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Old 12-26-2008, 03:00 PM
 
Location: South FL
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Heath Ledger as the Joker in "Dark Knight".
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Old 12-26-2008, 03:04 PM
 
Location: Reno, NV
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Tim Roth in Rob Roy
Absolutely!! And I'll add,

Stephen Boyd as Messala in Ben-Hur

"Look for them in the Valley of the Lepers...if you can recognize them"
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Old 05-05-2009, 08:26 AM
 
Location: Back in the gym...Yo Adrian!
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Default Your favorite movie bad guys and villains

Who are some of your favorite bad guys in the movies? Here's a few of mine:

Robert DeNiro's character in Heat
Tom Cruise in Collateral
Eli Wallach in The Good, Bad and Ugly
Ed Harris and Gary Oldman in State of Grace
Denzel Washington in Training Day
Joe Pesci in Goodfellas and Casino
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector
Harvey Keitel as Mr. White and Steve Buscemi as Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs
Sam Jackson in Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction
Christopher Walken in True Romance
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Old 05-05-2009, 08:33 AM
 
Location: Lemon Grove, CA USA
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Keyser Söze in The Usual Suspects (1995)

More for the suspense built around it than any acting, for obvious reasons.
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Old 05-05-2009, 06:07 PM
 
Location: South Side
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Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of NY.....deliciously disturbed and vile, LOVED IT!
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Old 05-05-2009, 09:27 PM
 
Location: Wherever women are
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I like villains only. Coz they have attitude, ego and character. The heroes are sissies and most of the time smooch all the women to Terrabythia, gross!

Patrick McGoohan - Ed Longshanks in Braveheart:
"trouble with Scotland is that.................. it's full of Scots"

"Grant them prima nocturna. First Night". Poor Sophie, lol.

"That's what happens when you send a woman"

"My greatness is better demonstrated when Wallace returns to Scotland and fights his country, in ashes" <royal, arrogant cough>

If I ever am a villain, I'll be Ed Longshanks.

Brendan Gleeson - Kingdom of Heaven:
I mean, WoW. Renauld (played by Brendan) sees an Arab caravan alongside Guy. So he tells Guy they must slaughter this caravan and enrage Saladin. Guy hesitates and Renauld goes on to say, "you weren't even here. You were in Nazareth, praying"

I just wowed, somersaulted and fell to the ground

King Baldwin asks him to kneel for some spanking. And he kneels and sucks up like a good boy, lol

After the King's death, Guy finds a rollicking Renauld in his cell, doing his merry go round.

"Give me war"

<grins> "That's what I do"

Joaquin Phoenix - Commodus in Gladiator:
Super-comical, like the historical bugger himself. Love it when he sticks his tongue out during the arena fight.

Hilarious seduction of his sister.

"My history is a little hazy, Cassius, but shouldn't the barbarians lose the battle of Carthage?"

This one steals the cake. If I ever get maniacal with someone I hate, I'll scream, "Am I not merciful?" LMAO

I mean, Maximus the bugger, who does he have to commit regicide? That was outrageous.

Paul Giamatti - Hertz in Shoot'em up:

This guy is a piece of work. I mean, screw all the muscled buggers and 6-feeters in metro movies, he's the bee's knees.

The boob-grabbing of the dead woman. LOL

"This woman is lactating, find me every wet nurse and hooker in lower manhattan"

To a lactating Monica Bellucci, starbucks cup in hand, "I need a little cream for my coffee, and some answers. Scram fellas, give me a moment alone with Cafe La Mamma. Mia Piccola Troietta"

Wife calls him when he is down, shot, "Hi Honey, I've run into a little hitch. I'll just be there in time for Tim's birthday. Hugs and kisses. Smooch Smooch"

To his hundred gun goons, before a shoot-out, "You know a Jimmy Cagney love scene? He lets the good guy live. And if that happens, I'm gonna want more than my money back"

This is all I can think of, off the top of my head. I'll post when I recall anything
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Old 05-06-2009, 12:11 AM
 
Location: SoCal - Sherman Oaks & Woodland Hills
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My favorite movie bad guy/villians are:

Samuel Jackson as "Jules" in Pulp Fiction
The Tall Man in Phantasm - "Boooooooooooy!!!!!"
Joe Pesci in Goodfellas and Casino
Mr. Han in Enter The Dragon - "Ohara's treachery has disgraced us".
Harvey Keitel as "The Wolf" - Pulp Fiction
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Old 05-06-2009, 02:55 AM
 
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How 'bout Lawrence Fishburne in, "King of New York"? For a refined, soft spoken guy, Fishburne plays thug pretty well.

Or, Christopher Walken in, "At Close Range"?

Or, DeNiro in, "Cape Fear"?

This is a good thread, I can think of Lee J. Cobb in,
"On The Waterfront", and I don't know if anybody here
has seen it, but it was a Lee Remick/Glenn Ford movie,
"Experiment In Terror". Ross Martin, the other guy from
the TV show, "The Wild, Wild, Wild, Wild West", plays an
asthmatic kidnapper, who takes Lee Remick's little sister,
Stephanie Powers. The ransom calls to Lee Remick, or the
scene where he's hiding in a room full of mannequins, all the
while wheezing and hyperventilating, is legitimately scary.
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Old 05-06-2009, 07:07 AM
 
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Javier Bardem-No Country For Old Men
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Old 05-06-2009, 01:40 PM
 
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Coolhands, your post on another thread reminded me of a character that had almost no redeeming qualities, the title character played so well by real life nice guy Paul Newman in, "Hud".

By the way, this movie was based on the first novel of one of my favorite fiction writers, Larry McMurtry of (Lonesome Dove, Terms of Endearment) fame. The funny thing about "Horseman Pass By" is that the Hud character was a minor one. One instance where the movie was much better than the book.
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