Boy these are all great performances. Especially Maximum Overdrive (P.S. King hasn't done anything interesting since he kicked booze and cocaine)! This is reminding me of when Spielberg told Kubrick that Jack Nicholson was over the top in The Shining. And Kubrick responded by saying that depends on what you consider to be great acting. He cited James Cagney as being great. And of course Peter Sellers was brilliant to him. Check out the guy in the wheelchair in Clockwork Orange. Kubrick kept saying "bigger". "Give me more!" The guy thought he was gonna shit his pants by the end of the scene. He was drooling for Christ's sake. Did you forget Tony Montana? Gotta say, I'd rather see this than the tepid, unimaginative, derivative, pretentious, self important crap that usually drizzles across the screen. At least I'm entertained.
Looper 😐 You had a Steven King bit in here and it wasn't the kid from IT? "😯They're going to eat her... 😦 and then they're going to eat me... 😣OHHHHMYYYYGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"
Vampires Kiss entirely relies on Nick Cage's overacting... it really would have been a boring movie if it weren't for him being over the top insane through the whole thing...
Problem is, people don't know one of the best vampire depictions out there, name the World of Darkness... and in there there is a bloodline of vampires called Malkavians, those guys make insane look like Oxford Undergrads. VtM:B is a vampire game set in WoD theme, and there's a literally different story depicted from the eyes of the Malkavians, everything from you (the vampire) arguing with a god damn STOP sign, from the news anchor on the god damn TV accusing you of doing various destructive actions, of which you did. However, to paraphrase another character in the game, "If you have the time to scrape off the shitstorm that resides in the Malkavians mind, you got yourself a gold mine." because these particular bloodline curse is it's greatest weapon, since the voices that it perceives and make these poor creatures go mad are the actual thoughts and... well... white noise of the world, filtered directly by their meager brains... The poor things perceive everything, physical, mental and spiritual, and it kills them. Worse still, they will always be under the impression that white noise is their thoughts, for me that would literarily be the worst hell imaginable, never being capable of knowing if your mind is working against you or not.
Giuliano di Staulo What, does your comment section have audio or something? No. So why are you reading the comments if you want to pay attention to the video? Blurp.
Winslow Wilson yeah he's good because over the top and bad acting don't go hand in hand. Just cause 1 is over the top doesn't mean it's not good, I watched Face-Off just the other day love it like it was my 1st viewing, but both he and Travolta were over the top Nic was Nic but Travolta more than he's ever been. "Oooowwwee u good looking!!!" LOL so over the top yet still great performances by both. No matter how OTT Nic may be it doesn't negate he can act or has acting talent. I'd take his performance over these "movie stars" who just plain can't act anyday. There's times when I just think "how TF are they in films big films at that?" Then I remember they are good looking or popular.
King hasn't done anything ballsy post Misery -- when he quit cocaine and alcohol. Understood -- he didn't want to loose his family, but shit, that was some high octane stuff he was putting out in the 70s and early 80s. Lars von Trier recently commented on sobriety saying something to the effect that the Rolling Stones are only magical when you know they recorded a song after finishing off a bottle of Jack Daniels. Same would go for The Doors. Did anybody want a sober Jim Morrison? Best he died young. That woman getting machine gunned in Maximum Overdrive after blowing a circuit herself is awesome. Loved it as a kid, love it now.
Michael Sheen is one of the greatest actors in the business, grossly underrated. If you think any of his work is over acted, it’s because the script was over written. The man is an artist.
Ditto, though I stopped watching those movies after I literally forgot I was watching the second one and walked out of the room and left it playing (I was the only one home at the time...) to go play XBox in my room. When the DVD menu started playing, I was like, "Wait, who came home and turned on the TV?" then remembered that it was me.
I loved Kenneth Branagh in Wild Wild West. It's the over-the-top way he played it is one of the ways that made the movie "campy". Not to mention Kevin Kline's over-the-top Artemus Gordon.
I LOVED Michael Sheen's giggle. At the time, I really liked twilight (and without the emotional abuse, I actually really like the universe because It's different from the traditional vampire mythos) - as he himself explained, it showed how surprised he was that he broke his stoic character.
Agreed... I wanted to see Sheen and it took forever. BTW Sheen gave a poor excuse for the giggle. He acts the same as Zuse in Tron. Hated that character.
Tell you what I do like though: A killer. A dyed-in-the-wool killer. Cold-blooded, clean, methodical and thorough. Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF1, would have immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun. [a Mangalore presses the button, detonating a large explosive]
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Zeta Convex he reigned it in for I,Claudius, he thought he was wrong for the part and there was some shouting, but he was fuckin excellent, playing a cold and neurotic Augustus!
Yep, it was an entertaining movie - loved the steampunk stuff (there's nowhere near enough of that in movies), the leads were an amusing double-act, and Branagh was a very watchable and wonderfully hissable villain :) I guess the movie fell foul of the rampant political-correctness of the time, with critics deeming the Loveless character's constant racial taunts (at Smith) and cripple taunts (at himself) to be unfit subjects for humor, making audiences self-conscious and uneasy about enjoying the movie. Future (less uptight) audiences will rediscover the movie and wonder why such an entertaining and inventive film flopped so hard.
There's good and bad overacting. Kenneth Branagh's acting fits the movie perfectly, just like Brian Blessed in Flash Gordon. Nicolas Cage in Vampire's Kiss is just terrible.
Gary Oldman was BRILLIANT in The Professional, truly scary. Other well played overacting you can see in Hunger Games with Stanley Tucci as Cesar Flickerman. Gives me chills every time.
Josh Lloyd Script writers too. I was watching "The Mexican" and there was this scene in the beginning where Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts characters were arguing. The dialogue was pure crap and made two good actors sound like amateurs. The rest of the movie was good, but that scene was horrid.
Not necessarily, particularly with big Hollywood movies, the directors don't bother/have time to teach people how to act their characters, they just leave you to it and hope for the best. That isn't always the case, though.
Yes the "director"s certainly had full control over these particular films. I think it's fair to say ALL of these films were micromanaged by someone else.
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In fairness some of his pronunciations of "Branagh" were right. I sat through a Love's Labour's Lost review the other day that sounded like the reviewer was a German with an especially severe throat condition. It was nearly as irritating as the movie.
@@WolfGratz no doubt Branagh is immensely talented, however, in his Frankenstein film all he did was SHRIEK. AND SHRIEK AND SHRIEK. I had a migraine for a freaking month after seeing that film. Dial it down Keven, you have talent and you do not need to scream
The video is very misleading. It makes it sound like Cage was acting that way because he thought a vampire would be crazy. But the character actually is having a mental breakdown in the film. It has nothing to do with him being or not being a vampire. He played it exactly as he should have and it was awesome.
For anyone who read the books, most of those characters were played exactly the way they should've been. Aro was a very over-the-top character and Michael Sheen delivered Aro perfectly!
King Merck It was poor acting. Luther in my mind, is a criminal genius. Capable of outwitting others and superb cunning. In the movie, it looked like he was trying to copy Heath Ledger's Joker with OCD
I know him best from his role on the first season of Blackadder. I went through his IMDB and found he voiced the Lich King in a bizzare animated WoW short about Death Knights.
olstar18 its not over acting if thats how you act. Its over acting if its awkward and out of light of the movie. The nick cage bit is best example. Imagine him doing that in national treasure.
Many of these people did it on purpose. The list is supposed to include MOST overacted moments. Which means it is a complete failure as it did not list even one John Waters film. If you don't show Mink Stole screaming "THE CHILDREN ARE HAVING SEX" and "PLEASE DON'T SIT ON ME" or Jim Carrey's anything or 'You're tearing me apart, Lisa!' from The Room, then the list is just plain wrong.
Vampire's Kiss is a black comedy about an insane man. I haven't seen the film in years, so I may disagree with myself now but I certainly remember thinking it was the best Cage performance I'd ever seen.
Vampire’s Kiss is easily one of my favorite Nick Cage performances! 😅 the scene where he thinks he’s in his therapists office that switches to him on the street will forever kill me 😂
Branagh and Kline both knew exactly what kind of movie they were doing. Kline played it straight and had fun, Branagh hammed it up and had fun. Which showed through in his performance; his sniping exchanges with Will Smith's character are the only memorable moments in Wild Wild West.
Clearly, whoever made this video knows nothing of Brian Blessed. Let's just say that he's a complete madman in real life, and wonderfully so. And, damn, does that man have stories to tell....
drjwww He certainly is, At dinner parties he'll enter the room shouting and screaming ' I am Brian Blessed' much to the amusement of his guest's. He is Larger than life in real life and on screen
Casual reminder that the same year Eddie Redmayne was in Jupiter Ascending (which is one of my favorite so bad I adore them films), he also won the Oscar for best actor in leading role.
Lmao whenever i watch the scene from Breaking Dawn i cringe but when watching it for the first time in the theater it had EVERYONE SHOOK everyone was so mad about Carlisle I don’t think anyone was judging the acting loll
Brian Blessed NEVER overacted in anything he ever did, he was just that huge a personality he couldn't contain himself. Besides, Flash Gordon was THE campest, most B of B movies of the entire eighties which is why I just LOVE it! Everything about that movie is over the top, camper than Dale Winton and Graham Norton combined, louder than Brian Blessed with a megaphone and just utter and complete FUN!!!! Add on the awesome soundtrack by the mighty Queen and you have a perfect slice of escapist brilliance of the highest order. If you haven't seen this movie watch it, it even has James Bond dressed up as Robin Hood in tights! What more could you ask for?
He is pure gold in that movie. From a DnD roleplaying perspective the movie isn't half bad, but for a movie it is hillariously awful. Jemery Irons must've noticed at some early point and just made the best of it.
Jeremy Irons is such a genius actor, he probably just decided to act terribly for the hell of it. ...Compared to Dungeons and Dragons, he was absolutely brilliant in Eragon and Kingdom of Heaven (I dislike the Eragon books, but Irons and Hedlund made me actually like the movie).
This list would be better titled "Most Memorable Moments from Terrible Films." 'Over -Acting' is a sorry trope that means nothing. Say outrageous performance, or melodrama, or physical acting, or bad acting, or really anything that isn't making everyone who isn't an actor even less able to accurately speak about the art form. Propagating this kind of psuedo-critique is damaging to real life actors and people who value critical thinking.
nice list :D Christian Bale in American Psycho is pretty supreme... worth to check out. Gary Oldman has some gold as well. And well Jim Carey but he's at 90% most of the time anyway
Have to disagree with the last one completely. Kenneth Branagh's character was actually my favorite of that film. The film as a whole may not make a Top 100 list, it was still entertaining. The dialogue, delivery and timing Branagh used (IMHO) was hilarious (again, in an entertaining way). I've seen way worse, in fact ANY of Nicholas Cage's films are "typically" going to make that list. Hahah ;-)
I thought it was fun, too. Not a great movie, but a fun one. I wouldn't even call the performance as "overacted" but the character was over the top. Nicholas Cage, however... that's overacting.
What about instead of just continuing to pick on the same “bad” movies, you choose moments from movies that are actually supposed to be critically acclaimed?
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Boy these are all great performances. Especially Maximum Overdrive (P.S. King hasn't done anything interesting since he kicked booze and cocaine)! This is reminding me of when Spielberg told Kubrick that Jack Nicholson was over the top in The Shining. And Kubrick responded by saying that depends on what you consider to be great acting. He cited James Cagney as being great. And of course Peter Sellers was brilliant to him. Check out the guy in the wheelchair in Clockwork Orange. Kubrick kept saying "bigger". "Give me more!" The guy thought he was gonna shit his pants by the end of the scene. He was drooling for Christ's sake. Did you forget Tony Montana? Gotta say, I'd rather see this than the tepid, unimaginative, derivative, pretentious, self important crap that usually drizzles across the screen. At least I'm entertained.
these are pretty much all fine performances. Not many would agree with your choice Looper
*Abhishek Choudary* Psst... They are American. Subtext - or good actors doing their best with bad text - is hard for them to understand. Let it go.
You guys totally missed Jeremy Irons performance in Dungeons and Dragons!!!
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😐 You had a Steven King bit in here and it wasn't the kid from IT?
"😯They're going to eat her...
😦 and then they're going to eat me...
😣OHHHHMYYYYGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"
"They're eating her! And then they're going to eat ME! Oh my gaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwd!"
that would be Underacting
Kitsch Puffer Fish iconic
NoJusticeNoPeace lmao
What is that from?
trolls
Vampires Kiss entirely relies on Nick Cage's overacting... it really would have been a boring movie if it weren't for him being over the top insane through the whole thing...
Agreed. Vampires Kiss is also black comedy at its darkest. Even my 84 year old grandma loved that fucking movie because she thought Cage was great.
Problem is, people don't know one of the best vampire depictions out there, name the World of Darkness... and in there there is a bloodline of vampires called Malkavians, those guys make insane look like Oxford Undergrads. VtM:B is a vampire game set in WoD theme, and there's a literally different story depicted from the eyes of the Malkavians, everything from you (the vampire) arguing with a god damn STOP sign, from the news anchor on the god damn TV accusing you of doing various destructive actions, of which you did. However, to paraphrase another character in the game, "If you have the time to scrape off the shitstorm that resides in the Malkavians mind, you got yourself a gold mine." because these particular bloodline curse is it's greatest weapon, since the voices that it perceives and make these poor creatures go mad are the actual thoughts and... well... white noise of the world, filtered directly by their meager brains... The poor things perceive everything, physical, mental and spiritual, and it kills them. Worse still, they will always be under the impression that white noise is their thoughts, for me that would literarily be the worst hell imaginable, never being capable of knowing if your mind is working against you or not.
but, so... was the dude really a vampire, or did he just go full cray from a harmless bite?
TheVeR01 Full cray. It's a brilliant black comedy!
agree, Cage's acting is the only reason i watched the film
The narrator... The irony.
Like, shut up, I want to hear it!
Giuliano di Staulo What, does your comment section have audio or something? No. So why are you reading the comments if you want to pay attention to the video? Blurp.
I am. im pretty sure he was referring to the narrator of the video, meaning he wants to hear the actors, not the narrator. haha.
I came to the comments section after watching, just hoping someone also hated the bollocks narrator. Thanks for this!
I can't even hear the worst acting moments. because he's too busy having his worst narrator moment lmfao..
To be fair, I didn't see many overacted moments here. Mainly because you talked over them, or cut them off.
If Tommy Wiseau isn't on this list, why bother. You're tearing me apart Looper 😂
Nicolas cage could have his own 500 hour episode.
Niall Trewin So true 😂
Well GOSH, REALLY?! ;-)
Niall Trewin hahaha gotta love him though
Winslow Wilson
yeah he's good because over the top and bad acting don't go hand in hand. Just cause 1 is over the top doesn't mean it's not good, I watched Face-Off just the other day love it like it was my 1st viewing, but both he and Travolta were over the top Nic was Nic but Travolta more than he's ever been. "Oooowwwee u good looking!!!" LOL so over the top yet still great performances by both.
No matter how OTT Nic may be it doesn't negate he can act or has acting talent. I'd take his performance over these "movie stars" who just plain can't act anyday. There's times when I just think "how TF are they in films big films at that?" Then I remember they are good looking or popular.
He will always be the best Ghost Rider ever.
Cocaine as co director? Now that's the most 80s thing I've ever heard
wally grafe
It sure worked for Oliver Stone lol
King hasn't done anything ballsy post Misery -- when he quit cocaine and alcohol. Understood -- he didn't want to loose his family, but shit, that was some high octane stuff he was putting out in the 70s and early 80s. Lars von Trier recently commented on sobriety saying something to the effect that the Rolling Stones are only magical when you know they recorded a song after finishing off a bottle of Jack Daniels. Same would go for The Doors. Did anybody want a sober Jim Morrison? Best he died young. That woman getting machine gunned in Maximum Overdrive after blowing a circuit herself is awesome. Loved it as a kid, love it now.
haha that was so metal..long live king
Michael Sheen is one of the greatest actors in the business, grossly underrated. If you think any of his work is over acted, it’s because the script was over written. The man is an artist.
Sheen was brilliant in Twilight - carved out a good chunk of attention and memorable moments and was only a supporting character.
Michael Sheen was trolling the whole time in that garbage ass movie lol
MerovingianBlood he knew it though so he wasn't over acting and not knowing it. He trolled for fun
MerovingianBlood like everyone else
Can’t believe how bad Twilight actually is
This was my first time hearing that twilight laugh..... Wtf it sounds like something from the cat in the hat movie
Ditto, though I stopped watching those movies after I literally forgot I was watching the second one and walked out of the room and left it playing (I was the only one home at the time...) to go play XBox in my room. When the DVD menu started playing, I was like, "Wait, who came home and turned on the TV?" then remembered that it was me.
My friend dragged me to the last twilight movie and I burst out laughing in the middle of the movie
RollingxBigshot he looks like him too
Super cringey!
To be fair, the guy is like a thousand years old.
where is jared leto's joker?
Mario Jesús Blanco he didn't even had the screentime to overact 😂
Rei szinok+ your'e right :)
Rei Szinok yea he did, and it was an abomination.
Good question!😂
Overacting and bad acting are 2 very different things
I loved Kenneth Branagh in Wild Wild West. It's the over-the-top way he played it is one of the ways that made the movie "campy". Not to mention Kevin Kline's over-the-top Artemus Gordon.
Completely agree, the acting in WildWild West was perfect! True curley moustache villain!
Absolutely agree, Branagh was fantastic in that role.
WWW has been my favorite film for decades. Love that campy Steampunk flick.
I LOVED Michael Sheen's giggle. At the time, I really liked twilight (and without the emotional abuse, I actually really like the universe because It's different from the traditional vampire mythos) - as he himself explained, it showed how surprised he was that he broke his stoic character.
THIS IS BULLSHIT
IT DID NOT OVEREACTED
IT DID NOT
oh hi looper
Brilliant!
A+ reference LOL
hahah, oh, man. Tearing me apart.
Anyway, let's talk about your sex lives
tecktonalex "I like to watch "
The entire list should be Nicolas Cage.
My eeeeeyyyyessss!
He was amazing and overacted like nobody's business in "Wild at Heart".
NOT THE BEES!
It’s not all his fault he can be a good actor
Maybe spend more time showing the actual scenes and less time talking about them?? Thanks
Agreed... I wanted to see Sheen and it took forever.
BTW Sheen gave a poor excuse for the giggle. He acts the same as Zuse in Tron. Hated that character.
Good luck, this is Looper
You're tearing me apart Looper !!
lol I saw the title of the video and immediatly thought of that scene
Helly Hansen I think a lot of people did. Myself included
Brilliant!
Oh hello everyone
So anyway, how's your sex life?
It wasnt overacted
It was really well acted
Aro is just really weird
Ramona Pierce Salvatore yea putting any opinions on twilight on the whole aside, i must say he acted the part very well in accordance to the book.
Zachery yeah
Like aro is bizarre
He did it perfectly
I know right,but lets me serious:if you lived for millenias you would be weird too
He may have done it "perfectly" in accordance to the books...but come on...that is still a weird laugh.
Idk why you felt the need to say this, they acknowledge this during their video lol.
Twilight's actor's acting was pretty appropriate. Of course he's crazy, he's a super old and moderately evil vampire.
WHY LISA WHYYYYYY
I did nat hit here, I did naat... Oh, hi Mark!
YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Everybody betrayed me. I don't have a friend in the world.
your my favourite customer
oh hai looper I DID NAT HIT HER
Tommy The Room you're tearing me apart!
Oh hi doggy
Anyway, how's your sex life?
No sex or sleep what kind of life is that?
This is bullshit.
Brian Blessed in Flash Gordon was a gift to mankind from the gods themselves!
*Brian Blessed is a gift to mankind from the gods themselves!
Useless Git ah yes, he's still kicking. What an incredible talent, and an equally extraordinary man.
Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element is the most brilliant overacting of all times, in my opinion.
Who thinks that?
Gary Oldman: EEEVVVVEEERRYYY OOOONNNNEEEEEE!!!!!!!
Tell you what I do like though: A killer. A dyed-in-the-wool killer. Cold-blooded, clean, methodical and thorough. Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF1, would have immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun. [a Mangalore presses the button, detonating a large explosive]
Michael Sheen as Aro was superb. He turned the character into a true protagonist.
They're eating her!.. And then they are going to eat me!.. OHHHH MYY GOOOOOOOODDD!!
Nic Cage is the king of this shit
Yosua Nangin King shit*
The Coldest Villian shit king*
Red Herring fair enough
Nic Cage is the king of shit movies.
Fixed it for you.
Nicholas cage in everything
Tee Murrs YES!! “Bad Lieutenant” especially.
How dare you sir! nicholas cage is fabulous
Didn't he win an Oscar for leaving Las Vegas?
He's such a weird dude
NOT THE BEEEEEES!!!!!
could you be quiet when showing the scenes? or not just the scenes, all together quiet
I WILL NOT BE SEATED FOR THIS WILD WILD WEST SLANDER!
Haha, yea I dismissed the video when he tried to dismiss Wild Wild West
I dismissed you as soon as I read your comment, so it's all good.
Wykstrom ? Are you someone I should know? Were you the guy I paid for rent this month? Or are you trying to help the 3k downvotes hit 4k downvotes? Way to come back and bait the comment; not today ISIS!
Whatever the case may be, rest assured I won't be giving this link the hits to come back and find out!
I see what you did there...
Feel better now Wykstrom? No? Still angry? Well young lady, you need to relax with a Virginia Slim and a Zima until the Midol kicks in...
Lol as a kid I loved Wild Wild West and the Loveless performance
Ah yes, Brian Blessed, with his usual nuanced and understated performance.
Zeta Convex he reigned it in for I,Claudius, he thought he was wrong for the part and there was some shouting, but he was fuckin excellent, playing a cold and neurotic Augustus!
I would have liked to see him paired up with Oliver Reed.
Wild Wild West was actually a pretty entertaining movie.
1999 ! top year :)
I fucking loved it, so creative and interesting.
you need psychological help :)
I love it too.
Yep, it was an entertaining movie - loved the steampunk stuff (there's nowhere near enough of that in movies), the leads were an amusing double-act, and Branagh was a very watchable and wonderfully hissable villain :)
I guess the movie fell foul of the rampant political-correctness of the time, with critics deeming the Loveless character's constant racial taunts (at Smith) and cripple taunts (at himself) to be unfit subjects for humor, making audiences self-conscious and uneasy about enjoying the movie.
Future (less uptight) audiences will rediscover the movie and wonder why such an entertaining and inventive film flopped so hard.
There's good and bad overacting. Kenneth Branagh's acting fits the movie perfectly, just like Brian Blessed in Flash Gordon. Nicolas Cage in Vampire's Kiss is just terrible.
kenneth can never overact.. he is awesome.. he reminds me of daniel day lewis.. a method actor in a nutshell
Where's Jared Leto as the Joker ?
yeah that was bad..
noooooooo he was barely in the movie, he didnt overact
George I didn’t like Leto’s performance but The Joker is meant to be an over the top character, so a little overacting is par for the course.
I thought he did great. He was the creepiest Joker to date, in my opinion.
I was wondering the same thing
Not gonna lie, I always liked Wild Wild West lol
I have a confession, I really enjoyed wild wild west
Me too. It was a childhood movie for me even though it's inappropriate but I couldn't stop laughing when I watched it recently.
Haha same bro wtf
I loved that movie
Mee twee.
and i love maximum overdrive....hell i saw it when i was a kid and i was amazed by it
Xanafein - will smith sucks
Bronson Pinchot as Craig Toomy in Langoliers goes absolutely nuts in his role.
Gary Oldman is my absolute FAVORITE actor. His role as "Norman Stanfield" in the movie Leon: The Professional, was so over-acted but FUCKING AWESOME.
it wasnt overacted, it was what the character had to be in my opinion
Dude, Gary Oldman in Leon was the first thing I thought of too! * Bro fist *
Gary Oldman was BRILLIANT in The Professional, truly scary. Other well played overacting you can see in Hunger Games with Stanley Tucci as Cesar Flickerman. Gives me chills every time.
*!! EVERYONE !!*
just like Parillaud in Nikita, Besson likes those over the top explosions in his characters.
I actually enjoyed Brian Blessed in Flash Gordon. He was hilarious !
Second that!
'GORDON'S ALIVE!!!!'
Kathy Bentley More entertaining than the wooden Flash..
He's always good. Try the first series of Blackadder!
Brian Blessed is a comedy/acting genius.
"I DID NOT HEET HER ITS BULL SHIT I DID NOT, oh hey mark"
"YOU ARE TEARING ME APAART LISA!!!!!!!!"
(Best overacting evar)
Aro's laugh is so....*unusual*
There is no such thing as overacting in acting. It just means the other actors didn't act enough
"The Most Overacted Moments In Movie History"
Did you mean: Every Jim Carrey Movie EVER
He plays characters that are over the top.
Yeah but they're comedies so it doesn't count.
Michael sheen was just having banter the entirety of the time.
Wouldn't the director be the one to blame for all of these?
EXACTLY! Thanks bro!
Josh Lloyd Script writers too. I was watching "The Mexican" and there was this scene in the beginning where Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts characters were arguing. The dialogue was pure crap and made two good actors sound like amateurs. The rest of the movie was good, but that scene was horrid.
Not necessarily, particularly with big Hollywood movies, the directors don't bother/have time to teach people how to act their characters, they just leave you to it and hope for the best. That isn't always the case, though.
Mimosa Amelia i thought directors are supposed to teach the actors how to act their roles?
Yes the "director"s certainly had full control over these particular films. I think it's fair to say ALL of these films were micromanaged by someone else.
"THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
You will leave my Kenneth Branagh alone, thanks.
In fairness some of his pronunciations of "Branagh" were right. I sat through a Love's Labour's Lost review the other day that sounded like the reviewer was a German with an especially severe throat condition. It was nearly as irritating as the movie.
@@WolfGratz no doubt Branagh is immensely talented, however, in his Frankenstein film all he did was SHRIEK. AND SHRIEK AND SHRIEK. I had a migraine for a freaking month after seeing that film. Dial it down Keven, you have talent and you do not need to scream
He killed Tenet
The overacting in Vampires Kiss is fucking tremendous! It makes the whole movie, the character is so crazy.
The video is very misleading. It makes it sound like Cage was acting that way because he thought a vampire would be crazy. But the character actually is having a mental breakdown in the film. It has nothing to do with him being or not being a vampire. He played it exactly as he should have and it was awesome.
Timonsgirl Yeah. Maybe overacting sounds negative. But it's exactly as it should be
Michael Sheen was perfect as Aro
I totally agree. Loved his acting in all his scenes. Loved the end fight scene.
For anyone who read the books, most of those characters were played exactly the way they should've been. Aro was a very over-the-top character and Michael Sheen delivered Aro perfectly!
Aros laugh was perfect and well placed. Sheen is great.
He shouldn't be in this ... he's an awesome actor and is brillant in what he does.
He was the only one who did a great vampire character yes....
Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor?
It's Paul Fuck yes. I skipped every scene with him in it.
It's Paul He was a terrible Lex Luther. Terrible
Naw, wasn't over acting
He didn't overact though. He was just being himself lol
King Merck It was poor acting. Luther in my mind, is a criminal genius. Capable of outwitting others and superb cunning. In the movie, it looked like he was trying to copy Heath Ledger's Joker with OCD
Brian Blessed in Flash Gordon was perfect for the movie, over the top could have gone to half the actors in that movie
And the other half were bad.
Flash Gordon is great fun, totally over the top and kitsch, and Brian Blessed is known for his over the top style. See the first Blackadder series.
I know him best from his role on the first season of Blackadder. I went through his IMDB and found he voiced the Lich King in a bizzare animated WoW short about Death Knights.
He was wonderful in Blackadder. It wasn't the best series, it got better, but he seemed to be having great fun, like he always does
I somehow always remembered it as being OLIVER REED !! and oh Christ is that TIMOTHY Dalton with the whip something else I blocked out !!
Shia isn't in this list?
All of his most over the top performances occurred in real life without him realizing it.
That isn't acting. lol
He will not divide us!
I don't think frequent motor boat impressions quite count as over the top
JUST DO IT!
i enjoyed your audio man. Great mixing dude :)
Wait no mention of Jim Carey. No one can overact the way he can.
thats his style and notice how looper said its ok if its a comedy..
olstar18 its not over acting if thats how you act. Its over acting if its awkward and out of light of the movie. The nick cage bit is best example. Imagine him doing that in national treasure.
That's for sure. He is a one trick pony. But most of the performances in this video were brilliant so I guess that is why Jim Carey wasn't included.
Two words.......Garbage Day
Jake Bryant Silent Night part 2 lol
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Oh c'mon, where's Jeremy Irons in Dungeons and Dragons lol
mrdeeds72 Or Richard O'Brien in that too
I am still shocked they didn't list him. That performance is glorious.
The legend that is Flash Gordon - the overacting from everyone made that movie.
You guys make really good content. Thanks
I love this stuff. What a great channel.
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Zach Curtis JESUS H CHRIST, THAT PROFILE PIC! Gonna have nightmares...
WHERE CAN I FIND YOUR PROFILE PICTURE OMG
Zach Curtis
Der Fahrkartenkontrolleur?
The onion. Cops break up lame party
Arnold as Mr. Freeze
Chill out!
I'd rather be listening to the scenes than you explaining the scenes and making jokes about it..
This makes making movies look like so much fun. I'm not thinking "Oh, they messed up." I'm thinking "I wanna be there!" :-D
Michael Sheen was brilliant in twilight and if you actually watched the movie the explanation made by him would have beeen unnecessary
1. Brian Blessed was awesome in Flash Gordon.
2. This list is meaningless without Jim Carrey.
Geobadger34 right over acting is what made movies like the mask, liar liar ect
Geobadger34 Jim Carrey does it in purpose so doesn't count lol he's a comedian.
Many of these people did it on purpose. The list is supposed to include MOST overacted moments. Which means it is a complete failure as it did not list even one John Waters film. If you don't show Mink Stole screaming "THE CHILDREN ARE HAVING SEX" and "PLEASE DON'T SIT ON ME" or Jim Carrey's anything or 'You're tearing me apart, Lisa!' from The Room, then the list is just plain wrong.
Vampire's Kiss is a black comedy about an insane man. I haven't seen the film in years, so I may disagree with myself now but I certainly remember thinking it was the best Cage performance I'd ever seen.
Have you seen Machstick Men? I think that's my favorite one that he was in.
Haven't seen that one in years either, but I do remember really liking it! Gotta rewatch.
have you ever seen Adaptation?
Noooo. Never even heard of it, I don't think. Recommend?
Definitely. To me that was Cage's best performance, by far. He plays twins.
Wild Wild West is an awesome film! It's hilarious!
I agree! I always feel like I'm crazy when people say they hated it. But I watched that dang movie constantly, growing up.
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Agreed..
I liked the flick!
Rita Escobar is smoking hot!
Vampire’s Kiss is easily one of my favorite Nick Cage performances! 😅 the scene where he thinks he’s in his therapists office that switches to him on the street will forever kill me 😂
Branagh and Kline both knew exactly what kind of movie they were doing. Kline played it straight and had fun, Branagh hammed it up and had fun. Which showed through in his performance; his sniping exchanges with Will Smith's character are the only memorable moments in Wild Wild West.
Clearly, whoever made this video knows nothing of Brian Blessed. Let's just say that he's a complete madman in real life, and wonderfully so. And, damn, does that man have stories to tell....
Like punching a polar bear in the face.
drjwww never seen the movie, but based on the scene they showed there was nothing over the top about Blessed. No idea why it was even mentioned.
drjwww He certainly is, At dinner parties he'll enter the room shouting and screaming ' I am Brian Blessed' much to the amusement of his guest's.
He is Larger than life in real life and on screen
Those Travolta and Connery scenes!!! What the hell!
We've seen a Travolta Movie and a Cage movie mentioned.
Let's bring them together in Face/Off!
That critique of Zardoz was buffonery. The movie completely makes sense (incl. that scene and what is said and done; and it's not overacting).
Nicholas Cage basically EVERYTHING XD
Tommy Wiseau in The Room
I hate the twilight movies, but when Sheen made that weird ass laugh I fucking died.
Brian Blessed? Have you not seen Black Adder? He's always like that in Comedy roles. And He's wonderful at it. He has a personality that fills a room.
I actually paid money to go see Battlefield Earth in theaters
I am so sorry. Having read the book, yes I paid for it, I avoided the movie.
Ha-ha!
The villain in Jupiter ascending.
Eddie Redmanye?
Yea that's the one. For what it's worth I actually liked him in that.
Casual reminder that the same year Eddie Redmayne was in Jupiter Ascending (which is one of my favorite so bad I adore them films), he also won the Oscar for best actor in leading role.
Nice video!What's the name of the music in background please?!
WHAT MUSIC ARE THEY PLAYING?
Lmao whenever i watch the scene from Breaking Dawn i cringe but when watching it for the first time in the theater it had EVERYONE SHOOK everyone was so mad about Carlisle I don’t think anyone was judging the acting loll
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I came here for the thumbnail
And so did you.
RMO BestGaming/Songs That was more entertaining than this video. (Not that it set a high mark to beat!) 😂
Nicolas Cage in ANYTHING!!!
Brian Blessed NEVER overacted in anything he ever did, he was just that huge a personality he couldn't contain himself. Besides, Flash Gordon was THE campest, most B of B movies of the entire eighties which is why I just LOVE it! Everything about that movie is over the top, camper than Dale Winton and Graham Norton combined, louder than Brian Blessed with a megaphone and just utter and complete FUN!!!! Add on the awesome soundtrack by the mighty Queen and you have a perfect slice of escapist brilliance of the highest order. If you haven't seen this movie watch it, it even has James Bond dressed up as Robin Hood in tights! What more could you ask for?
Sheen conveyed the books character perfectly, and his explanation was spot on. Definately shouldnt be on this list.
Jeremey Irons in "Dungeons and Dragons"........you can run, but you'll never run far enough. It's amazingly bad
He is pure gold in that movie.
From a DnD roleplaying perspective the movie isn't half bad, but for a movie it is hillariously awful.
Jemery Irons must've noticed at some early point and just made the best of it.
Best Jeremy Irons line ever would have suited the D&D movie perfectly. "I'm surrounded by idiots."
Jeremy Irons is such a genius actor, he probably just decided to act terribly for the hell of it.
...Compared to Dungeons and Dragons, he was absolutely brilliant in Eragon and Kingdom of Heaven (I dislike the Eragon books, but Irons and Hedlund made me actually like the movie).
Yeah that's a fair assessment. If you're a brilliant actor, acting like a really crappy one has to be a bit of a challenge
This list would be better titled "Most Memorable Moments from Terrible Films." 'Over -Acting' is a sorry trope that means nothing. Say outrageous performance, or melodrama, or physical acting, or bad acting, or really anything that isn't making everyone who isn't an actor even less able to accurately speak about the art form. Propagating this kind of psuedo-critique is damaging to real life actors and people who value critical thinking.
This list is bogus, No Bill Shatner? No Star Trek at all?
hugh stephenson What does god need with a Star ship?
I agree. I really thought they’d put in Eddie Redmayne from Jupiter Ascending, funny shit right there.
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Khan, you bloodsucker!
Whats the name you use in the background for your videos wanna hear it while i am fantasizing about how i am a moviestar
nice list :D
Christian Bale in American Psycho is pretty supreme... worth to check out. Gary Oldman has some gold as well. And well Jim Carey but he's at 90% most of the time anyway
"They sucked out his braaiiiinnnnsss!"
But yea a lot of those movies just seemed downright stupid overall anyway.
Did I just watch the cliff notes version of Nostalgia Critic?
You have to admit, Blessed's "Gordon's ALIVE?!?" is pretty much up there in the world's most quotable quotes. Riiiiiight up there.
That twilight scene on the snow ice, I was in the cinema and someone couldnt stop laughing under their breath and everyone started laughing too.
Have to disagree with the last one completely. Kenneth Branagh's character was actually my favorite of that film. The film as a whole may not make a Top 100 list, it was still entertaining. The dialogue, delivery and timing Branagh used (IMHO) was hilarious (again, in an entertaining way). I've seen way worse, in fact ANY of Nicholas Cage's films are "typically" going to make that list. Hahah ;-)
I was waiting for "Eye did not hit hurr!, oh hi Mark"
that is underacting not overacting
I may get shit for this, but honestly I enjoyed Wild Wild West for what it was. It wasn't great but it was entertaining.
Brandon Meadows it was fun
RollingxBigshot Exactly!
Same
Me too that was one of my favorite movies as a kid to watch
I thought it was fun, too. Not a great movie, but a fun one. I wouldn't even call the performance as "overacted" but the character was over the top. Nicholas Cage, however... that's overacting.
What about instead of just continuing to pick on the same “bad” movies, you choose moments from movies that are actually supposed to be critically acclaimed?