[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Favorite Villains (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 11/6/2006 6:40:31 PM EDT
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Every great action movie has a great villain. Here are a few of my all-time favorites... Goldfinger/Oddjob  The greatest Bond villain ever. His plan for Fort Knox was superior even to Fleming's original novel plot. Goldfinger is a superior strategist to Bond while Oddjob is physically more formidible. This forces Bond to use his wits against Oddjob and use deadly force to take down Goldfinger. Their cat and mouse games - the gin game, the painted lady, the golf wager, the laser - are all legendary. Darth Vader  Come on, the penultimate serial baddy with larynx crushing, Faustian goodness. I'm sure even Saddam has asked himself WWDVD (What Would Darth Vader Do?) from time to time. Dr. Hannibal Lecter  I'm referring here to the Hannibal of The Silence of the Lambs. His cool, precise, manipulatively brilliant evil as he strings along Starling and of course his monstrous escape are unforgettable. Hans Gruber  Right up there with Goldfinger as a criminal mastermind. His audacity, ruthlessness and genius at plotting the perfect crime in Die Hard are awesome. There's no way the John McClane from the start of the film could of defeated him, but by the end the initiative has swung. The Kurgan  "There can be only ONE!" Share some of your favorites! |
Drexl from True Romance. He was just absurd and a complete lowlife bastard. Col. Jack T. Ripper  A psychopath in command of a B-52 wing. Scary enough? That bitch from Misery  Man, I really cheered when he killed her. Although I know he's supposed to be a villain, I liked Gordon Gecko a lot.  Ruthless cold-blooded a-hole from hell, and Wall Street types call Douglas's depiction of leveraged buy-out capitalists naive and laughable, because apparently he has too many redeeming qualities. |
Was that Gary Oldman or Kevin Federline who played Drexl? 
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Classic! So far we have a couple of actors playing villains mentioned repeatedly: Alan Rickman (Die Hard, Quigley Down Under) Gary Oldman (The Professional, True Romance) |
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A pretty good listing: www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/handv.aspx She's not on that list and hasn't been mentioned yet, so I'll add the Borg Queen... 
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Bad GUYS, not Bad Asses. 
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Ha. That's what I was thinking. But minime: That pic of Ben Kingsley...... what movie is it from? Rules of Engagement? Species? Murderers Among Us? |
"Gandi" 
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Oh shit. I just watched that several months ago on Skinemax. Not exactly the type of skin I was looking for, but what the hell, ya know? I guess I didn't recognize GQ Gandhi in the Armani suit. I only remembered Gandhi from his later toga days. |
That was the Rabbi in Lucky Number Slevin. Oh, one more........ 
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Thanks to you and Cowboy77. I know I can count on the both of you for a straight answer. Unlike that ProfessorEvil clown.........
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Just a few more that come to mind from glancing at my DVD collxn: • Rand McPherson (David Spade) and Moonbeam from PCU • Gov. William J. LePetomaine (Mel Brooks) and Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) from Blazing Saddles • El Guapo from Three Amigos! • Cobb (Brian Dennehy) from Silverado • President Skroob (Mel Brooks again) and Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) from Spaceballs..... hell, why not throw in Pizza the Hutt (Dom DeLuise) while we're at it? • Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) from Reservoir Dogs I know I'm missing a bunch, but just thought I'd throw out some characters that a lot of ppl probably wouldn't think of right off the bat. |
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Dr. Evil: "We're not so different, you and I....." He forced us to look into the blackness within ourselves and admit our similarities. Also, Mini Me wasn't the perfect project that he was billed as (smaller version of Dr. Evil, with all the evil concentrated). He was all the evil, concentrated, but without any of the compassion or remorse that always prevented Dr. Evil from true success. |
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Also: Darth Vader ("original" Star Wars trilogy, Episodes IV-VI) HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey) T-800 (The Terminator) Jack Torrance (The Shining) Yautja (Predator) The Tall Man (Phantasm movies) Shooter McGavin (Happy Gilmore) Vezzini (The Princess Bride) Cigarette-Smoking Man (X-Files series) Well-Manicured Man (X-Files series) Pinhead (Hellraiser movies) <Klowns> (Killer Klowns from Outer Space) |
I was going to post that!!!
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Do you mean the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101(Terminator), the T-1000 (T2), or the TX (T3)? The only other Terminator model mentioned was the 600-series which never made an appearance in any of the movies and were catagorized as "easy to spot" by Reece because they had rubber skin. |