BAD LIEUTENANT:PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS. (Great movie,by the way!)
.Vincent Price in THEATER OF BLOOD.
.Bela Lugosi in the PHANTOM CREEPS.
Great calls RC. Glad you liked BL:POCNO. An amazingly bad/good perf by Cage, reigning King of the Hams! "Shoot him again! His soul is still dancing!"
Lugosi, you could pick a dozen performances by him. This is probably my favorite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHkXFsK6UUg&feature=related
more Lugosi, because you can never get enough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-8j8c7iL3E
^ Agree!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0UerfV4zVQ
The late John Carradine once said: "I am a ham and the ham in an actor is what makes him interesting." :teddyr:
Quote from: Trevor on August 30, 2011, 06:25:43 AM
The late John Carradine once said: "I am a ham and the ham in an actor is what makes him interesting." :teddyr:
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Agree 100%!
My personal favorite ham delivery, from one of my all time favorite movies: Charlton Heston (already mentioned several times) in Planet of the Apes.
"It's a madhouse! A MADHOUSE!!!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFCM6TZgTMI&feature=related
THIS GUY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYtbv44G-CI&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLF988C5D6A62FDE31
:teddyr:
Dwight Frye in DRACULA (1931)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5eqkWRWZ7c
Mickey Hargitay in BLOODY PIT OF HORROR (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOeyoHTB1ks
Quote from: Flick James on August 26, 2011, 03:17:24 PM
Quote from: bob on August 25, 2011, 08:25:05 PM
Mommies Dearest as a whole. The hamminess manages the impossible: making a film about child abuse somewhat funny.
Good call. Faye Dunaway is a fine actress, but she is the ultimate ham in this film. I really like what Variety said about it: "Dunaway does not chew scenery. Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it whole, costars and all."
I couldn't agree more.
However, there are some ways in which this film is entertaining, but certainly they are bad movie reasons.
Even earlier than this....Faye Dunaway in SUPERGIRL....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-sc_sD_tEg
For vintage overacting, no one chews more scenery than CHARLES MIDDLETON....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B707Ava4wrY
Most the cast in Clue, especially Tim Curry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9irYnrPgekA
Speaking of Tim Curry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ZbnfXEuyc
Quote from: InformationGeek on September 02, 2011, 08:56:19 PM
Most the cast in Clue, especially Tim Curry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9irYnrPgekA
Speaking of Tim Curry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ZbnfXEuyc
He was downright ICKY in this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keKMuKfSVI8