Best bad guy in cinema?

[jimhigham]

Here's a Thursday morning filler. Nominate your best bad guy in cinema history. I'll start.

Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

Class.

 

[Frutos]

Alan Rickman in Robin Hood.

Pantomime villain perfection.

 

[The Legend that IS Lawro]

For a Few Dollars More, quite sadistic :

 

[Trufflehound]

The Child Catcher

 

[jimhigham]

Rickman running away with it early doors...

 

[StonehamPark]

Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus in Gladiator.

 

[JACKRUSSELL]

Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in the Shining "Here's Johnny"

 

[5Ways Gull]

Here's a Thursday morning filler. Nominate your best bad guy in cinema history. I'll start.

Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

Class.

Lee Marvin - apart from when he playing long haired wacky roles such as paint your wagon and cat ballou - e.g Point Blank.

 

[Grombleton]

Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in 'No Country For Old Men'.

 

[Norman Potting]

Here's a Thursday morning filler. Nominate your best bad guy in cinema history. I'll start.

Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

Class.

Also Professor Snape in the Harry Potter Movies. But is he really a bad guy in these?

 

[shaolinpunk]

Heath Ledger as The Joker

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Bruno Ganz as Hitler in Downfall is brilliant.

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Christopher Walken in True Romance.

"I'm the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood. You tell the angels in heaven you never seen evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you. My name is Vincent Coccotti."

 

[glasfryn]

Alan Rickman in Robin Hood.

Pantomime villain perfection.

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[DavidinSouthampton]

I would have gone for Alan Rickman for both the roles mentioned.

And also for Jack Nicholson, but as the Joker in Batman, and also for another recent(ish) gangster film, the name of which escapes me at the moment (Was it "the departed?). In both, he seems to have a steely menace behind a jokey or personable exterior which makes it all the more nasty.

 

[Trufflehound]

Gary Oldman in Léon.

"I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven."

That any pretty much any Christopher Walken baddie...

 

[shaolinpunk]

I would have gone for Alan Rickman for both the roles mentioned.

And also for Jack Nicholson, but as the Joker in Batman, and also for another recent(ish) gangster film, the name of which escapes me at the moment (Was it "the departed?). In both, he seems to have a steely menace behind a jokey or personable exterior which makes it all the more nasty.

If it also had Matt Damon and Leonardo Di Caprio, then yes it was The Departed. A very good Hollywood remake of the equally excellent Infernal Affairs

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I would have gone for Alan Rickman for both the roles mentioned.

And also for Jack Nicholson, but as the Joker in Batman, and also for another recent(ish) gangster film, the name of which escapes me at the moment (Was it "the departed?). In both, he seems to have a steely menace behind a jokey or personable exterior which makes it all the more nasty.

Having just checked, yes, it was the Departed, which won 4 Oscars, apparently.

Also a shout for Seven (Se7en) and the chilling performance by Kevin Spacey

 

[The Kid Frankie]

Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

 

[Alonso Moseley]

Ben Kingsley's pulsating 'Don Logan' in Sexy Beast.