Saw this thread on another site, and decided to steal it. Who's the best / worst / scariest / most effective movie bad guy or girl you've ever seen in a movie?
Mine is Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men.
I will never forget the scene where he has the girl chained between 2 semis ... and he's racing the engine ....
Or where he's in the station wagon with that family ....
He was an absolutely evil villain.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in The Shining is my favorite performance
"First down inside the 10. A score here will put us in the Super Bowl. Jeudy is far to the left as Njoku settles into the slot. Tillman is flanked out wide to the right. Judkins and Ford are split in the backfield as Flacco takes the snap ... Here we go."
Saw this thread on another site, and decided to steal it. Who's the best / worst / scariest / most effective movie bad guy or girl you've ever seen in a movie?
Mine is Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men.
Just shut it down here! You nailed it! What a performance!
This is hard. I have three that come to mind immediately:
--DeNiro as Max Cady in Cape Fear.
--Brian Cox as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor in Manhunter.
--Kevin Spacey as John Doe in Se7en.
I also have to give honorable mention to
Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho, Daniel Day Lewis as Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York, and Christian Bale in American Psycho.
My wife said DeNiro in Cape Fear too. I always kind of preferred Robert Mitchum's portrayal. I thought it was less over-the-top-psycho than DeNiro's. Understated and somehow more menacing, at least to me.
A little surprised you liked Bryan Cox as Lector more than Anthony Hopkins' performance, but I can see it. I liked Manhunter a lot. The climax of that movie, with Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida blaring, was epic.
Seven was one of those movies that actually bothered me, psychologically, like Jacob's Ladder when I first saw it. Chilling, shocking ending.
Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in The Shining is my favorite performance
No offense, but I really didn't like that movie. I liked the novel, but thought Stanley Kubrick butchered the movie. Nicholson's performance annoyed me, Shelly Duvall as Wendy was just weak. And then there's the kid with the 'talking finger', croaking "REDRUM" ... aargh.
This is hard. I have three that come to mind immediately:
--DeNiro as Max Cady in Cape Fear.
--Brian Cox as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor in Manhunter.
--Kevin Spacey as John Doe in Se7en.
I also have to give honorable mention to
Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho, Daniel Day Lewis as Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York, and Christian Bale in American Psycho.
My wife said DeNiro in Cape Fear too. I always kind of preferred Robert Mitchum's portrayal. I thought it was less over-the-top-psycho than DeNiro's. Understated and somehow more menacing, at least to me.
A little surprised you liked Bryan Cox as Lector more than Anthony Hopkins' performance, but I can see it. I liked Manhunter a lot. The climax of that movie, with Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida blaring, was epic.
Seven was one of those movies that actually bothered me, psychologically, like Jacob's Ladder when I first saw it. Chilling, shocking ending.
Good discussion, Dave. I actually like Bryan Cox as Lector more than Hopkins because of the reasons why you preferred Mitchum over DeNiro. LOL. Oh, and I love both Hopkins and Mitchum. Great actors. Cox was extremely freaky in my mind.
And yes, Se7en was a marvelous movie that troubled me deeply. I love psychological thrillers. I read a lot of books and it's the genre I read the most often.
Rutger Hauer has always been a good bad guy. Wasn't he a villain in Bladerunner too?
Yep. Another really strong villain performance. His character was brutally violent, yet sympathetic at the same time.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
What about female villains? I nominate the Munchausen Mom poisoning her little girl in "Sixth Sense". That scene made the hairs on my neck stand up.
Remembered the 6th sense but not that part of it, but for some reason that made me think of
Misery. Kathy Bates
Ugh. She was great in that role. I have never been able to watch that movie a 2nd time. I could feel every shot to the feet she gave him.
The end of that movie was great too ..... with the waitress using Bate's line ..... "I'm your number 1 fan."
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
Saw this thread on another site, and decided to steal it. Who's the best / worst / scariest / most effective movie bad guy or girl you've ever seen in a movie?
Mine is Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men.
It's tough to beat that one, but I have always considered Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth in Blue Velvet one of the truly scariest villains, mostly because guys like him really exist.
1. #GMstrong 2. "I'm just trying to be the best Nick I can be." ~ Nick Chubb 3. Forgive me Elf, I didn’t have faith. ~ Tulsa 4. ClemenZa #1
What about female villains? I nominate the Munchausen Mom poisoning her little girl in "Sixth Sense". That scene made the hairs on my neck stand up.
Kathy Bates and Annie Wilkes in "Misery".
Can't forget Margret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West.
Who's Annie Wilkes?
My bad. It was meant to read AS Annie Wilkes in Misery.
If you don't remember the story, character Annie was a woman who kept a writer she loved a prisoner in her house after the writer got in a wreck near her home. To keep him from leaving she hobbled him by breaking his legs.
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
But to me, it's Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs. That dude was just creepy. His last line in the move, "I'm having a friend for dinner" Damn,, Chills down my spine LOL
#GMSTRONG
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynahan
"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
Craig is doing another 007? Fantastic! He might just be my favorite Bond, maybe even overtaking Moore.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
And for those who may have never seen The Hitcher, here is one part from it.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
![[Linked Image]](http://www.dawgtalkers.net/uploads/small-gator-chomp.gif)
![[Linked Image]](http://www.dawgtalkers.net/uploads/Punchsmack/punch.gif)
