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Started by Olivia Bauer, August 25, 2011, 07:16:40 PM

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Olivia Bauer

August 25, 2011, 07:16:40 PM
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!"

bob

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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.
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InformationGeek

#2
August 25, 2011, 10:06:39 PM
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!
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indianasmith

#3
August 25, 2011, 10:35:23 PM
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)
"I shall smite you in the nostrils with a rod of iron, and wax your spleen with Efferdent!!"

RCMerchant

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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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKU7gdHcYb4&feature=related
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
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The Burgomaster

#5
August 26, 2011, 08:45:38 AM
Treat Williams in PRINCE OF THE CITY.
"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone."

Rev. Powell

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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

I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

Hammock Rider

#7
August 26, 2011, 10:58:16 AM
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
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Flick James

#8
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.
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Dr. Whom

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August 26, 2011, 03:59:33 PM Last Edit: August 26, 2011, 04:10:27 PM by Dr. Whom
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RCMerchant

#10
August 26, 2011, 04:51:59 PM
William Shatner in every other Star Trek episode-!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bZKEhgieoc&feature=related

:buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

Psycho Circus

#11
August 26, 2011, 04:55:57 PM
Eric Roberts in The Pope Of Greenwich Village

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTmyD-_pMVU

RCMerchant

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August 26, 2011, 05:13:37 PM Last Edit: August 26, 2011, 05:20:20 PM by RCMerchant
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
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

Rev. Powell

#13
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....
I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

RCMerchant

#14
August 26, 2011, 07:04:39 PM
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:
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant
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