Hammy actors?

Panda · 30-04-2003 5:47pm #1

Who do think is a really hammy actor,
the kind of muppet that over exaggurates a role to a certain point that you hate the character.

The one that comes to memory for me is that guy in the matrix, hes the the younger of the two brothers, the one that works the computers while neo learns kung fu.

hammiest acting ever.

lamda · 30-04-2003 5:51pm

Kenneth Branagh
Especially in Frankenstein.. dear God

Karl Hungus · 30-04-2003 6:05pm

I thought Kenneth Branagh was brilliant.

Personally I love Hammy acting.
It can really add to a film in a certain sense.
I love the really OVER-acted OVER-emphasized and OVER-expression.

Case of point being Bram Stoker's Dracula, an already hammy and clichéd peice of work, so do you try using non-clichéd techniques and acting methods? No, you 'Preach to the Converted' and over-do everything. Anthony Hopkins, Cary Elwes, Richard E. Grant, Gary Oldman, all giving it their most over-the-top preformances, and it worked. Same theory with Frankenstein.

mike65 · 30-04-2003 6:09pm

Proper hammy acting seems to be in decline, there was a whole sub-set of actors you could rely on to whoop it up shamlessly in the old days, Vincent Price being the prime example (though he could play straight too).

Mike.

patch · 30-04-2003 6:11pm

Originally posted by Panda
Who do think is a really hammy actor,
the kind of muppet that over exaggurates a role to a certain point that you hate the character.

The one that comes to memory for me is that guy in the matrix, hes the the younger of the two brothers, the one that works the computers while neo learns kung fu.

hammiest acting ever.

Indeed he was hammy-but bear in mind he was a kid in 'home and away' . I spotted the little fecker trying to sell drugs to renton in 'star wars' as well.

Actually Neo himself in 'dracula' and 'dangerous liasons' takes the biscuit for me.

ferdi · 30-04-2003 6:28pm

camren diaz - sh!te

Caesar_Bojangle · 30-04-2003 6:33pm

jim carey, but he wasnt too bad in Man on the moon tbh

Tusky · 30-04-2003 9:28pm

Originally posted by Caesar_Bojangle
jim carey, but he wasnt too bad in Man on the moon tbh

not bad ? he was BRILLIANT ! Lisa Kudrow from frnds...

Goodshape · 30-04-2003 10:47pm

I agree with anglewhore, hammy acting can be great at times.

Where would Evil Dead be without Bruce Cambell, for instence?

...on the other hand, Hayden Christanson comes to mind. "I am haunted by the kiss.." JEEEESSSSUUUUUSSSS!!!... I have to skip those fu.king scenes everytime I watch AotC.

Pigman II · 30-04-2003 11:52pm

The ringleader from Texas Chainsaw Massacre (not leatherface, the older brother with the classic line 'let granpa do it!').

Also vote for Matthew McConaghy in the remake of TCM.

Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead 2

ALL the good guys from Dawn of the Dead.

Jurgen Klinsmann.

Panda · 01-05-2003 1:12pm

lol jurgen klinsman

fair enough you can get away with hammy acting in comedys,
but when an actor is given a reasonable serious piece of dialogue and then proceeds to make a mockery of it, you're left with a ridiculous scene.

DMT · 01-05-2003 11:02pm

Originally posted by patch69
Indeed he was hammy-but bear in mind he was a kid in 'home and away' . I spotted the little fecker trying to sell drugs to renton in 'star wars' as well.

No, he was talking about Tank, not the "home & away" guy:

banbutcher · 02-05-2003 12:04am

lol @ that picture! its a face of many emotions!!

Talliesin · 02-05-2003 10:58am

Not the hammiest ever, but Olivier made a right pig's ear out of Hamlet's soliloquy in the 1948 film (ironic since it's said the origin of the term "Ham" is an actor so bad he read the abbreviation "Ham." before each line). He really could have done with someone else directing it to give it objectivity. The bizarre thing is that for a long time it became the definitive performance!

Because of the lasting damage it did to people's view of the scene it deserves special mention.

Pugsley · 02-05-2003 11:02am

Originally posted by Goodshape
...on the other hand, Hayden Christanson comes to mind. "I am haunted by the kiss.." JEEEESSSSUUUUUSSSS!!!... I have to skip those fu.king scenes everytime I watch AotC.

Thats who I was going to say, shoot him for me!! please! he ruined that film, all the scene's with him in it (apart from the bounty hunter chase) really did bug me.

patch · 02-05-2003 1:23pm

Originally posted by DMT
No, he was talking about Tank, not the "home & away" guy:

Oh....... well, did you know that the dude in the photo got sacked off the movies sequels? He broke into an office in warner studios!!!! Or so I read somewhere......:)

Pepe LeFrits · 02-05-2003 3:08pm

Originally posted by DMT
No, he was talking about Tank, not the "home & away" guy:

Tank aka Marcus Chong. Terrorist threat, lol

Sev · 02-05-2003 3:22pm

Bill Paxton (the guy from twister). He's not hammy, but the opposite extreme. He's just so goddamn boring and monotonic.

pickarooney · 02-05-2003 3:51pm

Al Pacino

- "Good FúCKING Morning, you cock-SUCKER! How the FúCK are you.
You CúNT! HOO-HA"
- "Good Morning dear, your breakfast 's almost ready"
- "Thank you. And by that I mean thank FúCK and FúCK YOU! Is there any orange juice left? You BITCH?"

etc. etc.

ObeyGiant · 02-05-2003 5:49pm

Originally posted by Sev
Bill Paxton (the guy from twister). He's not hammy, but the opposite extreme. He's just so goddamn boring and monotonic.

He rocked mightily in Weird Science and Near Dark.

DMT · 02-05-2003 9:27pm

Originally posted by pickarooney
Al Pacino

- "Good FúCKING Morning, you cock-SUCKER! How the FúCK are you.
You CúNT! HOO-HA"
- "Good Morning dear, your breakfast 's almost ready"
- "Thank you. And by that I mean thank FúCK and FúCK YOU! Is there any orange juice left? You BITCH?"

etc. etc.

Someone makes a prank call to a New Yorker and "talks" to him using an array of Al Pacino samples:
here

More here & here.

DMT · 02-05-2003 9:49pm

Originally posted by Panda
Who do think is a really hammy actor,

Annabeth Gish from The X-Files:

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Caesar_Bojangle · 02-05-2003 11:23pm

Nat from Beverly Hills 90210

He was quite hammy

TomTom · 03-05-2003 12:25am

That ginger guy that used to be in nypd blue....David Caruso, thanks to imdb for that one.

Not often you see him in much these says but when I do i feel like driving my fist through the TV screen. It's not that I hate him, I just think he' a crap actor.

I seen a film with him in it kiss of something, no sure of the title. and he just bugged me to death.

DMT · 03-05-2003 2:28pm

Originally posted by TomTom
That ginger guy that used to be in nypd blue....David Caruso, thanks to imdb for that one.

That and "Jade".
He's the star of CSI:Miami now.

Panda · 04-05-2003 1:11am

tank, thats the spanner!
lol at his pic and even more so at the police record.

Another muppet that tops the polls in hammy acting is in CSI.
Its a decent enough show, good storys that leave you guessing etc.
Hes kinda the head of the CSI department on the show, the oldish guy with the glasses.....
hammy mofo...

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