5 Favourite Movie Villains

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Jaakko Keskinen

#40
April 22, 2018, 02:22:04 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on April 21, 2018, 11:41:08 AM
Does this count as a spoiler?  8)

Well, I've already spoiled in this thread like 3 or 4 times. :P Wouldn't Hal count as a spoiler too, technically?
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

Karl Henning

#41
April 22, 2018, 03:31:51 AM
Quote from: Alberich on April 22, 2018, 02:22:04 AM
Well, I've already spoiled in this thread like 3 or 4 times. :P Wouldn't Hal count as a spoiler too, technically?

Right you are.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

motoboy

#42
April 22, 2018, 01:46:14 PM
If we're counting TV too, then I want to include Ben Horne of "Twin Peaks.'

vandermolen

#43
April 22, 2018, 03:22:13 PM
And how about Scar in The Lion King?  8)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

SimonNZ

#44
April 22, 2018, 04:05:06 PM
Milady de Winter. Pretty much any version. Every actress seems to love getting into it.

Cardinal Richelieu from the same source.

Rinaldo

#45
April 22, 2018, 05:53:25 PM
Off the top of my head..











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a bonus villain from the movie Spalovač mrtvol (The Cremator), one of the best Czechoslovakian movies of all time – highly recommended, although be prepared for a very dark ride.

"The truly novel things will be invented by the young ones, not by me. But this doesn't worry me at all."
~ Grażyna Bacewicz

motoboy

#46
April 23, 2018, 01:54:34 AM
Rinaldo,

Bladerunner! Yes! That brought The Kurgen to mind. 

I think everyone involved in the making of "Jaws 3D" was pretty villainous, too.

vandermolen

#47
April 23, 2018, 03:34:50 AM
Quote from: Rinaldo on April 22, 2018, 05:53:25 PM
Off the top of my head..











+

a bonus villain from the movie Spalovač mrtvol (The Cremator), one of the best Czechoslovakian movies of all time – highly recommended, although be prepared for a very dark ride.



Great choices, I especially like Robert Patrick from the Terminator 2 film.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Sergeant Rock

#48
April 23, 2018, 04:25:42 AM
Quote from: Rinaldo on April 22, 2018, 05:53:25 PM
Off the top of my head..


Yes!

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

vandermolen

#49
April 23, 2018, 05:00:06 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on April 23, 2018, 04:25:42 AM
Yes!

Sarge

Nurse Ratched is also a great choice.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

#50
April 23, 2018, 05:02:46 AM
A young Dame Helen Mirren as Morgana in 'Excalibur' - one of my very favourite films:
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Jaakko Keskinen

#51
April 23, 2018, 05:04:50 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on April 23, 2018, 04:25:42 AM
Yes!

Sarge

Frank is a great choice but somehow I still like more the other main villain of the movie, Mr. Morton, played by Gabriele Ferzetti.
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

Karl Henning

#53
April 23, 2018, 05:36:49 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on April 23, 2018, 05:02:46 AM
A young Dame Helen Mirren as Morgana in 'Excalibur' - one of my very favourite films:

I should try that one again.  For whatever reason, I just could not remain in the cinema to watch through to the end.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

vandermolen

#54
April 23, 2018, 06:00:17 AM Last Edit: April 23, 2018, 06:07:37 AM by vandermolen
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on April 23, 2018, 05:36:49 AM
I should try that one again.  For whatever reason, I just could not remain in the cinema to watch through to the end.

Bit of an acquired taste I think Karl. My daughter refuses to watch it due to the violence and rape of Igrayne near the start but I find it an incredibly humane and moving film. Nicol Williamson's performance as Merlin is the highpoint of the film. Great music by Wagner, Orff and Trevor Jones. I also like Nigel  Terry's understated performance as Arthur. The real love story is not between Arthur and Quinevere or even Lancelot and Quinevere but between Arthur and Merlin.

Apparently the director John Boorman saw the story as an allegory of mankind's loss of spirituality in the blind pursuit of progress and, as such, with a timeless relevance.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

geralmar

#55
May 24, 2018, 09:24:03 PM Last Edit: May 24, 2018, 09:46:46 PM by geralmar
Jack Palance, Shane (1953)
Gian Maria Volonte, For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Robert Mitchum, Cape Fear (1962)
Thayer David, Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Torin Thatcher, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

Robert Shaw, Robin and Marian (1976)
James Mason, North by Northwest (1959)
Peter Lorre, The Maltese Falcon (1941), M (1931)
George Sanders in anything.
George Zucco in anything.

lisa needs braces

#56
May 25, 2018, 03:20:16 PM
My favorite minor villain: That kid from Dark City.


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