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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:33 AM
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Most evil movie villains
Edited on Thu Apr-15-04 12:00 PM by BurtWorm
This thread is inspired by my accidentally stumbling upon this site while looking for a photo of Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsden) from Reservoir Dogs for another thread.

http://www.crazymofo.com/mofos/

It's a great, well-designed site. Nice concept. But it seems they're missing some great villains, like Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet, Donald Sutherland as The Needle in the Eye of the Needle, Sterling Hayden as Jack Ripper in Dr. Strangelove--etc., etc., etc. My favorite villains are not the indestructible monsters but the plausible creeps.

How about you?
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:35 AM
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1. "Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer"
Absolutely the WORST villain ever in a movie.

Terry
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:36 AM
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2. How the Hell did Green Goblin make it onto that list?
GOD that mask was so lame.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:37 AM
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3. OH! And he has a higher rating than Jame Gumb and the Nazi
From Marathon Man. x(
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:44 AM
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4. I said the site was attractive, not perfect!
The fact that the movies I mentioned are missing indicates certain gaps in the Webmaster's knowledge. ;)
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Snow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:47 AM
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5. Jabba the Hut, a villain? I like the guy. And where's Dick Cheney?
not to mention the bad guy from the Highlander movie - there's a flaming villain.
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:50 AM
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10. No, Pizza the Hut
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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:49 AM
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6. Two shocking omissions
Blofeld from James Bond and Angela Lansbury's character in The Manchurian Candidate.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:49 AM
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9. Definitely Angela Lansbury as the Red Queen!
Edited on Thu Apr-15-04 11:50 AM by BurtWorm
The site's not so hot on movies before the 1980s.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:54 AM
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15. No kidding, eh? No Bond villians? Bloefield, Jaws, etc? nt.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:49 AM
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7. From a documentary: Fred Leuchter
from Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999 USA): Errol Morris' documentary about the banality of evil is a truly disturbing film about a man who allows his ego to subsume his ethics. Fred Leuchter is a designer of lethal injection machines for Death Rows across America. He's also an avid Holocaust denier who convinced himself that the Nazi gas chambers weren't actually used to execute anyone.

http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/tv/tv1104.asp
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:49 AM
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8. Seaking of creeps
Edited on Thu Apr-15-04 11:49 AM by Canuckistanian
The character of Carter Burke, played by Paul Reiser in Aliens
was the creepiest.
As a corporate whore from the future he wanted to bing the alien back to profit from either its fighting skills or the poisons in its body.
Perfect analogy for the mindset of a Bush Ranger.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:51 AM
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11. One word: Se7en. (nt)
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qb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:51 AM
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12. Do you mean worst as in convincingly vile and evil...
or worst as in totally lame and stupid?
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:53 AM
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14. Good distinction. I meant vilest, but
I'm also interested in opinions about the lamest villains. I thought some of Crazy Mofos' villains were lame, like the Dennis Hopper character in Speed.
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:52 AM
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13. Where the Hell is Samara Morgan
From the Ring....that girl still gives me the creeps
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EarlG ADMIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:58 AM
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16. Do you mean worst as in most evil
or worst as in "not the best"?

Because if you mean the latter, my nomination is Bruce Payne as Karl Savak in "One Tough Bastard", starring former linebacker Brian "The Boz" Bosworth.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113999/

Synopsis here (apparently it was renamed "One Man's Justice" for TV):
http://www.tvguide.com/movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=38158

Savak's evil bad-guy catchphrase is "tsk, tsk."

Awful.

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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 12:00 PM
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18. I'll start a separate thread for lamest villains and link to your post.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 11:59 AM
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17. No kid film villains, either. Cruella de Ville, Shan-Yu, Hades?
Mulan was "Whale Rider" before "Whale Rider" was cool!
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 12:05 PM
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19. The Emperor isn't even MENTIONED??!!??
The Emperor from the Star Wars series? Palpatine?

And Sybok is on the list? He was HORRIBLE as a Trek bad guy, and Khan wasn't mentioned either!

*%$#@!!!
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 12:13 PM
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20. These people don't know their film history!
How can they possibly have left out one of the creepiest realistic villains of all time: Robert Mitchum in two roles, namely, the preacher in The Night of the Hunter and the convict in the original Cape Fear?

My two favorite Hitchcock villains are Robert Walker, as the man who proposes the murder deal in Strangers on a Train, and Joseph Cotten as Uncle Charlie in Shadow of a Doubt.

These are all people who pass for normal in a realistic film world but are capable of great evil.

The cartoon villains on that website don't even come close.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 12:17 PM
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22. Excellent choices! I wish I'd thought of those.
The Mitchum roles...those particular Hitchcock ones...You nailed it! :toast:

Not to mention Joe Pesci in Goodfellas and Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver. Al Pacino in the Godfather Trilogy. Ray Liotta in Something Wild. Zombiness in Night of the Living Dead. And on and on and on and on.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 12:15 PM
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21. There are some lameass names on there?
Lara Flynn Boyle from "Men in Black II"??? To be a truly evil madman/woman you first have to be in a halfway decent movie. What's worse is she scored higher than the fabulous Kathy Bates in "Misery"
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 12:17 PM
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23. Can't remember the character names, but the actor's are...
The character played by Alec Baldwin in "Glengarry Glen Ross" and the character played by Kevin Spacey in "Swimming With Sharks".
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 01:04 PM
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24. HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey
One of the most heartless villains in the movies.

"Daisy daisy..."
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Pert_UK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 01:11 PM
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25. "Bricktop" in Snatch.....Gary Oldman's character in Leon......
They both give me the hoo-hoo jeebies (to quote Dr Hibbert).

P.
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Mick Knox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 01:18 PM
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26. Pinhead from Hellraiser maybe?
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Commendatori Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 01:21 PM
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27. The most evil SOB there was
was Kevin Spacey's caracter in "Se7en."
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Commendatori Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 01:24 PM
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29. Whoops
JCCyC beat me to that one. Sorry.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 01:21 PM
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28. Roman Polanski in Chinatown


"You're a very nosy fellow, kitty cat. You know what happens to nosy fellows?
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Mick Knox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 01:43 PM
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32. roman polanski in RL nt
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pdx_prog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 01:39 PM
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30. The absolute best was.....
Jack Lemmon as "Professor Fate" in "The Great Race".....

MAAAAXXXX!!!!
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 01:41 PM
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31. there's a great new villain on "Deadwood" on HBO . . .
can't think of his name right now (Swearington, or something like that), but the saloon owner is one of the most perfect villains I've ever seen on tv or in the movies . . . whoever the actor is plays the role wonderfully . . . S-O-O-O evil . . . :)
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LiviaOlivia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 01:52 PM
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35. Ian McShane(Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast gets my vote for best evildoer)*
Edited on Thu Apr-15-04 01:57 PM by LiviaOlivia
*on film
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kodi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 01:48 PM
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33. bette davis, "what ever happened to baby jane?"
plausible and then some.
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Parrcrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-04 01:51 PM
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34. Alan Rickman in Die Hard
arrogant yuppie killer.
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