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  • Even the best actors have their melodramatic moments, but every once in awhile, a performance

  • goes from "a little over the top" to "insane."

  • Maybe these performances are so over the top they circle back around to brilliant, or maybe

  • they're just embarrassing.

  • Either way, these clips offer examples of overacting at its finest.

  • John Alderton in Zardoz

  • Everything about 1974's Zardoz is weird.

  • It features Sean Connery with a long braid and rocking the Borat swimsuit look for most

  • of the film.

  • It's a bizarro, trippy movie about a godlike creature called Zardoz who talks through a

  • giant stone head, a group of immortals who don't believe in sex or sleep, and Connery

  • running around with his copious body hair on display.

  • But Connery doesn't earn the scene-chewing crown.

  • That honor goes to actor John Alderton, playing an immortal named "Friend" ...

  • "I hate all women.

  • Birth, fertility, superstition."

  • And that's just a taste.

  • If this scene seems confusing, don't worry.

  • It doesn't make any more sense in the context of the film either.

  • "I will, I will not go to second level with you!"

  • But you have applaud Alderton for making the most of his odd moment in this terribly strange

  • film.

  • Nicolas Cage in Vampire's Kiss

  • You can't talk about overacting without talking about Nicolas Cage, and Vampire's Kiss is

  • one of his early moments of over-the-top glory.

  • Long before his Wicker Man remake found him screaming about bees and punching a woman

  • while wearing a bear suit, he released what might actually be the craziest movie of his

  • career.

  • 1988's Vampire's Kiss stars Cage as an ad exec who gets bitten and thinks he's turning

  • into a vampireand apparently vampires are 100 percent insane, because that's how Cage

  • plays his metamorphosis

  • "I never misfiled anything!

  • Not once!

  • Not one time!"

  • "I'm sure that you didn't."

  • Oh to be a fly on the wall as this scene was filmed.

  • If the crew wasn't desperately holding back laughter, they must have been looking for

  • the exits.

  • John Travolta in Battlefield Earth

  • John Travolta wanted to bring the central mythology of Scientology to life with Battlefield

  • Earth.

  • Instead, he created one of the worst movies of all timeand gave a completely bizarre

  • performance in the bargain.

  • Battlefield Earth is about a terrible race of dreadlocked aliens who have enslaved humanity.

  • Travolta stars as the main bad guy, Terl.

  • Travolta decided Terl was a guy who loved a good laugh, doling out his version of an

  • evil chuckle in almost every scene

  • "I do what I can."

  • "It's a joke."

  • If the goal was to make these gross aliens as unappealing as possible, then Travolta

  • actually did a perfect job.

  • A job we never want to watch again.

  • Michael Sheen in Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

  • Michael Sheen is a wonderful actor.

  • He's turned in brilliant performances on TV in Masters of Sex, and on the big screen in

  • Frost/Nixon, among many other notable roles.

  • But when it came to Twilight: Breaking DawnPart 2, he went a little crazy as the

  • evil Aro.

  • In fact, in a series filled with unintentionally funny moments, Sheen's bizarre giggle might

  • stand out as the most memorable ...

  • It's funny every time.

  • Sheen actually offered an explanation of his big moment to MTV, saying that since his character

  • has been alive for centuries and centuries, he's probably incredibly bored and gets hysterical

  • when something actually unexpected happens.

  • It really does make perfect sense when you think about itwhich means Sheen managed

  • to turn an over-the-top moment into a secretly brilliant acting choice.

  • Bravo.

  • Ellen McElduff in Maximum Overdrive

  • Author Stephen King decided he wanted to give moviemaking a try, so he adapted his short

  • story "Trucks" into 1986's Maximum Overdrive.

  • The good things about the film: a full score by AC/DC.

  • The bad things: everything else.

  • A story about machines coming to life and trying to kill all humans manages to make

  • even less sense than you'd think.

  • This was King's first time directing a film, and he later admitted that one major issue

  • with the movie was that his co-director was cocaine.

  • Despite all the problems, the film has one incredible highlight: the waitress.

  • Actress Ellen McElduff makes the most of her limited screen time

  • "We made you!

  • Didn't you understand?

  • You can't do this!"

  • If you're going to have a small part in a crappy film, at least make it memorable.

  • "You can't!

  • We made you!"

  • Brian Blessed in Flash Gordon

  • 1980's space opera Flash Gordon sure had an interesting cast: Brian Blessed, an acclaimed

  • British Shakespearean actor with a big voice and personality, and Max von Sydow, a frequent

  • collaborator with Ingmar Bergman who's considered one of Sweden's greatest actors, played second

  • fiddle to Sam J. Jones, a former contestant on The Dating Game.

  • Watching Flash Gordon, you get the sense that Blessed knew he wasn't winning any Oscars

  • for the film, so he just had as much fun as humanly possible playing a winged man who

  • flies around in leather briefs and a breastplate while Queen plays on the soundtrack.

  • Why not go over the top, right?

  • "Oh well.

  • Who wants to live forever?

  • Ha ha ha!

  • Dive!"

  • Kenneth Branagh in Wild Wild West

  • In yet another example of a Shakespearean actor trying to bring a bit of theatrical

  • flair to a role in a very silly blockbuster, Kenneth Branagh played the villainous Dr.

  • Loveless in 1999's Wild Wild West.

  • An infamous flop that snapped Will Smith's remarkable '90s streak, the film is suspiciously

  • devoid of humor for an action thriller/sci-fi/comedy hybrid.

  • Among all the failed jokes, we have the spectacle of Branagh.

  • His portrayal of Loveless is so consistently over the top, wildly veering from dramatic

  • to simply insane, he's at least always interesting to watch.

  • "It's me, dear friends!

  • Alive and kicking.

  • Well, alive, anyway."

  • "Mi casa es su casa.

  • Faites comme chez vous.

  • Let the party begin!"

  • Branagh knows that a villain who winds up in a giant steampunk spider is not a man for

  • subtlety.

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電影史上最過癮的時刻。 (The Most Overacted Moments In Movie History)

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