Your Top 10 Movie Villians

BonziWellsGOAT · Jan 31, 2014

1. Hannibal Lectar (Silence of the Lambs) - Probably the most memorable character IMO ever.

2. Hans Gruber (Die Hard) - Probably the most sopisticated one on the list. Such nice suits.

3. Darth Vadar (Star Wars) - He can choke you with his mind....HIS F***ING MIND!!!

4.The Joker (Dark Knight) - "Some men just want to watch the world burn." Alfred was more than right on that one

5. Hal 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey) - There was no hope with Hal because it had no feelings or emotion....completely cold and calculating.

6. Auric Goldfinger (Goldfinger) - "No mister Bond, I expect you to die."

7. Alex DeLarge (A Clockwork Orange) - Not big on the movie but damn if this guy wasnt evil.

8. Jack Torrence (The Shining) - His gradual slip into insanity is something to behold

9. Keyser Soze (The Usual Suspects) - Never seen, always felt.

10. Michael Myers (Halloween) - Always pursuing, ever relentless, killing machine.

Just missed the cut : Anton Ciguhr (No Country for Old Men), Clarence Boddicker (Robocop), and John Doe (Seven).

NOTE: In the spirit of the people on the lists....No Rules.

macalu · Jan 31, 2014

i've never hated someone in a movie as much as Percy Wetmore in The Green Mile. so he'll be at the top of my list.

BonziWellsGOAT · Jan 31, 2014

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i've never hated someone in a movie as much as Percy Wetmore in The Green Mile. so he'll be at the top of my list.
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Yeah thats a solid choice, I too hated his guts......another one (even though he's not a villian) is Pvt. Timothy Upham, the skinny translater guy from Saving Private Ryan. God I hated him so much.

CCorn · Jan 31, 2014

#1 trees (the happening)

Ziggy · Jan 31, 2014

BonziWellsGOAT · Jan 31, 2014

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Idk how I overlooked Daniel Plainview....bad on my part.

Raven · Jan 31, 2014

Biff, let's be honest, Back To The Future 1-3 were sensational because Marty had an excellent adversary. The fact that the actor was able to deliver multiple versions of the same a-hole really was/is one of the great unrecognized achievements in modern film. I am drop dead serious when I say Wilson deserved an Academy award nomination, but Hollywood was still reluctant to give sci fi any love back then, Aliens being a huge exception.

While I give the nod to Wilson due to his overall performance in the trilogy, I single out The Kurgan as the most impressive single film performance.

BonziWellsGOAT · Jan 31, 2014

Raven said: ↑

Biff, let's be honest, Back To The Future 1-3 were sensational because Marty had an excellent adversary. The fact that the actor was able to deliver multiple versions of the same a-hole really was/is one of the great unrecognized achievements in modern film. I am drop dead serious when I say Wilson deserved an Academy award nomination, but Hollywood was still reluctant to give sci fi any love back then, Aliens being a huge exception.

While I give the nod to Wilson due to his overall performance in the trilogy, I single out The Kurgan as the most impressive single film performance.
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"RAMIREZ!!"

Sincerely, The Kurgan

B-Bob · Jan 31, 2014

Lone Biker of the Apocalypse from Raising Arizona.
(I tried to embed, but Hulu included an ad, f*** that)

and, of course, Archibald Cunningham, as played by Tim Roth
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Haymitch · Jan 31, 2014

1-10 were all in the same film.

Bäumer · Jan 31, 2014

You forgot someone

BonziWellsGOAT · Jan 31, 2014

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1-10 were all in the same film.

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How it didnt win best picture is beyond me

Johndoe804 · Jan 31, 2014

I always thought the Joker was the good guy in Batman. Burning the money, foiling the planner's plans, turning Harvey Dent moral ("The only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased. Unpredjudiced. Fair."), introducing a bit of anarchy, and so on.

OmegaSupreme · Jan 31, 2014

no women on your list?

here are a few:

basso · Jan 31, 2014

BonziWellsGOAT · Jan 31, 2014

OmegaSupreme said: ↑

no women on your list?

here are a few:

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Over-sight on my part but I did consider Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest) and Annie Wilkes (Misery). But hey its all a matter of opinion.

rimrocker · Jan 31, 2014

When I first saw The Cowboys I hated Bruce Dern's character and I've never been able to look at him or watch his other stuff without thinking of this role:

Apparently, I'm not alone:

Maybe, just maybe, the curse is finally off Bruce Dern’s career — the curse that has plagued him for four decades as the guy who shot John Wayne.

After all, the laurels are mounting these days for the 77-year-old actor, thanks to his performance in Nebraska as a cantankerous dad who believes he has struck it big in the sweepstakes. A recent Golden Globe nomination shines bright as does the prospect of a future Oscar nomination.

But this is happening in the twilight of a troubled career that has seen Dern give other fine performances yet never receive his due. His friend and contemporary, Jack Nicholson, once called Dern the finest actor of their generation.

And as long ago as 1978, the Academy Awards bestowed a best supporting actor nomination on him for his work in Coming Home as Jane Fonda’s seriously troubled husband. Yet even that moment of achievement also reinforced the continuing perception of him as a Hollywood bad guy of a particularly creepy sort.

He knows that his career never recovered from The Cowboys, the 1972 western that saw him shoot John Wayne in the back. And lately Dern has spoken more openly about the day that scene was filmed — recalling that Wayne, hammered on Wild Turkey, sidled up to him, and said. “Oh, they’re gonna hate you for this.”

And the public did. Dern told me 10 years ago that he lost count of the number of times some guy would stop him on the street or in a restaurant or store, and say, “You killed my buddy!” He had a ready response: “No. Excuse me, he died of cancer. It was just a movie.” But that defence never really worked. And sometimes those encounters were downright scary — especially for an actor who had started receiving death threats just days after the release of The Cowboys.

Thanks to a technical glitch, my 2003 interview with the Dern never appeared. But I remember clearly the pain that crossed his face when I mentioned The Cowboys. I also remember his stoicism as he went on to discuss the career damage he had suffered as a result.

That day, Dern was supposed to be discussing his supporting role in Monster, the film that would win co-star Charlize Theron an Oscar. But it was The Cowboys that opened a floodgate of memory — back to a watershed year in which he made two career decisions, one good, one really bad.

There was his first real starring role as a galactic greenhouse keeper in the cult science fiction movie, Silent Running. Signing for that project was the good decision. But Silent Running proved incapable of advancing his career — not with The Cowboys overshadowing it that same year.

Dern wasn’t mincing words: Accepting the role of the slimy, slack-jawed Long Hair in The Cowboys was the worst career choice he ever made, because he ended up messing around with the John Wayne mythology and the Duke’s image of invincibility.

“When I first came to town, (Robert) Redford, (Warren) Beatty, George Hamilton, Clint (Eastwood) — they were the real leading men. As for Jack and I and Dustin (Hoffman) and (Robert) De Niro and everyone else — we were ‘characters’ who were also allowed to become movie stars because in the Seventies they still made movies about folks on the ‘outside.’ That’s where we lucked out.”

But there was a caveat to all this. “We would never be bigger than life. And I killed someone who was bigger than life.”

He began understanding the implications of what he had done when he attended an early preview with an audience and watched himself shoot the Duke dead.

“It was only 48 minutes into the movie. People gasped.” He had never encountered a visceral reaction like this from an audience before. And he felt no better when his character came to a gruesome end later in the movie and the audience went wild. Then came the media onslaught.

“Rex Reed did a profile in which he said I’d established myself as the sleaziest, most despicable villain in cinematic history. And I was.”

Dern should have started trying to reshape his image. It didn’t happen.

He failed to sense danger when he joined the cast of director Jack Clayton’s underrated film version of The Great Gatsby. Robert Redford played Gatsby and Mia Farrow Daisy. And Dern? He played Tom Buchanan — “the worst WASP prick in American literary history.”

He did show another side of himself in Smile — “a wonderful little beauty pageant movie” — and then screwed up again. “They talked me into stealing a Goodyear blimp in Black Sunday and trying to blow up the Superbowl.”

He tried without success to break free of an image of sleazy villainy.

“I tried,” Dern insisted in 2004. “Over the next 25 years I tried.”

But the image stuck. The IMDB website continues to describe him as “the movies’ premier heavy, playing sociopaths, psychotics and just plain criminals.” Critic David Thomson sees him as “a professional haunted by failures … a man whose own unease flowed into his querulous screen persona.”

In 1991, David Letterman asked Dern why he always played some of the most “heinous” people who had ever lived. The actor kept his dignity. “I can only tell you that I became an actor because I was interested in what made people do what they do,” he remembered telling Letterman. He was also interested in outsiders: “Whatever character I play lived just beyond where the buses run.”

And how did Letterman respond?

“He didn’t get it,” Dern said in 2004, “but the point was that the people I liked to portray lived just beyond where everyone else lived. They don’t hear the music that everyone else does, and that makes them interesting.”

An honourable answer from an intelligent and thoughtful actor. But he’s still the guy who shot John Wayne.

http://www.vancouversun.com/enterta...t+John+Wayne/9325446/story.html#ixzz2s0FcalRQ
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Lil Pun · Jan 31, 2014

1. Maleficent
2. Warden Norton
3. Iago
4. John Doe
5. Alonzo Harris
6. Jigsaw
7. Wyant, Wheeler, Hellerman, Tetlow, and Brown
8. The Other Mother
9. The boys of St. Matthews
10. Dolores Umbridge

BonziWellsGOAT · Jan 31, 2014

Lil Pun said: ↑

1. Maleficent
2. Warden Norton
3. Iago
4. John Doe
5. Alonzo Harris
6. Jigsaw
7. Wyant, Wheeler, Hellerman, Tetlow, and Brown
8. The Other Mother
9. The boys of St. Matthews
10. Dolores Umbridge
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Nice list....Love the inclusion of Warden Norton and Alonzo Harris.

percicles · Jan 31, 2014

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Correct actor, wrong movie.

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