I’ve been watching a number of TNG episodes recently, and I think I see the same thing with Patrick Stewart. There is definitely an element of cheese, but his performance seems to elevate everything. The rest of the cast aren’t exactly the most amazing actors, but do seem to work well together.
"I KNOW WHO I AM! I’m the dude PLAAAYIN’ the dude DISGUIIISED as ANUTHA dude!"
- Robert Downey Jr, as Kirk Lazarus, as Lincoln Osiris.
Darren McGavin gnawed on a lot of scenery inA Word to the Wives. Especially the cabinets.
I never watched that one.
Ben Gazzara in Roadhouse.
Everyone in Roadhouse. 
Oh, that reminds of me of Sean Penn doing some serious chewing in Mystic River. “IS THAT MY DAUGHTER IN THERE!?!?!”
I don’t think anyone could possibly beat Kevin Bacon in Paul Verhoeven’s Hollow Man, who managed to chew up scenes he was never actually physically in!
Coincidentally I just watched Extreme Prejudice, 1987, and it has a complete rogues’ gallery of scenery chewers: Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, Rip Torn, and William Forsythe. Needless to say there isn’t much scenery left unchewed by the end of the movie!
“I used to fuck guys like you in prison” guy does evangelical Christian movies now.
MY COUSIN VINNY is entertaining enough when it’s just a fish-out-of-water comedy about misunderstandings, but the tuning point is when our misunderestimated hero finally gets to break out his Funny How, I Mean Funny Like I’m A Clown skills in court when he’s loftily informed that no self-respectin’ Southernuh eats instant grits.
“I’m sorry; I was all the way over there, I couldn’t hear you; did you say that you were a fast cook? That’s it? Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than on any other place on the face of the EARTH? … Well, perhaps the laws of PHYSICS cease to exist on your STOVE? Were these MAGIC grits? I mean, didja buy 'em from the same guy who sold Jack his BEANSTALK beans?”
That’s when it become clear that, oh, this isn’t the story of a cocky little loudmouth who’s in way over his head; this is, as it happens, the guy you’re talking about when you say, yeah, granted this looks bad, but I Know A Guy.
“How about a nice greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray?”
Bill Paxton had his moments.