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** Creator/IanMcDiarmid throughout the entire series of Star Wars serves ham. Even when posing as the good natured senator, he gives some Cold Ham. And once the charades are dropped in episode 3, and the Jedi know he's a Sith lord, [[EvilIsHammy it's time to wolf down the scenery like there's no tomorrow]]. This is the real reason most of the movie was CGI: he devoured all the sets. This goes for everything in the original trilogy as well; The Emperor is pure ham.
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** Creator/IanMcDiarmid throughout the entire series of Star Wars serves ham. ham and chews. Even when posing as the good natured senator, he gives some Cold Ham.ColdHam. And once the charades are dropped in episode 3, and the Jedi know he's a Sith lord, [[EvilIsHammy it's time to wolf down the scenery like there's no tomorrow]]. This is the real reason most of the movie was CGI: he devoured all the sets. This goes for everything in the original trilogy as well; The Emperor is pure ham.
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** In general, Creator/IanMcDiarmid gives a relatively subdued performance as Palpatine. But once the charades are dropped in episode 3, and the Jedi know he's a Sith lord, [[EvilIsHammy it's time to wolf down the scenery like there's no tomorrow]]. This is the real reason most of the movie was CGI: he devoured all the sets!
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** In general, Creator/IanMcDiarmid throughout the entire series of Star Wars serves ham. Even when posing as the good natured senator, he gives a relatively subdued performance as Palpatine. But some Cold Ham. And once the charades are dropped in episode 3, and the Jedi know he's a Sith lord, [[EvilIsHammy it's time to wolf down the scenery like there's no tomorrow]]. This is the real reason most of the movie was CGI: he devoured all the sets!sets. This goes for everything in the original trilogy as well; The Emperor is pure ham.
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** ''Film/MatchstickMen'':
---> "Hey have you ever been dragged to the sidewalk and beaten till you [[SuddenlyShouting PISSED... BLOOD]]?!"
---> "Hey have you ever been dragged to the sidewalk and beaten till you [[SuddenlyShouting PISSED... BLOOD]]?!"
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* Certain bites of James "Jimi" Kinstle's performance as Norman Osborn (a.k.a. The Green Goblin) in the ''Spider-Man'' fan film ''The Green Goblin's Last Stand''. As may be expected from a classically-trained actor playing a homicidal maniac, this is genuinely frightening at times. That joke about Osborn being scarier without his mask on? It's true here.
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* Certain bites of James "Jimi" Kinstle's performance as Norman Osborn (a.k.a. The Green Goblin) in the ''Spider-Man'' fan film ''The Green Goblin's Last Stand''.''Film/TheGreenGoblinsLastStand''. As may be expected from a classically-trained actor playing a homicidal maniac, this is genuinely frightening at times. That joke about Osborn being scarier without his mask on? It's true here.
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* Creator/WilliamAtherton as Walter Peck in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' when he [[spoiler:demands the arrest of the Ghostbusters after forcibly shutting down the containment unit]].
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* Creator/WilliamAtherton as Walter Peck in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' when he [[spoiler:demands the arrest of the Ghostbusters after forcibly shutting down the containment unit]].
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-->'''Ronan''': You call me '''BOY!''' I will unfurl one-thousand years of Kree justice on Xandar, and ''burn it to its core!''
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** He also gobbles the scenery a few times in ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', particularly when Louis' manor is on fire.
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** For that matter, anything Raúl Juliá has acted in. [[MemeticMutation OF COURSE!]] Chris Lloyd is no slouch, either.
* Creator/NickNolte. Full stop.
* Creator/NickNolte. Full stop.
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* '''[[Film/{{Superman}} COME TO ME, SON OF JOR-EL!]]''' '''[[KneelBeforeZod KNEEL BEFORE]]''' '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg1yUMqJMcw ZOD!]]'''
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** Creator/TobyStephens chews the scenery so hard in ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', you'd think the film was his dental records! Props for never actually shouting or overtly cheesing it up, merely portraying a parody of the snooty upper-class British man he's supposed to be disguised as.
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* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': "I ... AM... [[SayMyName MEGATRON!!!]]
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* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': ''Film/{{Transformers|2007}}'': "I ... AM... [[SayMyName MEGATRON!!!]]
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** The villain of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'', the High Evolutionary, is somehow even ''hammier'' than Ronan. Chukwudi Iwuji plays the High Evolutionary as a snarling egomaniac prone to fits of explosive anger, particularly toward the end; during his VillainousBreakdown, Iwuji is screaming with such passion you can literally see the spit flying from his mouth.
-->"''You're an'' ABOMINATION! ''Nothing more than a step on'' MY ''path! You...'' freakish little monster!"
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* The DVDCommentary for ''Film/{{Priest}}'' mentions that many of Creator/KarlUrban's scenes seem to exist for the purpose of letting Urban chew scenery.
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* The DVDCommentary for ''Film/{{Priest}}'' ''Film/Priest2011'' mentions that many of Creator/KarlUrban's scenes seem to exist for the purpose of letting Urban chew scenery.
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-->'''Ronnie:''' A SHOOTOUT, RIGHT, IS SUPPOSED TO BE A FUCKING SHOOTOUT! Like a Western! WANKERS!
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* ''Film/InTheNameOfTheFather'': Creator/DanielDayLewis puts on a passionate performance as Gerry Conlon with many scenes where he shows extreme rage and sorrow, which is [[JustifiedTrope justified]], well done and appropriate to show Gerry's plight as a wrongly convicted man.
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* Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989'' features Creator/JackPalance, well, being Jack Palance. Not to be outdone, Creator/JackNicholson [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in-universe, and actually [[UpToEleven Out-Hams]] him, when he borrows one of his lines.
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* Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989'' features Creator/JackPalance, well, being Jack Palance. Not to be outdone, Creator/JackNicholson [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in-universe, and actually [[UpToEleven Out-Hams]] out-hams him, when he borrows one of his lines.
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** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Ronan the Accuser doesn't so much as chew the scenery as maul and raven it to bloody pieces. Creator/LeePace recalled once how he would keep glancing back to Creator/JamesGunn to tell him when to dial it back, while Gunn just kept going "more, more." The final product, when Ronan is ''really'' allowed to cut loose, is a screaming fanatic who manages to make ''Thanos'' look subtle by comparison:
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** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'': Ronan the Accuser doesn't so much as chew the scenery as maul and raven it to bloody pieces. Creator/LeePace recalled once how he would keep glancing back to Creator/JamesGunn to tell him when to dial it back, while Gunn just kept going "more, more." The final product, when Ronan is ''really'' allowed to cut loose, is a screaming fanatic who manages to make ''Thanos'' look subtle by comparison:
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* Pervasive during the silent film era. {{Justified|Trope}} in that, because audiences couldn't hear them speak, actors relied on exaggerated facial expressions and gestures to convey emotion.
* ''Film/ForrestGump'' to Jenny, as she's about to leave with her radical lefty boyfriend:
-->'''Forrest:''' You know what I think? I think you, should go back, to Green-Bow, AL-A-BAM-A!
* The waitress in ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'': "WE MADE *YOU*!!!"
* It may be easier to list who doesn't in ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** Kirk's infamous "[[TheKhan KHAAAAAAAN!]]" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnSnfiUI54 scream]] in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''. In fact, Creator/WilliamShatner has one of these at least every five minutes, in ''everything'' he's ever done. The Khan thing is actually deliberate, since, if you remember what happens immediately thereafter (that it was all a ruse to make Khan underestimate them), it's made apparent that ''[[JustifiedTrope Kirk]]'' [[JustifiedTrope is the one who is acting]], ''not'' Shatner.
** Meanwhile, in ''Film/StarTrek2009''.....
--->'''''[[SayMyName SPOOOOOOCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!]]'''''\\
'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Io0OQ2zPS4 FIRE EVERYTHING!]]'''\\
'''I WANT SPOCK DEAD NOW!!!'''
** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'':
*** Brought back, where the one [[spoiler:to do the "KHAAAAAN!" is ''[[TheStoic Spock]]''!]]
*** [[spoiler: Creator/PeterWeller]] hams it up during his MotiveRant. He also [[MilkingTheGiantCow Milks the Giant Cow]] during this.
----> '''[[spoiler: Admiral Marcus]]''': "War is coming! AND WHO'S GONNA LEAD US?! YOU?! If I'm not in charge, our entire way of life IS DECIMATED! So you want me off this ship, you better KILL ME!"
** It is also so noticeable in Wrath of Khan because it is, by a long shot, Shatner's most restrained performance with this being the one time he goes rather over the top. (Seriously, watch a bunch of Shatner's other stuff, especially in recent years when he has become essentially a parody of himself, and then watch Wrath of Khan, the subtlety he shows is both brilliant and quite shocking giving Shatner's normal acting style.)
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvRBDQqSmY What... doyoumean? I....hadthoughtthatShatner'sstyleofactingwasjust....toomuchforthetime.]] Add movements for more hilarity. Or not.
*** '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bZKEhgieoc IIIIIIII'MMMMMMM CAPTAIN KIRK!]]'''
*** '''OHH! THE HUMANITY!!!'''
** In ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', Creator/ChristopherPlummer as Klingon [[BigBad General Chang]] also does his best to out-ham Shatner. Especially in the climax, when he [[ShoutOutToShakespeare endlessly quotes William Shakespeare]] at the top of his lungs, and ''spin in his captain's chair''..
** [[Theatre/JuliusCaesar "CRY HAVOC! AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR!"]]
---->'''[=McCoy=]:''' I'd give real money if he'd just ''shut up.''
** Averted in ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' by everyone. But, this aversion is one of the elements that detractors of the movie tend to point to when referring to this film as a cold, flat experience. In such a case, it could be an example of [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]].
* Creator/MargotKidder in Full Moon Entertainment's ''Film/{{Beanstalk}}'', who gives the characters in ''Film/Troll2'' a serious run for their money.
* Creator/WilliamAtherton as Walter Peck in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' when he [[spoiler:demands the arrest of the Ghostbusters after forcibly shutting down the containment unit]].
* Alternate Trope Namer via MemeticMutation: The Monster Audrey 2 from ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'', whose [[CatchPhrase signature phrase]] is ''"Feed'' Me, Seymour!" played by [[BoisterousBruiser deep-voiced]] and [[MagnificentBastard enthusiastic]] Levi Stubbs.
* ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' has a handful, such as when Sonya gets captured by [[BigBad Shang Tsung]]:
-->"'''NOOOOO!!!!! PUT ME DOOOWWWN!!!'''"
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix''
** Morpheus' speech to Zion in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', although he had good reason to shout as the cave had no PA system.
** [[LargeHam Agent Smith]], especially in his final YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive speech in ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions''.
* Creator/MelGibson in many movies, especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLrrBs8JBQo all the FREEEEEDOOOOOM!!s]]
* Creator/AlPacino in ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate''. Practically his whole performance, but especially the line "God... is an ''absentee landlord''!"
** Not to mention his final BigNo, which is so massive it basically causes the movie to implode on itself.
** Many, MANY Pacino movies qualify. The final shootout in ''Film/Scarface1983'' comes to mind.
* Creator/MarlonBrando's cry of '''[+"[=STELLaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa=]!"+]''' in ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''. Parodied on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' with Elaine Benes. Among [[MemeticMutation other places]].
* Creator/DennisHopper's character in ''Film/BlueVelvet'', Frank Booth, provides one of the scarier example of this trope.
* A review of Creator/JeremyIrons in the horrid ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000'' film commented he was chewing so much scenery they had to rebuild the sets twice.
* Most Film/JamesBond villains, actually.
** Creator/ChristopherWalken as Max Zorin in ''Film/AViewToAKill''.
** [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws.]] Literally.
** Who can forget Boris Grishenko from ''Film/GoldenEye''? '''''I AM INVINCIBLE!!!'''''
** And Creator/JonathanPryce in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''.
** Points have to be given to Creator/StevenBerkoff as General Orlov in ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' through combining this with the speech patterns of Creator/WilliamShatner and a ludicrously [[JustAStupidAccent over-the-top Russian accent]] to turn a simple military briefing into a gloriously hammy [[CharacterFilibuster rant against Western decadence and spinelessness]], not to mention [[CallingTheOldManOut calling out his top colleague as a coward]] for not following his [[EvilPlan maniacal plan]].
*** This is actually fairly standard for Berkoff. His whole idea of theatre is that it has to be overstated, over the top acting.
* King Leonidas in ''Film/ThreeHundred''. And yes, we ''[[MemeticMutation know]]'' what [[PunctuatedForEmphasis this is]], thank you.
** Blasphemy? Madness? Athens?
** '''NO!'''
* Creator/DanielDayLewis in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i4cAvR5O3Q every movie he stars in]].
** ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'':
*** "I. Drink. Your. MILKSHAKE! *slllluuurrrrrpppp!* '''Film/ThereWillBeBlood I DRINK IT UP!!'''"
*** "'''I'VE ABANDONED MY CHILD!!!! I'VE ABANDONED MY BOY!'''"
*** "'''BASTARD IN A BASKET! BASTARD IN A BASKET!'''"
*** "'''DRAAAAIIIINAAAAGE!'''"
** ''Theatre/TheCrucible'':
*** "BECAUSE IT IS MY NAAAAAME! Because I cannot have another in my liiife! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; '''LEAVE ME MY NAAAAAAAME!'''"
*** [[PunctuatedForEmphasis '''SHE'S! A! WHOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!"]]
*** I SAY GOD IS DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAD!
** ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'':
*** "What'll it be, boys? '''RIB OR CHOP? [[TheButcher LOIN OR]] [[LargeHam SHANK]]?"'''
** ''Film/LastOfTheMohicans'':
*** "You STAY ALIVE! [[IWillFindYou I WILL FIND YOU]]. No matter how long it takes, no matter how faaaar!"
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Darth Vader's BigNo [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s at the end]] of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. Also added to the UsefulNotes/BluRay release of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', [[spoiler:in the scene where Palpatine tries to electrocute Luke]], to the chagrin of much of the fan base. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkPKZhXth7M One even parodied it in a YouTube video.]]
** In general, Creator/IanMcDiarmid gives a relatively subdued performance as Palpatine. But once the charades are dropped in episode 3, and the Jedi know he's a Sith lord, [[EvilIsHammy it's time to wolf down the scenery like there's no tomorrow]]. This is the real reason most of the movie was CGI: he devoured all the sets!
*** '''"[[EvilOverlord POWWWWWWAAAAAHHHH!!!!]] [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide UNNNNN-LIMITED..POWWWWWWAAAAAAHHHH!!!!]] "'''
*** Playing bumper cars with the Galactic Senate boxes while [[EvilLaugh cackling like a loon]] has to count, too.
** Luke during the entire LukeIAmYourFather scene. "He told me enough! He told me you killed him! (...) No... that's not true! That's ''impossible!'' (...) [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOO! noooooo...]]"
** Many of Anakin's lines in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' are either this, garbage, or just plain normal, depending on your point of view. But a special mention goes to his confession on Tatooine:
-->''[[https://youtu.be/w685Cy0f53Q?t=125 I... I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead. Every single one of them''. And not just the men, but the women, and the children, too. They're like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals! I ''hate'' them!]]''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPhHl2DpD4E Armitage Hux's big speech]] in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. It's like he walked up to one of the cameras, yanked the film right out of it and proceeded to gnaw and chew the shit out of it for over two minutes.
* Any time Harvs and Batsy are within a hundred feet of each other in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' turns into this. (One expected them to break out the BigNo, but [[BigNo NOOOOOO]]...)
** Well, Harvey did, Batman was just a little late for it.
*** Just about any time Harvs or Batsy got pissed off in the second half of the movie.
*** It's not about what I want, IT'S ABOUT WHAT'S FAIR!!!
** What do you believe in, huh? '''WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN?'''
** WHHHHHHERE IZZZZZZHEE?!
* Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989'' features Creator/JackPalance, well, being Jack Palance. Not to be outdone, Creator/JackNicholson [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in-universe, and actually [[UpToEleven Out-Hams]] him, when he borrows one of his lines.
--> '''Joker:''' "BOB-UH! YOOOOU! ARE MY [[PunctuatedForEmphasis NUMBER! ONE! GUY!]]"
* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' has it whenever Poison Ivy or Mr. Freeze are on screen.
-->What killed the dinosaurs? THE ICE AGE!!
* As ''Ebert's Bigger Movie Glossary'' notes, "no Creator/NicolasCage movie is complete without the scene in which Cage's character finally loses his temper and screams at the top of his lungs."
** ''Film/TheWickerMan2006''. All of it.
---> "'''[[MemeticMutation OH, NO! NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAAAAHHHHH! OH, THEY'RE IN MY EYES! MY EYES! AAAAHHHHH! AAAAAGGHHH!]]'''"
---> "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo '''MURDER! THIS IS MURDER!!! YOU'LL ALL BE GUILTY!!!''']]"
---> "How'd it get burned? HOW'D IT GET BURRRRNED?"
---> "'''KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GODDAMN [+HONEY+]!!!'''"
** ''Film/{{Knowing}}'':
--->"'''YOU WANT SOME OF THIS?!?''' *thonk*
** ''Film/{{Moonstruck}}'':
---> "'''I'VE LOST MY HAND!!! AND I'VE LOST MY BRIDE!!!'''"
** When he incarnates Castor Troy in ''Film/FaceOff'' : "Ha HA HA HA HA Ha!"
** In fact, every time he plays a dangerous lunatic.
** As Big Daddy in ''Film/KickAss'' he mimics the speech pattern of Creator/AdamWest.
** Perhaps the most over-the-top performance in his entire career comes in ''Film/VampiresKiss'', in which he portrays a vampire or a paranoid schizophrenic or possibly both.
---> "YOU'RE FIRED!!!!"
---> "I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE!"
** Or in ''Film/{{Deadfall}}'', where he often gets ''[[{{Angrish}} incomprehensibly]]'' hammy and ends up [[HamAndCheese singlehandedly making the movie worth watching]] because of it.
---> "WHAT AM I, A FUCKING RETAAARD, MAAAN!? AM I A FUCKING RETAAAARD, HUUUH!?"
** ''Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance''
---> '''"HE'S SCRAPING AT THE DOOR! SCRAPING AT THE DOOOOOOOOOOAAAAHHHH!!"'''
** Even ''Film/NationalTreasure'', which features Nic as the otherwise level-headed Ben Gates, includes a scene where he gets to go completely bonkers: With Ben and Riley's plan to get part of a treasure map out of Buckingham Palace in jeopardy, Riley encourages Ben to make a scene, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMZ9S1p8XAs and boy does he ever!]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeXIoBnu2MU Nic Cage in general, frankly.]]
* In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', any scene where [[TheWoobie River]] has a mental breakdown. ''Especially'' when she collapses in the streets of Miranda, screaming a frantic prayer in Chinese.
* Creator/SharonStone's performance in ''Film/{{Casino}}'' isn't looked too fondly upon now because it frequently involved this. Roughly the entire last third of the movie seems to involve her screaming at either Creator/RobertDeNiro or Creator/JoePesci about something.
* Creator/JackNicholson in ''Film/TheWitchesOfEastwick'' (most notably in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVW_6pK93n0#t=1m35s his speech about women towards the end]]). But, hey, what did you expect? It's ''Creator/JackNicholson'' playing the freakin' ''Devil''.
* Creator/CharltonHeston's performance in ''Film/{{Planet of the Apes|1968}}'':
--> ''You cut up his braaaaaaiiiinnn!''
--> ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQME8mx4DMo It's a madhouse! A MAAADHOUUUSE!]]''
--> '''''[[EarthAllAlong YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP!]]''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5R_pS0h5Qk GODDAMN YOU! Goddamn you all to hell!]]''
** Really, ''any'' of his performances, from ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'' to ''Film/{{Earthquake}}''.
* ''Film/SoylentGreen'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You've gotta tell them!]] '''Soylent Green [[ItWasHisSled is people!]]'''"
* Creator/BrianCox in ''Film/{{Troy}}'' certainly qualifies. Then again, Brian Cox in almost anything. That man is definitely [[LargeHam not kosher]].
-->[+"I will '''smash''' their walls to the ground! HEAR ME, ZEUS!"+]
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''
** Creator/CateBlanchett as Galadriel in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' showing why giving her the Ring is a bad idea: [[https://youtu.be/K3VOf3CBGvw?t=200 "In place of a dark lord, you would have a QUEEN! NOT DARK BUT '''BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE AS THE DAWN! ''TREACHEROUS AS THE SEA! STRONGER THAN THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH!''''' ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!"]]
** Creator/JohnNoble chews the scenery while munching on everything remotely edible in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]''. And he has [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne atrocious table manners]].
* When Pink in ''Music/PinkFloyd Music/TheWall'' decides that he is a British fascist leader and sings "In the Flesh". Just watch as a rock star (Music/BobGeldof) playing a rock star (Music/RogerWaters) during an insane fantasy of being a fascist dictator while in front of an audience of Pink's rock fans during a concert.
* Creator/JimCarrey's comedic styling. Which is part of what makes the live-action ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' so much fun to watch. [[LargeHam Green eggs and ham, indeed]].
* Certain bites of James "Jimi" Kinstle's performance as Norman Osborn (a.k.a. The Green Goblin) in the ''Spider-Man'' fan film ''The Green Goblin's Last Stand''. As may be expected from a classically-trained actor playing a homicidal maniac, this is genuinely frightening at times. That joke about Osborn being scarier without his mask on? It's true here.
* The last two scenes of the second flashback in ''Film/TheBadAndTheBeautiful'' got this from Creator/KirkDouglas and Creator/LanaTurner respectively.
* The saving grace of ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' was a delightfully over-the-top portrayal of [[PsychoForHire Bullseye]] by Creator/ColinFarrell. He barely speaks and rarely raises his voice, but his snarling, twitching, and whispered ramblings chew the scenery in a big way. He kills people with pencils, peanuts, and paper clips in scenes that [[CrossesTheLineTwice cross the line]] into ComedicSociopathy. Just about every scene he's in is simultaneously hilarious and disturbing because of his overacting juxtaposed with the sadistic character.
-->"He made me... miss. ''I never miss!''"
%%* Creator/RobinWilliams is this trope made flesh.
* Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFl-WQAXMto performance]] in ''Film/KindergartenCop'', a film where he spends half his time screaming incomprehensibly at small children.
--> '''GAAAAHHHH!!!!'''
--> '''SHADDUUUUPPPP!!!!!'''
--> '''IT'Z NAHT!! A TWOMUR!'''
--> '''Bring your toy back to the CAHHPEHT!!'''
* ''Film/{{UHF}}'' "Stupid! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qileP4bAzek You're so stupid!]]"
* Happens in ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gIpuIVE3k GARBAGE DAY!]] Now a staple of {{memetic mutation}}s.
* Michael Stephenson in ''Film/{{Troll 2}}''. Has to be seen [[{{Narm}} to be believed]].
-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4 They're eating her! And then they're gonna eat me!]] [[BigOMG OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!]]
--> "And you can't piss on hospitality! '''I WON'T ALLOW IT!'''"
** Also Deborah Reed as Creedence.
--> "Think about the ''CHOLESTEROL''! Think about the ''TOXINS''!"
* '''[[Film/{{Superman}} COME TO ME, SON OF JOR-EL!]]''' '''[[KneelBeforeZod KNEEL BEFORE]]''' '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg1yUMqJMcw ZOD!]]'''
** Creator/KevinSpacey as Comicbook/LexLuthor in ''Film/SupermanReturns''.
-->"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRVUOGUmxJI WRONG!]]'''"
--> '''''KRRRRYYYYYPTONITE!'''''
--> '''Lois Lane''': But millions of people will die!
--> '''Lex Luthor:''' ''' BILLIONS!''' Once again, the press underestimates me.
* And ''Film/CabinFever'' has an example of chewing the scenery in a literal sense, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq_2GOoFaXE PANCAKES!]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOILKHmZBwc NOOOO...WIIIIREEEE.....HAAAAAANGGGEEERRRRSSSSS!!!!]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm_ui-EuQks Because I am NOT one of you FANS!]]
** Tina! Bring me the ax!
** The ''Variety'' review of ''Literature/MommieDearest'' stated: "Dunaway does not chew scenery. Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it whole, costars and all."
* Creator/GaryOldman in ''Leon''/''Film/TheProfessional'':
-->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrTsuvykUZk "Bring me everyone."]]'''
-->"What do you mean "everyone"?"
-->"'''''[[VillainousBreakdown EVERYONE!]]'''''"
* ''Film/StreetFighter'': Creator/RaulJulia makes quite a exit from acting in his last role, and is the best thing in it:
--> '''M. Bison:''' Something wrong, Colonel? You come here to fight a madman, and instead you found... a god!? You still refuse to ACCEPT... my '''[[AGodAmI godhood?!]]''' '''KEEP your own god! In fact, this might be a good time to PRAY to Him!''' '''''For I beheld {{Satan}} as he''''' '''FELL FROM HEAVEN!''' '''''LIKE LIGHTNING!!!'''''
* ''Film/TheProducers'':
** Leo Bloom without his blue blanket.
** '''FAT!'''
** Creator/GeneWilder in the original.
* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's VillainousBreakdown in ''Film/{{Downfall}}''. Creator/BrunoGanz's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bmkUlXp5sk scenery-chewing]] has become a MemeticMutation thanks to the {{Gag Sub}}s applied into it. For example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfkDxF2kn1I Hitler gets banned from Xbox Live]].
* Creator/WoodyHarrelson's DELICIOUS turn as a mad conspiracy theorist in the new ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' movie practically screams this trope.
** Well, [[LargeHam Woody Harrelson]], right there.
* Hans Conried as the villainous Dr. Terwilliker in ''Film/The5000FingersOfDrT''.
-->[+"Should you wish to escape: THE BARBED WIRE ON THE FENCE IS '''''[[VoiceOfTheLegion ELECT-RIFIED]]!!''''' [[EvilLaugh Mwahahahaha]]!"+]
-->[+"I want him {{disintegrat|orRay}}ed: '''ATOM... BY ATOM!'''"+]
* Captain Rhodes in ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'':
-->''''[+I'M RUNNIN' THIS MONKEY FARM NOW, FRANKENSTEIN, AND I WANNA KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE DOING WITH MY TIME!!!+]''''
--->'''''[++CHOKE ON 'EM!!!++]'''''
* Zadok, the drunken old sea dog in ''Film/{{Cthulhu}}'' (2007).
-->"They came out of the sea AND KILLED LOTS OF PEOPLE!"
* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' had Creator/GeneWilder as Willy Wonka:
-->'''[++"It's all here, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9gRzmCf1EI BLACK AND WHITE, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL!]] YOU STOLE fizzy lifting drinks! You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking washed and sterilized]], so you get...++] [+++[[MemeticMutation NOTHING! You LOSE! GOOD DAY, SIR!]]"+++]'''
** In fact, any time Gene Wilder freaks out and/or loses his temper in a film, so much so that his face goes reddish purple. ''Series/WillAndGrace'': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6WxmAAvpCc
** Gene Wilder period. "ANY SIGNS THAT THEY ARE SLOWING!" "THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE!"
* Or Creator/AntonioBanderas in ''Film/{{Assassins}}''. He's quite hammy to begin with, but he chews the scenery in such a way that it gained the status of being the EnsembleDarkHorse.
-->"''[++ YOU BLEW IT!!! I AM STILL ALIVE!!! HAHAHA!!!++]''"
** Best bit is when he is sharpening his marksmanship skills by shooting fruit and he turns to an orange that he has beside him : "Ha Ha Ha! I just killed [++YOUR BROTHER!++]'
* '''''[+++[[Film/EvilAlienConquerors IT WOULD TAKE A THOUSAND OF YOUR TINY MEALS TO SLAKE MY GIGANTIC APPETITE!!!]]+++]'''''
* ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' is a [[WorldOfHam Universe of Ham]], but Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler and [[Creator/JohnTravolta Terl]] are easily the biggest scenery chewers.
** '''Jonnie:''' ''(to his tribemates)'' Has anyone here ever seen one? ''(prances around them excitedly)'' A demon... a monster... a beast! YAAAAAAH!!!
** '''Terl:''' ''(to Ker)'' While you were still learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME, ''I''... was being trained... TO CONQUER GALAXIES!!!
* The entire film of ''Theatre/{{Doubt}}''. Case in point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T67xFhhfIg the Confrontation scene]] "'''YOU HAVE NO RIGHT!!'''" or "'''I HAVE MY CERTAINTY'''"
* Anything with Creator/JackPalance in it. If Creator/TimBurton's impersonation of the man on [[Film/Batman1989 Batman's commentary track]] is any indication, the man chewed as much scenery in real life as he did on celluloid!
* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', near the beginning: SHOOT HA! SHOOOOT HAAAA!
* Satoris, the evil cult leader from the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode, ''Film/TheFinalSacrifice,'' is very fond of chewing scenery (and spitting it out again).
* Prince John, ''Film/RobinHood2010'': I declare him, to be an '''OUT[+LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!!+]'''
* ''Film/DrStrangelove''. Most of ... well, Strangelove himself's lines.
** ''Animals''... vill be ''brred''... and '''''SLAUGHTERED...''''' '''HAAAAAA!''' ''(wrestles with [[EvilHand own arm]])'' '''MEIN FUHERER! I CAN WALK!!!'''
** Creator/GeorgeCScott was forced to [[LargeHam ham it up]] to ''unbelievable'' levels, which he himself HATED. The director most frequently chose these takes, and the actor was outraged.
** Creator/StanleyKubrick actually [[EnforcedMethodActing tricked Scott]] into doing this (as General Buck Turgidson). For each scene he told Scott to go completely over the top in the first few takes, before playing it straight in the later ones, [[LeftItIn promising to not use the earlier, wilder ones]]. ([[ILied He lied]].)
* Creator/BradPitt plays a ''[[TheSchizophreniaConspiracy total loon]]'' in ''Film/TwelveMonkeys''.
** He also gobbles the scenery a few times in ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', particularly when Louis' manor is on fire.
--->This place is cursed... '''''DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMNED!!!!'''''
* Creator/BillMurray actually [[ShoutOut shouts out]] '''''"Feed'' me, [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors Seymour!]]"''' at the end of the movie ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'' to encourage the [[BreakingTheFourthWall theater audience]] to respond to his hilariously over-the-top [[{{Improv}} ad-libbing]] throughout the film, most notably in the dinner sequence.
-->'''Frank:''' ''(thinks he sees a ghost)'' AH-'''[=HAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa!=]'''
-->'''Waiter:''' Oh ''no'' sir, that's the Baked Alaska, sir, that's a dessert.
* ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' was all about this; between Creator/RaulJulia and Creator/ChristopherLloyd there wasn't a set unchewed.
** For that matter, anything Raúl Juliá has acted in. [[MemeticMutation OF COURSE!]] Chris Lloyd is no slouch, either.
* Creator/NickNolte. Full stop.
** Nick Nolte's character in ''Film/LorenzosOil'' crying and wailing hysterically over the numerous side effects of his son's illness.
** And he does it pretty frequently in ''Film/{{Hulk}}'' (2003), with the scene pictured above being his ultimate moment.
-->'''WebVideo/HonestTrailers''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U55NGD9Jm7M And Bruce Banner's father]], who's either an unpredictable MadScientist or just Nick Nolte [[ThrowItIn wandering onto the set]] and being himself for a few hours.
* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'':
--> "'''TEDDY FUCKIN' WILLIAMS HITS IT OUT OF THE PARK!!!!!''' Fenway's on it's feet for Teddy!!! '''FUCKIN' BALL GAME!!!!!'''"
* Creator/TomHardy in ''Film/{{Bronson}}'': almost the whole scene with the librarian. (Quicker, quicker, QUICKER, QUICKAH!, [++QUICKAH!++], [++FUCK OFF! SIT DOWN!++] Awesome, believable and completely justified.
** Also the lip sync of 'When I'm a RAHCK AND ROWLLLLLLL STAAAAH!'
* Creator/TomHardy in ''Film/Legend2015'' as mentally unstable gangter Ronnie Kray.
* The 1996 ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'', main offenders Harold Perrineau and Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio. [[Narm/{{Film}} This makes Mercutio's death unintentionally hilarious.]]
* Creator/RobertMitchum as the crazy industrialist in ''Film/DeadMan''. He spends most of his time ''"talkin' to a goddamn bear"'' or hiding behind his desk, shotgun in hand.
-->'''"SHUT UP!''' Mah boy is ''dead!'' Oh, I ain't askin' this time. I'm tellin'. And if somebody don't like it, '''''I'm prepared to do a little killin' of my own!''''' ''(later)'' I want this out over the wires. Post a $5000 reward from here to hell and back. Bring everybody in. I want that bastard's head. And make sure you include a [[TheAllegedSteed full description of my Pinto]]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking I want that horse back]].
* Sure, ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'' was pretty bad, but Creator/FrankLangella as Skeletor sure did chew himself some scenery, especially in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOsHoqhbUIU this scene]].
--> '''Skeletor:''' Now. I, Skeletor, am [[TitleDrop 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! The power 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! '''[[KneelBeforeZod KNEEL BEFORE YOUR MASTER!]]''' Fool! you are no longer my '''EQUAL!''' I am '''more than man''', '''MORE THAN''' '''''LIFE!''''' [[AGodAmI I... am... a...]] '''[[AGodAmI GOD!]]''' Now. You... will... '''''KNEEEEL!!!!!'''''
* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' has Creator/KeanuReeves in [[DullSurprise his usual mode]]... but this is redeemed by Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Doctor van Helsing, particularly when he actually roars "Feed me!" for an [[HilariousInHindsight unintentional]] [[PlayingWithATrope invoked trope]].
* Creator/WillemDafoe in ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'':
** "'''[+THERE WAS A+] [+++FIRE FIGHT!!!!!!!!!+++]'''"
* Creator/AlanRickman in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' as the Sheriff of Nottingham was gloriously hammy in his portrayal. His best line was probably (at the end of a long list of canceling donations to various charities) "...and call off Christmas!"
** ...which was ruthlessly mocked in Mel Brooks' ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights''. That movie's Sheriff of Rottingham put a cherry on top by sometimes utterly messing up the word order.
* Creator/HerbertLom as Inspector Dreyfus in ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' films tends to do this a lot after Inspector Clouseau unwittingly succeeds in pushing him over the edge mentally, especially in ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'', where he plays an EvilOverlord.
* Creator/PaulGiamatti as King John in ''Film/{{Ironclad}}''. "YOU '''DARE''' TO QUESTION MY REIGN!!!!"
* Creator/JohnTurturro in Creator/AnthonyHopkins' confusing art flick ''Slipstream'', playing a over the top growling, insane producer who is sidesplittingly funny as well and this a year before Creator/TomCruise in ''Film/TropicThunder''. In one scene, he loses it with the director when he brings his child to the filming and almost nearly attacks him like a wild animal. I don't know if it was ment to be this way or if Tuturro was just hamming it up big time, though he would be in competition with Creator/ChristianSlater, who literally dies of overacting in the movie as the actor playing a menancing gangster along with Creator/JeffreyTambor who is at least subtle about it. Though in Slater's case it might just be that the script called for his chewing the scenery.
* Creator/CrispinGlover in ''River's Edge'', where he plays a cokehead who acts like the dark side of George [=McFly=], complete with stuttering threats and nervous chatter.
* Creator/RebBrown in almost anything he does, complete with over the top yelling at the top of your lungs acting style like most 80s action stars, his highlight though would be ''Film/SpaceMutiny'' with lines such as
--> "SON OF A BITCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
--> "LEEEEAAA WAAATTTCCHHH OOUUUUTTTT!"
--> "AHHHHAAAHAAAAAA"
--> "C'mon MOOOVVEEE, MOOOVVEEE,MOOVVVEEE, MOOOVVVVEEE,MOOOVVVEEE!"
--> "Let's get out there and KICCCKKK SOOMMMEEE ASSSSSS!"
* And in another movie called ''Film/StrikeCommando'' after a little kid dies he screams the villians name like this
--> "JAAAAAKKKAOODDDDAAAAA!"
* That Tom Riddle fellow in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films. In [[PunctuatedForEmphasis every]]. [[EmphasizeEverything Single]]. [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch Scene]]. He consumes more scenery than unicorn blood. All of Voldemort's portrayers have their moments, but Ralph Fiennes especially. He even has videos dedicated to the anticipation of his most hammiest of moments on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyYo7xv4wlw Youtube]].
** '''''TROLL IN THE DUNGEON!!!!!'''''
* ''Film/EverAfter'': Everyone is occasionally (probably consciously, due to the quick changes between humor and seriousness) guilty of this, child!Danielle in particular.
** Honourable mention to Marguerite who throws a full-blown temper tantrum with stamping and screaming and yelling in front of the Queen of France.
** "I would rather die a thousand deaths than SEE MY MOTHER'S DRESS ON THAT [[PunctuatedForEmphasis SPOILED! SELFISH! COW!]]"
* The scenery literally fell apart when Tobey Maguire starts wrecking the kitchen in ''Brothers''. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3L5Fz7HDno here]]. (1:07 onwards)
** '''''YOU KNOW WHAT I DID!!!!????'''''
* Sir Creator/BenKingsley as Don Logan in ''Film/SexyBeast'': "You're the problem! You're the fuckin' problem you fuckin' Doctor White honkin' jam-rag fucking spunk-bubble! I'm tellin' you, Aitch, you keep lookin' at me I'll put you in the fuckin' ground, promise you!"
* "[[Creator/ChristopherLloyd I]] [[Film/SuburbanCommando WAS]] [[HarmlessFreezing FROZEN]] [[MemeticMutation TODAY!]]
* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': "I ... AM... [[SayMyName MEGATRON!!!]]
* The DVDCommentary for ''Film/{{Priest}}'' mentions that many of Creator/KarlUrban's scenes seem to exist for the purpose of letting Urban chew scenery.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Film/IronMan1'': TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO ''BUILD THIS'' '''''IN A CAVE!''''' WITH A '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtntTvuv8Aw BOX OF SCRAPS!]]'''''
** Creator/TomHiddleston as Loki in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' singlehandedly accounts for approximately 70% of the scenery-chewing in those movies.
--->'''Loki:''' '''''TELLLL MEEEE!!!'''''\\\
'''Loki:''' [[KneelBeforeZod Kneel before me.]] I said... ''KNEEL!!!!''\\\
'''Loki:''' ''THIS'' is my bargain, you MEWLING ''QUIM!''\\\
'''Loki:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4gN_yc_7ug I am a GOD, you dull creature!]]
** Loki's extensive chewing is to be expected, though, seeing as his father Odin (played by Creator/AnthonyHopkins) does some extreme chewing of his own.
--->'''Odin:''' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA5ncj50Alk You are unworthy of these realms... You're unworthy of your TITLE... YOU'RE UNWORTHY!!!]]''\\
'''Loki:''' Father...\\
'''Odin:''' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-8s7g0uAEk HYAEEERGH!]]''
** Brother Thor also gobbles much scenery, mixing fancy vocabulary.
** In one of the HilariousOuttakes of ''The Avengers'', Creator/CobieSmulders' Maria Hill does a ComicalOverreacting to [[spoiler:Agent Coulson's death]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGhz5o2cWKc that must be seen to be believed.]]
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Ronan the Accuser doesn't so much as chew the scenery as maul and raven it to bloody pieces. Creator/LeePace recalled once how he would keep glancing back to Creator/JamesGunn to tell him when to dial it back, while Gunn just kept going "more, more." The final product, when Ronan is ''really'' allowed to cut loose, is a screaming fanatic who manages to make ''Thanos'' look subtle by comparison:
-->'''Ronan''': You call me '''BOY!''' I will unfurl one-thousand years of Kree justice on Xandar, and ''burn it to its core!''
* Watch Creator/HelenMirren and Creator/ChristopherPlummer munch away on the beautiful Russian country side in ''Film/TheLastStation''.
* Almost everyone in ''Film/JudgeDredd'', especially when pronouncing the word "law"/"[[Creator/SylvesterStallone lauwh]]"/"[[HamToHamCombat lllaaaawww]]". The most notable is probably [[EvilIsHammy Armand Assante's]] [[MemeticMutation notorious]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aaubVlhNK4 delivery]].
* [[Music/NewYorkDolls David Johansen]] really chews up the scenery in ''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie''. Even when [[spoiler:[[OrificeInvasion a cat is crawling down his character's mouth]], he manages to keep chewing the scenery]].
* ''Film/{{Virtuosity}}'': Creator/RussellCrowe is a one-man feeding frenzy.
--> "Hey buddy! How's the wife and kid? Still dead, huh?"
* While everyone in ''Film/JupiterAscending'' is [[HamAndCheese having some fun]] with the script, no one is chewing more scenery than Creator/EddieRedmayne. Most of the time, he speaks in a hoarse whisper... Until things start going downhill, and then [[SuddenlyShouting he breaks out the shouting]].
-->'''Balem:''' '''''I CREATE LIFE!!!!!'''''\\
'''Balem:''' And... I... destroy it.
* The ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' films give us the wonderful Creator/BurgessMeredith as Rocky's trainer Micky, who appears to be a wizened vegetable [[AWizardDidIt magically granted life]], on the sole proviso that he devour scenery wherever it may present itself.
--> '''Micky:''' He's a '''''[[MemeticMutation WRECKIN' MACHINE!]]'''''
--> '''Micky:''' GEDDUP, YOU SONOFABITCH!...CAUSE MICKY LOVES YA!
* ''Film/CleopatraJones'' has Snake, a heroin dealer who wavers between badass pimp and yapping puppy from line to line.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'', when Mrs. Mavilda is firing Judy, she chews it so hard that the voice actress's mic almost blows out.
* [[Film/LogansRun NO! Don't go in there! You don't have to die! No one has to die at 30! You could live! LIVE! Live, and grow old! I've seen it! She's seen it!]]
* Creator/RichardEGrant takes scenery chewing to a whole new level in ''Film/HudsonHawk''. "What can I tell you? I'm the villain!"
* An over the top hilarious moment in ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'' happens when Jenko finds out the the person Schmidt had sexual relations with was none other than Captain Dickson's daughter.
-->'''Jenko''': '''OHHH SHIT! OHHH SHIT!''' ''[laughs hysterically]'' '''OH SHIT! NO! That is NOT happening right now! NO!''' ''[yells to everyone in the room]'' '''HEY Y'ALL, HE'S FUCKING THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER! YO!'''\\
'''Dickson''': Every time...he say that shit...\\
'''Jenko''': OH MY FUCK!\\
'''Dickson''': That's another foot in your ass!\\
'''Jenko''': '''Schmidt! You clearly- Oh this is the best thing ever!''' ''[laughing hysterically]'' '''SCHMIDT FUCKED THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER!''' ''[dancing and chanting]'' '''SCHMIDT FUCKED THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER! SCHMIDT FUCKED THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER! SHIT! FUCK!''' ''[still laughing]'' '''YOU FUCKED CAPTAIN DICKSON'S DAUGHTER?! CAPTAIN! WHAT THE- YOU BRAGGED TO HIM TO HIS FACE! TO HIS ACTUAL FACE! CAPTAIN- Do you understand that this face, Right here, you bragged to that face? You actually high-fived Schmidt for fucking your daughter! HOLY SHIT! OH MY GOD! THIS IS-''' ''[noticing Dickson's unamusement]'' It's really not that funny.
* ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' - the whole cast. Everyone, and I do mean everyone, is as far over the top as one could imagine. Then there is Creator/GeneWilder in the title role, whose performance is so melodramatic and madcap that it must be seen to be believed.
-->'''Dr. Frederick Frankenstein''': I am a scientist, not a philosopher! You have more chance of reanimating this scalpel than you have of mending a broken nervous system!
-->'''Medical Student''': But what about your grandfather's work, sir?
-->'''Dr. Frederick Frankenstein''': My grandfather's work was doodoo! I am not interested in death! The only thing that concerns me is the preservation of life! [jams the scalpel into his leg, lets go of the scalpel and it sticks upright out of his leg, grasps it again, then slowly crosses his legs to block the scalpel from view]
* As expected when one of the best dramatic actors of his generation plays Dr. Zachary Smith, Creator/GaryOldman dines defiantly while delivering his delectably devilish dialogue in Film/LostInSpace. Scintilatingly scrumptious.
* Creator/SamuelLJackson in... oh, just about everything he’s been in. The man can get ''loud'' when he needs to. “''[[Film/PulpFiction WHAT DOES MARCELLUS WALLACE LOOK LIKE?!?!?!?]]''”
* ''Film/TheTwoFacesOfDrJekyll'' - Paul Massie, as both Jekyll and Hyde; "WHAT HAVE I DONE? WHAT HAVE I DONE?"
* Creator/JeffGoldblum does a lot of this in the second act of ''Film/TheFly1986'', which covers the first few days after his character's TeleporterAccident. Up until then he is an endearing GibberingGenius. But as a SlowTransformation begins, his behavior slowly changes -- first he's talking ''really'' fast and even pounding the table in a cafe as he muses over how his teleporter must have purified his body, because why else is he so much stronger and feeling so good? Come a failed attempt to convince his lover to be teleported as well, Goldblum starts chewing the scenery with abandon (with lots of MilkingTheGiantCow) as he rhapsodizes over the power of taking a "deep, penetrating dive into the plasma pool" -- as she realizes and tells him that the teleportation must have gone wrong ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness because he's acting so oddly]]''. At the climax of the act he rages at her and even punches a wooden support beam into splinters as he tosses her out of his loft/laboratory. (His bellowing "YOU'RE JEALOUS!" is a RunningGag in the Cinematic Venom review of the film.) Now alone, he takes a look at himself in a bathroom mirror, and the mounting reveals of [[BodyHorror what's actually happening to him]] see all the rage and scenery-chewing drain away, leaving a trembling, whispering, ''absolutely terrified'' man, in the space of a few minutes. Between this and the ''rest'' of his work in the film, this was Goldblum's StarMakingRole, proving that this trope can be ''very'' good indeed [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools when used skillfully]].
* In ''Film/HowToGetRidOfCellulite'', Wojciech Mecwaldowski as Krystian pulls all the stops as the jealous ex in the highly memetic MistakenForRomance scene. His jittery behavior, bug-eyed expression and PunctuatedForEmphasis delivery with an AtomicFBomb and BigNo makes the entire scene ridiculous.
* In ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'', after [[Creator/AndrewGarfield Eduardo Saverin]] founds out that [[spoiler:his ownership stake was reduced to near-nothing]], he goes ''ballistic'' in the Facebook office:
** First he confronts Mark, who's on his laptop and "wired in", as Sean puts it. Eduardo ''smashes'' the laptop.
---> '''Eduardo:''' How 'bout now, you still wired in?!
** Then, when Sean lectures him on how Eduardo pretends he runs the company while wearing "his ridiculous suits":
---> '''Eduardo:''' SOOOOOOO-RRY!! MY PRADA'S AT THE CLEANERS! ALONG WITH MY HOODIE AND MY [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK]]-YOU FLIP-FLOPS! YOU PRETENTIOUS DOUCHEBAG!
** And shortly before security escorts him away, he makes one last threat of TranquilFury at Mark:
---> '''Eduardo:''' And I'll bet what you hated the most is that they identified me as a co-founder of Facebook, ''which I am.'' You better lawyer up, ''asshole'', 'cause I'm not coming back for 30%. I'm coming back for ''EVERYTHING.''
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* ''Film/ForrestGump'' to Jenny, as she's about to leave with her radical lefty boyfriend:
-->'''Forrest:''' You know what I think? I think you, should go back, to Green-Bow, AL-A-BAM-A!
* The waitress in ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'': "WE MADE *YOU*!!!"
* It may be easier to list who doesn't in ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** Kirk's infamous "[[TheKhan KHAAAAAAAN!]]" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnSnfiUI54 scream]] in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''. In fact, Creator/WilliamShatner has one of these at least every five minutes, in ''everything'' he's ever done. The Khan thing is actually deliberate, since, if you remember what happens immediately thereafter (that it was all a ruse to make Khan underestimate them), it's made apparent that ''[[JustifiedTrope Kirk]]'' [[JustifiedTrope is the one who is acting]], ''not'' Shatner.
** Meanwhile, in ''Film/StarTrek2009''.....
--->'''''[[SayMyName SPOOOOOOCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!]]'''''\\
'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Io0OQ2zPS4 FIRE EVERYTHING!]]'''\\
'''I WANT SPOCK DEAD NOW!!!'''
** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'':
*** Brought back, where the one [[spoiler:to do the "KHAAAAAN!" is ''[[TheStoic Spock]]''!]]
*** [[spoiler: Creator/PeterWeller]] hams it up during his MotiveRant. He also [[MilkingTheGiantCow Milks the Giant Cow]] during this.
----> '''[[spoiler: Admiral Marcus]]''': "War is coming! AND WHO'S GONNA LEAD US?! YOU?! If I'm not in charge, our entire way of life IS DECIMATED! So you want me off this ship, you better KILL ME!"
** It is also so noticeable in Wrath of Khan because it is, by a long shot, Shatner's most restrained performance with this being the one time he goes rather over the top. (Seriously, watch a bunch of Shatner's other stuff, especially in recent years when he has become essentially a parody of himself, and then watch Wrath of Khan, the subtlety he shows is both brilliant and quite shocking giving Shatner's normal acting style.)
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvRBDQqSmY What... doyoumean? I....hadthoughtthatShatner'sstyleofactingwasjust....toomuchforthetime.]] Add movements for more hilarity. Or not.
*** '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bZKEhgieoc IIIIIIII'MMMMMMM CAPTAIN KIRK!]]'''
*** '''OHH! THE HUMANITY!!!'''
** In ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', Creator/ChristopherPlummer as Klingon [[BigBad General Chang]] also does his best to out-ham Shatner. Especially in the climax, when he [[ShoutOutToShakespeare endlessly quotes William Shakespeare]] at the top of his lungs, and ''spin in his captain's chair''..
** [[Theatre/JuliusCaesar "CRY HAVOC! AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR!"]]
---->'''[=McCoy=]:''' I'd give real money if he'd just ''shut up.''
** Averted in ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' by everyone. But, this aversion is one of the elements that detractors of the movie tend to point to when referring to this film as a cold, flat experience. In such a case, it could be an example of [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]].
* Creator/MargotKidder in Full Moon Entertainment's ''Film/{{Beanstalk}}'', who gives the characters in ''Film/Troll2'' a serious run for their money.
* Creator/WilliamAtherton as Walter Peck in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' when he [[spoiler:demands the arrest of the Ghostbusters after forcibly shutting down the containment unit]].
* Alternate Trope Namer via MemeticMutation: The Monster Audrey 2 from ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'', whose [[CatchPhrase signature phrase]] is ''"Feed'' Me, Seymour!" played by [[BoisterousBruiser deep-voiced]] and [[MagnificentBastard enthusiastic]] Levi Stubbs.
* ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' has a handful, such as when Sonya gets captured by [[BigBad Shang Tsung]]:
-->"'''NOOOOO!!!!! PUT ME DOOOWWWN!!!'''"
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix''
** Morpheus' speech to Zion in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', although he had good reason to shout as the cave had no PA system.
** [[LargeHam Agent Smith]], especially in his final YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive speech in ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions''.
* Creator/MelGibson in many movies, especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLrrBs8JBQo all the FREEEEEDOOOOOM!!s]]
* Creator/AlPacino in ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate''. Practically his whole performance, but especially the line "God... is an ''absentee landlord''!"
** Not to mention his final BigNo, which is so massive it basically causes the movie to implode on itself.
** Many, MANY Pacino movies qualify. The final shootout in ''Film/Scarface1983'' comes to mind.
* Creator/MarlonBrando's cry of '''[+"[=STELLaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa=]!"+]''' in ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''. Parodied on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' with Elaine Benes. Among [[MemeticMutation other places]].
* Creator/DennisHopper's character in ''Film/BlueVelvet'', Frank Booth, provides one of the scarier example of this trope.
* A review of Creator/JeremyIrons in the horrid ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000'' film commented he was chewing so much scenery they had to rebuild the sets twice.
* Most Film/JamesBond villains, actually.
** Creator/ChristopherWalken as Max Zorin in ''Film/AViewToAKill''.
** [[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe Jaws.]] Literally.
** Who can forget Boris Grishenko from ''Film/GoldenEye''? '''''I AM INVINCIBLE!!!'''''
** And Creator/JonathanPryce in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''.
** Points have to be given to Creator/StevenBerkoff as General Orlov in ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' through combining this with the speech patterns of Creator/WilliamShatner and a ludicrously [[JustAStupidAccent over-the-top Russian accent]] to turn a simple military briefing into a gloriously hammy [[CharacterFilibuster rant against Western decadence and spinelessness]], not to mention [[CallingTheOldManOut calling out his top colleague as a coward]] for not following his [[EvilPlan maniacal plan]].
*** This is actually fairly standard for Berkoff. His whole idea of theatre is that it has to be overstated, over the top acting.
* King Leonidas in ''Film/ThreeHundred''. And yes, we ''[[MemeticMutation know]]'' what [[PunctuatedForEmphasis this is]], thank you.
** Blasphemy? Madness? Athens?
** '''NO!'''
* Creator/DanielDayLewis in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i4cAvR5O3Q every movie he stars in]].
** ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'':
*** "I. Drink. Your. MILKSHAKE! *slllluuurrrrrpppp!* '''Film/ThereWillBeBlood I DRINK IT UP!!'''"
*** "'''I'VE ABANDONED MY CHILD!!!! I'VE ABANDONED MY BOY!'''"
*** "'''BASTARD IN A BASKET! BASTARD IN A BASKET!'''"
*** "'''DRAAAAIIIINAAAAGE!'''"
** ''Theatre/TheCrucible'':
*** "BECAUSE IT IS MY NAAAAAME! Because I cannot have another in my liiife! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; '''LEAVE ME MY NAAAAAAAME!'''"
*** [[PunctuatedForEmphasis '''SHE'S! A! WHOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!"]]
*** I SAY GOD IS DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAD!
** ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'':
*** "What'll it be, boys? '''RIB OR CHOP? [[TheButcher LOIN OR]] [[LargeHam SHANK]]?"'''
** ''Film/LastOfTheMohicans'':
*** "You STAY ALIVE! [[IWillFindYou I WILL FIND YOU]]. No matter how long it takes, no matter how faaaar!"
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Darth Vader's BigNo [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s at the end]] of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. Also added to the UsefulNotes/BluRay release of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', [[spoiler:in the scene where Palpatine tries to electrocute Luke]], to the chagrin of much of the fan base. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkPKZhXth7M One even parodied it in a YouTube video.]]
** In general, Creator/IanMcDiarmid gives a relatively subdued performance as Palpatine. But once the charades are dropped in episode 3, and the Jedi know he's a Sith lord, [[EvilIsHammy it's time to wolf down the scenery like there's no tomorrow]]. This is the real reason most of the movie was CGI: he devoured all the sets!
*** '''"[[EvilOverlord POWWWWWWAAAAAHHHH!!!!]] [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide UNNNNN-LIMITED..POWWWWWWAAAAAAHHHH!!!!]] "'''
*** Playing bumper cars with the Galactic Senate boxes while [[EvilLaugh cackling like a loon]] has to count, too.
** Luke during the entire LukeIAmYourFather scene. "He told me enough! He told me you killed him! (...) No... that's not true! That's ''impossible!'' (...) [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOO! noooooo...]]"
** Many of Anakin's lines in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' are either this, garbage, or just plain normal, depending on your point of view. But a special mention goes to his confession on Tatooine:
-->''[[https://youtu.be/w685Cy0f53Q?t=125 I... I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead. Every single one of them''. And not just the men, but the women, and the children, too. They're like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals! I ''hate'' them!]]''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPhHl2DpD4E Armitage Hux's big speech]] in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. It's like he walked up to one of the cameras, yanked the film right out of it and proceeded to gnaw and chew the shit out of it for over two minutes.
* Any time Harvs and Batsy are within a hundred feet of each other in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' turns into this. (One expected them to break out the BigNo, but [[BigNo NOOOOOO]]...)
** Well, Harvey did, Batman was just a little late for it.
*** Just about any time Harvs or Batsy got pissed off in the second half of the movie.
*** It's not about what I want, IT'S ABOUT WHAT'S FAIR!!!
** What do you believe in, huh? '''WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN?'''
** WHHHHHHERE IZZZZZZHEE?!
* Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989'' features Creator/JackPalance, well, being Jack Palance. Not to be outdone, Creator/JackNicholson [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this in-universe, and actually [[UpToEleven Out-Hams]] him, when he borrows one of his lines.
--> '''Joker:''' "BOB-UH! YOOOOU! ARE MY [[PunctuatedForEmphasis NUMBER! ONE! GUY!]]"
* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' has it whenever Poison Ivy or Mr. Freeze are on screen.
-->What killed the dinosaurs? THE ICE AGE!!
* As ''Ebert's Bigger Movie Glossary'' notes, "no Creator/NicolasCage movie is complete without the scene in which Cage's character finally loses his temper and screams at the top of his lungs."
** ''Film/TheWickerMan2006''. All of it.
---> "'''[[MemeticMutation OH, NO! NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAAAAHHHHH! OH, THEY'RE IN MY EYES! MY EYES! AAAAHHHHH! AAAAAGGHHH!]]'''"
---> "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo '''MURDER! THIS IS MURDER!!! YOU'LL ALL BE GUILTY!!!''']]"
---> "How'd it get burned? HOW'D IT GET BURRRRNED?"
---> "'''KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GODDAMN [+HONEY+]!!!'''"
** ''Film/{{Knowing}}'':
--->"'''YOU WANT SOME OF THIS?!?''' *thonk*
** ''Film/{{Moonstruck}}'':
---> "'''I'VE LOST MY HAND!!! AND I'VE LOST MY BRIDE!!!'''"
** When he incarnates Castor Troy in ''Film/FaceOff'' : "Ha HA HA HA HA Ha!"
** In fact, every time he plays a dangerous lunatic.
** As Big Daddy in ''Film/KickAss'' he mimics the speech pattern of Creator/AdamWest.
** Perhaps the most over-the-top performance in his entire career comes in ''Film/VampiresKiss'', in which he portrays a vampire or a paranoid schizophrenic or possibly both.
---> "YOU'RE FIRED!!!!"
---> "I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE!"
** Or in ''Film/{{Deadfall}}'', where he often gets ''[[{{Angrish}} incomprehensibly]]'' hammy and ends up [[HamAndCheese singlehandedly making the movie worth watching]] because of it.
---> "WHAT AM I, A FUCKING RETAAARD, MAAAN!? AM I A FUCKING RETAAAARD, HUUUH!?"
** ''Film/GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance''
---> '''"HE'S SCRAPING AT THE DOOR! SCRAPING AT THE DOOOOOOOOOOAAAAHHHH!!"'''
** Even ''Film/NationalTreasure'', which features Nic as the otherwise level-headed Ben Gates, includes a scene where he gets to go completely bonkers: With Ben and Riley's plan to get part of a treasure map out of Buckingham Palace in jeopardy, Riley encourages Ben to make a scene, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMZ9S1p8XAs and boy does he ever!]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeXIoBnu2MU Nic Cage in general, frankly.]]
* In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', any scene where [[TheWoobie River]] has a mental breakdown. ''Especially'' when she collapses in the streets of Miranda, screaming a frantic prayer in Chinese.
* Creator/SharonStone's performance in ''Film/{{Casino}}'' isn't looked too fondly upon now because it frequently involved this. Roughly the entire last third of the movie seems to involve her screaming at either Creator/RobertDeNiro or Creator/JoePesci about something.
* Creator/JackNicholson in ''Film/TheWitchesOfEastwick'' (most notably in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVW_6pK93n0#t=1m35s his speech about women towards the end]]). But, hey, what did you expect? It's ''Creator/JackNicholson'' playing the freakin' ''Devil''.
* Creator/CharltonHeston's performance in ''Film/{{Planet of the Apes|1968}}'':
--> ''You cut up his braaaaaaiiiinnn!''
--> ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQME8mx4DMo It's a madhouse! A MAAADHOUUUSE!]]''
--> '''''[[EarthAllAlong YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP!]]''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5R_pS0h5Qk GODDAMN YOU! Goddamn you all to hell!]]''
** Really, ''any'' of his performances, from ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'' to ''Film/{{Earthquake}}''.
* ''Film/SoylentGreen'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You've gotta tell them!]] '''Soylent Green [[ItWasHisSled is people!]]'''"
* Creator/BrianCox in ''Film/{{Troy}}'' certainly qualifies. Then again, Brian Cox in almost anything. That man is definitely [[LargeHam not kosher]].
-->[+"I will '''smash''' their walls to the ground! HEAR ME, ZEUS!"+]
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''
** Creator/CateBlanchett as Galadriel in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' showing why giving her the Ring is a bad idea: [[https://youtu.be/K3VOf3CBGvw?t=200 "In place of a dark lord, you would have a QUEEN! NOT DARK BUT '''BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE AS THE DAWN! ''TREACHEROUS AS THE SEA! STRONGER THAN THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH!''''' ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!"]]
** Creator/JohnNoble chews the scenery while munching on everything remotely edible in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]''. And he has [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne atrocious table manners]].
* When Pink in ''Music/PinkFloyd Music/TheWall'' decides that he is a British fascist leader and sings "In the Flesh". Just watch as a rock star (Music/BobGeldof) playing a rock star (Music/RogerWaters) during an insane fantasy of being a fascist dictator while in front of an audience of Pink's rock fans during a concert.
* Creator/JimCarrey's comedic styling. Which is part of what makes the live-action ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' so much fun to watch. [[LargeHam Green eggs and ham, indeed]].
* Certain bites of James "Jimi" Kinstle's performance as Norman Osborn (a.k.a. The Green Goblin) in the ''Spider-Man'' fan film ''The Green Goblin's Last Stand''. As may be expected from a classically-trained actor playing a homicidal maniac, this is genuinely frightening at times. That joke about Osborn being scarier without his mask on? It's true here.
* The last two scenes of the second flashback in ''Film/TheBadAndTheBeautiful'' got this from Creator/KirkDouglas and Creator/LanaTurner respectively.
* The saving grace of ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' was a delightfully over-the-top portrayal of [[PsychoForHire Bullseye]] by Creator/ColinFarrell. He barely speaks and rarely raises his voice, but his snarling, twitching, and whispered ramblings chew the scenery in a big way. He kills people with pencils, peanuts, and paper clips in scenes that [[CrossesTheLineTwice cross the line]] into ComedicSociopathy. Just about every scene he's in is simultaneously hilarious and disturbing because of his overacting juxtaposed with the sadistic character.
-->"He made me... miss. ''I never miss!''"
%%* Creator/RobinWilliams is this trope made flesh.
* Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFl-WQAXMto performance]] in ''Film/KindergartenCop'', a film where he spends half his time screaming incomprehensibly at small children.
--> '''GAAAAHHHH!!!!'''
--> '''SHADDUUUUPPPP!!!!!'''
--> '''IT'Z NAHT!! A TWOMUR!'''
--> '''Bring your toy back to the CAHHPEHT!!'''
* ''Film/{{UHF}}'' "Stupid! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qileP4bAzek You're so stupid!]]"
* Happens in ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gIpuIVE3k GARBAGE DAY!]] Now a staple of {{memetic mutation}}s.
* Michael Stephenson in ''Film/{{Troll 2}}''. Has to be seen [[{{Narm}} to be believed]].
-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4 They're eating her! And then they're gonna eat me!]] [[BigOMG OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!]]
--> "And you can't piss on hospitality! '''I WON'T ALLOW IT!'''"
** Also Deborah Reed as Creedence.
--> "Think about the ''CHOLESTEROL''! Think about the ''TOXINS''!"
* '''[[Film/{{Superman}} COME TO ME, SON OF JOR-EL!]]''' '''[[KneelBeforeZod KNEEL BEFORE]]''' '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg1yUMqJMcw ZOD!]]'''
** Creator/KevinSpacey as Comicbook/LexLuthor in ''Film/SupermanReturns''.
-->"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRVUOGUmxJI WRONG!]]'''"
--> '''''KRRRRYYYYYPTONITE!'''''
--> '''Lois Lane''': But millions of people will die!
--> '''Lex Luthor:''' ''' BILLIONS!''' Once again, the press underestimates me.
* And ''Film/CabinFever'' has an example of chewing the scenery in a literal sense, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq_2GOoFaXE PANCAKES!]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOILKHmZBwc NOOOO...WIIIIREEEE.....HAAAAAANGGGEEERRRRSSSSS!!!!]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm_ui-EuQks Because I am NOT one of you FANS!]]
** Tina! Bring me the ax!
** The ''Variety'' review of ''Literature/MommieDearest'' stated: "Dunaway does not chew scenery. Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it whole, costars and all."
* Creator/GaryOldman in ''Leon''/''Film/TheProfessional'':
-->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrTsuvykUZk "Bring me everyone."]]'''
-->"What do you mean "everyone"?"
-->"'''''[[VillainousBreakdown EVERYONE!]]'''''"
* ''Film/StreetFighter'': Creator/RaulJulia makes quite a exit from acting in his last role, and is the best thing in it:
--> '''M. Bison:''' Something wrong, Colonel? You come here to fight a madman, and instead you found... a god!? You still refuse to ACCEPT... my '''[[AGodAmI godhood?!]]''' '''KEEP your own god! In fact, this might be a good time to PRAY to Him!''' '''''For I beheld {{Satan}} as he''''' '''FELL FROM HEAVEN!''' '''''LIKE LIGHTNING!!!'''''
* ''Film/TheProducers'':
** Leo Bloom without his blue blanket.
** '''FAT!'''
** Creator/GeneWilder in the original.
* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's VillainousBreakdown in ''Film/{{Downfall}}''. Creator/BrunoGanz's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bmkUlXp5sk scenery-chewing]] has become a MemeticMutation thanks to the {{Gag Sub}}s applied into it. For example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfkDxF2kn1I Hitler gets banned from Xbox Live]].
* Creator/WoodyHarrelson's DELICIOUS turn as a mad conspiracy theorist in the new ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' movie practically screams this trope.
** Well, [[LargeHam Woody Harrelson]], right there.
* Hans Conried as the villainous Dr. Terwilliker in ''Film/The5000FingersOfDrT''.
-->[+"Should you wish to escape: THE BARBED WIRE ON THE FENCE IS '''''[[VoiceOfTheLegion ELECT-RIFIED]]!!''''' [[EvilLaugh Mwahahahaha]]!"+]
-->[+"I want him {{disintegrat|orRay}}ed: '''ATOM... BY ATOM!'''"+]
* Captain Rhodes in ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'':
-->''''[+I'M RUNNIN' THIS MONKEY FARM NOW, FRANKENSTEIN, AND I WANNA KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE DOING WITH MY TIME!!!+]''''
--->'''''[++CHOKE ON 'EM!!!++]'''''
* Zadok, the drunken old sea dog in ''Film/{{Cthulhu}}'' (2007).
-->"They came out of the sea AND KILLED LOTS OF PEOPLE!"
* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' had Creator/GeneWilder as Willy Wonka:
-->'''[++"It's all here, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9gRzmCf1EI BLACK AND WHITE, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL!]] YOU STOLE fizzy lifting drinks! You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking washed and sterilized]], so you get...++] [+++[[MemeticMutation NOTHING! You LOSE! GOOD DAY, SIR!]]"+++]'''
** In fact, any time Gene Wilder freaks out and/or loses his temper in a film, so much so that his face goes reddish purple. ''Series/WillAndGrace'': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6WxmAAvpCc
** Gene Wilder period. "ANY SIGNS THAT THEY ARE SLOWING!" "THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE!"
* Or Creator/AntonioBanderas in ''Film/{{Assassins}}''. He's quite hammy to begin with, but he chews the scenery in such a way that it gained the status of being the EnsembleDarkHorse.
-->"''[++ YOU BLEW IT!!! I AM STILL ALIVE!!! HAHAHA!!!++]''"
** Best bit is when he is sharpening his marksmanship skills by shooting fruit and he turns to an orange that he has beside him : "Ha Ha Ha! I just killed [++YOUR BROTHER!++]'
* '''''[+++[[Film/EvilAlienConquerors IT WOULD TAKE A THOUSAND OF YOUR TINY MEALS TO SLAKE MY GIGANTIC APPETITE!!!]]+++]'''''
* ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' is a [[WorldOfHam Universe of Ham]], but Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler and [[Creator/JohnTravolta Terl]] are easily the biggest scenery chewers.
** '''Jonnie:''' ''(to his tribemates)'' Has anyone here ever seen one? ''(prances around them excitedly)'' A demon... a monster... a beast! YAAAAAAH!!!
** '''Terl:''' ''(to Ker)'' While you were still learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME, ''I''... was being trained... TO CONQUER GALAXIES!!!
* The entire film of ''Theatre/{{Doubt}}''. Case in point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T67xFhhfIg the Confrontation scene]] "'''YOU HAVE NO RIGHT!!'''" or "'''I HAVE MY CERTAINTY'''"
* Anything with Creator/JackPalance in it. If Creator/TimBurton's impersonation of the man on [[Film/Batman1989 Batman's commentary track]] is any indication, the man chewed as much scenery in real life as he did on celluloid!
* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', near the beginning: SHOOT HA! SHOOOOT HAAAA!
* Satoris, the evil cult leader from the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode, ''Film/TheFinalSacrifice,'' is very fond of chewing scenery (and spitting it out again).
* Prince John, ''Film/RobinHood2010'': I declare him, to be an '''OUT[+LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!!+]'''
* ''Film/DrStrangelove''. Most of ... well, Strangelove himself's lines.
** ''Animals''... vill be ''brred''... and '''''SLAUGHTERED...''''' '''HAAAAAA!''' ''(wrestles with [[EvilHand own arm]])'' '''MEIN FUHERER! I CAN WALK!!!'''
** Creator/GeorgeCScott was forced to [[LargeHam ham it up]] to ''unbelievable'' levels, which he himself HATED. The director most frequently chose these takes, and the actor was outraged.
** Creator/StanleyKubrick actually [[EnforcedMethodActing tricked Scott]] into doing this (as General Buck Turgidson). For each scene he told Scott to go completely over the top in the first few takes, before playing it straight in the later ones, [[LeftItIn promising to not use the earlier, wilder ones]]. ([[ILied He lied]].)
* Creator/BradPitt plays a ''[[TheSchizophreniaConspiracy total loon]]'' in ''Film/TwelveMonkeys''.
** He also gobbles the scenery a few times in ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'', particularly when Louis' manor is on fire.
--->This place is cursed... '''''DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMNED!!!!'''''
* Creator/BillMurray actually [[ShoutOut shouts out]] '''''"Feed'' me, [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors Seymour!]]"''' at the end of the movie ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'' to encourage the [[BreakingTheFourthWall theater audience]] to respond to his hilariously over-the-top [[{{Improv}} ad-libbing]] throughout the film, most notably in the dinner sequence.
-->'''Frank:''' ''(thinks he sees a ghost)'' AH-'''[=HAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa!=]'''
-->'''Waiter:''' Oh ''no'' sir, that's the Baked Alaska, sir, that's a dessert.
* ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' was all about this; between Creator/RaulJulia and Creator/ChristopherLloyd there wasn't a set unchewed.
** For that matter, anything Raúl Juliá has acted in. [[MemeticMutation OF COURSE!]] Chris Lloyd is no slouch, either.
* Creator/NickNolte. Full stop.
** Nick Nolte's character in ''Film/LorenzosOil'' crying and wailing hysterically over the numerous side effects of his son's illness.
** And he does it pretty frequently in ''Film/{{Hulk}}'' (2003), with the scene pictured above being his ultimate moment.
-->'''WebVideo/HonestTrailers''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U55NGD9Jm7M And Bruce Banner's father]], who's either an unpredictable MadScientist or just Nick Nolte [[ThrowItIn wandering onto the set]] and being himself for a few hours.
* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'':
--> "'''TEDDY FUCKIN' WILLIAMS HITS IT OUT OF THE PARK!!!!!''' Fenway's on it's feet for Teddy!!! '''FUCKIN' BALL GAME!!!!!'''"
* Creator/TomHardy in ''Film/{{Bronson}}'': almost the whole scene with the librarian. (Quicker, quicker, QUICKER, QUICKAH!, [++QUICKAH!++], [++FUCK OFF! SIT DOWN!++] Awesome, believable and completely justified.
** Also the lip sync of 'When I'm a RAHCK AND ROWLLLLLLL STAAAAH!'
* Creator/TomHardy in ''Film/Legend2015'' as mentally unstable gangter Ronnie Kray.
* The 1996 ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'', main offenders Harold Perrineau and Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio. [[Narm/{{Film}} This makes Mercutio's death unintentionally hilarious.]]
* Creator/RobertMitchum as the crazy industrialist in ''Film/DeadMan''. He spends most of his time ''"talkin' to a goddamn bear"'' or hiding behind his desk, shotgun in hand.
-->'''"SHUT UP!''' Mah boy is ''dead!'' Oh, I ain't askin' this time. I'm tellin'. And if somebody don't like it, '''''I'm prepared to do a little killin' of my own!''''' ''(later)'' I want this out over the wires. Post a $5000 reward from here to hell and back. Bring everybody in. I want that bastard's head. And make sure you include a [[TheAllegedSteed full description of my Pinto]]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking I want that horse back]].
* Sure, ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'' was pretty bad, but Creator/FrankLangella as Skeletor sure did chew himself some scenery, especially in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOsHoqhbUIU this scene]].
--> '''Skeletor:''' Now. I, Skeletor, am [[TitleDrop 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! The power 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! '''[[KneelBeforeZod KNEEL BEFORE YOUR MASTER!]]''' Fool! you are no longer my '''EQUAL!''' I am '''more than man''', '''MORE THAN''' '''''LIFE!''''' [[AGodAmI I... am... a...]] '''[[AGodAmI GOD!]]''' Now. You... will... '''''KNEEEEL!!!!!'''''
* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'' has Creator/KeanuReeves in [[DullSurprise his usual mode]]... but this is redeemed by Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Doctor van Helsing, particularly when he actually roars "Feed me!" for an [[HilariousInHindsight unintentional]] [[PlayingWithATrope invoked trope]].
* Creator/WillemDafoe in ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'':
** "'''[+THERE WAS A+] [+++FIRE FIGHT!!!!!!!!!+++]'''"
* Creator/AlanRickman in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' as the Sheriff of Nottingham was gloriously hammy in his portrayal. His best line was probably (at the end of a long list of canceling donations to various charities) "...and call off Christmas!"
** ...which was ruthlessly mocked in Mel Brooks' ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights''. That movie's Sheriff of Rottingham put a cherry on top by sometimes utterly messing up the word order.
* Creator/HerbertLom as Inspector Dreyfus in ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' films tends to do this a lot after Inspector Clouseau unwittingly succeeds in pushing him over the edge mentally, especially in ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'', where he plays an EvilOverlord.
* Creator/PaulGiamatti as King John in ''Film/{{Ironclad}}''. "YOU '''DARE''' TO QUESTION MY REIGN!!!!"
* Creator/JohnTurturro in Creator/AnthonyHopkins' confusing art flick ''Slipstream'', playing a over the top growling, insane producer who is sidesplittingly funny as well and this a year before Creator/TomCruise in ''Film/TropicThunder''. In one scene, he loses it with the director when he brings his child to the filming and almost nearly attacks him like a wild animal. I don't know if it was ment to be this way or if Tuturro was just hamming it up big time, though he would be in competition with Creator/ChristianSlater, who literally dies of overacting in the movie as the actor playing a menancing gangster along with Creator/JeffreyTambor who is at least subtle about it. Though in Slater's case it might just be that the script called for his chewing the scenery.
* Creator/CrispinGlover in ''River's Edge'', where he plays a cokehead who acts like the dark side of George [=McFly=], complete with stuttering threats and nervous chatter.
* Creator/RebBrown in almost anything he does, complete with over the top yelling at the top of your lungs acting style like most 80s action stars, his highlight though would be ''Film/SpaceMutiny'' with lines such as
--> "SON OF A BITCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
--> "LEEEEAAA WAAATTTCCHHH OOUUUUTTTT!"
--> "AHHHHAAAHAAAAAA"
--> "C'mon MOOOVVEEE, MOOOVVEEE,MOOVVVEEE, MOOOVVVVEEE,MOOOVVVEEE!"
--> "Let's get out there and KICCCKKK SOOMMMEEE ASSSSSS!"
* And in another movie called ''Film/StrikeCommando'' after a little kid dies he screams the villians name like this
--> "JAAAAAKKKAOODDDDAAAAA!"
* That Tom Riddle fellow in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films. In [[PunctuatedForEmphasis every]]. [[EmphasizeEverything Single]]. [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch Scene]]. He consumes more scenery than unicorn blood. All of Voldemort's portrayers have their moments, but Ralph Fiennes especially. He even has videos dedicated to the anticipation of his most hammiest of moments on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyYo7xv4wlw Youtube]].
** '''''TROLL IN THE DUNGEON!!!!!'''''
* ''Film/EverAfter'': Everyone is occasionally (probably consciously, due to the quick changes between humor and seriousness) guilty of this, child!Danielle in particular.
** Honourable mention to Marguerite who throws a full-blown temper tantrum with stamping and screaming and yelling in front of the Queen of France.
** "I would rather die a thousand deaths than SEE MY MOTHER'S DRESS ON THAT [[PunctuatedForEmphasis SPOILED! SELFISH! COW!]]"
* The scenery literally fell apart when Tobey Maguire starts wrecking the kitchen in ''Brothers''. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3L5Fz7HDno here]]. (1:07 onwards)
** '''''YOU KNOW WHAT I DID!!!!????'''''
* Sir Creator/BenKingsley as Don Logan in ''Film/SexyBeast'': "You're the problem! You're the fuckin' problem you fuckin' Doctor White honkin' jam-rag fucking spunk-bubble! I'm tellin' you, Aitch, you keep lookin' at me I'll put you in the fuckin' ground, promise you!"
* "[[Creator/ChristopherLloyd I]] [[Film/SuburbanCommando WAS]] [[HarmlessFreezing FROZEN]] [[MemeticMutation TODAY!]]
* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': "I ... AM... [[SayMyName MEGATRON!!!]]
* The DVDCommentary for ''Film/{{Priest}}'' mentions that many of Creator/KarlUrban's scenes seem to exist for the purpose of letting Urban chew scenery.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Film/IronMan1'': TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO ''BUILD THIS'' '''''IN A CAVE!''''' WITH A '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtntTvuv8Aw BOX OF SCRAPS!]]'''''
** Creator/TomHiddleston as Loki in ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' singlehandedly accounts for approximately 70% of the scenery-chewing in those movies.
--->'''Loki:''' '''''TELLLL MEEEE!!!'''''\\\
'''Loki:''' [[KneelBeforeZod Kneel before me.]] I said... ''KNEEL!!!!''\\\
'''Loki:''' ''THIS'' is my bargain, you MEWLING ''QUIM!''\\\
'''Loki:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4gN_yc_7ug I am a GOD, you dull creature!]]
** Loki's extensive chewing is to be expected, though, seeing as his father Odin (played by Creator/AnthonyHopkins) does some extreme chewing of his own.
--->'''Odin:''' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA5ncj50Alk You are unworthy of these realms... You're unworthy of your TITLE... YOU'RE UNWORTHY!!!]]''\\
'''Loki:''' Father...\\
'''Odin:''' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-8s7g0uAEk HYAEEERGH!]]''
** Brother Thor also gobbles much scenery, mixing fancy vocabulary.
** In one of the HilariousOuttakes of ''The Avengers'', Creator/CobieSmulders' Maria Hill does a ComicalOverreacting to [[spoiler:Agent Coulson's death]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGhz5o2cWKc that must be seen to be believed.]]
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Ronan the Accuser doesn't so much as chew the scenery as maul and raven it to bloody pieces. Creator/LeePace recalled once how he would keep glancing back to Creator/JamesGunn to tell him when to dial it back, while Gunn just kept going "more, more." The final product, when Ronan is ''really'' allowed to cut loose, is a screaming fanatic who manages to make ''Thanos'' look subtle by comparison:
-->'''Ronan''': You call me '''BOY!''' I will unfurl one-thousand years of Kree justice on Xandar, and ''burn it to its core!''
* Watch Creator/HelenMirren and Creator/ChristopherPlummer munch away on the beautiful Russian country side in ''Film/TheLastStation''.
* Almost everyone in ''Film/JudgeDredd'', especially when pronouncing the word "law"/"[[Creator/SylvesterStallone lauwh]]"/"[[HamToHamCombat lllaaaawww]]". The most notable is probably [[EvilIsHammy Armand Assante's]] [[MemeticMutation notorious]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aaubVlhNK4 delivery]].
* [[Music/NewYorkDolls David Johansen]] really chews up the scenery in ''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie''. Even when [[spoiler:[[OrificeInvasion a cat is crawling down his character's mouth]], he manages to keep chewing the scenery]].
* ''Film/{{Virtuosity}}'': Creator/RussellCrowe is a one-man feeding frenzy.
--> "Hey buddy! How's the wife and kid? Still dead, huh?"
* While everyone in ''Film/JupiterAscending'' is [[HamAndCheese having some fun]] with the script, no one is chewing more scenery than Creator/EddieRedmayne. Most of the time, he speaks in a hoarse whisper... Until things start going downhill, and then [[SuddenlyShouting he breaks out the shouting]].
-->'''Balem:''' '''''I CREATE LIFE!!!!!'''''\\
'''Balem:''' And... I... destroy it.
* The ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' films give us the wonderful Creator/BurgessMeredith as Rocky's trainer Micky, who appears to be a wizened vegetable [[AWizardDidIt magically granted life]], on the sole proviso that he devour scenery wherever it may present itself.
--> '''Micky:''' He's a '''''[[MemeticMutation WRECKIN' MACHINE!]]'''''
--> '''Micky:''' GEDDUP, YOU SONOFABITCH!...CAUSE MICKY LOVES YA!
* ''Film/CleopatraJones'' has Snake, a heroin dealer who wavers between badass pimp and yapping puppy from line to line.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'', when Mrs. Mavilda is firing Judy, she chews it so hard that the voice actress's mic almost blows out.
* [[Film/LogansRun NO! Don't go in there! You don't have to die! No one has to die at 30! You could live! LIVE! Live, and grow old! I've seen it! She's seen it!]]
* Creator/RichardEGrant takes scenery chewing to a whole new level in ''Film/HudsonHawk''. "What can I tell you? I'm the villain!"
* An over the top hilarious moment in ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'' happens when Jenko finds out the the person Schmidt had sexual relations with was none other than Captain Dickson's daughter.
-->'''Jenko''': '''OHHH SHIT! OHHH SHIT!''' ''[laughs hysterically]'' '''OH SHIT! NO! That is NOT happening right now! NO!''' ''[yells to everyone in the room]'' '''HEY Y'ALL, HE'S FUCKING THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER! YO!'''\\
'''Dickson''': Every time...he say that shit...\\
'''Jenko''': OH MY FUCK!\\
'''Dickson''': That's another foot in your ass!\\
'''Jenko''': '''Schmidt! You clearly- Oh this is the best thing ever!''' ''[laughing hysterically]'' '''SCHMIDT FUCKED THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER!''' ''[dancing and chanting]'' '''SCHMIDT FUCKED THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER! SCHMIDT FUCKED THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER! SHIT! FUCK!''' ''[still laughing]'' '''YOU FUCKED CAPTAIN DICKSON'S DAUGHTER?! CAPTAIN! WHAT THE- YOU BRAGGED TO HIM TO HIS FACE! TO HIS ACTUAL FACE! CAPTAIN- Do you understand that this face, Right here, you bragged to that face? You actually high-fived Schmidt for fucking your daughter! HOLY SHIT! OH MY GOD! THIS IS-''' ''[noticing Dickson's unamusement]'' It's really not that funny.
* ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' - the whole cast. Everyone, and I do mean everyone, is as far over the top as one could imagine. Then there is Creator/GeneWilder in the title role, whose performance is so melodramatic and madcap that it must be seen to be believed.
-->'''Dr. Frederick Frankenstein''': I am a scientist, not a philosopher! You have more chance of reanimating this scalpel than you have of mending a broken nervous system!
-->'''Medical Student''': But what about your grandfather's work, sir?
-->'''Dr. Frederick Frankenstein''': My grandfather's work was doodoo! I am not interested in death! The only thing that concerns me is the preservation of life! [jams the scalpel into his leg, lets go of the scalpel and it sticks upright out of his leg, grasps it again, then slowly crosses his legs to block the scalpel from view]
* As expected when one of the best dramatic actors of his generation plays Dr. Zachary Smith, Creator/GaryOldman dines defiantly while delivering his delectably devilish dialogue in Film/LostInSpace. Scintilatingly scrumptious.
* Creator/SamuelLJackson in... oh, just about everything he’s been in. The man can get ''loud'' when he needs to. “''[[Film/PulpFiction WHAT DOES MARCELLUS WALLACE LOOK LIKE?!?!?!?]]''”
* ''Film/TheTwoFacesOfDrJekyll'' - Paul Massie, as both Jekyll and Hyde; "WHAT HAVE I DONE? WHAT HAVE I DONE?"
* Creator/JeffGoldblum does a lot of this in the second act of ''Film/TheFly1986'', which covers the first few days after his character's TeleporterAccident. Up until then he is an endearing GibberingGenius. But as a SlowTransformation begins, his behavior slowly changes -- first he's talking ''really'' fast and even pounding the table in a cafe as he muses over how his teleporter must have purified his body, because why else is he so much stronger and feeling so good? Come a failed attempt to convince his lover to be teleported as well, Goldblum starts chewing the scenery with abandon (with lots of MilkingTheGiantCow) as he rhapsodizes over the power of taking a "deep, penetrating dive into the plasma pool" -- as she realizes and tells him that the teleportation must have gone wrong ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness because he's acting so oddly]]''. At the climax of the act he rages at her and even punches a wooden support beam into splinters as he tosses her out of his loft/laboratory. (His bellowing "YOU'RE JEALOUS!" is a RunningGag in the Cinematic Venom review of the film.) Now alone, he takes a look at himself in a bathroom mirror, and the mounting reveals of [[BodyHorror what's actually happening to him]] see all the rage and scenery-chewing drain away, leaving a trembling, whispering, ''absolutely terrified'' man, in the space of a few minutes. Between this and the ''rest'' of his work in the film, this was Goldblum's StarMakingRole, proving that this trope can be ''very'' good indeed [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools when used skillfully]].
* In ''Film/HowToGetRidOfCellulite'', Wojciech Mecwaldowski as Krystian pulls all the stops as the jealous ex in the highly memetic MistakenForRomance scene. His jittery behavior, bug-eyed expression and PunctuatedForEmphasis delivery with an AtomicFBomb and BigNo makes the entire scene ridiculous.
* In ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'', after [[Creator/AndrewGarfield Eduardo Saverin]] founds out that [[spoiler:his ownership stake was reduced to near-nothing]], he goes ''ballistic'' in the Facebook office:
** First he confronts Mark, who's on his laptop and "wired in", as Sean puts it. Eduardo ''smashes'' the laptop.
---> '''Eduardo:''' How 'bout now, you still wired in?!
** Then, when Sean lectures him on how Eduardo pretends he runs the company while wearing "his ridiculous suits":
---> '''Eduardo:''' SOOOOOOO-RRY!! MY PRADA'S AT THE CLEANERS! ALONG WITH MY HOODIE AND MY [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK]]-YOU FLIP-FLOPS! YOU PRETENTIOUS DOUCHEBAG!
** And shortly before security escorts him away, he makes one last threat of TranquilFury at Mark:
---> '''Eduardo:''' And I'll bet what you hated the most is that they identified me as a co-founder of Facebook, ''which I am.'' You better lawyer up, ''asshole'', 'cause I'm not coming back for 30%. I'm coming back for ''EVERYTHING.''
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