History LargeHam / LiveActionFilms

-->"[[{{Catchphrase}} JUMPING BUTTERBALLS!]]"

-->'''Starro:''' ''[through an assimilated woman]'' '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis THIS! CITY!! IS!!!]]''' '''''[[BigWordShout MIIIIIIINE!!!!!]]'''''

-->'''Starro:''' ''[through an assimilated woman]'' '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis THIS! CITY!! IS!!]]''' '''''[[BigWordShout MIIIIIIINE!!!!!]]'''''

* ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'' already has a BoisterousBruiser protagonist, but the two villains go step higher. King Orm (Creator/PatrickWilson, who is clearly having a blast) gets carried away pretty often ("ATLANTIS! RIIIIIIIIIISE!!!"), and once David Kane becomes the Black Manta, he says everything in a dramatic manner ("Perhaps THIS! WILL JOG YOUR MEMORY!!!").

* The 2013 Creator/{{CBC}} movie ''Film/{{Jack|2013}},'' about [[CanadaEh Canadian]] [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPolitics politician]] Jack Layton, portrays him as a bit hammy. It's also discussed within the movie; Olivia mentions that Jack Layton is a ham. TruthInTelevision, since in real life his time as NDP leader was marked by a relatively hammier debating style than that associated with the leaders of the more mainstream political parties.

* Creator/BenAffleck, unlike Creator/ChristianBale, doesn't have to do a [[GutturalGrowler growling voice]]; his Batman has an electronic voice changer, which instantly makes his every word incredibly badass.

* The Baron Harkonnen in Creator/DavidLynch's ''Film/Dune1984'' is an enormous bucket of ham. His nephews Rabban and Feyd are definitely on their way to full ham-hood, Piter de Vries even proves you can give sign language a pork content, and [[Creator/PatrickStewart Gurney Halleck]] is hammy as ever.

*** To be fair, half the dialogue they had to work with had distinct pork content to begin with.

** Speaking of Creator/MichaelBiehn, he actually plays the soft-spoken badass in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', letting Creator/BillPaxton take charge as the memorably large Ham of that movie ("Game over, man! GAME OVER!").
** As mentioned in the Batman entry, Creator/ChristianBale as John Connor in ''Film/TerminatorSalvation''.

* Creator/EdwardJamesOlmos as Selena's father in ''Film/{{Selena}}'', don't start him on how Hispanic-Americans get treated he won't stop. And also there's the scene where Selena starts dancing in a skimpy clothing and Olmos' character nearly has a meltdown, and yelling "YOU'RE FIRED" at Selena's boyfriend/band member either when he trashes a hotel room or he makes it clear he has a thing for his daughter. There are times where he's calm and subtle and there's other scenes where Olmos completely loses it and goes completely over the top. Though Stand and Deliver was pretty hammy in the performance department too, though a little more subtle than Selena.

-->'''Thufir Hawat:''' ([[WTHCastingAgency Wait, what?]]) THOSE SOUNDS ...''(smack your lips, wiggle your jowls)'' COULD. BE. IM-IT-TAYT-TED.

** He wasn't much less hammy as Salieri in ''Theatre/{{Amadeus}}'', which got him an Oscar. (helps he had to endure HamToHamCombat against [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjmmjXGwarU Tom Hulce's Mozart]])

* Creator/MichaelCaine in ''Film/TheSwarm'' plays his Heroic Scientist character as condescending towards everyone and with a tendency to start shouting at the top of his lungs with almost no provocation.

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'':

* Creator/TommyLeeJones as ComicBook/TwoFace in ''Film/BatmanForever''. (and the other villain, ComicBook/TheRiddler, is Creator/JimCarrey, who has [[LargeHam/{{Actors}} a whole folder here]] and illustrates this very page... amazingly, Jones manages to out-ham ''Creator/JimCarrey''; ponder that for a moment).

** Creator/UmaThurman as ComicBook/PoisonIvy, in a rare female example, is also a saving grace for the film.

* Creator/JackNicholson [[Film/Batman1989 as]] ComicBook/TheJoker, though really, that's practically a prerequisite for playing the character. He likes ChewingTheScenery and gets several great lines... (one of them a {{Trope Namer|s}}: "WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys...?!")
* Creator/HeathLedger's Joker is also [[RuleOfCool sadistically wonderful]], [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments funny]] and terrifying at the same time. And ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk7R_6xqkKw hammy]]''.

* If you want to put it that way, ''anytime'' ComicBook/TheJoker is played by ''anyone'' (see also the [[LargeHam/ComicBooks Comics]], LargeHam/LiveActionTV, LargeHam/VideoGames and LargeHam/WesternAnimation pages), the actor is going to find himself unleashing the Hog...

* From ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', we have ComicBook/{{Bane}}, who hams up every scene he's in with a voice that sounds like a crazed Creator/SeanConnery on steroids, while dominating every scene physically too. "I was created in the ham. Mollllllded by it. And by the time I saw unsubtle acting, it was nothing but '''BLINDING!'''"

* Creator/JaredLeto's version of ComicBook/TheJoker, as befits a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] MonsterClown, is a thick, cackling slice of ham.
-->'''The Joker [to Monster T]:''' Ohhh, that she issss. The fiiiiire in my loins, the ''itch in my crotch'', the ONE, the ONLY, the '''INFAMOUS...[[Comicbook/HarleyQuinn HARRRRRRLEY QUINNNN!]]'''

* Creator/KevinSpacey's ComicBook/LexLuthor in ''Film/SupermanReturns''.
** "'''[[MemeticMutation WROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!!!]]'''"

** En Sabah Nur/Comicbook/{{Apocalypse}} is a goldmine of these, to the point where it almost seems like he has been ripped straight out of [[Westernanimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries the '90s cartoon]]. Creator/BryanSinger directed Creator/OscarIsaac's [[http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/oscar-isaac-the-internets-boyfriend-becomes-a-leading-man-20160518#ixzz499n6xTax performance by requesting]] "quarter [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]]," "half Skeletor" or [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide "full Skeletor."]] The quotes below are clearly on the last category.
--->"EVERYTHING THEY'VE BUILT, WILL FALL!!! AND FROM THE ASHES OF THEIR WORLD, WE'LL BUILD A BETTER ONE!!!"
--->"No more stones. No more spears. No more slings. No more swords! NO MORE WEAPONS! NO MORE SYSTEMS!! NO MORE... No more superpowers."
--->"YOU CAN FIRE YOUR ARROWS FROM THE TOWER OF BABEL, BUT YOU CAN ''NEVER STRIKE '''GOD'''''!!!"
--->"Charles, I know you can hear me. We're still connected. CHARLES! SHOW YOURSELF! '''CHAAAAAARLES!!!''' SHOW YOURSELF!!!"
--->"CHARLES!!! COME, RESCUE YOUR WEAKLINGS!!! GIVE YOUR LIFE FOR THEIRS!!! CHARLES, WILL YOU DO NOTHING?!!"

* Creator/RyanReynolds already showed he had the ham to play [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]] in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''. So come the ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' solo movie, and the character is as unhinged as in the comic, hammy even with his face masked.

* Creator/NaomiWatts in ''Film/TheRing''. "What do you WANT from MEEE!?" and most infamously in ''Film/TheRingTwo'', "I'm NOT your [=FUCKing=] MOMMY!"

* Creator/BillNighy, people. Especially when he's Viktor in the ''Film/{{Underworld}}'' films and Davy Jones in ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' films. And as Rattlesnake Jake in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}''.

* Johnny from ''Film/TheRoom'' is one of the more bizarre examples of the trope, due to his strange accent and [[ColdHam bored tone of voice whenever he's trying to emote.]]

" You're a bunch of GUTLESS PRICKS! ALL OF YOU!"

*** Creator/WillemDafoe. Everything Else. [[Film/TheBoondockSaints '''"THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT!"''']]

** That is just the tail end of a wonderful 9 second rapid ham-off between Creator/SylvesterStallone and Creator/ArmandAssante. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aaubVlhNK4&feature=related ""You betrayed the LAW!!" "LAAAAAAWW!!""]].

--> "Mutineers '''HAAAAANG!''"

* As mentioned above, '''Captain''' Jack Sparrow. It gets even worse when he is TalkingToHimself in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third movie]].