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post #1 of 27
10/2/00 at 8:59am
Thread Starter 
Should this be worst villan or best villan. Cant make up my mind. Anyway, I like the villans better than the hero's.

Here goes, for my nominations,
for serious villany...Lawrence Olivier in Marathon Man
for serious villany with black humor...Alan Rickman in Robin Hood
for comedic villany Mike Myers as Dr Evil
for short villans Mini Me...LOL

anyway, your turn.
Eric

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post #2 of 27
10/2/00 at 2:37pm
Chris Walken.

Which my ex girlfriend dated ,once. If she was bad girl enough for Chris,
I knew she would be bad. Boy did I overestimate my capacity to mantain my finances under control with bad women...

She did ask him what happened to Natalie Wood.... he kicked her out of the room. Life Imitating art? If the reverse is true he is bad.

In a very likeable way.



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post #3 of 27
10/2/00 at 3:01pm
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Cineramax,
Wow, lucky your ex girlfriend was'ent on a boat. That guy sure looks twisted anyhow!
Eric
post #4 of 27
10/2/00 at 4:16pm
My bets in for Kevin Spacey in "The Usual Suspects"
A true evil mastermind.
post #5 of 27
10/2/00 at 7:44pm
I'll go for Spacey too but in Seven. Now THAT was creepy.

For the best all time villian (in both the comedic & black humor categories) though yo cannot do better than...

Jack Lemmon as Professor Fate in "The Great Race"

"Maxxxxxxxx"

DVD anytime soon?????
post #6 of 27
10/2/00 at 8:04pm
Definately not the "best" villian of all time, but one that I cared about more than the hero of the film, DeNiro's Neil McCauley in Heat.

Seb.

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post #7 of 27
10/2/00 at 10:11pm
The Best villian by far is Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector in Silence of The Lambs. An amazing performance. Each time I watch this movie and I have watched it at least a dozen times, he still scares the Hell out of me.

Lee
post #8 of 27
10/2/00 at 11:24pm
It depends on your defintion of "villan". Sorry if I sound like a lawyer.

HAL9000 was a villan, but its programming merely manifested our own evil. Thanks to Kubrick and Clarke for portraying the future of our own demise.

Darth was bad. But, in the end he redeems himself. It's hard to call a forgiven evil as "villan". How lovely seeing him standing next to Obi and Yoda. I wanted to cry http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif

Leonard Smalls (Tex Cobb) in Raising Arizona. Nothing redeeming about that character.

-Pat
post #9 of 27
10/3/00 at 3:23pm
Some great one's already but here are a couple more to ponder:

Robert Deniro in almost any role like in:

The Untouchables (Al Capone)
Cape Fear (psyhcotic criminal looking for revenge against his defense lawyer)

Also in any of his roles:

Christopher Walken (Gangster in True Romance, etc.)

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post #10 of 27
10/3/00 at 3:46pm
Gary Olman fifth element and lost in space
Russel Crow as sid 6.7 in virtuosity
Jack Nicolson -the joker
post #11 of 27
10/3/00 at 3:50pm
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Mikey,
Wow, thats Alan Rickman twice now. How about Lee Marvin in the classic "The man who shot Liberty Vallance". Lee.M in The Kllers was another.

For those of you who like the old classic B/W movies. Who was the actor who starred opposite George Saunders in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Brett would probably know. That guy ended up as THE most dapper villain of all time. Or was it really George S who was the real Villain. What a great movie, and book.
Hollywood seems to have avoided a remake here. Its probably best.
Eric
post #12 of 27
10/3/00 at 5:27pm
I like Vincent Price as Dr. Phibes. He kills via bibical type curses. He has a wonderful mechanical band, plays what I think is a mighty Whurlitzer pipe organ, has an ultra attractive female assitant, and talks to his dead wife's portrait. He's hardly ever wrong cause he's a genius, and of course he's p'ed cause life has treated him unfairly, he thinks. It's not exactly clear how many times he's been dead, or for how long. He is, apparently, able to come and go in life. Oh, he has extra cool cript that loos like Elvis designed it. I think it has doorknobs on both sides, if you know what I mean...

Honorable mention to Richard Kiel for "old silverteath and Eegah or any of his other silly roles like, an alien on the Twilight Zone, a tall alien. How To Prepare Man, oh my gosh it's a cookbook!.....

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post #13 of 27
10/3/00 at 9:12pm
-Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) in Blue Velvet.


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post #14 of 27
10/3/00 at 11:12pm
Alec Guiness:

Last Days of Hitler.
post #15 of 27
10/4/00 at 12:44am
http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/image...ate/awards.gif Peter Lorre

as the child molester in Fritz Lang's "M" - for Murder.

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post #16 of 27
10/4/00 at 2:21am
I have a new contender for the best villian in a movie...The customized Lincoln Contential in the movie "The Car" starring James Brolin. Ruthless, homicidal, and pure evil.

Lee
post #17 of 27
10/4/00 at 3:27am
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Lee,
Lets get it on. Your Lincoln against my CHRISTINE http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/biggrin.gif:
Eric
post #18 of 27
10/4/00 at 4:55am
Eric,

That would be like Alien versus Predator!

Lee
post #19 of 27
10/4/00 at 6:39pm
Andrew Robinson. The crazed sicko killer "Scorpio" in Dirty Harry.
post #20 of 27
10/4/00 at 7:31pm
How could everyone have missed,,,,,Norman (Your don't have to call me PSYCHO) Bates. Can't you just hear the music during the infamous shower scene!!!! I'm getting chills just thinking about it!

Jack
post #21 of 27
10/4/00 at 9:20pm
TRILOGY of TERROR 1 with Karen Black: THE AFRIKAN DEATH PUPPET.
post #22 of 27
10/5/00 at 3:04am
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Jack,
Norman Bates was'ent the psycho. That was his mother. Or was it dear old Alfred http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
Eric
post #23 of 27
10/5/00 at 6:58am
Greetings!

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post #24 of 27
10/5/00 at 8:11am
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Almost forgot,
Robert Mitchum was a really evil guy in Night Of The Hunter, scary!
Eric
(I would also like to nominate my mother in law as the bigest villain in my town http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/eek.gif http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
post #25 of 27
10/5/00 at 10:02am
I've got to vote for Jack Nicholson in "The Shining".

Shawn
post #26 of 27
10/5/00 at 11:50am
Almost forgot the Devil in,,, Linda(the devil made me do/say it)Blair's role in "The Exorcist". Couldn't sleep without lights on for years!!!!

Jack
post #27 of 27
10/5/00 at 4:45pm
How 'bout the ensemble of villians in BLAZING SADDLES. " it says here, murder, rape, burglary, and rape." " I like rape."

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