Come on now… I definitely know that some of you (those who are old enough to know) are still scared shitless of General Woundwort… Darth Vader has peed in his suit at the mere mentioning of the name!!!
The alien species in Indipendence day and war of the worlds.
oooOOOOOoooooooo That sound still drives me nuts. Aliens who simply desire to mop up a planets intelligent beings so they can use the resources of the planet are pretty friggin evil in my book.
The blob was just unstoppable (I bet he wished he landed in the tropics though.)
Chong-Li form bloodsport. Stomping a dudes head, cheating, etc…
Baby Jane Hudson
The Wicked Witch
Scarface (Al Pacino, not James Cagney)
The Shark
Noah Cross (from Chinatown)
The Terminator
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The bitch from ‘Million Dollar Baby’ who attacks from behind and causes permanent paralysis and death should be in anyone’s list. That cunt was evil.
Dutch Schultz in Hoodlum (played awesomely by Tim Roth)
Morgan Freeman in both Lucky Number Slevin and Wanted
Tilda Swinton in Chronicles of Narnia
Tom Cruise in Collateral
John Travolta/Nic Cage in Face/Off
Denzel Washington in Training Day
Jet Li in Lethal Weapon 4
Al Pacino in Scarface
Stellan Skarsgard in King Arthur
Mother Nature in Twister, Day After Tomorrow, Perfect Storm, etc…
I didn’t mention The Joker, as that goes without saying. Both Jack and Heath.[/quote]
Denzel and Tom were not villains in my opinion. They were simply doing their jobs.
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Hmm…I’m interested in seeing who makes it onto your list. Denzel and Tom were, for all intents and purposes, villains. There was nothing good about them. They did bad things. They were portrayed as bad guys. At the end of their respective movies, you and everyone else felt they got what they deserved. Accept this. Embrace it. Oh, and add Chucky from Child’s Play to my list. And spiders. They are just inherently evil.
Dutch Schultz in Hoodlum (played awesomely by Tim Roth)
Morgan Freeman in both Lucky Number Slevin and Wanted
Tilda Swinton in Chronicles of Narnia
Tom Cruise in Collateral
John Travolta/Nic Cage in Face/Off
Denzel Washington in Training Day
Jet Li in Lethal Weapon 4
Al Pacino in Scarface
Stellan Skarsgard in King Arthur
Mother Nature in Twister, Day After Tomorrow, Perfect Storm, etc…
I didn’t mention The Joker, as that goes without saying. Both Jack and Heath.[/quote]
Denzel and Tom were not villains in my opinion. They were simply doing their jobs.
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Hmm…I’m interested in seeing who makes it onto your list. Denzel and Tom were, for all intents and purposes, villains. There was nothing good about them. They did bad things. They were portrayed as bad guys. At the end of their respective movies, you and everyone else felt they got what they deserved. Accept this. Embrace it. Oh, and add Chucky from Child’s Play to my list. And spiders. They are just inherently evil.[/quote]
I’ll come up with a list, if possible. I don’t see Vader as a villain. He wanted to bring order to the universe. What better way to bring order than absolute domination.
And if I got to blow up a planet and commit genocide, so be it.
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I wanted to put Saddam first and I was thinking of the father from “Once were Warriors” but seemed to easy.
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Are you kidding? Jake the Muss is a fucking hero!
“Why don’t you just cook the man some fucking eggs?!”
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hahahahahaah HELLL YEAHH, I was watching the movie in Hawaii and someone yelled out at that scene. “YEAHHH” and me and 10 other guys laughed out loud and got dirty looks as we left the theater. hahahahaha
I’ll have to agree with many of the top villains listed here, but the one that really messed me up was Ellen Page’s character in “Hard Candy”. For those men who’ve seen it, you know what I’m talking about. For those who haven’t…watch it if you think your stomach can handle it. That chick is stone-cold psycho.
Awesome discussion, lots of good entries I see. I think the best movie villains change based on how you look at it. For instance, if it is based on how iconic the character is, then someone like Vader has to be mentioned (even though Wol argues he wasn’t a villain, I feel that even though he had good intentions initially, the means he used still makes him a villain) simply because he spans generations.
If it is based on how evil they were, meaning just wanting bad things to happen, then I will mention the Owl Man (not sure if that is his exact name) from the new Justice League movie that just came out. In case you don’t know who he is, he is basically Batman’s alter ego and he attempts to destroy all of reality. Reality, that is everything, it can’t get worse than that. He thinks it is the only thing that anyone could do that would ever matter, or be significant in the grand scheme of things.
A lot of good entries, bringing back a lot of memories. I think one of my most hated villains is Scar. Come on, he killed Mufasa. When I was a kid, every time I watched that movie, I hoped it wouldn’t happen like it did the last time…
Other notables (that I haven’t seen listed yet, at least): The Wicked Witch, Megatron, Smith (I think that was his name, from Matrix), and Ray Finkle from Ace Ventura
The Kurgen has already been mentioned, definitely one of my all-time favorites.
Rutger Hauer was also Roy Batty in Blade Runner, a truly epic villian.
Maybe an honorable mention for Nero, the Romulan in the Star Trek movie, he actually suceeded in destroying a planet, an accomplishment where so many other villians failed.
I was young and the tv had really weird contrast/brightness settings though… Everything past Aliens (second alien movie…) was crap in the scare-factor department though.
First wasn’t that great either in that sense, they didn’t quite have the technology back then… So once you finally got the see the full-grown xenomorph, it looked like it had a bad case of arthritis…