History Quotes / HamAndCheese

->''"To be fair to Bruce Payne, though, I don’t think there was much he could do with this role. I checked the script – all of these lines, including the uber-creepy, “What’s the matter? Don’t you want to be [[FoeYay inside me]]?” line were all in the script. What’s an actor supposed to do with that? You can either play it straight and sound like a tool or you can go the route that Raul Julia went in the ''Street Fighter'' movie and give a performance that includes a large order of ham with a side of cheese. I’m not happy with Payne’s performance, but this guy had to go through this movie and ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons'' in the same year. If he hadn’t been given the chance to go stupidly over the top with his performances, [[YourHeadASplode his head might have exploded]]."''

->[Robert] ''Duvall is seriously hilarious in this movie and the ''Film/CapeFear'' comparison is apt. He apparently [[GoingNative goes all native]] when he gets captured by the Indians so he is like a two face when he returns to civilization. In the Puritan camp he is all super prim and proper and stiff. When its night, he strips down, shaves his whole body, carves things into himself, whoops, hollers, and kills motherf*ckers with a knife. Everyone else tries to be all stiff and have proper accents and talk formally and whatnot. No, not Duvall. He went all [[LethalWeapon Martin Riggs]] in this movie and it’s glorious.''

->[Robert] ''[[RobertDuvall Duvall]] is seriously hilarious in this movie and the ''Film/CapeFear'' comparison is apt. He apparently [[GoingNative goes all native]] when he gets captured by the Indians so he is like a two face when he returns to civilization. In the Puritan camp he is all super prim and proper and stiff. When its night, he strips down, shaves his whole body, carves things into himself, whoops, hollers, and kills motherf*ckers with a knife. Everyone else tries to be all stiff and have proper accents and talk formally and whatnot. No, not Duvall. He went all [[LethalWeapon Martin Riggs]] in this movie and it’s glorious.''

->''"That sardonic thing is mostly when the dialogue is puerile. You want to let the audience in on the fact that 'Yes, I know this is shit'."''
-->-- '''Creator/ChristopherPlummer''' on the common characteristics of the characters he plays.

->What I am saying is, Billy Zane, alone among all ''Titanic'''s many acclaimed cast members, seems to have realized what a ridiculous movie he was making, and he apparently decided to go full-on cartoon villain for the occasion. For though Billy Zane may not be the most able of actors, he possesses the essential quality of enthusiasm. Specifically, enthusiasm for unhinged, hilarious overacting. ... Zane is wildly over-the-top, which is probably why he didn't get good reviews. Also, Zane is wildly over-the-top, which is why he is the most entertaining thing in the movie.

->"[Guy] Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously trying to give a good and realistic performance]]. [Jeremy] Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly."
-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''', reviewing ''[[Film/TheTimeMachine2002 The Time Machine]]'' (2002)

->"HAM AND CHEESE!! BRILLIANT!!"
-->-- '''BillBailey''', talking about Toasties during ''bewilderness''

->''Yeah, listen, I hated that script. We all did. Me, [[SeanConnery Sean]], [[ChristopherLambert Chris]]...we all were [[MoneyDearBoy in it for the money]] on this one. I mean, [the script] read as if it had been written by a thirteen year old boy. But I'd never played a barbarian swordsman before, and this was my first big evil mastermind type. I figured if I was going to do this stupid movie, I might as well have fun and go as far over the top as I possibly could. All that eye-rolling and foaming at the mouth was me deciding that if I was going to be in a piece of shit like that movie, I was going to be the most memorable fucking thing in it. And I think I succeeded.''
-->-- '''MichaelIronside''' on his role in ''[[{{Highlander}} Highlander II: The Quickening]]''

->''Eric Roberts, for all the criticism he gets, is at least having fun with the script. His decision to devour large swaths of scenery locate him firmly in the tradition of [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS17E5TheHornsOfNimon}} Graham Crowden]] and [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS4E5TheUnderwaterMenace}} Joseph Furst]]. Which is to say that he’s not destined for fan acclaim, but he’s easy to like if you’re of the mind to.
-->-- '''Phil Sandifer''', "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie}} The TV Movie]]"

->[M]''ostly it's an opportunity to watch John Malkovich turn in a performance that had to - HAD TO - be a direct challenge to the director, 'Please, fire me. I'm begging you to fire me. I'll do a take like this and then you'll have to fire me. Wait, I'm still not fired?' ''

->''"...But mostly it's an opportunity to watch John Malkovich turn in a performance that had to - HAD TO - be a direct challenge to the director, 'Please, fire me. I'm begging you to fire me. I'll do a take like this and then you'll have to fire me. Wait, I'm still not fired?'"''

->"Only thing I kind of like in this movie is that weirdo villain. And that's just because he's so over-the-top bad! Now to be fair, this guy has done a lot of good serious work, like ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', ''[[Theatre/TitusAndronicus Titus]]'' and so forth, so I really credit this more to bad directing than I do bad acting. But hey, at least it was entertaining, which is more than I can say for the rest of this stupid film!"
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''', reviewing ''WarriorsOfVirtue''

-->-- '''MichaelIronside''' on his role in ''Film/Highlander II: The Quickening''

->"...For if knowledge is power, then [[AGodAmI A God Am]] '''''[[AGodAmI IIII]]!!!''''' [{{Beat}}] [[LampshadeHanging Was that over the top]]? I can never tell! [[EvilLaugh Hahahaha]]!"
-->-- '''The Riddler''', ''Film/BatmanForever''

->''Yeah, listen, I hated that script. We all did. Me, [[SeanConnery Sean]], [[ChristopherLambert Chris]]...we all were [[MoneyDearBoy in it for the money on this one. I mean, [the script] read as if it had been written by a thirteen year old boy. But I'd never played a barbarian swordsman before, and this was my first big evil mastermind type. I figured if I was going to do this stupid movie, I might as well have fun and go as far over the top as I possibly could. All that eye-rolling and foaming at the mouth was me deciding that if I was going to be in a piece of shit like that movie, I was going to be the most memorable fucking thing in it. And I think I succeeded.''

->"...But mostly it's an opportunity to watch John Malkovich turn in a performance that had to - HAD TO - be a direct challenge to the director, "Please, fire me. I'm begging you to fire me. I'll do a take like this and then you'll have to fire me. Wait, I'm still not fired?""

->"That sardonic thing is mostly when the dialogue is puerile. You want to let the audience in on the fact that 'Yes, I know this is shit'."
-->-- '''ChristopherPlummer''' on the common characteristics of the characters he plays.

-->-- '''RogerEbert''', reviewing ''[[Film/TheTimeMachine2002 The Time Machine]]'' (2002)

-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''', on DennisHopper's performance in the [[Film/SuperMarioBros Super Mario Bros. movie]].

-->-- '''RogerEbert''', reviewing ''TheTimeMachine'' (2002)

->"...But mostly it's an opportunity to watch John Malkovich turn in a performance that had to - HAD TO - be a direct challenge to the director, "Please, fire me. I'm begging you to fire me. I'll do a take like this and then you'll have to fire me. Wait, I'm still not fired?""

->"Only thing I kind of like in this movie is that weirdo villain. And that's just because he's so over-the-top bad! Now to be fair, this guy has done a lot of good serious work, like ''{{Braveheart}}'', ''[[Theatre/TitusAndronicus Titus]]'' and so forth, so I really credit this more to bad directing than I do bad acting. But hey, at least it was entertaining, which is more than I can say for the rest of this stupid film!"

->"...For if knowledge is power, then [[AGodAmI A God Am]] '''''[[AGodAmI IIII]]!!!''''' [[[{{Beat}} beat]]] [[LampshadeHanging Was that over the top]]? I can never tell! [[EvilLaugh Hahahaha]]!"

-->-- '''The Riddler''', ''BatmanForever''

->"Only thing I kind of like in this movie is that weirdo villain. And that's just because he's so over-the-top bad! Now to be fair, this guy has done a lot of good serious work, like ''{{Braveheart}}'', ''[[TitusAndronicus Titus]]'' and so forth, so I really credit this more to bad directing than I do bad acting. But hey, at least it was entertaining, which is more than I can say for the rest of this stupid film!"

-->-- '''WebOriginal/TheNostalgiaCritic''', reviewing ''WarriorsOfVirtue''

-->-- '''WebOriginal/TheNostalgiaCritic''', on DennisHopper's performance in the [[Film/SuperMarioBros Super Mario Bros. movie]].

-->--[[WebOriginal/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] on [[Film/TheMatrix Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions]].
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-->--FilmBrain on [[TheMatrix Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions]].

-->-- '''TheNostalgiaCritic''', reviewing ''WarriorsOfVirtue''

-->-- '''TheNostalgiaCritic''', on DennisHopper's performance in the [[Film/SuperMarioBros Super Mario Bros. movie]].

-->-- '''''{{Rifftrax}}''''', product description for ''{{Eragon}}''

-->-- '''Christopher Plummer''' on the common characteristics of the characters he plays.

-->-- '''The Nostalgia Critic''', reviewing ''WarriorsOfVirtue''

-->-- '''The Nostalgia Critic''', on DennisHopper's performance in the [[Film/SuperMarioBros Super Mario Bros. movie]].

-->-- The Riddler, ''BatmanForever''

-->-- '''The Nostalgia Critic''', on DennisHopper's performance in the [{{Film/SuperMarioBros}} Super Mario Bros. movie]].

->What I am saying is, Billy Zane, alone among all ''Titanic'''s many acclaimed cast members, seems to have realized what a ridiculous movie he was making, and he apparently decided to go full-on cartoon villain for the occasion. For though Billy Zane may not be the most able of actors, he possesses the essential quality of enthusiasm. Specifically, enthusiasm for unhinged, hilarious overacting. ... Zane is wildly over-the-top, which is probably why he didn’t get good reviews. Also, Zane is wildly over-the-top, which is why he is the most entertaining thing in the movie.

->''"...But mostly it's an opportunity to watch John Malkovich turn in a performance that had to - HAD TO - be a direct challenge to the director, "Please, fire me. I'm begging you to fire me. I'll do a take like this and then you'll have to fire me. Wait, I'm still not fired?""''
-->-- ''{{Rifftrax}}'', product description for ''{{Eragon}}''

->''"That sardonic thing is mostly when the dialogue is puerile. You want to let the audience in on the fact that 'Yes, I know this is shit'."''
-->-- Christopher Plummer on the common characteristics of the characters he plays.

-->-- Sady from ''[[http://tigerbeatdown.com/?p=607 Tiger Beatdown]]'', on ''{{Titanic}}''

->''"[Guy] Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously trying to give a good and realistic performance]]. [Jeremy] Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly."''

->''"HAM AND CHEESE!! BRILLIANT!!"''

->''"Only thing I kind of like in this movie is that weirdo villain. And that's just because he's so over-the-top bad! Now to be fair, this guy has done a lot of good serious work, like ''{{Braveheart}}'', ''[[TitusAndronicus Titus]]'' and so forth, so I really credit this more to bad directing than I do bad acting. But hey, at least it was entertaining, which is more than I can say for the rest of this stupid film!"''

->''"Only thing I kind of like in this movie is that weirdo villain. And that's just because he's so over-the-top bad! Now to be fair, this guy has done a lot of good serious work, like ''{{Braveheart}}'', "[[TitusAndronicus Titus]]'' and so forth, so I really credit this more to bad directing than I do bad acting. But hey, at least it was entertaining, which is more than I can say for the rest of this stupid film!"''

->''"Only thing I kind of like in this movie is that weirdo villain. And that's just because he's so over-the-top bad! Now to be fair, this guy has done a lot of good serious work, like ''{{Braveheart}}'' "[[TitusAndronicus Titus]]'' and so forth, so I really credit this more to bad directing than I do bad acting. But hey, at least it was entertaining, which is more than I can say for the rest of this stupid film!"''