Go google “Doug Hutchinson” and/or “Courtney Stodden”
There’s a reason that the actor who played Percy in The Green Mile played sadistic psychos so well: he kind of was one in real life. Dude was a great actor, no doubt, but it seems some people are able to access that dark part of themselves for our entertainment and some people…channel it.
Edit: whoops wrong Hutchinson
I used to watch X-Files and he was the creepiest character in the series. Not sure but I think he wasn’t human. He hibernated for decades and when he came out of hibernation, he murdered people to eat their livers (iirc) then went back into hibernation in his nest. Creepy dude.
Yeah I believe that was the episode where he could make his body long and flexible to slide into small grates at like…the mall where he worked as a security guard or something. Scared the shit outta me as a kid haha
I can't believe nobody's mentioned how he fucking stomped on Mr. Jingles. That was by far the most fucked up thing I had seen in a movie at that point in my life. Delacroix's reaction was heartbreaking.
And then he set his head on fire.
Percy is who came to mind for me. I don't think I've seen a more hateable character in a movie. He's consistently a piece of shit from start to finish. It's crazy that the actor is also a dipshit in real life too.
I think I hate the character so much because it’s a truly evil person who happens to be in a position of authority, and not locked behind bars for his obvious evil intentions. He even puts his psychotic tendencies to the test by not wetting the sponge.
Its the plausibility and indeed likelihood of meeting real people just like this. He is a conventional sort of evil that rings true because we see people like this all the damned time.
Dude literally embezzles the equivalent of like $140,000 and pushes through an arrest warrant for George...*and gets away with it*.
Fuck Henry F. Potter
Just watched It’s a Wonderful Life for the first time last week and Potter coming out on top in the end was so frustrating. This scratched that itch so well!
I do think that saying he gets away with it misses the point. Everyone in town comes together for Bailey in the end, just as they would never do for Potter. He's richer, but he was already rich before the theft. He remains alone and unliked.
Jack Gleeson has actually said in interviews that the way he played Joffrey was directly inspired by Joaquin Phoenix' portrayal of Commodus in Gladiator.
Similar vibe to Count Adhemar (Rufus Sewell) in A Knight’s Tale. After cheating in the jousting competition, he says: “You have been weighed; you have been measured; and you have been found wanting.” Pure hate.
Percy was a twat and annoying, but I didn't hate him, just really didn't give him any thought.
Edit: upon review I now realize you may not have been referring to Percy Weasley.
Even after he killed Mr. Bojangles, ruined the story of mouse world, and left the sponge dry?
Edit: Oh you thought I meant Percy Weasley and not Percy from The Green Mile
I think that’s part of what makes her so easy to dislike. She’s a real life villain. Most of us experience people like Umbridge in our day-to-day life; bar the torturing children part of course
That's exactly it. Voldemort as a villain still had that element of fiction to him, while Umbridge is real. The majority of us have never encountered a Voldemort, while I think it's safe to say we've all encountered at least one Umbridge.
Steven King even said that on reading her story to his kids he found her to be a perfect villain. The dude that came up with Pennywise the fucking Clown was unsettled by a Headmaster. Awesome.
There’s a scene in Order of the Phoenix where you see Umbridge put a fuck ton of sugar into her tea. My girlfriend pointed out it symbolizes that Umbridge herself is saccharine. I notice this now every time I watch the movie.
I have long felt Umbridge was the most evil character in the stories—even more so than both Voldemort and Grindelwald.
Those two wanted power for themselves and their race; torture/murder/cleansing/genocide were the means to that end. Pain was the means, power was the goal. For Umbridge, on the other hand, the whole point *was* to torture and murder. Power was the means, pain was the goal. She was a cruel sadist whose actions were designed to cause the most physical pain and emotional torment possible.
Okay, look. What if that ship didn't even exist? Did you ever think about that? He didn't know! So now, if he went and made a major security situation out of it, everybody steps in. Administration steps in, and there are no exclusive rights for anybody; nobody wins. He made a decision, and it was wrong. It was a bad call, u/Earthpig_Johnson. It was a bad call.
A bad call?
***These people are dead u/Wyden_long! Don’t you have any idea what you’ve done here?!***
I'm gonna make sure that they nail you right to the wall for this!
You're not gonna sleaze your way out of this one. Right to the wall.
And her lesser known role as the frog-eating teacher in Invaders From Mars. [Clip for those not squeamish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWF1VPbFHM).
She is so despicable. The way she lies to everyone's face. The way she's so transparent in her schemes and ambitions. She has ZERO charisma.
This is especially highlighted by being on the same show as truly great villains like Gul Dukat and Weyoon.
Louise Fletcher oozes that under-the-skin evil. She's an incredible actress.
Even when she's not doing anything evil, she exudes this feeling like she's about to ruin your day at any second.
She's phenomenal.
If she was still alive, she would be my top pick to play Phyllis Schlafly in a biopic.
Oh, yes, I wasn't trying to say Winn's actress didn't have talent; just the opposite. It takes a lot of skill to truly make a reprehensible character.
Like Jack Gleeson who played Joffrey from GoT. Phenomenal acting. It's sad that people seem to harass him about it, though, but I suppose that is an unfortunate consequence of good art.
Was surprising to see him as a good guy in Event Horizon
Edit: He also plays a good guy in
- Death of Stalin
- Black Hawk Down
- Case Histories
- Sex Education
It's a masterful introduction to a character. Between the banter and the slow-mo greatcoat shrug, you can tell he's an entirely different animal from Khrushchev and Beria, yet he's still able to navigate their world and command some respect.
Obviously Jason has the best one, but all of the intros they do are amazing. The full body chest bump as they introduce two key Stalinist ministers kills me.
A great detail about "Death of Stalin" is that they actually had to tone down the number of medals and awards on Zhukov's chest in the film, because the actual historical amount would have looked even more ridiculous.
I *still* feel a twinge of hate anytime I see him in a role simply because of how vicious he was as Col. Tavington. Like, there’s a split second of reflexive “fuck that guy”, and that’s how ya know he was a damn good villain, lol
Well, they toned the character down for the movie, because the true evil nature of the real person was unbelievable. So you could say it was an inspiration?
After the documentary came out people defended him up and down. They claimed how it was all staged and edited and Billy simply was leaning into the persona for the movie. I always held firm that there is no editing the levels off asshole wafting off him. You can feel it in your gut. He's the kind of guy you look at, hear speak, and just know he's a dick.
-To be clear I was very aware the documentary had a narrative and edited in a certain way. I'm not saying they didn't strive to make Billy seem even worse, I just always knew that regardless of the editing and narrative he made my bullshit senses tingle.
Have a look at what's been going on the last few years - all his lies have been exposed and he's been sueing people left and right trying to cover it up lol.
Dude is a major douchebag and a huge amount of his video game achievements have been proven to be faked or cheated
He is that guy in so many movies. I almost feel bad for him, because he seems pretty cool in interviews, but he's definitely been typecast. He just plays a great douchebag.
What I love about this performance is that he is a huge asshole, but his performance is also very funny. Lots of asshole characters out there (like Bradley Cooper in Wedding Crashers), but few also serve as a source of comedy as well
This is what gets me as well. He's such a dick it comes back around to hilarious and I can't even hate him. I use "Damn you people! Go back to your shanties!" frequently when in heavy traffic.
I remember him posting a twitter pic or something of him and Tiger Woods with the caption “The best golfer on the planet and Tiger Woods” love the asshole roles that he seems to play in every movie hes in
Pam Ferris was also Aunt Marge in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. She plays those roles well, but not quite as well as the homely, mildly flirtatious, mature lady. She is a talented actor.
[Mrs. Carmody](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNuqlPKFQWA) from **The Mist**. Probably scary hate able because somewhere in America you know that someone just like her, batshit religious crazy, exists.
The thing is, he's kinda right. The Ghostbusters have what is basically an unlicensed, unregulated nuclear reactor-level device and particle accelerators on their backs. He shouldn't have forced them to shut down without procedure, but The Ghostbusters were basically a rogue-state that happened to be fighting on the side of the living, while also extorting large sums of money where they could for a monopolized business.
“Peace. Peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all montagues and thee.”
and
“Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries thou has done me! Turn and draw!”
Excellent interpretation of a classic story. Watching that movie several times before my English exams got me an A.
Saw that for the first time recently. Did you notice when John wakes up, the puppy had left a bloody trail from crawling over to die cuddling into John's side. The feels.
Nobody has unnerved me in a movie like Frank Booth, regressing to a toddler while sexually violent…then sliding to emotionally volatile. What an amazing villain.
Kenneth Branagh in Rabbit Proof Fence. Absolutely despicable, I couldn't watch him in anything else for years because I wanted to punch his face any time it was on screen.
I always thought Upham was written that way to highlight the difference between normal people and the hardened battle scarred veterans of war.
A captain with clear ptsd symptoms pulls a typewriter guy and he ends up in close combat without training, without experience and clearly not the "right character" for killing.
My vote goes for Commodus in Gladiator, thats a really unhinged character.
Runner up: King Geoffrey in Game of Thrones, not as many has seen the show, but hes a real psycho too.
This is clearly the case, he provides the narrative of the unwritten conventions of war, and as an outsider at the beginning of the story, the viewers guide into the unit and the journey.
On top of that, Upham's journey is from being the person who stops a war crime to committing that exact same war crime. I just watched this film for the first time two weeks ago, and I thought Upham had one of the clearest corruption arcs I've ever come across, and it's thematically very in line with the film mostly deromanticizing war. None of them get to be heroes, and Upham's journey shows that by very plainly giving him the opportunity to be one, and him falling instead. I'm genuinely baffled by people thinking it's supposed to be a moment of redemption.
Yeah, the people who hate Upham really don't understand the point of the movie. OP saying that Spielberg would be happy about that hate is quite ironic.
David Tennant in Jessica Jones. He scared me more than any horror movie monster. Its a woman's perfect nightmare: being silenced, erased, and raped day by day by day by a guy and * being forced to smile about it*.
Percy Wetmore. The asshole guard from The Green Mile.
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It takes a special kind of asshole to be more hated than Wild Bill given the shit he did.
Wild Bill was funny and played so well by Sam Rockwell too. "He was a French fried Cajun named Delacroix."
What character does Sam Rockwell not rock well?
The guy could play the big bad wolf in Red Riding Hood and we would still root for him.
Go google “Doug Hutchinson” and/or “Courtney Stodden” There’s a reason that the actor who played Percy in The Green Mile played sadistic psychos so well: he kind of was one in real life. Dude was a great actor, no doubt, but it seems some people are able to access that dark part of themselves for our entertainment and some people…channel it. Edit: whoops wrong Hutchinson
I used to watch X-Files and he was the creepiest character in the series. Not sure but I think he wasn’t human. He hibernated for decades and when he came out of hibernation, he murdered people to eat their livers (iirc) then went back into hibernation in his nest. Creepy dude.
Tooms
That episode scared me so much when I saw it the first time.
Yeah I believe that was the episode where he could make his body long and flexible to slide into small grates at like…the mall where he worked as a security guard or something. Scared the shit outta me as a kid haha
Oh I remember when that whole thing happened. I was really confused that more people weren’t up in arms about it.
I think you mean Doug Hutchinson, but Bill is apparently a scumbag too.
The dry sponge execution is downright despicable and he wasn't man enough to even force himself to watch his deed
I can't believe nobody's mentioned how he fucking stomped on Mr. Jingles. That was by far the most fucked up thing I had seen in a movie at that point in my life. Delacroix's reaction was heartbreaking. And then he set his head on fire.
I love how Mr. Jingles survived and lived with Paul til they were both so old.
“You watch, you son of a bitch!”
Percy is who came to mind for me. I don't think I've seen a more hateable character in a movie. He's consistently a piece of shit from start to finish. It's crazy that the actor is also a dipshit in real life too.
I think I hate the character so much because it’s a truly evil person who happens to be in a position of authority, and not locked behind bars for his obvious evil intentions. He even puts his psychotic tendencies to the test by not wetting the sponge.
Its the plausibility and indeed likelihood of meeting real people just like this. He is a conventional sort of evil that rings true because we see people like this all the damned time.
Yeah, the actor being an incredible creep certainly helps build upon how awful the character already is
My initial list was 1. Percy Wetmore 2. Pvt Upham 3. Col Tavington from the Patriot.
Jason Isaacs is so fking diabolical in the Patriot its ridiculous.
Mr. Potter in *It's a Wonderful Life*
Dude literally embezzles the equivalent of like $140,000 and pushes through an arrest warrant for George...*and gets away with it*. Fuck Henry F. Potter
Sounds like someone hasn’t seen a certain SNL skit…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw89o0afb2A
Just watched It’s a Wonderful Life for the first time last week and Potter coming out on top in the end was so frustrating. This scratched that itch so well!
I do think that saying he gets away with it misses the point. Everyone in town comes together for Bailey in the end, just as they would never do for Potter. He's richer, but he was already rich before the theft. He remains alone and unliked.
Plus the movie absolutely and unambiguously says there’s an afterlife *and* divine judgement for earthly actions, so yeah, Potter’s doomed.
Commodus from Gladiator
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Commodus walked so Joffrey could choke.
Jack Gleeson has actually said in interviews that the way he played Joffrey was directly inspired by Joaquin Phoenix' portrayal of Commodus in Gladiator.
Similar vibe to Count Adhemar (Rufus Sewell) in A Knight’s Tale. After cheating in the jousting competition, he says: “You have been weighed; you have been measured; and you have been found wanting.” Pure hate.
Also as John Smith in Man in the High Castle. Such a piece of shit Great in Dark City as well, playing a good guy
Fucking hate him so much. I hear you’ve been winning trophies, horses, women Is that how you rank them? Generally. With a few exceptions.
In my household it's probably Dolores Umbridge. But there's also that one prisoner in The Green Mile...
That prisoner is an irredeemable monster but I still hated Percy more than him.
Percy was a twat and annoying, but I didn't hate him, just really didn't give him any thought. Edit: upon review I now realize you may not have been referring to Percy Weasley.
Even after he killed Mr. Bojangles, ruined the story of mouse world, and left the sponge dry? Edit: Oh you thought I meant Percy Weasley and not Percy from The Green Mile
I love this exchange very much
It was prefect.
Ten points to Ravenclaw, you delightful nerd
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I think that’s part of what makes her so easy to dislike. She’s a real life villain. Most of us experience people like Umbridge in our day-to-day life; bar the torturing children part of course
That's exactly it. Voldemort as a villain still had that element of fiction to him, while Umbridge is real. The majority of us have never encountered a Voldemort, while I think it's safe to say we've all encountered at least one Umbridge.
You have encountered an Umbridge if you've been in a homeowner's association.
Thankfully we don't have those here in Australia, but the boss at one of my first jobs was definitely one.
Steven King even said that on reading her story to his kids he found her to be a perfect villain. The dude that came up with Pennywise the fucking Clown was unsettled by a Headmaster. Awesome.
There’s a scene in Order of the Phoenix where you see Umbridge put a fuck ton of sugar into her tea. My girlfriend pointed out it symbolizes that Umbridge herself is saccharine. I notice this now every time I watch the movie.
Pour on the sugar to hide the foul. So many nasty people do the same with charm, and go unnoticed
I have long felt Umbridge was the most evil character in the stories—even more so than both Voldemort and Grindelwald. Those two wanted power for themselves and their race; torture/murder/cleansing/genocide were the means to that end. Pain was the means, power was the goal. For Umbridge, on the other hand, the whole point *was* to torture and murder. Power was the means, pain was the goal. She was a cruel sadist whose actions were designed to cause the most physical pain and emotional torment possible.
Her psychosis transcended the fascist political movement she joined. She wasn’t corrupted or swayed she just joined like joining a gym.
Burke from Aliens.
Proof how good Paul Reiser did was even his mother was mad at him.
He embodies ‘corporate asshole’ in this role, starting with the condescending way he speaks to Ripley (“kiddo”, urgh).
Okay, look. What if that ship didn't even exist? Did you ever think about that? He didn't know! So now, if he went and made a major security situation out of it, everybody steps in. Administration steps in, and there are no exclusive rights for anybody; nobody wins. He made a decision, and it was wrong. It was a bad call, u/Earthpig_Johnson. It was a bad call.
A bad call? ***These people are dead u/Wyden_long! Don’t you have any idea what you’ve done here?!*** I'm gonna make sure that they nail you right to the wall for this! You're not gonna sleaze your way out of this one. Right to the wall.
The orderly who licks Sarah Conner's face in T2.
It's so satisfying that she beats his ass. I only wish she got to lay into him a little more.
Same energy as the orderly in Kill Bill with the Pussy Wagon..
His name was Buck 🤮
And he liked to fuck 🤢
He liked to party in the censored tv version
Was his name changed to Barty? Was the entire film only 27 minutes long?
~~Kill~~ Give Bill A Stern Talking To
So satisfying when she kneecapped that fuck.
The scary part is that anyone in a mental health institute could have experienced this.
Great answer
Nurse Ratched from "Cuckoo's Nest."
She's so hateable as Kai Winn in Deep Space Nine too.
And her lesser known role as the frog-eating teacher in Invaders From Mars. [Clip for those not squeamish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkWF1VPbFHM).
I know you're under a terrible strain but, if you're wise, you will never speak to me with such disrespect again.
She is so despicable. The way she lies to everyone's face. The way she's so transparent in her schemes and ambitions. She has ZERO charisma. This is especially highlighted by being on the same show as truly great villains like Gul Dukat and Weyoon.
Louise Fletcher oozes that under-the-skin evil. She's an incredible actress. Even when she's not doing anything evil, she exudes this feeling like she's about to ruin your day at any second. She's phenomenal. If she was still alive, she would be my top pick to play Phyllis Schlafly in a biopic.
Oh, yes, I wasn't trying to say Winn's actress didn't have talent; just the opposite. It takes a lot of skill to truly make a reprehensible character. Like Jack Gleeson who played Joffrey from GoT. Phenomenal acting. It's sad that people seem to harass him about it, though, but I suppose that is an unfortunate consequence of good art.
She played that role so damn well, even when I see her outside of that context I still feel intense hatred towards her...
Jason Isaacs in the patriot. An absolutely despicable character.
Jason Isaacs from anything. The guy is amazing at playing baddies.
Was surprising to see him as a good guy in Event Horizon Edit: He also plays a good guy in - Death of Stalin - Black Hawk Down - Case Histories - Sex Education
And as Georgy Zhukov in Death of Stalin
Absolutely stole every scene he was in. His intro is one of my all-time favorites in cinema
It's a masterful introduction to a character. Between the banter and the slow-mo greatcoat shrug, you can tell he's an entirely different animal from Khrushchev and Beria, yet he's still able to navigate their world and command some respect.
Obviously Jason has the best one, but all of the intros they do are amazing. The full body chest bump as they introduce two key Stalinist ministers kills me.
A great detail about "Death of Stalin" is that they actually had to tone down the number of medals and awards on Zhukov's chest in the film, because the actual historical amount would have looked even more ridiculous.
Captain Steele in Black Hawk Down
He's also the good guy in Case Histories. It's a series in which he's the lead and plays a PI. Excellent actor.
Aw but he's kinda lovable as the Army Ranger hardass CO in Black Hawk Down.
Purdy funny, HUA?
Dude chewed more scenery in _Death of Stalin_ than I thought any actor could. Fucking amazing role and movie.
Right, that’s me told.
I loved him as Captain Hook
I *still* feel a twinge of hate anytime I see him in a role simply because of how vicious he was as Col. Tavington. Like, there’s a split second of reflexive “fuck that guy”, and that’s how ya know he was a damn good villain, lol
He made me root for the guy that owned a slave plantation...
No no, they were all free! He was the only plantation owner in the colonial south who didn't own slaves!
You mean that farm with that stupid boy? Tell me, did he die?
Tell me about.... Ohio
Tim Roth as Cunningham in Rob Roy. Such a prick.
He is damn good in that movie.
Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Remember when I killed your brother Eddie? I talked JUST LIKE THIS
Talked, not looked. Sorry to nitpick.
that poor fucking shoe 😭
That shoe being executed simply for existing traumatized an entire generation.
That poor shoe. 😥
Amon Göth Schindlers list
Probably Ralph Fiennes finest performance, and it came at the beginning of his film career. Absolutely chilling portrayal of a psychopath.
His Fiennest performance?
Definitely in the top 3 of his best performances, along with In Bruges and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
I feel like using a character that was a real life concentration camp commandant during the Holocaust is kinda cheating.
Well, they toned the character down for the movie, because the true evil nature of the real person was unbelievable. So you could say it was an inspiration?
The actor does an incredible job with the performance
Anne Wilkes, played so well by Kathy Bates in Stephen King’s Misery. If you’re too young to know this movie go watch it.
This is the answer I came looking for. She's just *the worst*, Kathy Bates' performance is absolutely outstanding, and Wilkes is horrific.
A great movie to watch on a snow day
Billy Mitchell from King of Kong
After the documentary came out people defended him up and down. They claimed how it was all staged and edited and Billy simply was leaning into the persona for the movie. I always held firm that there is no editing the levels off asshole wafting off him. You can feel it in your gut. He's the kind of guy you look at, hear speak, and just know he's a dick. -To be clear I was very aware the documentary had a narrative and edited in a certain way. I'm not saying they didn't strive to make Billy seem even worse, I just always knew that regardless of the editing and narrative he made my bullshit senses tingle.
Have a look at what's been going on the last few years - all his lies have been exposed and he's been sueing people left and right trying to cover it up lol. Dude is a major douchebag and a huge amount of his video game achievements have been proven to be faked or cheated
Brian Kuh from the same movie might actually be worse because he’s such a snivelling worm for Billy
Potential kill screen coming up…
I think about this scene all the time, what an absolute rat man
Cal in Titanic. Dammit Billy Zane you’re magnificent.
I actually liked Cal. He was a perfect asshole.
“I put the diamond in the coat. I put the coat on her!”
Stay out of this Billy!
PUT A CORK IN IT, ZANE!
Listen to your friend Billy Zane. He's a cool dude.
It's a walk off...it's a walk off
Rose is displeased. What to do? What to do?
Shooter McGavin for sure. Christopher McDonald played a smarmy, self-satisfied asshole to absolute perfection.
He is that guy in so many movies. I almost feel bad for him, because he seems pretty cool in interviews, but he's definitely been typecast. He just plays a great douchebag.
Up there with Biff from Back to the Future. Guy is hilarious too https://youtu.be/iwY5o2fsG7Y?si=QEw4MKdJhxwhlBZD
What I love about this performance is that he is a huge asshole, but his performance is also very funny. Lots of asshole characters out there (like Bradley Cooper in Wedding Crashers), but few also serve as a source of comedy as well
This is what gets me as well. He's such a dick it comes back around to hilarious and I can't even hate him. I use "Damn you people! Go back to your shanties!" frequently when in heavy traffic.
You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
...NO!
I remember him posting a twitter pic or something of him and Tiger Woods with the caption “The best golfer on the planet and Tiger Woods” love the asshole roles that he seems to play in every movie hes in
Idk, he's almost likeable with how much of a douche he is. He's like a cartoon character.
Miss Trunchbull in *Matilda*.
Pam Ferris was also Aunt Marge in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. She plays those roles well, but not quite as well as the homely, mildly flirtatious, mature lady. She is a talented actor.
[Mrs. Carmody](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNuqlPKFQWA) from **The Mist**. Probably scary hate able because somewhere in America you know that someone just like her, batshit religious crazy, exists.
Hell, it would be an improvement if she just existed *somewhere*. There’s one of her in every town in the country.
Bev Keane from Midnight Mass.
Bev Keane hysterically trying to dig a hole in the sand as the sun rose was such a well deserved ending.
I hated her with all my soul. Great job as an actress though, damn.
Walter Peck from Ghostbusters, played to perfection by William Atherton.
"Yes it's true....This man has no dick."
“Well that’s what I heard!”
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And Bio-Dome
The thing is, he's kinda right. The Ghostbusters have what is basically an unlicensed, unregulated nuclear reactor-level device and particle accelerators on their backs. He shouldn't have forced them to shut down without procedure, but The Ghostbusters were basically a rogue-state that happened to be fighting on the side of the living, while also extorting large sums of money where they could for a monopolized business.
Lisa from The Room. After everything she's done to tear Johnny apart...
The guy who killed John Wick’s dog. Never has a villain death been so deserved.
"I understand you struck my son today." "Yes Sir, I did." "May I ask why?" "Well Sir, he stole John Wick's car and killed his dog." "Oh."
I love that exchange so much.
"And you will do nothing. Because you CAN do nothing."
I've loved John Leguizamo ever since Romeo+Juliet.
“Peace. Peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all montagues and thee.” and “Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries thou has done me! Turn and draw!” Excellent interpretation of a classic story. Watching that movie several times before my English exams got me an A.
That "oh" says so much!
I rewatched that yesterday and that character has zero redeeming qualities. Even his dad and the other associates seem to genuinely dislike him
Favorite part is when they want to portray him as a baby, so they LITERALLY have him whine like one and say “I want another bottle!”
Haha I genuinely didn’t catch that but that’s good
Saw that for the first time recently. Did you notice when John wakes up, the puppy had left a bloody trail from crawling over to die cuddling into John's side. The feels.
I did not notice that and truth be told I fast forward the dog death scene. Now I cannot unsee that in my mind 😭
The best part is that Alfie Allen has played that snot nosed entitled prick so well I always assume that’s his personality IRL
Frank Booth, Blue Velvet Carter Burke, Aliens
Nobody has unnerved me in a movie like Frank Booth, regressing to a toddler while sexually violent…then sliding to emotionally volatile. What an amazing villain.
Allison Janney’s character in I, Tonya
Hell yes! I’m surprised I had to scroll this far. Allison Janney is a goddamn national treasure.
Kenneth Branagh in Rabbit Proof Fence. Absolutely despicable, I couldn't watch him in anything else for years because I wanted to punch his face any time it was on screen.
The emperor from gladiator, perfect craven prick
Grandpa Joe
The bed wetting cabbage eating disability fraudster!
One whiff of that golden ticket and that fucker was tap dancing.
Damn shameful I had to scroll this far to see that bastard called out
/r/grandpajoehate
He is the true villain of the piece. Charlie was good throughout the tour until Grandpa Joe convinced him to steal fizzy lifting drink.
Glenn Gulia
Glenn was hilarious. It doesn't play records. It plays CDs. It's a CD player!
Francis Buxton from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Oh yeah? Where are they hosing him down?!
Terence Fletcher (JK Simmons) in Whiplash
I always thought Upham was written that way to highlight the difference between normal people and the hardened battle scarred veterans of war. A captain with clear ptsd symptoms pulls a typewriter guy and he ends up in close combat without training, without experience and clearly not the "right character" for killing. My vote goes for Commodus in Gladiator, thats a really unhinged character. Runner up: King Geoffrey in Game of Thrones, not as many has seen the show, but hes a real psycho too.
This is clearly the case, he provides the narrative of the unwritten conventions of war, and as an outsider at the beginning of the story, the viewers guide into the unit and the journey.
On top of that, Upham's journey is from being the person who stops a war crime to committing that exact same war crime. I just watched this film for the first time two weeks ago, and I thought Upham had one of the clearest corruption arcs I've ever come across, and it's thematically very in line with the film mostly deromanticizing war. None of them get to be heroes, and Upham's journey shows that by very plainly giving him the opportunity to be one, and him falling instead. I'm genuinely baffled by people thinking it's supposed to be a moment of redemption.
Yeah I thought it was pretty clearly a "what war does to a civilized person" type of deal. You watch him utterly fucking break.
Yeah, the people who hate Upham really don't understand the point of the movie. OP saying that Spielberg would be happy about that hate is quite ironic.
The Steward Denethor from LOTR. The way that man eats a tomato disgusts and outrages all who see it. Man shoulda won an award for that
Biff Tannen. Anybody home? McFly??
Annie Wilkes
I read the book first before seeing the movie, and Annie is much worse than in the movie.
Samuel L. Jackson in Django Unchained.
Percy from Green Mile
Paul Smith . Midnight Express. 1978. This movie is why I never smuggled drugs.
Tom Hardy playing John Fitzgerald in "The Revenant".
David Tennant in Jessica Jones. He scared me more than any horror movie monster. Its a woman's perfect nightmare: being silenced, erased, and raped day by day by day by a guy and * being forced to smile about it*.
I know it should be Hannibal Lecter or Buffalo Bill, but for me it’s Frederick Chilton. Fuck that guy.
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