Who's the best movie bad guy?

[Angus Young]

As always YMMV but my top three are:-
Bennett- Commando
Clarence Boddicker- Robocop
Angel Eyes- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Who's yours?

 

[Obiwan]

Of your list, I'd say Bennett from Commando ..."Let off some steam, Bennett"

Some additional favorite villians noted below:

Keyser Soze - The Usual Suspects
Anton Chigurh - No Country For Old Men
Max Cady - Cape Fear
Dr. Hannibal Lecter - Silence of the Lambs
Joan Crawford - Mommie Dearest

 

[raisindot]

I know most will mention the more crazily graphically violent villains from more recent movies, but in terms of truly disturbing villains who don't actually stab peoples' heads with pencils onscreen I'd vote for:

Robert Mitchum as psycho killer Max Cady in the original (and far superior than the remake of) "Cape Fear."

Jack Palance as the rangers' tool in black facing the title character (Alan Ladd) in "Shane."

Paul Muni as the incestuous gangster in the original (and far superior to the remake of) "Scarface"

The two hillbillies who make poor Ned Beatty "squeal like a pig" in "Deliverance"

And, for sheer hamminess and great wiggery, you can't beat Ricardo ("rich cordaban leather") Montalban as Khan in "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan")

Jeff in Boston

 

[Matchgrade]

Captain Vidal- "Pan's Labyrinth"

Pure sadistic evil.

 

[falkor27]

Hans Gruber.

 

[xillion]

Hal 9000

The Joker in The Dark Knight

Jack Torrance in The Shining

Hans Landa from Inglourious Basterds

 

[kg4ghn]

Hannibal Lecter. Hands down.

 

[Walker]

Darth Vader injected his daughter with truth serum. Thats like ultimaye bad guy stuff lol

Darth Maul was a good bad guy

Johnny Ringo from Tombstone

 

[svarog]

On second thought, is he really a bad guy?

 

[patrisVII]

Johnny Ringo from Tombstone

"Evidently Mr. Ringo's an educated man. Now I really hate him"


My votes:

General Paul Mireau - Paths of Glory

Frank Booth - Blue Velvet

Cpt. Quinlan - Touch of Evil

Sgt. Ito - To End All Wars

Bricktop - Snatch

Lenny Cole - RocknRolla

 

[Walker]

Bricktop- "In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary...Come again."

"Evidently Mr. Ringo's an educated man. Now I really hate him"


My votes:

General Paul Mireau - Paths of Glory

Frank Booth - Blue Velvet

Cpt. Quinlan - Touch of Evil

Sgt. Ito - To End All Wars

Bricktop - Snatch

Lenny Cole - RocknRolla

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

Malcolm McDowell in "A Clockwork Orange"

 

[patrisVII]

That choice was real horrorshow!

 

[Barbash]

Bruce from Jaws.

 

[xillion]

Bruce from Jaws.

Bruce!

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-jaws-shark-hunted-down.html

 

[Greglam]

Hans Gruber.

+1

And Agent Smith from "The Matrix"

 

[BurkDarkpatches]

Frank (Henry Fonda) - Once Upon a Time in the West

John Leslie Stevenson aka Jack the Ripper (David Warner) - Time After Time

Steve

 

[Confuzius]

The Professional

True Romance

Dracula

There may have been better bad guys, but as far as actors playing bad guys, I've just got to go with Oldman in general.

 

[pal]

Maybe not in the movies, but in cartoons, it's got to be Snidely Whiplash!

 

[christhach]

"Noooo Kirk, you can't get awaaaay.

From hell's heart I stab at thee.

For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."