Who in your opinion is the greatest movie villian(s) of all-time.

My choice would be the Sissy Spacek character in the movie "Carrie". Any villian who blows up John Travolta in a movie, deserves recognition...:D

http://www.faceof.net/sissy/photos/Photo/carrie81.jpg

Darth Vader
http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/darthvader/img/movie_bg.jpg

One that isn't defeated at the end of the film. :rolleyes:

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Steerpike (from BBC's production of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gormenghast/std/download/images/dt_bgrnd_b04_640480.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gormenghast/std/download/images/dt_bgrnd_a01_640480.jpg

Hmm, I could get to like him. :) I watched Gormen. once, but can't remember it very well - what happened to him? Was he the one who ended up with a disfigured face? :bugeye:

Yeah. Phantom-of-the-opera-y :D He's my idol. I own a swordstick with the same sort of blade as his, only longer.:cool: The books are even better.:)

Timothy (Craig) telling Charlie (geena) why she will not live (http://film.onet.pl/_i/film/d/dlugi_pocalunek_na_dobranoc/g/g3.jpg)
Timothy and Charlie in one of the final 'battles' on the bridge (http://film.onet.pl/_i/film/d/dlugi_pocalunek_na_dobranoc/g/g4.jpg)
Just cute 'ol timothy (http://film.onet.pl/_i/film/d/dlugi_pocalunek_na_dobranoc/g/g8.jpg)
:p

Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and soon, Red Dragon.

Review:

- Great lines "People will think we're in love"
- Intelligent
- Oddly sexy
- Cultured. All great villians should appreciate the fine arts
- Various horrible and sick ways of killing people
- Good weapons. Can we say "crossbow" ?
- Definitely evil, none of this "reformed at the end" shit
- Wins in the end of both movies, don't remember the plot of Red Dragon

Kaiser Soze, from The Usual Suspects.

Al Pacino as the devil in Devil's advocate.

A4Ever- you are totally right + he was real cool

I officially change my vote

http://movies.warnerbros.com/DEVILS/img/photos/21.jpg


and remember- you always have a choice

Nooo! Hannibal! Hannibal! Hannibal!

The last three posts have had the best answers.

Hannibal is probably the best acted. Hopkins is brilliant beyond belief. Hannibal was always in control of everything around him and he knew it.

Soze was also brilliantly played by Kevin Spacey. Though, Spacey spent 99% of the movie not as Soze but Verbal Kint. Perhaps that's what makes the character so great though.

Pacino in Advocate was just really, really cool.

My vote goes with Xev on Hannibal. Though, I'd like to throw in an honourable mention - Heroin. Heroin has been a "villian" or the bad guy in a number of good movies. Most notably; Trainspotting and Requiem For A Dream. I think the note of a great bad-guy in a movie is the affect he/she/it leaves on the main character. The reason I picked Hannibal is because Lecter caused great stress and troubles for the child's mother and had massive effect on Clarice. And my honourable mention of Heroin can be seen to cause amazing changes in the individuals in the movies I mentioned. Although the true 'bad-guy' in those movies is "the self", I think Heroin deserves some mention.

as cute as craig beirko is.... i just might have to change mine to 'ol Al aswell.....

Al Pacino in Scarface:D

I don't know if Tony Montana aka Pacino in Scarface, was actually the villan.

Its a tie between the suaveness of Hannibal and the sheer coldness of Darth Vader.

I always saw Pacino as the good guy!

what about swordfish?

the "bad guy" won in that

Yeah but Travolta killed terrorists with the money he got, so he's more of an anti-hero, than a villian.

IMHO, Darth Vader.

However, the guy in the Usual Suspects (i forget his name Kiysa something i think) was pretty good.

I don't know if Tony Montana aka Pacino in Scarface, was actually the villan.

Didnt he hack someone up with a chainsaw?

Didnt he hack someone up with a chainsaw?
And you call that a villan?
This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let's not argue about who killed who

NI

I'd like to throw in one more contestant that may outweigh Hopkins if it wasn't for the fact that he isn't really a 'villian'.

http://www.eurogamer.net/pics/articles/gg2001/cheshire.jpg
http://www.game-revolution.com/games/pc/adventure/alice6.jpg

Darth Vader was defeated in the end.

The devil is never defeated.

Vanity, my favourite sin...

Pacino rules.

Hannibal was overdoing it when serving brains to its owner, that's a lack of class.

Pacino kills by sticking his finger in holy water. Now THAT is style!



:D

Hannibal Lecter, yes, Al Pacino's "Advocate" devil also... both good, and probably get my votes as well, on a serious note.
However, I've always had a soft spot for Billy Zane's devil in "Demon Night" (Tales from the Crypt).

"If it makes ya feel good, do it!"

I don't believe hannibal was in "Red Dragon" Xev. they'll have to find some other actor to play the psychopath, otherwise it'll get a little samish.

Best all round bad guy across several movies? Gary Oldman. He can do the cultured bit, too.

for a long time not seen previously in sciforums we can all agree that overall

Al Pacino and Hannibal are the two greatest movie villians of all time:)

Squid - Hopkins plays Hannibal who was in Red Dragon, just he wasn't as key a character as in Silence or Hannibal. You can probably download the ad if you want.

Ah, you're right, of course he was.. the story is set when Hannibal is still in prison.

My apologies. I told ya i hadn't read it for a few years ;)

I cannot believe, none of you picked...

SNIDELY WHIPLASH :D

Oohhh I got it!

Gary Oldman in True Romance. He even creeped me out, and I rarely get creeped out.

Alan Rickman's (http://www.geocities.com/faustaw/closetland.html) Interrogator in Closet Land is among the finest evil performances ever. Anyone who has seen this film recalls Rickman sliding around the floor, hopping around the room, playing two roles at once to confuse his blindfolded victim. And a scene in which the Interrogator seems to mourn his own past ... a near-perfect performance overall.

Photos of German stage production of Closet Land, ca. 1999. (http://puk.de/arabesque/cl_bilder.html)

Set designs by T. Lefevre dated 5/2000, for stage production of Closet Land. (http://www.tedlefevre.freeservers.com/Play/play-closetland.htm)

(Note: Theatre links are merely for the heck of it; Rickman did not perform onstage, as far as I know.)

AVI clip of Rickman and Stowe--"The Interrogator's Creed". (http://www.tarleton.edu/~lilly/3.avi) ([b]Note: AVI link is unstable; I've gotten it once out of three requests.)

Closet Land page from which the above was taken. (http://www.tarleton.edu/~lilly/closet.htm)

Thespian Net, 3 images of Rickman from Closet Land. (http://www.thespiannet.com/actors/R/rickman_alan/closetland1.shtml)

Review of Closet Land at Cybamuse's Alan Rickman pages. (http://www.cybamuse.com/movieThemes/actors/arickman/closet_land.htm)

It's a truly classic performance.

thanx,
Tiassa :cool:

http://space.tin.it/cinema/jprossat/cl.JPG
Alan Rickman and Madeleine Stowe, from Closet Land.

It hit me as I was finishing the Rickman post that Tim Curry has a couple of classic villains on his resume:

• Frank N. Furter in the Rocky Horror Picture Show was among the most unique villains ever filmed.

•_Darkness in the Ridley Scott film Legend ... Tim Curry as the Devil? Ya, sure, you betcha!

thanx,
Tiassa :cool:

Kevin Spacey in Seven, and Al Pacino in Devil's Advocate...Two of my favorite movies i might add.