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Posted: 6/7/2003 4:12:34 PM EDT

I have to go with Alan Rickman in "Quigley Down Under." How about you?

Posted: 6/7/2003 4:19:28 PM EDT

[#1]

Jason, from Friday the 13th,

To me he is the ultimate hunter, watch him as he stalks his prey, he leads them right into his trap, they get all screwed up running around and then BAM right into his trap where they meet an ugly demise...

Watch him as he calmly stalks his prey through out the hunt, stalking his prey ever so carefully.....

Posted: 6/7/2003 4:22:25 PM EDT

[#2]

Jason is a homo who has a crush on Richard Simmons. [;D]

Posted: 6/7/2003 4:28:33 PM EDT

[#3]

Bruce Dern, was a good one !

Posted: 6/7/2003 4:45:50 PM EDT

[#4]

The concentration commandant Amon Goeth (played by Ralph Fiennes) from Schindler's List.

Spell binding madness, evil, fantastic performance.

Posted: 6/7/2003 4:48:36 PM EDT

[#5]

Dennis Hopper, as the nitrous oxide huffing "Frank", in the movie "Blue Velvet".

Posted: 6/7/2003 5:14:43 PM EDT

[#6]

Robert de Niro in Cape Fear... Ugly-looking mother in that movie, plus a nasty edge to him in that movie...

Another guy, although not as famous, but made a hell of a good performance as a bad guy (he's always out token good guy) was Denzel Washington in Training Day... slick bad guy performance.

Posted: 6/7/2003 5:17:21 PM EDT

[#7]

I wouldn't rate these guys as my "favorites", but that being said, I think they couldn't have picked a better pair to play the North Hollywood bank robbers in the FX movie "44 Minutes".

Posted: 6/7/2003 5:21:21 PM EDT

[#8]

Darth Vader

Posted: 6/7/2003 5:24:56 PM EDT

[#9]

Christopher Walken in "The Prophecy" was awsome. I agree about Robert DeNiro in cape fear as well as "This Boys Life". He was so good in this movie playing a mental and physically abusive father.

Posted: 6/7/2003 5:25:44 PM EDT

[#10]

Agent Smith. Professional, suave, and posessing a distinct sense of humor about his job.

Posted: 6/7/2003 5:39:27 PM EDT

[#11]

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Darth Vader

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Yep. [:)]

Posted: 6/7/2003 5:43:41 PM EDT

[#12]

Baron Harkonen in "Dune" The floating fat guy. He was just plain gross and cruel.

Posted: 6/7/2003 5:50:07 PM EDT

[#13]

Jack Nicholsen in The Shining

I watched Batman today on Sci Fi and I think he made a good Joker too

Agent Smith in the Matrix was a pretty cool bad guy too

Posted: 6/7/2003 5:50:13 PM EDT

[#14]

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Agent Smith. Professional, suave, and posessing a distinct sense of humor about his job.

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I agree and maybe Hannibal Lecter as well

Posted: 6/7/2003 5:57:43 PM EDT

[#15]

Harvey Kietel (sp?) as 'The Cleaner' in Point of No Return.

He sort of reprised the role when he played Winston Wolfe in Pulp Fiction

Either way, he played a cool-headed operator sent to un-fvck other operators' situations that had gone wrong.

Posted: 6/7/2003 6:09:23 PM EDT

[#16]

You guys otta watch Robert Mitchum in the original "Cape Fear".IMO a better movie.Both are pretty creepy.

I kinda like that head DEA asshole in "The Proffessional".

Gary Oldham?

He played a real twisted,ruthless SOB in that one.

"What piece of shit have I done now?" LOL!!

Posted: 6/7/2003 6:16:56 PM EDT

[#17]

Ronny Cox and Kurtwood Smith in Robocop.

[img]http://www.ronnycox.net/ronnyflb.jpeg[/img]
[img]http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/contrib_pix/k/u/hds/kurtwood_smith.jpg[/img]

Posted: 6/7/2003 6:19:35 PM EDT

[#18]

This guy:

[img]http://www.keystar-r-s.com/reviews/pics/non_sf_movies/007/scaramanga.jpg[/img]

Posted: 6/7/2003 6:19:51 PM EDT

[#19]

I always liked Lee Van Cleef in the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Hell, he was so bad, they called him "the Bad".

I really liked Mel Gibson's character "Porter" in Payback. He was the bad guy right?

Posted: 6/7/2003 6:25:27 PM EDT

[#20]

Yeah 455SD,I liked that movie too and Gibson was cool.

I liked the blond dude even more though he was a real asshole.

Remember....."Do you understand your value to the syndicate?Your a saddist that lacks compunction,that can come in handy."

LOL!!

Posted: 6/7/2003 6:26:27 PM EDT

[#21]

All the guys in Payback. By the end of that movie,I didn't care who got whacked... fullclip

Posted: 6/7/2003 6:31:07 PM EDT

[#22]

The Lightning Bug from Firesign Theatre's [url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00006SFJX?tag=arfcom00-20]"J-Men Forever"[/url]

"Now that you're dead, your usefulness to me has ended! But I'll keep your shoes......Muhahahaaha!"

"Welcome to the Bug's school of pirate broadcasting! (Not affiliated with those pirates at the buggery school of flycasting.)"

"I feel like a king in my flying wing....

"You know Worm, this isn't the kind of day I like to take the Wing out and bomb people, but it's my job. Know what I mean?"

Posted: 6/7/2003 6:36:33 PM EDT

[#23]

[img]http://www.planetavp.com/al/Alien/BehindtheTerror/a1art12.jpg[/img]
Not sure if it counts as a bad "guy", but I guess its the villian.

Posted: 6/7/2003 6:52:11 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

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Darth Vader

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Yep. [:)]

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Darth Vader could whip all these other guys asses.

[img]http://home.bellsouth.net/coDataImages/p/Groups/126/126495/folders/77338/532866vader13.jpg[/img]

Posted: 6/7/2003 6:59:58 PM EDT

[#25]

Gunther Meissner. Thin-lipped balding, gray-haired guy with rimless glasses. Usually plays Easy German Spy or govt. official in 70's & 80' spy movies.

Posted: 6/7/2003 7:00:16 PM EDT

[#26]

the tough looking hispanic guy in the movie:
HEAT, CON-AIR, Replacement Killers, this guy looks like a real ex-con [):)]

Bolo Leung [big bad guy in martial arts movies]

Lee Van Cleef [the good...the bad..and the ugly]

Posted: 6/7/2003 7:22:27 PM EDT

[#27]

John Malcovich

Posted: 6/7/2003 7:30:16 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Yeah 455SD,I liked that movie too and Gibson was cool.

I liked the blond dude even more though he was a real asshole.

Remember....."Do you understand your value to the syndicate?Your a saddist that lacks compunction,that can come in handy."

LOL!!

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My favorite line--

"He'll kill me if I tell you!"

"What do you think I'm going to do? Worry about me."

Posted: 6/7/2003 7:30:21 PM EDT

[#29]

... [url=http://www.fistful-of-leone.com/films/gbu/quicktimes/gbu01.mov]Tuco[/url]

... some more excepts [url]http://www.fistful-of-leone.com/films/gbu.html[/url]

Posted: 6/7/2003 7:38:44 PM EDT

[#30]

Tuco wasn't the bad guy. He was just misunderstood. The crook with heart of gold.

He was ugly though.

Posted: 6/7/2003 7:39:04 PM EDT

[#31]

Hellraiser's Pinhead!

Posted: 6/7/2003 8:21:36 PM EDT

[#32]

Harvey Keitel was also a bitchin' anti-hero in [u]Bad Lieutenant[/u].

Byron2112, the name of the guy in [u]the Professional[/u] is [b]Gary Oldman[/b]. He also played Zorg in [u]5th Element[/u].

Christopher Walken played a parapelegic mob boss in [u]Things to do in Denver When You're Dead[/u], which featured [b]Andy Garcia[/b] and [b]Christopher Lloyd[/b] ([u]Back to The Future, My Favorite Martian[/u] (the 90's movie re-make) in two great performances.

So many bad guys, such little bandwidth...Aw, hell, here's a few more...

What about the two guys in the pawn shop in [u]Pulp Fiction[/u]?

Break out the Gimp...

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The irish mob brothers in [u]Legends of The Fall[/u]?

Ike Clancy in [u]Tombstone[/u]?

The "zodiac killer" in [u]Dirty Harry[/u]?

And, of cousre, speaking of psychos...

[b]Donald Sutherland[/b] as career arsonist "Ronald Coleman" in [u]Backdraft[/u]!

Edited cuz no spell gudly

Posted: 6/7/2003 8:53:31 PM EDT

[#33]

Another great one: Lee Marvin as Liberty Valence.

Posted: 6/7/2003 8:57:47 PM EDT

[#34]

Gary Oldman in Leon The Professional and Hannibal Lecter.

Hannibal is probably the best because I always found the hyper intelligent bad guys to be the scariest.

Posted: 6/7/2003 9:36:01 PM EDT

[#35]

I second Lee Marvin in Liberty Valance and raise him in The Comancheros

Posted: 6/7/2003 10:03:31 PM EDT

[#36]

Michael Biehn, or "Johnny Ringo" in the movie "Tombstone".

What a mean motherfucker he was!

[img]http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid65/p0cdace7b5eb7dffe806e1bc7c0973318/fbfa9706.jpg[/img]

Posted: 6/7/2003 10:33:47 PM EDT

[#37]

I'll have to second Possible_Spam on this one. His character really creaped me out. He played it w/ a certain cold heartedness that made the character almost too believable.

[img]http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0108052/1-2.jpg[/img]

Posted: 6/7/2003 11:49:34 PM EDT

[#38]

... Am I first to suggest [b]Neil McCauley[/b]

Posted: 6/7/2003 11:58:48 PM EDT

[#39]

The pasty guy(mystery man) from Lost Highway.
[img]http://www.lynchnet.com/lh/pics/lh039.jpg[/img]

Posted: 6/8/2003 1:02:21 AM EDT

[#40]

Agent Smith.

I don`t know if you have heard of the show called "Lexx" that used to be on the Sci-Fi Channel, but the character named Prince also made an excellent bad guy.

Posted: 6/8/2003 1:17:35 AM EDT

[#41]

God DAMN!!! Treetop...I took me years to forget that creepy face!!!!!!

My favorite bad guy: General Jack D. Ripper from Dr. Strangelove. I, of course, was on Jack's side.

Hey, how 'bout the big ol' fat man himself:

Col. Walter E. Kurtz from Apocalypse Now.

Posted: 6/8/2003 2:39:45 AM EDT

[#42]

If I can include broadcst it's gotta be Peter Jennings with something called the ABC Evening News.

Treetop, that looks a lot like Robert Blake.

Posted: 6/8/2003 3:48:29 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Darth Vader

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Yep. [:)]

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Darth Vader could whip all these other guys asses.

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I beleive this would make four votes for Darth Vader.

When I saw the first Star Wars at the movie theater in 1977 (I'm dating myself), I leaned over to my girl friend and said "this guy is GREAT, he's the best bad guy of all time."

"Ob Wan when first we meet I was the student and you were the master, now I am the master."

Posted: 6/8/2003 4:24:46 AM EDT

[#44]

Arnold in Terminator

Hey buddy, what do ya got a dead cat in there?
Fook off asshooo !

Posted: 6/8/2003 4:30:40 AM EDT

[#45]

Have to go with Marv on this Alan Rickman is a natural born bad guy. My fav role of his was "Die Hard". When he blew the Japanese presidents brains out, I wanted to jump through the screen and throttle the bastard.

That's acting!

Posted: 6/8/2003 4:37:04 AM EDT

[#46]

Some very good responses so far. Here is my unfinished list:

Hannibal Lecter
Darth Vader
The Terminator

Every one of them gave me the willies when I first saw them in their respective movies.

Posted: 6/8/2003 4:48:52 AM EDT

[#47]

When I first read the premise of the thread, Gary Oldman from The Professional came right to mind. Talk about a twisted individual. I just didn't figure that 3 other people out of 2 pages of replies would have thought of him. Count this as the 4th vote for him...