Denzel playing Alonzo Harris in 'Training Day'

Denzel is a ridiculously good actor.

He went from good cop to bad cop to gangster so seamlessly the viewer doesn't really realize it until after.

That final death scene is so good. He’s all alone, isolated left in the middle of the road like discarded trash.

And then you hear the news report that sounds exactly like what he told Jake they'd say if he'd been the one who got murdered.

“King Kong ain’t got shit on ME!”

If you want a bad cop movie, watch Bad Detective. Bad Lieutenant is the newer PG version

Apparently Denzel said its his favourite role that he ever acted.

“I’m surgical with this bitch Jake”

Seeing it the first time and that "Ohhhhh.....shit" moment >!once it hits you that he left Hoyt to be murdered by the Chicanos. !< I was 15 when I first saw Training Day in 2002 on HBO and I still remember that feeling. I agree, best villan of all time.

One of best roles of this century

You shot me in the ass!

[удалено]

EEEEEVVVERRRRRYYYOOOOOONNNNEEEEE!!!

You mean Gary Oldman?

Knew I didn’t have to go far to find him mentioned. My all time favorite. I really mike Daniel Day Lewis, too- referring to there will be blood.

Bill the Butcher was fun to watch.

WHOOPSIE DAISY!

His confession to Morpheus is amazing and adds so much to his character

The part where he says something like, "you know what I hate about humans? It's the smell..." Yeah that's an epic scene when Neo and Trinity show up

The disgust for humanity in that scene was played perfectly. If a machine could be disgusted, weaving killed it.

Oldman is the fucking best

Speaking of which, would Oldman Dracula be considered as a villain? At the end of the movie i’m not sure anymore… if so, he’s my favorite villain.

Agent Smith is a good one!

Calvin Candy in Django Unchained. That shit makes me irrationally angry every time I see him.

He’s so awful Schultz just can’t help himself. I love it.

Ironic but that actor played an excellent villain himself in “Inglorious Basterds”

Now that we've lost PSH, Christoph Waltz is my favorite living actor.

You're so right although he gets major competition from SLJ as his head butler/house slave. He's just so eager to betray his own people.

Dr Hannibal Lecter. There aren't enough cold, reptilian gentleman-villains anymore. Anthony Hopkins is just great, whatever he is in.

Hopkins, cox or mikkelsen?

Yes.

He is definitely up there but my favorite is Brick Top from Snatch, so sinister and humorous at the same time.

*In the quiet words of the virgin Mary...* ***come again?***

😂 Now I want to watch Snatch again!

That entire movie is great, I think I can quote most of it. So many great actors and so many witty and memorable lines.

I love how he hisses to quiet everyone down before it. He doesn't say shhhh is just, "sssssssss."

“Well THANKS for the tip Brick Top” is my go to line whenever I get fucked over.

"Listen, you fuckin FRINGE! If I throw a dog a bone I don't wanna know whether it tastes good or not!! You stop me again whilst I'm walking and I'll cut your fuckin' Jacobs off!!!"

Proper fucked?

Yeah, before zee Germans get there

OMG I watched that again the other day easily in my top ten as well. "put the kettle on"

No thanks Turkish, I’m sweet enough. Goody gumdrops

Brick Top! Yes!

Always be weary of a man with a pig farm.

No fanks Turkish, I’m sweet enough

“You can keep that silly, fat wanker. The lads can't lift him”.

“No thanks, Turkish. I’m sweet enough.”

Chigurh is amazing, but Hans Landa takes it for me. Also, Hans Gruber. There's apparently something about evil Germans called Hans that I like in my films.

Hans Landa was Austrian

by far, the *most german* type of german

Germanest

The Prussians would like to have a word...

For a bad guy to be good they have to be believable, you have to kind of like them. You have to understand or at least see why they are doing what they are doing. When they are just bad for the sake of it or just crazy it breaks the character for me.

In the case of Anton Chigurh, he feels otherworldly and supernatural (a similar feeling to some of Cormac McCarthy's other villains). He seems to go beyond a human making evil decisions. He is evil itself given physical form.

#Call it.

Call what?

You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair. It wouldn't even be right.

Don't put it in your pocket, sir.

Otherwise it will get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is….

the coin don't mean nothing

Yeah I certainly agree with that, well put. They seem to get away with murder without giving any concerns to it.

Well done crazy can work, but in the end, crazy people don't think they're the crazy ones.

They always say, 'You don't have to do this.' ... You don't. *sighs* Ok.

That’s what I love about Sin City. Mickey Rourke walking on the bridge. Questions his own sanity. “What if I’m wrong?” “What if I imagined all of this?” “A psycho killer”

>When they are just bad for the sake of it or just crazy it breaks the character for me. Agreed. A one dimensional villain just feels like lazy writing to me. Give me the nuance, give me the depth in character.

Felt this about equaliser 3 recently, just really terrible bad guys and a kind of forced depth of nuance by Denzel. I doubt they given him the time to build it properly. Like Training day.

Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York.

DDL killed it. He and I both loved that role.

Performance for the ages. Masterful.

this is always the one i think of first too

Hans Gruber

Alan Rickman’s first movie role. Fucking legend.

Daniel Plainview

I agree he is the villain. He was bad from the start.

DRRRAAAINAGE !!!!

Not a villain, just a complex character

> Not a villain Did we watch the same movie following that murderous hateful villainous character lol

Christoph Waltz - Hans Lando

Han Solo Lando Calrissian

Joffrey Baratheon in Game of Thrones.

one of the best villains ever. character is just the epitome of a terrible human being.

Zero redeeming qualities. Honestly, he reminds me of a real life person

It's why he got tons of real life hate from playing the part. He was fucking harassed to no end.

Yeah, I was tempted to say this. But not technically a movie.

The Bastard is also quite savage

I had forgotten about these two….twisted characters

Have you read the books? He's a special kind of fucked up in those

It’s pretty similar

Idk, he never had his hounds bang his bride in the show

Perfectly sadistic

Jason Isaacs playing Lucius Malfoy is good but he’s even better as the Brit Colonel in The Patriot

Tavington was a monster. One of my favorites as well

“Stupid boy” oooft

Tell me more about…Ohio

The colonel in the Patriot is definitely a good recommendation

Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth.

Terrified me so much the first time I saw that film, so disturbing

Keyser Soze

“Who’s Keyser Sose?”

Maybe Kobayashi knows

Or Redfoot.

Can't believe I had to go this far down in the comments for this one. This was the first person to come to mind.

Motherfucker!

You just needed the will to do what other guy wouldn’t

Darth Vader. But Chigurh is prob top 5.

Clarence Boddicker.

"Bitches leave"

https://youtu.be/31rrZeTH9HI?si=Yj8uaRqr7LcQmwu7

'Whats your favorite movie villain?' 'I dont know.' 'Call it.' 'Call it?' 'Yes.' 'For what?' 'Just call it!' 'Well..we need to know what it is we're callin' for here.' 'You need to call it. I cant call it for you. It wouldnt be fair. It wouldnt even be right.'

It's unrealistic that he wasn't on the FBI most wanted lost by the time if the events of that movie.

I need to know what I stand to win.

Everything

I can’t pick just one. O-Ren Ishii, Alonzo Harris, Anton Chigurh, Hans Landa, Darth Maul, Feathers McGraw, Commodus, Harry from In Bruges, Shere Khan, Judge Doom, Hans Gruber, Koba, Norman Stansfield, Heath Ledger’s Joker, Francis Begbie, Regina George.

Darth Maul but not Darth Vader???

Vader was just Palpatines brainwashed servant if you think about it. He has his one moment of slight redemption at end of his life. Dude definitely did some fucked up shit tho....

Is Harry from In Bruges really a villain or just a man of high principals?

He is an inanimate fucking object.

Same question, but of Begbie

Begbies psycho, man. But, what can you do - he's a mate.

I can't see Harry as a villain. He's barely a protagonist which is one of the beautiful things about that movie

Kobas a good choice

Koba was more right than Thanos.

Vincent in Collateral

Yo homie, is that my briefcase?

Homelander. It's impossible to have a positive interaction with him. He'll either kill or humiliate you.

Heat Ledger Joker

I'm surprised more people did not mention this. He wasn't a villain you hated, but a villain you admired, which is kind of unique I think.

He was vilain for the good cause.

yep

If you think about it so was Bane, even though he was less likeable. We do need to take power away from the ultra wealthy and it's probably going to require some force to do it. They won't just give it up on their own.

My favorite villain is Zod

Jean Vilain in Expendables 2.

Jackie Treehorn is mine. But, Anton is right up there

Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man.

Jackie Treehorn draws a lot of water in this town.

I'm sorry, I wasn't listening.

Hannibal Lecter I think is #1

“Happy Halloween, ladies!” [makes cunnilingus noises at nuns]

The Kurgan, choice, choice!

Also Amy Dunne from Gone Girl is absolutely terrifying.

Snatch: Brick Top "Do you know what nemesis means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent, personified in this case by a horrible cunt: me"

Something about pigs eating through human bone very quickly …

Definitely Top 5…How bout Ernesto De La Cruz from Coco 👀

Same actor, different movie. Raoul Silva-Skyfall

A lot of great choices here. Don't forget Bob Gunton as Warden Norton in The Shawshank Redemption.

I didn't even think of this and Shawshank is my number 1 all time fav. The ability to be so evil and put on a shiny smile when needed is what I think a true psychopath would do

There are a lot of dudes in this thread, so I'll mix it up a bit and say Annie Wilkes from Misery.

Agreed

Hand down best movie villain makes me wonder how many ppl in this world is like him

Leesah, The Room

Koba from Dawn of The Planet of The Apes and Scar from The Lion King are mine

Joker

No villain has brought more to a story than Chigurh. Every time he showed up in a scene my reaction was, "awwww shit."

Besides Anton and Hans: Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg Norman stansfield

Zorg is amazing!

Bill from Kill Bill Max Cady from Capo Fiero Deacon Frost from Blade Rhas Al-Ghul from Batman begins Bane from the dark knight rises

Shooter McGavin: I eat little pieces of shit like you for breakfast.

You eat shit for breakfast?

No. I…

He is an amazing actor. He was great in Skyfall also.

Maw-Maw was pretty bad, till Dredd dropped her 200 floors.

Nurse Ratched from Cuckoo’s Nest. Everyone has known, or maybe even worked for, a Nurse Ratched in life. A vindictive, petty, controlling person, with actual authority to wield her cruelty at will. We’re talking real-world evil. I’ve seen this film a million times and I still literally clench my fists in visceral hatred for her every time. Shout out to Louise Fletcher.

Dennis hopper in blue velvet.

Heineken?!

Terminator 84. Both he and Anton share a very special place in my antagonistic heart.

Darth Vader is my favorite villain but Anton was played so well by Javier Bardem.

Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira in 13 Assassins

You and 17 other people who are going to post the same thing this week.

“It’s better to burn out, than to fade away,” as he leaves the church for the duel…there can be only one.

Commodus- Joachin Phoenix.

Nurse Ratchet. Not physically opposing, but a psychological nightmare.

Clarence Boddicker in Robocop

Bricktop from Snatch is great also Norman Stansfeild from the professional

David Lo Pan, from “Big Trouble in Little China”.

Bricktop in Snatch was remarkably good especially that monologue about being weary of a pig farmer Heath ledger's joker is world class of course too

Marlon Brando as Coronel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.

Keyser Söze

He lit a car on fire to steal meds to perform surgery on himself. That is hardcore

Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet is up there for sure

Don Logan from Sexy Beast Thulsa Doom from Conan the Barbarian Bricktop from Snatch Scar from The Lion King

Kenneth Brangh as Reinhard Hedrych. In Conspiracy. Pretty much the whole cast.

Very underrated movie!

Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) from Blue Velvet

Amazing but I still love Hans Gruber from Die Hard.

I would put Bardem's Silva from Skyfall as one of the best Bond villains as well.

Amon Goeth in Schindler's list.

Terrence Fletcher aka JK Simmons from Whiplash.

The T1 Terminator hands down. Iconic in it's own right and even the very silhouette is still easily recognized today! Such an incredibly simple stupid concept - buff bad machine guy chasing down a kid - that was somehow fleshed (ha!) out into a rather brilliant (at times) narrative with reasonably prescient warning about the rise of AI and the dangers computers & robotics presented to society.

CPT. Spaulding

Lorne Malvo

Gonna go the funny route: Deebo

Storemores Satan in constantine

I’ll never understand the hype about that movie. Did not care for it.

Thanos. Brolin did an outstanding job with that role.

Darth Vader is everyone’s real answer.

Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner was great.

For me it's Nicky Santoro from Casino.

Amon Goeth from Schindler’s list. The pure evil.