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!!!

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-"

that would be Underacting

Kitsch Puffer Fish iconic

NoJusticeNoPeace lmao

What is that from?

trolls

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

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..

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Brilliant!

A+ reference LOL

hahah, oh, man. Tearing me apart.

Anyway, let's talk about your sex lives

tecktonalex "I like to watch "

same. I had to watch it. The movie(s) were crap, but I would have loved to see more of Sheen. Secretly I hoped for his character to win all this shit.

He was correct in his explanation. That character is definitely...unhinged. He portrayed him perfectly.

pisse3000 that's why he's a decent longstanding actor. He can play the role of someone overacting but he knows exactly what he's doing and it's enjoyable unlike John Travolta and Clooney

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?

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

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.

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

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.

*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.

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.

"YOU ARE TEARING ME APAART LISA!!!!!!!!" (Best overacting evar)

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

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]

He plays characters that are over the top.

Yeah but they're comedies so it doesn't count.

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.

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!!!!!

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

Jake Bryant Silent Night part 2 lol

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Chill out!

kenneth can never overact.. he is awesome.. he reminds me of daniel day lewis.. a method actor in a nutshell

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.

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 !!

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!

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

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.

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.

mrdeeds72 Or Richard O'Brien in that too

I am still shocked they didn't list him. That performance is glorious.

It's entertaining, but it's ridiculous

It's more than just "ok"; it's great!

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....

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).

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.

I am so sorry. Having read the book, yes I paid for it, I avoided the movie.

Ha-ha!

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.

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.

Truth

Khan, you bloodsucker!

that is underacting not overacting

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

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.