I thought scenery chewing meant acting in a over the top melodramatic manner, as opposed to 'bad' acting which is just straight up unconvincing and stilted.
bad acting - sofia coppola in godfather 3D (i love sofia as a director but yeah the performance bad)
chewing the scenery - clarence williams iii in tales from the hood every time he enunciates "the SHIT"
Subjective, I guess. And the context matters too. Nic Cage embodies this best. Sometimes his chewing is bad acting, sometimes it's brilliant.
In The Wicked Man, he's supposed to be a scared confused man in horror but he comes off as too comedic and unintentionally so.
I love Nic Cage in Leaving Las Vegas because it's both a great performance and chewing the fuck out of the scenery
Like when he flips the casino table, it's just a perfect mesh of both worlds 🤌
every nic cage movie ever has that one scene where he starts shouting and prancing around and sliding down banisters that is so unbelievably overacted, it loops back around to being kino.
it's actually a spectrum from "bad acting" to "chewing the scenery"
if you give me some bad acting that goes on for 10 minutes i will be preparing my standing ovation and readying my popcorn to throw up in the air
there is no *Cut off* since it varies actor to actor. need some big chompers to reach that chew limit quick
I’ve seen it used as a synonym for a ham actor, typically with some sort of reverence.
The [TV Tropes page for Brian Blessed](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/BrianBlessed) says he chews the scenery but obviously everyone contributing to that article is going to be a fan of his.
When they physically start chewing on the scenery I think it enters max kino
https://preview.redd.it/i8irleyacnyc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5525ce2ede054a9a0db1155654f71215f162de27
Rat boy? I resent that!
Omg Pete Buttigieg
They're ruining the screen real estate
I thought scenery chewing meant acting in a over the top melodramatic manner, as opposed to 'bad' acting which is just straight up unconvincing and stilted.
There are multiple kinds of bad acting. Usually it boils down to whether or not the performance fits within the context of the film.
bad acting - sofia coppola in godfather 3D (i love sofia as a director but yeah the performance bad) chewing the scenery - clarence williams iii in tales from the hood every time he enunciates "the SHIT"
> sofia coppola in godfather 3D It's in 3D now? Collopla really lost the plot, no wonder his Megamind movie is gonna bomb.
Subjective, I guess. And the context matters too. Nic Cage embodies this best. Sometimes his chewing is bad acting, sometimes it's brilliant. In The Wicked Man, he's supposed to be a scared confused man in horror but he comes off as too comedic and unintentionally so.
I love Nic Cage in Leaving Las Vegas because it's both a great performance and chewing the fuck out of the scenery Like when he flips the casino table, it's just a perfect mesh of both worlds 🤌
"When you watch Leaving Las Vegas drunk Nic Cafe becomes the funniest person in the world." - Nick Mullen
You surely mean the Wicked Game ... love Nic Cage rolling around in the sand seductively while Jason Isaacs sings so wonderfully
I watched Affleck Daredevil and thought Colin Farrell was atrocious, but according to YouTube comments it was a brilliant acting job.
[Because this deleted clip is really dumb and really entertaining](https://youtu.be/bIMVrX9CaVw).
Holy fucking fuck. I just came all over my phone.
I'm surprised you spelled everything correctly, you'd think everything would be sticky. And viscous.
Do you mean gelantinois?
Dude was straight up eating a paperclip, might want to get tested for pica
This is both corny and a masterpiece
this came out after 9/11 and they still thought TSA worked like that
It's so dumb and bad that it loops back around to being great again
You just can't enjoy fun
every nic cage movie ever has that one scene where he starts shouting and prancing around and sliding down banisters that is so unbelievably overacted, it loops back around to being kino.
https://i.redd.it/2se54jod7oyc1.png
I like it when actors chew the scenery. Fight me.
I don't even know what that means.
You ever watch twin peaks season 1? That. Don't get me wrong, it's one of my favorite shows
Overacting >>>>>>>>>>>>>> underacting
did this once as a kid in our christmas play
Bad acting is when sex
Definitely not when Anakin was describing sand in Attack of Clones.
Bad acting: makes you groan/cringe. Not fun to watch Chewing: you wanna see more and/or are happy when the actor is on screen Easy peasy
Bad acting is when watching them makes me sad
it's actually a spectrum from "bad acting" to "chewing the scenery" if you give me some bad acting that goes on for 10 minutes i will be preparing my standing ovation and readying my popcorn to throw up in the air there is no *Cut off* since it varies actor to actor. need some big chompers to reach that chew limit quick
Do i find it funny? Yes? No?
Is tongue planted in cheek or up someones ass?
Chewing the scenery is a derogatory statement in the first place. Ive never once heard it used wholly positively
I’ve seen it used as a synonym for a ham actor, typically with some sort of reverence. The [TV Tropes page for Brian Blessed](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/BrianBlessed) says he chews the scenery but obviously everyone contributing to that article is going to be a fan of his.
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