Touche. OTOH, the Hadenbot seems to have two settings:
Insane rage bot (see above)
Channeling Keanu Reeves ( " Amidala, I love… wait, what’s my motivation again? "
Therefore, I would argue that Christiansen is “acting” in the same way Binky the elephant can “paint” a picture.
I’ve seen elephants paint and I’ve seen Keanu Reeves act. Your comparison is deeply insulting to the elephants and I request you withdraw it.
Wasn’t he chewing gum while chewing the scenery? That’s a two-fer!
Katharine Hepburn’s “Did your father sleep with me or didn’t he?” scene with her husband (Peter O’Toole) in The Lion in Winter was but one of several great scenery chews in that movie. (Highlights of that scene begin at 8:10 in this clip.)
You just thought it was gum. He actually bit off a little piece of the set and was chewing on it during the scene.
“'Cause she’s got a great ass! And you’ve got your head all the way up it! When I think if asses, a woman’s ass, something comes out of me.” – Lt. Vincent Hanna, Heat
Stranger
Ben Afflek didn’t have that many scenes in Boiler Room, but the ones he did he really took over.
Oh come on. Keanu Reeves can act. It’s just that in most of his films he chooses not to.
I am eagerly awaiting the final Harry Potter movie for one huge reason
I want to see Alan Rickman do Snape’s death scene. That will go down in cinematic history, my friends.
Actually it was pretty understated in the books as I remember. I mainly want to see McGonagall/Smith lead the desks in a cavalry charge.
That too!
And it might be understated in the book…but can you see Alan Rickman passing up such an opportunity? He did a pretty good job stumbling around the chapel during the final fight scene in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
I read somewhere - probably here - that that line was a complete ad-lib. Look at the other guy’s (Hank Azaria’s) reaction.
TWOK is reputedly the film where the director made Shatner go through the scenes a couple of times, to wear him down to the point where he could no longer ham things up.
Its not even just the one scenery chewing moment… For me the pinaccle is just the one which finishes with…
“Death is… Whimisical today…”
Speaking of ad-libbing* how about Gene Wilder realizing his grandfather was right in Dr. Frankenstein? He reads out of his grandfather’s notes and gets all excited…It! Could! Work!
*Marty Feldman reportedly ad-libbed the scene where Madeline Kahn arrives in the carriage, which is what made me think of the movie.
Or in A Time to Kill
“and I hope they burn in HELL!”
I don’t think anyone’s mentioned Geoffrey Rush yet, who is the biggest ham this side of Christmas: his signature role was probably as Shiny McShine, and he’s done nothing but riff on that since, usually with a nod and wink to the camera as if to say “Look, I, Geoffrey Rush, celebrated thespian, am pretending to overact”. Uh, Geoff, it’s not a parody if you do it all the damn time: Casanova Frankenstein wasn’t a send-up, it’s all you ever do.
[nitpick]Young Frankenstein[/nitpick]
I think Mel Brooks movies should be excused, because the entire purpose of every actor in the movie is to chew the scenery as much as possible. Hell, even Paul Newman chewed away in Silent Movie, and he didn’t say a word.
Certainly his Capt. Barbossa in the 1st Pirates movie would qualify. “You best start believing in ghost stories Miss Turner. You’re in one.”
Ok–this is a kind of obscure movie…Hope and Glory…John Boorman directed it–about a family living in London during the Blitz. I always thought Sammi Davis, who played the teenage daughter did some major scenery chewing…I thank God my teenage daughter doesn’t act like that.
Has anybody seen this movie? It’s one of my all-time favorites.
I’d say Keanu worked in The Matrix, because he stood there slack jawed as everyone else explained the plot to him. He didn’t have to speak, apart from such wise words as:
“Whoa. I know Kung Fu”