Favorite Movie Villains

My top 3 in order are:

1) David Carradine as Bill in KILL BILL



2) Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting in GANGS OF NEW YORK



3) Gary Oldman as Drexl Spivey in TRUE ROMANCE

many have came close but through the years i love the joker, and even with the new dark knight coming i dont think anyone can do it better than jack

Hannibal Lecter

Lex luthor

Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb in "From Russia with Love."

I agree. As much as I respect Heath, I think Jack is a better Joker, but only time will tell

My all time favorite movie villain is Biff Tannen from the Back to the future trilogy. Escpecially because he plays about ten different characters spanning over time and they are all great!

What ever happened to Thomas F. Wilson? He never had a career after that trilogy.

Mr Burns

Excellent

Hans in Die Hard.

svsg got it right - Nurse Ratched. I never hated any movie character as much as I did her. When Jack Nicholson started choking her I actually stood up and cheered!

I can understand that but there hasn't been a movie villain that you admired so much you wish you were him/her? What I love about David Carradine in KILL BILL so much is, he's a cold hearted b*stard (he even tells us so). Yet he's so cool and so feared, I wish I was him, even though I don't agree with any of his actions/decisions. That to me is some of the formula for the perfect villain, when the audience knows right from wrong but still emulates the character.

Well my favorite villian and fave movie character in general has always been.

I'm still trying to decide if Tyler Durden was a hero or a villain.

The Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz.

So many great villians. I agree with SC on Nurse Ratched. What a chilling/evil/scary bitch she was.

Another of my favorites, Robert DeNiro as Max Cady in Cape Fear.


TIS

Favorite in that you kind of like something about the character?

Darth Vader.

Favorite in that you totally despise the character?

DeNiro's Max Cady character in 'Cape Fear' and Kiefer Sutherland's Robert Doob character in 'An Eye for and Eye.'

Is movie good TIS?

What movie, Cape Fear? Or One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest?

Cape Fear

Excellent movie. Both the original with Robert Mitchium and the remake with DeNiro.

But DeNiro's Max Cady was much more scary.

I seen commercials for it on AMC. I'll have to watch it next time it comes on.

Don't watch it on AMC. They kill the movie. Watch it un-edited.

Yea, I saw previews of it, but watched it not too long ago.

"Come out Come Out Wherever You Are!" Crazy and scary, what a combination.


TIS

Ever see the original TIS?

Ok I'll rent it.

Speaking of Robert Mitchium, honorable mention goes to his Harry Powell character in "Night of The Hunter."

Yes, I did DC. The movie and performances were very good, but this is a rare exception (for me anyway), where I like the remake better than the original. You????




TIS

I agree. As I posted earlier, both a very good movies, but DeNiro's Max Cady is much much more of a chilling and scary character than Mitchums.

You ever see Mitchum in Night Of The Hunter?

Do you rent alot of movies?

Not really. Once in a blue moon.

DC,

I know of the movie, but have never seen it. Is Mitchum the villan?

Speaking of renting movies, I find I don't rent very much either. I use to rent movies every weekend. Remember when video stores were new??? I remember lines forming when a new movie was released on video. It was a first come, first serve. Doesn't seem that long ago does it?

I think I've rented maybe two movies in a year (the "24" series and last week The Bourne Supremecy"), but that's it.

TIS

DC, Is that the one with the blind Audrey Hepburn? Or am I thinking of something else???

SB,

Are you thinking of "Wait Until Dark" with Audrey Hepburn? I think The Night Of The Hunter was made in the late 50's or so.

TIS

I am, TIS. My mistake. But that was one terrifying ending.

Norman Bates...and his mother.

Whats the name of the villain played by Christopher Lloyd in"who framed Roger Rabbit"?
He's my fav villain...

Judge Doom!

Thats it!!!!!
Thanks Bogz..he's the shit!!!

"Night of the Hunter": A great role for Mitchum, and a great film, DC. I should have included it in my list of underappreciated films in another thread.

Hannibal Lecter followed by Max Cady

Wow, I'm surprised to see as many Max Cady fans. De Niro did a fantastic job with the role and I thought he deserved the Oscar. Who beat him out that year for it?

Just thought of another fave villian 3 incarnations of him.

HAL 9000

The Omen Kid in the first movie was a great villian.

Sirus the virus- con air

Yeah he was also a great Villian. I loved the movie to.

Great movie one of my favourites

Ohh... nothing makes me sadder than the agent lost his blader in the... aaaiirrrplane

Here's one

Braveheart another great film! And Longshanks was a Bastard a real villian

Yeah he was just the way he looked especially in the end would just give you the creeps.

not really villains i guess but they scared the shit outta me.

my fav movie villians are

Both were excellent films, and both Mitchum and Robert De Niro portrayed Cady very well. But De Niro's Cady was a virtually unstoppable and vicious psychopath.

Other favorite villains:

Hannibal Lecter
Dennis Hopper's character in Blue Velvet
Francis Dolarhyde from the movie Manhunter
Jason Voorhees
Jame Gumb
Scorpio from Dirty Harry
Little Bill from Unforgiven
Harry Powell from Night of the Hunter

I'll think of more soon...

Does it matter? He shoulda won it!!! And Max Cady is one of the best characters ever.

Hopkins beat him that year, for Silence Of The Lambs.

I'm alright with that one.

Oh...lol. Forgot about that. Hopkins was just as deserving. Silence of the Lambs is excellent, and at least in 1991 the Oscars weren't so damn rigged. IMO Crash didn't deserve 2004 Best Picture.

Yours and mine

I think Dr Evil is of the MOST EVIL FILM VILLAINS EVER!

Really, he's not like Saruman in LOTR, The Emperor in Star Wars or Blofeld in You Only Live Twice!

The guy is PURE EVIL...

I want to add my candidate for "most unlikely excellent villain (attention: DC!):
Hume Cronyn as Captain Monsey in "Brute Force."

"We may not be dead, but we are always buried."

Very bleak movie. Great, great acting though.

I think Monsey could have had a second career, writing for Hallmark.