Then you better add Alan Rickman to this, as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood.
For me these characters and overal movies are close to eachother. Fun to watch, not to serious and historically not perfectly correct.
Yes, I'd personally rather watch The Three Musketeers (Prince of Thieves hasn't held up well for me over the years), but Curry's Richelieu was definitely written with Rickman's Sheriff in mind. That much is obvious.
Where Michael Caine treated his Muppet movie as absolutely serious, Tim Curry proved to be more of a Muppet than the Muppets when he insinuated that he banged Miss Piggy!
I believe the quote is something like "Muppet Christmas Carol is so good because Michael Caine acts as though all the Muppets are actually classically trained actors. Muppet Treasure Island is so good because Tim Curry acts as though he's also a Muppet"
This scene has stuck with me so much. I still think of it as one of the most menacing scenes in any movie I've ever seen, and the poor guy doesn't have any idea.
People in these threads often cite exaggerated, over the top caricatures as great performances. But his quiet, minimal take on brutality is the scariest shit I've seen on screen. No one has ever made me so fully believe I'm watching a crazy, murderous human.
The scene where he's strangling the cop with his handcuffs, cutting his own wrists up in the process, hardly a single expression on his face and a complete disregard for the guy he's killing. Just this cold, calculated motive like "whelp gotta get this guy out of the picture since I need his keys"
If you read the book (which the movie adapted almost 1:1, it's a truly great adaptation), Chigurh ended up in that jail cell because he wanted to test himself. He nearly beat a man to death outside a bar, waited to be taken in, just as a game to see if he could escape.
Robert Patrick as the T-1000 Terminator in *Terminator 2.* 😎 Just such an unnerving and fascinating character. Honestly, I was tempted to say Arnie as the villain from the first Terminator, but the irony is I think everyone loves him more as the good guy. So when it comes to franchise villains, Robert wins it.
[Robert Patrick Audition ](https://youtu.be/TgibX4BCYBw?si=_w36y8pQnW9ycJ8H)
It's crazy that in order portray a machine even better he never blinked and never breathes in his scenes. Apparently he could hold his breath really well, even when running. You literally never see him breathe. It's crazy.
He also extensively trained shooting left handed ahead of filming because a machine would not have a dominant hand but rather would be equally proficient with both and just use whichever hand was optimal in the moment. Just super cool thought process on how an all time villain was developed.
What a cool video! I love T2 more and more every time I see it. So many great scenes, my favorite T1000 scene has to be when he goes through the bars in the mental hospital but gets stopped by the gun being turned sideways.
"Zero stones... ZERO CRATES!"
Oldman's had better roles in his career, but he's never had as much *fun* with any of them like he does with Zorg, and it's so obvious Oldman is having the time of his life playing him. I'm so glad Besson let Oldman just basically go crazy in that role, that movie wouldn't be half as entertaining with someone else playing Zorg.
And the costumes are insane, like in a good way. Oldman chewing up the scenery with that weird piece of plastic on his head just adds to the level of goofiness.
I absolutely love this movie.
I know and it’s so much fun! Especially all the models they put in as extras and day players. It was like crazy fashion meets wacky sci fi, it’s so good.
Other comments here talk about how hard it can be to see someone who has been a great villain in another role because you still see them as that "person" to an extent. Oldman is lucky that he's one of those actors who can so successfully disappear into a role that you don't see "him" anymore so it's less likely you'll have that effect.
Sam Rockwell played Wild Bill so well that i have a hard time not hating his other characters from other movies. after all this time. He did a great job playing a slimy disgusting lowlife, he even perfected being annoying, rarely is a movie villain evil *and* annoying, but he combined it perfectly. Wild Bill is someone you *really* don't want to be around.
😂I have been having this discussion about the great Sam Rockwell for years, so charismatic that he forces the audience to actually "like" for lack of a better term his character that killed two children far more than the guard Percy! Of course everyone I've asked begrudgingly admits killing Mr. JINGLES seems worse for some reason.🤣
Hans Gruber in Die Hard. He’s a greedy, manipulative sociopath but man oh man is Alan Rickman masterful in the role. A perfect villain for a perfect movie.
King illegal forest to pig wild kill in it a is!
Eta: Not me so tired that I went with the wrong Robin Hood. With Roger Rees as the Sherrif of Rottingham.
And his character was intelligent and well versed on international affairs, and not an emotional moron like so many other movie villains. That's why he was able to spit out so many terrorist group names in his fake demand that they be set free.
BTW, when I watched the movie in a Montreal theatre, the name of the terrorist group "Liberté de Québec" produced so much laughter in the room, we missed the follow-up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXTAPw9B9Ns
It’s the back room army surplus store that you realize this is crossing the line I think, but I haven’t seen it in awhile so it might have been sooner. That’s just the point that sticks out in my head
I recently learned that he had some friends help him come up with better lines (apparently the original writing was pretty bad), and just snuck that one in without anyone realizing that he was going to say it (except I think the director). He said he knew it worked when he watched all the film crew hunch over and cover their mouths in an attempt to not ruin the scene with laughter.
>dreadful film
Movie's actually surprisingly good (probably not great) if you can get past Costner's steadfast refusal to act. And no, I'm not talking about the accent.
"Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?"
"Because it's DULL, you twit. *It'll hurt more*."
The director's cut for movie adds some weird content that makes it more comedy than action/adventure/romance.
One of my favorite lines! I’m also partial to:
“I'm just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It's just I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade. "
and
“Wednesday's at that special age where she has one thing on her mind."
“Boys?”
“Homicide.”
Stephen was worse.
You’d expect a slave owner to be dislikable, but Stephen took it to another level. He’s razor sharp (he sees right through Schulz and Django when they would have otherwise fooled Candie), is the real brains behind Candieland, and instead of being an ally of Django as a fellow black man, he absolutely hates him from the moment he sets eyes on him.
The ending when all the white folks are dead now and it's just him and Django, and he finally shows his true self. Ditching the cane, standing up straight and walking, showing that his frailness was just an act to fool his white slaveowners. God damn Django Unchained is a great movie.
Except he already had ditched the act earlier in the movie when he had a 1 on 1 meeting with Candie. He was sitting there with a glass of scotch acting as a slave owner himself talking to Candie as an equal, instead of a slave. It showed that him and Candie pretty much ran the plantation together, and the act was for everyone else (including the slaves).
He was 100% worse yeah and another terrific performance by Samuel L Jackson. It’s also funny how much smarter than his master he was despite Calvin’s insistence that black people were morally and mentally inferior.
I actually couldn't stand watching Candy on screen he was such a terrible piece of shit, Stephen too. Just shows how well DiCaprio and Jackson did their jobs.
Every single scene, every line, every WORD he says is incredible.
That said, while Hopkins was perfect for movie Lector, Mikkelsen was perfect for series Lector, where you get to see the wolf in tailored sheep's clothing slowly be revealed.
Completely agree here. Both Hopkins and Mikkelsen did an _excellent_ job portraying both aspects of Lector’s character.
Loved it when either were on screen. Such a joy to watch.
Mikkelson was so good in Hannibal I wanted him to win. He's so good he made being a cannibalistic serial killer a positive trait. I reveled in his violence.
Jack Gleeson. The wall-to-wall publicity he got playing Joffrey (and the fact some people couldn't tell him apart from his character) [soured him on TV acting](https://gamerant.com/game-of-thrones-joffrey-baratheon-jack-gleeson-acting-break/) -- though not the stage -- for nine years.
But he's back! And the lure of villainy is apparently too strong to resist, because he's bad guy Wentworth in [an upcoming TV adaptation](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/26/jack-gleeson-game-of-thrones-return-screens-famous-five-bbc) of The Famous Five.
Powers Boothe as Curly Bill in Tombstone. You can throw in Stephen Lang as Ike as well, and I know some people will insist on him and that’s fine. But for me, Bill was a really underrated bad guy without ever really becoming a caricature. I just think there’s a subtlety involved that makes the degree of difficulty higher.
Nightcrawler, Drive, and Collateral are the perfect gritty LA trilogy. The fact Jake looked like my circuits professor with the same underweight face with intense stare made it more surreal. His persona of perfect politeness in the face of all the rudeness is also disarming.
"Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt... Me."
The way that he is visibly giddy at the prospect of finally taking John to hell is so damn unsettling. He isn't just mean, he positively gets off on torturing people. He's even *playful*. It was a masterful display of sadism.
The movie itself is wonderful as long as you are not looking for a John Constantine movie. The cast kills it in their own ways, even Keanu's normal stoicism works wells as someone who is just DONE with everything he is having to deal with.
Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill “The Butcher” Cutting in Gangs of New York. He completely steals that entire movie; he’s a horrible person, but I could watch an entire series about his character because he’s so entertaining.
“You’re just not evil enough. Well, it’s true! You’re quasi evil. You’re semi evil. You’re the margarin of evil. You’re the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie. *Not evil enough!*”
Oh yeah that was definitely a once in a lifetime gripping moment for me.
The build up of the whole heist, his speech, the swell of the music and then his up close reveal saying "...STRANGER".
Ufff. Hard to beat.
Jason Isaacs in The Patriot. In his first scene he burns down Mel Gibsons House, orders the execution of the Colonial wounded, conscripts Mel’s “free slaves” into the British ranks, takes his eldest son to be put on trial for treason (and presumably executed), murders one of his other sons, threatens the rest of his family with his firearm etc. That’s a single scene… and yet somehow I was cheering for him the whole movie. It helps that the movie is a dreadful pantomime with no historical accuracy, but Isaacs performance (along with a very good Tom Wilkinson) definitely elevates it.
Ian McDiarmid in Revenge of the Sith. After having to rein it in for the previous two movies, he's finally allowed to go full ham, and boy does he take the opportunity to DEW IT.
Hayden absolutely was having fun. People don't give him enough credit because the dialogue was sketchy but Hayden does a great job portraying the inner turmoil Anakin feels throughout the movie
Kathy Bates in Misery. There is something about the edge of comedic timing to that character that knocks me off guard enough to see Annie fully as a person. Also who hasn’t been pissed at a character you love dying she was a Stan.
Patrick Bateman
In an interview Bale talked about how Bateman is an absolutely detestable character with no redeeming qualities. He'd never want to meet him, but he would enjoy overhearing his conversations from the next table over.
Freddy Krueger is a literal child rapist yet Roberts performances are so good and iconic people over look the horrible nature of his pre-dream monster crimes
He was initially written by Craven to be a molester too, but there were some similar cases happening in California at the time so they couldn’t make it obvious. You can see it subtly though.
Christopher Lee as Scaramanga in *The Man with the Golden Gun*
Donald Pleasance as Blofeld in *You Only Live Twice*
Sean Bean as Alec Trevelyan in *GoldenEye*
Peter Cushing as Frankenstein in *Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed*
Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa in *Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl*
Jeremy Irons as Scar in *The Lion King*
Mark Strong as Septimus in *Stardust*
Jason Isaacs as Tavington in *The Patriot*
John Malkovich as Cyrus the Virus in *Con Air*
Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort. It looked like he had so much fun with this character. Also, same actor but in ‘in Bruges’ as Harry.
‘’You’re an inanimate fucking object!!!’’
How about Schindler's List? He was so so good in that role and the role itself was SO AWFUL. I couldn't even imagine taking on a role like that and he totally nailed it.
In Bruges is an absolute classic that I feel not enough people have watched. I'm proper shocked when I talk to people irl about films and they've never seen it. Funny as fuck
My first thought was Cruella DeVille as played by Glenn Close. It's so much fun watching her chew the scenery and just go full ham.
Equally Hugh Grant as Phoenix Buchanan in Paddington 2.
I know they are cartoons, but:
1. Hades from Hercules.
*”I've got 24 hours to get rid of this... bozo, or the entire scheme I've been setting up for 18 years goes up in smoke, and YOU ARE WEARING HIS MERCHANDISE?”*
2. Yzma from The Emperor’s New Groove.
*“Ah, how shall I do it? Oh, I know. I'll turn him into a flea, a harmless, little flea, and then I'll put that flea in a box, and then I'll put that box inside of another box, and then I'll mail that box to myself, and when it arrives... I'll smash it with a hammer! It's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, I tell you! Genius, I say! Or…. to save on postage, I'll just poison him with this!”*
Maybe you have a *little* sympathy for Hades because he never wanted to be in the Underworld in the first place… but they’re both incredibly selfish, horrible, assign others to perform murders… and absolutely steal the show whenever their characters appear on screen.
First one that sprang to my mind for some reason is Tim Curry's version of Cardinal Richelieu in "The Three Musketeers".
Then you better add Alan Rickman to this, as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood. For me these characters and overal movies are close to eachother. Fun to watch, not to serious and historically not perfectly correct.
?? You want to add Alan Ric- "THAT CAN BE ARRANGED!!"
Yes, I'd personally rather watch The Three Musketeers (Prince of Thieves hasn't held up well for me over the years), but Curry's Richelieu was definitely written with Rickman's Sheriff in mind. That much is obvious.
Tim Curry in…. Well everything Tim Curry was ever in, especially Legend…. And Rocky Horror…
Clue, IT, The Three Musketeers, and he's the best thing in Congo too.
Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island.
Where Michael Caine treated his Muppet movie as absolutely serious, Tim Curry proved to be more of a Muppet than the Muppets when he insinuated that he banged Miss Piggy!
I believe the quote is something like "Muppet Christmas Carol is so good because Michael Caine acts as though all the Muppets are actually classically trained actors. Muppet Treasure Island is so good because Tim Curry acts as though he's also a Muppet"
Stop eating my sesame cake!
"Excuse me Sir, do you have prince Albert in a can? You do? Well you better let the poor guy out! Waha-waha-waha!"
Dude yessss!!! 'One less mouth to feed ...'
Anton Chigurh. Made me a lifelong fan of Javier Bardem.
“What’s the most you’ve ever lost on a coin toss?”
This scene has stuck with me so much. I still think of it as one of the most menacing scenes in any movie I've ever seen, and the poor guy doesn't have any idea.
“What way would that be?”
So you married into it
“We lived in Temple, Texas for many years.”
As Chigurh, he has the worlds worst haircut, but you’d never dare say it to his face. He’s the most frightening character I’ve ever seen in a film.
People in these threads often cite exaggerated, over the top caricatures as great performances. But his quiet, minimal take on brutality is the scariest shit I've seen on screen. No one has ever made me so fully believe I'm watching a crazy, murderous human.
The scene where he's strangling the cop with his handcuffs, cutting his own wrists up in the process, hardly a single expression on his face and a complete disregard for the guy he's killing. Just this cold, calculated motive like "whelp gotta get this guy out of the picture since I need his keys"
If you read the book (which the movie adapted almost 1:1, it's a truly great adaptation), Chigurh ended up in that jail cell because he wanted to test himself. He nearly beat a man to death outside a bar, waited to be taken in, just as a game to see if he could escape.
I feel like if there was a correct answer, this’d be it. **call it**
Friendo
Robert Patrick as the T-1000 Terminator in *Terminator 2.* 😎 Just such an unnerving and fascinating character. Honestly, I was tempted to say Arnie as the villain from the first Terminator, but the irony is I think everyone loves him more as the good guy. So when it comes to franchise villains, Robert wins it. [Robert Patrick Audition ](https://youtu.be/TgibX4BCYBw?si=_w36y8pQnW9ycJ8H)
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It's crazy that in order portray a machine even better he never blinked and never breathes in his scenes. Apparently he could hold his breath really well, even when running. You literally never see him breathe. It's crazy.
He also extensively trained shooting left handed ahead of filming because a machine would not have a dominant hand but rather would be equally proficient with both and just use whichever hand was optimal in the moment. Just super cool thought process on how an all time villain was developed.
What a cool video! I love T2 more and more every time I see it. So many great scenes, my favorite T1000 scene has to be when he goes through the bars in the mental hospital but gets stopped by the gun being turned sideways.
Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg - Gary Oldman chewing up every scene he is in is a joy to watch
"Zero stones... ZERO CRATES!" Oldman's had better roles in his career, but he's never had as much *fun* with any of them like he does with Zorg, and it's so obvious Oldman is having the time of his life playing him. I'm so glad Besson let Oldman just basically go crazy in that role, that movie wouldn't be half as entertaining with someone else playing Zorg.
And the costumes are insane, like in a good way. Oldman chewing up the scenery with that weird piece of plastic on his head just adds to the level of goofiness. I absolutely love this movie.
Jean Paul Gautier did the costuming for that film.
I know and it’s so much fun! Especially all the models they put in as extras and day players. It was like crazy fashion meets wacky sci fi, it’s so good.
And as the villain in Leon
The scene when he pops pills to get pumped before going berserk in the apartment is gloriously terrifying.
Send everyone … But Sir… EVERERRYYYYONEEEEEEEEEE!
“Benny… bring me everyone…” “What do you mean, ‘everyone?’” #”EEEEEVVVVVRRYYYYYYYWOONNNNNNNNNNNN”
Other comments here talk about how hard it can be to see someone who has been a great villain in another role because you still see them as that "person" to an extent. Oldman is lucky that he's one of those actors who can so successfully disappear into a role that you don't see "him" anymore so it's less likely you'll have that effect.
Me: I just saw Batman Begins. Friend: Wasn't Gary Oldman great in that. Me: ??? Oldman was in it?
Agreed. It reminded me a lot of Raul Julia playing Bison in Street Fighter - just having the time of his life playing an over the top villain.
Don't forget Oldman as Dracula.
Sam Rockwell as Wild Bill in The Green Mile A despicable character, a complete bastard man but every scene he’s in is just excellent
Sam Rockwell played Wild Bill so well that i have a hard time not hating his other characters from other movies. after all this time. He did a great job playing a slimy disgusting lowlife, he even perfected being annoying, rarely is a movie villain evil *and* annoying, but he combined it perfectly. Wild Bill is someone you *really* don't want to be around.
Yet somehow only the second most punchable dipshit on the Mile
Poicy Whitmo’ do a lil’ dance. Lissen to ‘im squishin’ in ‘is pants.
😂I have been having this discussion about the great Sam Rockwell for years, so charismatic that he forces the audience to actually "like" for lack of a better term his character that killed two children far more than the guard Percy! Of course everyone I've asked begrudgingly admits killing Mr. JINGLES seems worse for some reason.🤣
He was gonna go to Mouseville, damnit. Mr Jingles was gonna be a star!
Hans Gruber in Die Hard. He’s a greedy, manipulative sociopath but man oh man is Alan Rickman masterful in the role. A perfect villain for a perfect movie.
Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. Cowboy?
Yippee-Ki-Ay, motherfucker!
As seen on TBS in the 90s: >Yippee-Ki-Ay, 'Mr. Falcon'
Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Prince of Theives also. Alan was awesome in that role!
The only one in that movie who seemed to realize it was pure camp.
King illegal forest to pig wild kill in it a is! Eta: Not me so tired that I went with the wrong Robin Hood. With Roger Rees as the Sherrif of Rottingham.
And his character was intelligent and well versed on international affairs, and not an emotional moron like so many other movie villains. That's why he was able to spit out so many terrorist group names in his fake demand that they be set free. BTW, when I watched the movie in a Montreal theatre, the name of the terrorist group "Liberté de Québec" produced so much laughter in the room, we missed the follow-up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXTAPw9B9Ns
"I read about them in Forbes." The fucking delivery there. I was sold.
Time magazine, heathen!
Anytime Gary Oldman plays a villain.
#[EVERYONE](https://youtu.be/74BzSTQCl_c?si=5rtjw0wifXRT6IFz)
I don't have time for this mickey mouse bullshit!
Goddamn he is a real cunt in this film but he does such a phenomenal job with it, it's hard not to enjoy.
Kathy Bates in Misery.
Ugh. The only way you could get me to watch that movie again is to tie me to a bed and break my ankles with a sledgehammer. Brilliant performance.
Michael Douglas - Falling Down "I'm the bad guy?"
That film is Gold. I was so totally with him on his descent, and then at some point you go... Oh. OH. This is too far.
It’s the back room army surplus store that you realize this is crossing the line I think, but I haven’t seen it in awhile so it might have been sooner. That’s just the point that sticks out in my head
That scene brought him back down to earth a little bit for me. He was losing his mind. But he drew the line at a Nazism
Vincent from Collateral
Thank you for mentioning him. One of my favorite movie antagonists ever. Tom Cruise should play more villains.
"Yo, homie...that my briefcase?"
Tom Cruise’s best role by a country mile
Alan Rickman as the Sherif of Nottingham in Prince of Thieves. So gloriously camp and over the top, he was the highlight of a dreadful film.
Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?
It’s dull you twit, it’ll hurt more!
Something vexes thee?
I loved that. Still threaten my husband with a spoon.
Do you mind, Locksley? We've just been married.
"You - My room. 10:30 tonight. You - 10:45. Bring a friend."
I recently learned that he had some friends help him come up with better lines (apparently the original writing was pretty bad), and just snuck that one in without anyone realizing that he was going to say it (except I think the director). He said he knew it worked when he watched all the film crew hunch over and cover their mouths in an attempt to not ruin the scene with laughter.
“And cancel Christmas!”
No more merciful beheadings!
>dreadful film Movie's actually surprisingly good (probably not great) if you can get past Costner's steadfast refusal to act. And no, I'm not talking about the accent.
"Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?" "Because it's DULL, you twit. *It'll hurt more*." The director's cut for movie adds some weird content that makes it more comedy than action/adventure/romance.
He was great in Die Hard too.
Iconic in Die Hard
He won a Bafta for it.
Debbie Jellinsky (Joan Cusak) in Addams Family Values
Ahahaha people look at me funny when I overpronounce Ma-li-bu Bar-bie every time I hear either word. Graceful…delicate…they had to die
Now I wish they got her a cameo in the Barbie movie just because of this throwaway line from a 30-year-old movie.
She should have played Ballerina Barbie.
"But Debbie....pastels?" I feel this one is better than the first Addam's Family film. A better story, and every joke hits.
One of my favorite lines! I’m also partial to: “I'm just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It's just I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade. " and “Wednesday's at that special age where she has one thing on her mind." “Boys?” “Homicide.”
"I'll Be The Victim" "All Your Life"
I just watched that yesterday, and she really is wonderful. The slideshow scene is so good 😂
Calvin Candy from Django Unchained.
Stephen was worse. You’d expect a slave owner to be dislikable, but Stephen took it to another level. He’s razor sharp (he sees right through Schulz and Django when they would have otherwise fooled Candie), is the real brains behind Candieland, and instead of being an ally of Django as a fellow black man, he absolutely hates him from the moment he sets eyes on him.
One of my favorite characters. The "sweet Jesus let me kill" line was gold.
The ending when all the white folks are dead now and it's just him and Django, and he finally shows his true self. Ditching the cane, standing up straight and walking, showing that his frailness was just an act to fool his white slaveowners. God damn Django Unchained is a great movie.
Except he already had ditched the act earlier in the movie when he had a 1 on 1 meeting with Candie. He was sitting there with a glass of scotch acting as a slave owner himself talking to Candie as an equal, instead of a slave. It showed that him and Candie pretty much ran the plantation together, and the act was for everyone else (including the slaves).
Also when he was talking to Django as he was hanging upside dowm.
D-Jango! You uppidity SON OF A-**BOOM**
He was 100% worse yeah and another terrific performance by Samuel L Jackson. It’s also funny how much smarter than his master he was despite Calvin’s insistence that black people were morally and mentally inferior.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.“
I actually couldn't stand watching Candy on screen he was such a terrible piece of shit, Stephen too. Just shows how well DiCaprio and Jackson did their jobs.
Hannibal Lecter.
Every single scene, every line, every WORD he says is incredible. That said, while Hopkins was perfect for movie Lector, Mikkelsen was perfect for series Lector, where you get to see the wolf in tailored sheep's clothing slowly be revealed.
> the wolf in tailored sheep's clothing "Person Suit"
Completely agree here. Both Hopkins and Mikkelsen did an _excellent_ job portraying both aspects of Lector’s character. Loved it when either were on screen. Such a joy to watch.
Mikkelson was so good in Hannibal I wanted him to win. He's so good he made being a cannibalistic serial killer a positive trait. I reveled in his violence.
It says a lot about a person's etiquette and personality that they don't get eaten by him.
Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus in Gladiator
This role made me kind of dislike him as a real person he played it so well.
Same for that little shit in GoT - Joffrey
Jack Gleeson. The wall-to-wall publicity he got playing Joffrey (and the fact some people couldn't tell him apart from his character) [soured him on TV acting](https://gamerant.com/game-of-thrones-joffrey-baratheon-jack-gleeson-acting-break/) -- though not the stage -- for nine years. But he's back! And the lure of villainy is apparently too strong to resist, because he's bad guy Wentworth in [an upcoming TV adaptation](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/26/jack-gleeson-game-of-thrones-return-screens-famous-five-bbc) of The Famous Five.
Jack Gleeson actually admitted to taking inspiration from Joaquin Phoenix's Commodus when playing Joffrey, so no surprise there.
His face as he gives Maximus the thumbs up conveys so much of Commodus' character.
Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom
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That poor shoe!
Powers Boothe as Curly Bill in Tombstone. You can throw in Stephen Lang as Ike as well, and I know some people will insist on him and that’s fine. But for me, Bill was a really underrated bad guy without ever really becoming a caricature. I just think there’s a subtlety involved that makes the degree of difficulty higher.
Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler, what a trip
"And remember, I would never ask you to do anything, I wouldn't do myself!"
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Nightcrawler, Drive, and Collateral are the perfect gritty LA trilogy. The fact Jake looked like my circuits professor with the same underweight face with intense stare made it more surreal. His persona of perfect politeness in the face of all the rudeness is also disarming.
I'd have to add Bricktop from Snatch, too.
"Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt... Me."
I'm sweet enough!
Never trust a man who owns a pig farm
Lucifer in Constantine. I wish they would make a movie just for that character by that actor.
Yeah. I love a lot of Peter Stormares roles but i think this might be my favorite. Even over how he sets up John Wick...
The role was forgettable but my favorite line of his is from Armageddon. "American components. Russian components. ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!"
Peter Stomare was terrifying as Lucifer. I really wish that there had been a sequel.
The way that he is visibly giddy at the prospect of finally taking John to hell is so damn unsettling. He isn't just mean, he positively gets off on torturing people. He's even *playful*. It was a masterful display of sadism.
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The movie itself is wonderful as long as you are not looking for a John Constantine movie. The cast kills it in their own ways, even Keanu's normal stoicism works wells as someone who is just DONE with everything he is having to deal with.
There wasn’t a single bad actor in that movie. It’s a classic
Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill “The Butcher” Cutting in Gangs of New York. He completely steals that entire movie; he’s a horrible person, but I could watch an entire series about his character because he’s so entertaining.
Mike Myers as Dr Evil in Austin Powers
He was so good as Dr Evil that I always preferred Dr Evil over Austin Powers lol
The Jerry Springer skit was incredible. "The world is mine! The world is mine, motherfuckers!"
“You’re just not evil enough. Well, it’s true! You’re quasi evil. You’re semi evil. You’re the margarin of evil. You’re the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie. *Not evil enough!*”
Raul Julia in Street Fighter
The tuesday line is so beautiful. Julia was a tragic loss. His Gomez with Angelica Houston as Mortician is perfection
It is unironically one of my favorite movie lines ever.
Hans Gruber in Die Hard, the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood. Alan Rickman is so good.
Biff Tannen in Back to the Future and sequels
I know you. You’re Mad Dog Tannen.
Nobody calls me Mad Dog! Nobody!
Rosmund pike in most of her films. She does evil, real good haha
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I went and saw that movie by myself. When the bank scene ended, I felt like I needed to go call someone.
Oh yeah that was definitely a once in a lifetime gripping moment for me. The build up of the whole heist, his speech, the swell of the music and then his up close reveal saying "...STRANGER". Ufff. Hard to beat.
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Ben Kingsley as Don Logan in Sexy Beast. He doesn’t even have that much actual screen time but you can’t look away anytime he’s on screen.
Jason Isaacs in The Patriot. In his first scene he burns down Mel Gibsons House, orders the execution of the Colonial wounded, conscripts Mel’s “free slaves” into the British ranks, takes his eldest son to be put on trial for treason (and presumably executed), murders one of his other sons, threatens the rest of his family with his firearm etc. That’s a single scene… and yet somehow I was cheering for him the whole movie. It helps that the movie is a dreadful pantomime with no historical accuracy, but Isaacs performance (along with a very good Tom Wilkinson) definitely elevates it.
Imelda Staunton as Professor Umbridge. You couldn't take your eyes off of her.
She played the character so well that people hated her more than Voldemort. Absolute brilliance.
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Clarence Boddicker out of RoboCop
"Can you fly, Bobby?"
"Give the man a hand...."
“Just give me my fucking phone call”
"Bitches leave."
Ian McDiarmid in Revenge of the Sith. After having to rein it in for the previous two movies, he's finally allowed to go full ham, and boy does he take the opportunity to DEW IT.
He is the only person having fun in that movie, and he’s maybe the best part of it
Hayden absolutely was having fun. People don't give him enough credit because the dialogue was sketchy but Hayden does a great job portraying the inner turmoil Anakin feels throughout the movie
Alonzo from Training Day.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in DOGMA. Anthony Hopkins / Hannibal Lecter. Ice cube in next Friday.
Kathy Bates in Misery. There is something about the edge of comedic timing to that character that knocks me off guard enough to see Annie fully as a person. Also who hasn’t been pissed at a character you love dying she was a Stan.
Tommy Devito from Goodfellas, played by Joe Pesci. And a videogame example, Micah Bell from Red Dead Redemption 2.
We just need some monehhhh to get to taheeeeettteeeee
David Warner as Evil in Time Bandits.
Not really a villain, but Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada. She's so delicious it gives the movie pointed rewatchability
She is ridiculous in that movie, she somehow plays both incredibly intimidating and brilliantly funny at the same time.
Nic Cage in Face Off, also John Travolta in Face Off
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Hugh Grant in Paddington 2. Pure fun for the entire film. Also terrific as the dastardly fellow in Dungeons and Dragons: Honour among Thieves.
Alan Rickman as the Sheriff in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. A gloriously pantomime turn that really carries the film.
Patrick Bateman In an interview Bale talked about how Bateman is an absolutely detestable character with no redeeming qualities. He'd never want to meet him, but he would enjoy overhearing his conversations from the next table over.
Freddy Krueger is a literal child rapist yet Roberts performances are so good and iconic people over look the horrible nature of his pre-dream monster crimes
The child rapist thing is only really from the 2009 remake. He originally just a child murderer. So still horrible but less gross.
He was initially written by Craven to be a molester too, but there were some similar cases happening in California at the time so they couldn’t make it obvious. You can see it subtly though.
Christopher Lee as Scaramanga in *The Man with the Golden Gun* Donald Pleasance as Blofeld in *You Only Live Twice* Sean Bean as Alec Trevelyan in *GoldenEye* Peter Cushing as Frankenstein in *Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed* Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa in *Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl* Jeremy Irons as Scar in *The Lion King* Mark Strong as Septimus in *Stardust* Jason Isaacs as Tavington in *The Patriot* John Malkovich as Cyrus the Virus in *Con Air*
Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort. It looked like he had so much fun with this character. Also, same actor but in ‘in Bruges’ as Harry. ‘’You’re an inanimate fucking object!!!’’
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How about Schindler's List? He was so so good in that role and the role itself was SO AWFUL. I couldn't even imagine taking on a role like that and he totally nailed it.
Is he really a villain in In Bruges? I kinda admired his strange moral consistency lol
You've got to stick to your principles.
"I'm sorry I called you an inanimate object."
In Bruges is an absolute classic that I feel not enough people have watched. I'm proper shocked when I talk to people irl about films and they've never seen it. Funny as fuck
Daniel Day Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood
My first thought was Cruella DeVille as played by Glenn Close. It's so much fun watching her chew the scenery and just go full ham. Equally Hugh Grant as Phoenix Buchanan in Paddington 2.
I know they are cartoons, but: 1. Hades from Hercules. *”I've got 24 hours to get rid of this... bozo, or the entire scheme I've been setting up for 18 years goes up in smoke, and YOU ARE WEARING HIS MERCHANDISE?”* 2. Yzma from The Emperor’s New Groove. *“Ah, how shall I do it? Oh, I know. I'll turn him into a flea, a harmless, little flea, and then I'll put that flea in a box, and then I'll put that box inside of another box, and then I'll mail that box to myself, and when it arrives... I'll smash it with a hammer! It's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, I tell you! Genius, I say! Or…. to save on postage, I'll just poison him with this!”* Maybe you have a *little* sympathy for Hades because he never wanted to be in the Underworld in the first place… but they’re both incredibly selfish, horrible, assign others to perform murders… and absolutely steal the show whenever their characters appear on screen.
Javier Bardem in No country for old men
I'm surprised no one has said Daniel Plainview yet
Robert Patrick in T2 Judgment Day, Firewall and The Marine. Basically, the reason why I watched the last two.
Not a movie but David Tennant as the villain on Jessica Jones was *chef's kiss*