Best bad guy in a film ever

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Darnhill Claret » Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:15 am

Stephen Graham as Combo

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Darnhill Claret » Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:19 am

Chucky

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by HahaYeah » Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:27 am

That thing ripping the plane up much to William Shatners anguish in Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. :geek:

As a kid that kept me away from the windows at night for a few years. :o :shock:

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by ŽižkovClaret » Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:34 am

Darthlaw wrote:
Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:44 am
Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber and Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa are standouts for me.
Also Alan Rickman in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Bloody great

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by ŽižkovClaret » Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:34 am

HahaYeah wrote:
Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:27 am
That thing ripping the plane up much to William Shatners anguish in Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. :geek:

As a kid that kept me away from the windows at night for a few years. :o :shock:


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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by fatboy47 » Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:44 am

Can't believe eli wallach (TGTBATU) hasn't had a mention after 55posts 🤔

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by welsbyswife » Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:49 am

De Niro as Louis Cypher in Angel Heart scared the cr*p out of me!

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by elwaclaret » Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:59 am

Henry Fonda - Once upon a time in the West
Jack Elam - Once upon a time in the west… and almost every Western from the late 40’s - 80’s
Christopher Lee - Lord of the Rings

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Long Time Lurker » Thu Aug 26, 2021 11:00 am

Tim Curry as Darkness ( Legend )

Tim Curry as Cardinal Richelieu ( The Three Musketeers )

Tim Curry as Pennywise the Clown ( IT )

Tim Curry as Dr Frank-N-Furter ( Rocky Horror Picture Show )

Tim Curry in any Villainous role

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by elwaclaret » Thu Aug 26, 2021 11:01 am

Darnhill Claret wrote:
Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:22 pm
Jack Elam in westerns.
…. And there was me thinking no one would think of Jack Elam

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by elwaclaret » Thu Aug 26, 2021 11:07 am

Peter Vaughan was always a reliable bad guy

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Inchy » Thu Aug 26, 2021 11:30 am

Anthony Hopkins silence of the lambs

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by HahaYeah » Thu Aug 26, 2021 11:42 am

The shark in Jaws.

The whale in Moby Dick. That would be ...Moby Dick then.. :geek:

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by LoveCurryPies » Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:21 pm

Malcolm Tierney in Braveheart but even scarier as Tommy McArdle in Brookside.

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by groove » Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:23 pm

More of an anti-hero than a bad guy but, Michael Douglas in Falling Down.

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by ŽižkovClaret » Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:24 pm

Danny DeVito's penguin

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Crewe claret » Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:33 pm

Bob Gunton he played the prison warden in the Shawshank Redemption corrupt evil *******

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Bosscat » Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:34 pm

ŽižkovClaret wrote:
Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:24 pm
Danny DeVito's penguin
Not a patch on Burgess Meredith wachhh wachhh wachhh 😉

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Fretters » Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:49 pm

Heath Ledger's Joker. Completely out of character to his previous roles and, he put so much into it, it sadly appeared to contribute to his death.

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Jambounchained » Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:49 pm

Voldemort

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by bfcjg » Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:51 pm

Jaws in Bond.

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by bfcjg » Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:52 pm

Jaws in Bond.

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by JanetM » Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:58 pm

Richard Attenborough in Brighton Rock
Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man. "Is it safe?"!!
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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Vino blanco » Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:06 pm

Robert Mitchum in the early version of Cape Fear.
When I was a kid at the Colesseum in Rosegrove, Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon.
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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Fretters » Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:46 pm

bfcjg wrote:
Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:52 pm
Jaws in Bond.
Jaws in Jaws too :D

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by tiger76 » Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:50 pm

Tall Paul wrote:
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HAL 9000 in 2001
Good shout that computer freaked me out when I first heard it taking control.

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by tiger76 » Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:57 pm

I can't believe Ernst Stavro Blofeld and his famous cat haven't merited a mention yet.

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Boss Hogg » Thu Aug 26, 2021 2:03 pm

Some great ones in the old Bond films:
Hugo Drax
Mr Big
Red Grant
Rosa Klebb

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by aclaretinstevenage » Thu Aug 26, 2021 2:45 pm

fatboy47 wrote:
Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:44 am
Can't believe eli wallach (TGTBATU) hasn't had a mention after 55posts 🤔
Eli Wallach in The Magnificent Seven....briliiant!
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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by HahaYeah » Thu Aug 26, 2021 3:45 pm

fatboy47 wrote:
Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:44 am
Can't believe eli wallach (TGTBATU) hasn't had a mention after 55posts 🤔

Thought Clint was the goodie LVC was the baddie and EW was the UGLY. :geek:

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by timshorts » Thu Aug 26, 2021 3:56 pm

The guy playing boris johnson in "the brexit suicide".

The Indians in most western tripe, as they ought to have been the goodies. I usually want the cowboys to hurry up and die.

Klopp in his own little fantasy world.

James Mason.

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by HahaYeah » Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:00 pm

The Comanche in the excellent John Wayne film The Searchers. :geek:

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by PadihamThickNeck » Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:14 pm

Johnny Lawrence

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by fatboy47 » Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:23 pm

HahaYeah wrote:
Thu Aug 26, 2021 3:45 pm
Thought Clint was the goodie LVC was the baddie and EW was the UGLY. :geek:

Think they were all pretty unsavoury characters tbh 😂

But Wallachs portrayal of Tuko though a touch characatured was a great actor at the very top of his game.

Some of the camera work helped admittedly.

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by HahaYeah » Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:26 pm

All true yeah great stuff! :)

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Sozturf7 » Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:57 pm

Have to go with JAWS. I mean who wanted to go in the sea after that.

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Belial » Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:03 pm

Christopher Walken in True Romance
Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man
Malcolm McDowell in Clockwork Orange

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by yTib » Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:05 pm

Sozturf7 wrote:
Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:57 pm
Have to go with JAWS. I mean who wanted to go in the sea after that.
apparently not dominic raab.

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by holycustard » Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:05 pm

kane hodder as jason voorhees and that puff from hatchet victor crowley. :(
michael myers is fairly naughty as well. :D

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Tall Paul » Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:08 pm

yTib wrote:
Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:05 pm
apparently not dominic raab.
He would have but it was closed.

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Bosscat » Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:38 pm

Fretters wrote:
Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:46 pm
Jaws in Jaws too :D
And in Jaws 2 🤭 but not Jaws 3d 🙄 that was pants

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Woonderbah » Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:42 pm

Definitely worth a shout..

Rutger Hauer in The Hitcher (1986)

The Turkish prison guard in Midnight Express

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Steve1956 » Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:29 pm

This fella was pretty dastardly can't imagine having my teeth drilled with no anaesthetic
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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by RMutt » Thu Aug 26, 2021 7:23 pm

I see Clint Eastwood mentioned. In the brilliant Unforgiven his character has certainly been very bad in the past and even in the present he leaves you with a feeling he is a somewhat contradictory character. This quote sums him up. https://quotegeek.com/quotes-from-movie ... iven/8389/

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by timshorts » Thu Aug 26, 2021 8:45 pm

Regina George.

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by dougcollins » Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:25 pm

Gunfury wrote:
Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:25 pm
Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth in Blue Velvet…..and for comedy value and terrible acting,Vernon Wells as Bennet in Commando
Nailed it with Frank Booth.

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by RMutt » Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:31 pm

dougcollins wrote:
Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:25 pm
Nailed it with Frank Booth.
Absolutely.

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by CharlieinNewMexico » Fri Aug 27, 2021 8:09 am

The bloke who played the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 😱😱😱😱

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Re: Best bad guy in a film ever

Post by Ampth7 » Fri Aug 27, 2021 8:17 am

Leatherface- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
One for the ladies - that crazy bunny boiler in Fatal Attraction

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