Definitely! I’d forgotten that one.
He’s no, say, careworn Jon Voight in Coming Home, or a volatile/introspective Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces, but I thought Sid Haig in Star Crash quite memorably ate up every scene like it was a deep-dish pizza dying to get slurped/vacuumed with Wellesian:p thoroughness.
And, to assure the OP - SH six trillion per cent enhanced the film with his formidable presence.
Walken is also in a little B-movie called The Prophecy, in which he plays the angel Gabriel, against Viggo Mortensen as Lucifer. Walken’s performance is really over-the-top, but great fun.
Jon Voight’s an interesting case. Overacting-but-great: Anaconda. Overacting-but-terrible: Ray Donovan.
Not a great movie, but I’ll never forget Raul Julia in Street Fighter, playing M. Bison.
After reading this (Cracked Article Link, scroll down to #1), I can’t even begin to describe his performance 1/100th as well a Luke Mckinney did, so here’s a (very few) quotes from the article.
I think you’ll find his name is actually BRIAN BLESSED. All caps not optional.
My first thought also, but he’s still one of my favourites of all time.
Man he annoys me. He plays the same character in every movie(except for Remains of the Day). He looks out the window or across some vista - and delivers a parable monologue. Fuck your wisdom Anthony.
The OP won his own thread with Brian Blessed in Flash Gordon!
“BRING ME THE REMOTE CONTROL!”
Shit, now I gotta go watch that again tonight.
I remember thinking that Viggo acted like he made up his lines in that film…and was gratifyed to later find out that was sorta true.
You can’t bring up Jon Voight chewing the scenery without mentioning his role in Runaway Train
No mention of Denzel Washington?
Training Day- “KING KONG AIN"T GOT SHIT ON ME!!”
Malcom X - “WE DIDN"T LAND ON PLYMOUTH ROCK! PLYMOUTH ROCK LANDED ON US!!”
Between Spader, Hemsworth, Renner, Bettany, Olsen, Cheadle and Serkis I thought I was watching an all you can eat buffet made from scenery.
Health Ledger as The Joker
Gary Oldman in Leon / The Professional
“Matty. Bring me everyone.”
“Everyone?”
“EEEVERRYONNNE!!!”
Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari in Babylon 5.
No pussyfooting around with Robert Duvall’s character in The Great Santini.
Damn that incredible Rene Soutendyk in Spetters and especially The Fourth Man didn’t even need to try to chew up any scenery - all she had to do was just simply…be, in each and every frame. That wicked, sparkly-eyed smile would gobble up any scene.
Maybe not the most histrionic performance, but Yul Brynner kinda had a way of sucking all the oxygen out of the room in the original Westworld.
Terence Stamp in The Limey.
Jon Lovitz in A League of Their Own.
Anjelica Huston in The Witches.
Derek Jacobi won a best guest actor Emmy for his over-the-top Hamlet performance on Frasier.
No mention of Charles Laughton? Mutiny o**n the Bounty? Electrifying.
How about Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd?
Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon also come to mind.