What is overacting? Post examples

[Rain]

The entire Scandal show

 

[MartyMcFly]

The entire Scandal show

That's a soap opera tho so the performances are perfect for the story and feel of the show. True overacting is when you're playing something big that doesn't demand to be played big. Someone said liar liar earlier which isnt overacting at all because it fits the tone of the movie and that character

 

[Jello Biafra]

Al Pacino is a great example of overacting from both ends of the spectrum.
His overacting was good in Scarface and Scent of a Woman but it was terrible in stuff like Heat and The Recruit.

Eva Green in the short-lived Starz series "Camelot".

I'm not good at telling how good or how bad an actor is acting in a Movie or TV Show (Unless it's really obvious), but Eva Green's performance on that show was just so over the top compared to the various Movies I've seen her in.

She was annoying as shyt in that show..that and the lead actor just looked too much like a prettyboy sissy.

Eva Green was the only good thing about that shytty show.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Pacino was great in Heat but he definitely was overacting in Insomnia.

THEY FOUND HER WRAPPED UP IN GAWBIDGE BAGGSS

 

[Shogun]

 

[MartyMcFly]

Al Pacino is a great example of overacting from both ends of the spectrum.
His overacting was good in Scarface and Scent of a Woman but it was terrible in stuff like Heat and The Recruit.



Eva Green was the only good thing about that shytty show.

Seriously lol. She was the only one not taking it so damn serious because the show didn't take itself seriously. She's always good at knowing what tone to strike

 

[FlyRy]

Seriously lol. She was the only one not taking it so damn serious because the show didn't take itself seriously. She's always good at knowing what tone to strike

Eva green makes penny dreadful worth watching

 

[Milk N Cookies]

Janet in the first one too.

 

[Mr Rager]

Watch any Jim Carrey movie

 

[NobodyReally]

Everything Ozone did in Breakin'



And I love this movie but at the end, dude really overdoes the dramatics,

 

[TKOK]

 

[kp404]

Overacting is exactly what the term implies, it's when actors exaggerate immensely and it comes of more ridiculous than dramatic.

Perfect example of terrible overacting:

There is no better example on the internet than this

 

[Born2BKing]

 

[StraxStrax]

It depends on the context. Take a performance from any Shakespare movie/play and insert into another play/film it wouldn't fit in.

 

[the cac mamba]