Big Cheese: Do I chew the scenery?
Jerry Atrick: You even swallow it!
Jerry Atrick: You even swallow it!
GIR, all this evil is doing a number on my throat! Fetch me a sooooooothing LOZEEEENGE!
You told me... to play... BASKETBALL!
— KC Guthrie, Degrassi: The Next Generation
Boy, those Canadians can really write.
— Nick Danger, after a particularly hammy moment.
Poor Peter Davison; he really was lumbered with some pretty dire companions during his run, wasn’t he? ..."Good, then I can catch a train!" enthuses Tegan with such unnatural stress it sounds as though she is waiting for an applause for making the most mundane of observations. "Maths!" spits Tegan as though Adric has suggested taking her up the ass (seriously, go and watch it again!). "Look, a door!" she exclaims as though she is witnessing a miracle...do they not have them in Australia? There is a hilariously awful moment when Tegan discovers her body will be disposed of (hooray!) and she starts stamping her feet and screaming "No! No! No! No! No!" like a kid that has been told that if she doesn't clean her room she'll be grounded for a week.
"Flair bursts into Bichoff’s office, and he’s STILL REALLY REALLY MAD.
This is important to know, because when he has a heart attack later on in the night and people wonder why it was that it happened, you can confidently tell them that it’s because Ric Flair spends this whole show yelling, and turning red like a cartoon character after eating some kind of insanely hot pepper...Flair then forgets which direction the door is in, before leaving in a huff."
This is important to know, because when he has a heart attack later on in the night and people wonder why it was that it happened, you can confidently tell them that it’s because Ric Flair spends this whole show yelling, and turning red like a cartoon character after eating some kind of insanely hot pepper...Flair then forgets which direction the door is in, before leaving in a huff."
—Cewsh Reviews
on TNA Against All Odds 2010
on TNA Against All Odds 2010Cage is a good actor in good movies, and an almost indispensable actor in bad ones. He can go over the top so effortlessly he rests up and makes lemonade for everybody.
At one point, toward the end of this uneven, 2 1/2-hour romp in Japan, Cruise trembles with such grief, rage, injustice and despair, his eyes literally begin to cross and you sense that this is it. The man really is going to be the first actor ever to pass out onscreen from overacting.
''The dialog and hamminess of the script is amazing. Take for instance when Billie gets her first big music video with the evil/corrupt/faceless corporate recording label. The smarmy director cuts into the video going (I shit you not) "WE NEED MORE OF HER BREASTS!" and saying of her two lifelong friends/backup dancers "Ugh, just get some strippers already!" We then get Mariah in a bikini surrounded by a cast of men in leotards in tribal Indian paint with the director screaming "Yes, this is what I wanted! Like fire!!!"
(Raúl Juliá) was only doing (Street Fighter) for his children, and he leapt into it with all the energy and glory of a man leaping on a grenade for the same reason. The sets were so cheap because they had to be replaced after he had eaten them in their entirety with every take. While the other actors were realizing that 'Third Tree in Nativity Play Once' hadn't quite prepared them for the camera, he was flicking off immortal villain lines like he'd found them clinging to his evil dressing gown.
You still refuse to AC-CEPT my GOD-HOOD!
KEEP YOUR OWN GOD!
In fact!
This might be a good time to pray to him!
FOR IIII
BE-HELD SA-TAN!
AS HE FELL
FRRROM HEA-VEN!!!
LIKE
LIGHT-
NIIIIIING!!!!!
KEEP YOUR OWN GOD!
In fact!
This might be a good time to pray to him!
FOR IIII
BE-HELD SA-TAN!
AS HE FELL
FRRROM HEA-VEN!!!
LIKE
LIGHT-
NIIIIIING!!!!!
M.Bison, Street Fighter
Dunaway does not chew scenery. Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it whole, costars and all.
— Variety reviewing Mommie Dearest
Agatha, who has just had her locket stolen: You swine! I... I'll report this! Dr. Beetle's clanks will come after you! They'll find you and put you in a jar in University Square to ROT! And I'll come EVERY SINGLE DAY while you BAKE IN THE SUN and STARVE and CLAW AT THE GLASS and SCREAM as you DIE SLOWLY LIKE THE MISERABLE RATS YOU ARE!
Gilgamesh: You knew me at school, and perhaps don't take me very seriously. That would be a mistake. You must understand this. When I come to her, she will be safe, unharmed and free. Because I will come to her, and if she is not, I will DESTROY "Her Undying Majesty", melt what is left of your miserable island to SLAG, AND BOIL THE SEAS AROUND YOU FOR THE NEXT THOUSAND YEARS! Do you understand?
Wooster: You... you couldn't!
Gilgamesh: Couldn't?! COULDN'T?! I am GILGAMESH WOLFENBACH, little man, AND THERE IS NOTHING I COULDN'T DO, HAD I CAUSE!
—Extracts from Girl Genius
You see, Darwin has his sights set on world domination. That is, of course, provided the world is still left after Richard E. Grant's scenery chomping.
And five words: Tim Curry as the villain. Oh, my God, I'm surprised there’s any scenery left behind him, he’s chewed so much. He does all the typical over-the-top Tim Curry stuff we expect Tim Curry to do. He smiles, he looks slimy, he stretches out his vowels, he screams, he yells, he raises his eyebrows. Oh, my God! It’s Tim Curry as the villain, and that should give you an idea what kind of movie this is.
—Doug Walker, Disneycember: The Three Musketeers (1993)
Today is the end of the Republic! The end of a regime that acquiesces to disorder. At this very moment in a system far from here, the New Republic lies to the galaxy while secretly supporting the treachery of the loathsome Resistance. This fierce machine which you have built — upon which we stand — will bring an end to the Senate, to their cherished fleet! ALL REMAINING SYSTEMS WILL BOW TO THE FIRST ORDER! AND WILL REMEMBER THIS... AS THE LAST DAY... OF THE REPUBLIC!!!
—General Armitage Hux, The Force Awakens
Nappa: Vegeta! What does the scouter say about his power level?
Vegeta: It's over NINE THOOOUSAAAAAAAAAAAAND!! (crushes said scouter)
Vegeta: It's over NINE THOOOUSAAAAAAAAAAAAND!! (crushes said scouter)
—Dragon Ball Z, Ocean Productions English dub
Cast the most reserved and sober actress as a vampire and within five seconds she will be crawling around the stage in a low cut white nightdress, hissing like a burst water main and staring at you with eyes so big you'd think she was a cat who'd just heard you open a can of tuna. Ladies love playing vampires. You can take that to the bank.
Which is why I feel the performances of Melissa Stribling as Mina, Carol Marsh as Lucy and Valerie Gaunt as an unnamed bride have to be assessed in two discrete phases, before they become vampires and after. Before they are turned none of the actresses are particularly raising the bar for the artform. But once they get turned, all bets are off. You can almost see them thinking "My last role was a worried girlfriend, my next role will be a worried wife, but TODAY, TODAY I AM PLAYING THE DEVIL'S OWN BOOTY CALL AND I SWEAR THAT WHEN THIS IS OVER THEY WILL HAVE TO PUMP THE SCENERY OUT OF MY STOMACH HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS."
Unshaved Mouse, on the women hamming it up in Horror of Dracula
You flaming idiots! TAKE THIIIIIIIS!!!
—Zhang Bao before unleashing the falling boulders on Dynasty Warriors
PEOPLE OF ETERNIA! I stand before the Great Eye of the galaxy. Chosen by destiny to RECEIVE THE POWERS OF GREYSKULL! This inevitable moment will transpire before your eyes, even as He-Man himself bears witness to it. Now. I, Skeletor, am Master of the Universe! YES! Yes... I feel it, the power... fills me. Yes, I feel the universe within me! I am... I am a part of the cosmos! Its energy flows... flows through me! Of what consequence are you now? This planet, these people. They are NOTHING TO ME! The universe is POWER! Pure, unstoppable POWER! AND I AM THAT FORCE! I AM THAT POWER! KNEEL BEFORE YOUR MASTER! Fool! you are no longer my EQUAL! I am more than man! MORE THAN LIFE! I... am... a... GOD! Now. You... will... KNEEEEEL! KNEEEEL!
—Skeletor during his villain speech in Masters of the Universe
THIS IS MY STOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!
—Steven Chapman, Dead Rising
