Favorite movie villians (or antagonists)

[Mike]

I had a discussion with the roomie about this... I gotta say, my top 5: (Excluding Vader... he's like the Homer Simpson of villains... he should be everybody's #1)

1) Gary Oldman in The Professional. Dude is logical but insane... and god damn terrifying.

2) Antione Chigurh - No Country for Old Men. I think he's more terrifying than Gary Oldman... but he doesn't need EEEEEEEVVVVVVVERRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

3) Christopher Walken in True Romance.

"You tell the angels in Heaven that you've never seen evil so singularly personified than you did in the face of the man that killed you"

Seriously... I'd cry and tell him everything I knew

4) Arnie in Terminator (1)

The pinnacle of the uncaring, remorseless, inexorable force.

5) TIE: Chong Li in Bloodsport and Ivan Drago in Rocky IV

"Now I break you, like I break your friend." "I will break you"

Seriously... merciless beatings of best friends with an ice cold stare (and peck pumps for Chong Li). I think Drago would take Chong Li though... since where Chong Li is weak in the stomach... Drago can only be beaten by America personified.



What are yours!?

[Yino]

I'm not much of a movie guy, but I have my favorites though.Excluding Vader (And Count Dooku) I'd have to go for:

1) Hannibal Lecter, Lovely Man, he kills and he's totally cool about it.

2) Lex Luthor in Superman Return, I didn't like the movie quite much, but I root for Lex for the single line "No darling, Millions."

3)Sir Leigh Teabing, Da Vinci Code. I really haven't seen the movie so I don't know if he did it, but I can assure that this man killed his buttler in the book. It's usually the other way around.

4) Elle Driver, from Kill Bill. Sexy girl with a sexy patch whistling a song that would be stuck in your head for hours. She killed a partner who was no one but her boss's brother, darn it. She could have killed the bride if nosy boss wouldn't have stoped her at the beggining.

5) Agent Smith from Matrix I (not 2 nor 3, those ruined Smith). What can I say, he's just cool. Nice fighting skills, nice attitude and even when he is supposed to be a machine, he delivers his victims some final words.

[steve]

1> General Zod - "Come to me, son of Jor-El! Kneel before Zod!"

2>The Joker (The Dark Knight) - "The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules."

3>Gogo Yubari - "You call that begging? You can beg better than that!"

4>The Operative (Serenity) - "Malcolm... I'm a monster.What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done."

5> Doctor Evil - "No no no, I'm going to leave them alone and not actually witness them dying, I'm just gonna assume it all went to plan. What?"

#1 would easily be The Monarch if we ever got a The Venture Brothers movie.

[trebuchet]

1) Kaiser Soze - "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

2) Count Rugen - "You've been chasing me your whole life only to fail now? I think that's about the worst thing I've ever heard. How marvelous."

3) Jaws - metal teeth, nigh invulnerable, ugly as sin

4) King Edward I - "Send the Irish. Arrows cost money."

5) Gaston - "When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs
Ev'ry morning to help me get large
And now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs
So I'm roughly the size of a BAAAARRRGE!"

[Dave]

1. The Joker (The Dark Knight) - "You know–you know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan"… even if the plan is horrifying. If tomorrow I told the press that, like, a gang-banger will get shot, or a truck load of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all part of the plan"

2. Ivan Drago (Rocky IV) - "I vill break you."

3. Hans Gruber (Die Hard) - "This time John Wayne does not walk off into the sunset with Grace Kelly."

4. Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of Oz) - "I'll get you, my pretty... and your little DOG, too!"

5. Kim Jong Il (Team America) - "I'm so ronery..."

And yeah, if we could use TV Villains, The Monarch (The Venture Bros.) all the way.

[Zeke]

1. Warden Norton, (Bob Gunton) - Shawshank Redemption
2. Lau Kin-Ming, (Andy Lau) - Infernal Affairs
3. Stansfield, (Gary Oldman) - Leon/The Professional
4. Johnny Ringo, (Michael Biehn) - Tombstone
5. Little Bill Daggett, (Gene Hackman) - Unforgiven

See a pattern anywhere? =p

[trebuchet]

Umm...they all have vowels in their names?

[Yino]

There're just like two repeated names. No pattern at all.