And the nominees for Biggest Over-Actor of All Time are...

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Olivier?

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Maybe Joe Pesci deserves recognition in this area as well.
Swede

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Not the Joe Pesci that was in Raging Bull or Good Fellas. If you're talking about his comedic work like Home Alone, aren't the prat falls and goofy expressions all part of the performance? I mean those roles don't lend themselves to subtlety.

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Exactly.

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Keanu.

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You have to be able to actually act first, before you're accused of over-acting.

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You'd have to convince me he was even living before you convinced me he was acting, and then you still haven't gotten to overacting.

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joe mantegna is the first one that comes to mind

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But he was so good in House of Games.

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Also understated in Searching for Bobby Fischer.

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Agreed. He was fine there.

[Blarg]

Where was Jack Klugman over-acting? He was always liked because of his everyman kind of schtick.

For an everyman(or a bit uglier) who overacts, I'd nominate Dennis Frantz. He often lays on the schtick pretty thick, and seems like a caricature of himself.

Gotta give props to Pacino on overacting; he's been doing it for 20 years now.

Someone mentioned Jim Carrey -- I think he's got to be the undisputed winner. His whole style from the beginning has been over the top, and not always in a good or aware way, for sure.

But my sentimental favorite is Bruce Campbell, hero of the Evil Dead movies.

William Shatner is mind-bogglingly bad. The funny thing is, he didn't start out that way. I saw him on an old Outer Limits episode, and he didn't seem to be lunging for the cheese as often as he did in Star Trek days.

Robin Williams' whole act is overacting, but I separate that from his dramatic acting. He has done very good dramatic acting in Seize the Day and in Good Will Hunting, at least.

[theben]

over actor = ?

im ignorant

[Duke]

I'm pretty sure if I said "Big Bird" someone on this forum would rant for a paragraph in agreement.

~D

[chesspain]

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...(I'd say Al Pacino, but the thread would end. Any more?)

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Ditto, although I'ld give an honorable mention to Gene Hackman--although he sounds quite understated in his voiceover for Lowe's new TV commercial.

[TheCroShow]

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that younger guy in "Saw"

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winner.

he is awful. cary elwes or something like that i think.

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that was the director of the movie saw, threw himself in the movie

[BaggyAnt]

Jack Nicholson or Dennis Hopper