Favorite Movie Villains

Victor Maitlin

Moonraker babes, anybody?

Yes, I voted for Obama. I'm a villain, not an idiot.

I try to pretend that film and MWTGG don't exist in the bond universe. Along with Die Another Day.

Moonraker was completely silly, and it doesn't really exist in the Bond universe, but in the Roger Moore universe, it was a pretty fun ride.

I just pretend it isn't 007. It was EON's answer to Star Wars.

Roger Moore, Anthony Perkins, an androgynous heroine, oil rigs named after women ... cats.

Moore as 007 is mostly indistinguishable from his performance in that movie ... entertaining, but not fitting the character of Bond really.

I thought Moore was fine as Bond. He wasn't out muscular Connery so he played up the suave aspect. The biggest problem were the silly scripts he was given, with the notable exceptions of TSWLM and FYEO. LALD was just plain embarrassing.

who displayed all of the emotion of a cigar store wooden Indian statue on heavy-duty anti-psychotics. Bond villains are about style and panache.

When even the Bond "Babe" is a complete waste of screen space, you know that it was a shitty movie, and Moo-raker was about as bad as it gets.

But he had a space shuttle. In a mountain.

That's just ten levels of cool.

Not as cool as frickin' laser beams on sharks, but still cool.

:)

Man, dude was COLD!

(Gary Oldman in Fifth Element)

The Wicked Witch of the West, she had lackey monkey men! Dr. No, he is a mad scientist, the best kind of villain.

from both the old serials and the movie "Flash" :D

However, Marvin didn't have an unbelievably beautiful daughter, always a plus for any villain.

Sian Phillips as Livia in the 1976 BBC production
of "I, Claudius."

Angela Lansbury in "The Manchurian Candidate." (1962)

There are no loud chewing of scenery or overt violent
bloodletting, just cool, calm, acts of heartless cruelty.

...I would observe that every time I thought the series had introduced its most depraved character, someone infinitely worse showed up. :scared: What does it say when Herod is one of the more sympathetic characters?

The horrible, horrible, awful, hideous fetus-eating scene is infamous.

My favorite line in the entire series is at the end, when the ghosts of all the main characters are speaking to Claudius, and Tiberius says 'It wasn't worth it, was it? I could've told you that.'
It's a funny line, but it's kind of poignant, as it sums up Tiberius' entire life in two sentences.

The real one
Max Cady is indeed the world's greatest movie villian, but not when Deniro portays him as a one dimensional cardboard psycho- "I'm sooooo crazy!" Henry Rollins with a body wave.

He wasn't fit to lick the sweat from Mitchum's panama hat

I agree. De Niro plays it as a psycho straight from central casting, chewing scenery like never before. He doesn't have any of the calm, methodical menace that Mitchum puts into the role.

I like Harry Powell better than Cady though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X20XIg38GcE

And so does Spike Lee:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShgXC62a09o

It would have to be Parche, the insane stalker who stabbed Monica Seles in the back :evilgrin:

Mr.Potter (Lionel Barrymore)-It's A Wonderful Life

Nurse Ratchet (Louise Fletcher)-One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

Jack Wilson (Jack Palance)-Shane

Dr Zaius (Maurice Evans)-Planet of the Apes

Inspector Renault (Claude Rains)-Casablanca

Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon)-Election

General George Custer (Richard Mulligan)-Little Big Man

One of the greatest screen villains. Ever. Makes Hannibal Lecter look like Strawberry Shortcake.

:scared:

He's creeeeeepy!!!!

This popped into my mind as soon as I saw the OP. Gave me nightmares for years as a kid.

Truly vile.

I haven't seen Tim Roth in anything lately, but IMDB indicates he's been busy. It looks like it's time for a trip to the video store...

First of all, he's a bastard. Literally. Then he gets the chambermaid preggers and walks away from his obligation. The moves on to lying, cheating, armed robbery, bearing false witness. Then murder, rape, killing a family pet, attempted murder of the brother, burning the farm, destroying the livestock, attempting to hang a man he knows is innocent.

It would be over the top for any lessor actor but Roth pulls it off with aplomb. Even managing to make you feel a tiny bit sorry for him in the end.

or is Mr. Blond from Reservoir Dogs on the list?

and Pennywise in "It" I don't like clowns though!

Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?

Great film. QT's best, I think.

Lee Marvin, yep. Haven't seen too much tho.
Recommendations?
Loading my Netflix daily!

but Lee Marvin won his only Oscar (best actor) for Cat Ballou (1965) which I have never seen.

Yesterday was a very long day, and it's been a while since I saw RD

Vince Stone, The Big Heat

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The Operative-
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Men with Blue Hands- Don't speak to their quarry unless you want to bleed out of every orifices

Adelai Niska (Michael Fairman)

...all time favorite...

or the worst, depending on how you look at it.

From "The Vanishing". What made him particularly menacing is that - apart from being a murderous psychopath - he was completely normal, and capable of great good as well as unspeakable evil... just like your next-door neighbour

It what makes him scary, and what makes Hanibal Lechter a cartoon character.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlO2oIieI44

"I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

That calm voice alone would creep you out.

Old Man Clanton (Walter Brennan), My Darling Clementine

Frank (Henry Fonda), Once Upon a Time in the West

And let's not forget the ladies

Madame Sebastian (Leopoldine Konstantin), Notorious

Mrs Iselin (Angela Lansbury), The Manchurian Candidate

Phyllis (Barbara Stanwyck), Double Indemnity

Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner), Body Heat

When you find out the reason why Harmonica plays a harmonica the way he does... :scared:

my, he did a hellva job. A great villain has to be amoral. It's not enough to do evil; we're talking bad to the bone and Frank was.

He couldn't be a businessman like he wanted, because killing was all he knew. When he realized that, he realized his end was near. It would've been poignant, if Frank were a character that garnered even the slightest sympathy.

:thumbsup:

:rofl:

Bake

What's so amazing is how easy they are to lampoon too.

but he does show up in one or two of the B5 movies: Alfred Bester

I'm on Season 3 now, second disc. EarthDome is just starting to show their fascism, especially with the NightWatch

You have seen his work without even knowing it. For example, I have his "View from the Shuttle" hanging above my bed just like Sheridan:



He even got to be an extra in one episode. Lucky bastard. He'll print you a copy, for a price.

http://www.thebarrens.com

Lucky bastid :D

I'll have a look at that site.

Ya know, the villainous aliens in Thirdspace were pretty badass, too

like Larry Niven's Thrintun.