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The SCARIEST Bad Guys in Film history |
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BrufordFreak 
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 Posted: May 14 2023 at 17:31 |
Chilling and deeply unsettling! |
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Logan
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Posted: May 14 2023 at 18:04 |
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Captain Vidal as portrayed by Sergi López in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth was the first to come to mind.
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Posted: May 15 2023 at 03:32 |
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Some of those vilains are so badly played by actors that it's scary.    Otherwise, Nicholson in The Shining
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Posted: May 15 2023 at 03:37 |
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Bardem's performance in No Country For Old Men would be a good candidate. He was great in Skyfall as well. The first character that came to my mind though was HAL 9000  |
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Posted: May 15 2023 at 04:01 |
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The James Bond movies had their share of bad guys. My favorite was probably Jaws (played by Richard Kiel who was also in the Silver Streak).
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: May 15 2023 at 05:32 |
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My favourite Bond villain was in Licence to Kill. No, not Wayne Newton, but Robert Davi (Sanchez).
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Posted: May 15 2023 at 06:30 |
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Peter O'Toole in Night of the Generals (General Tanz).
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Posted: May 15 2023 at 07:08 |
I just bought Night of the Generals on DVD but haven't watched it yet, so that's one to look forward to.
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Posted: May 15 2023 at 07:27 |
Hi, Very definite on these. And the ending of that show on the jeep is priceless! Tim Roth is crazy good in that film. In general, I do not look at "bad guys", although I might like to mention one from "The Road Warrior" film, and I don't even remember his name or actor.
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Posted: May 15 2023 at 10:24 |
I definitely thought of Hal but I really wanted to focus on humans doing human acting, not monsters, robots, computers, supervillains, ghosts, supernaturals, superhumans, AI, or aliens--anything that was aided by special effects, prosthetics, costumes, or unnatural abilities. ACTORS scaring the hell out of us with their ACTING SKILLS. |
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Posted: May 15 2023 at 11:57 |
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Laurence Olivier as Dr. Christian Szell in Marathon Man
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Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen
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Posted: May 15 2023 at 11:59 |
video unavailable, but I know the movie, good choice.
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Yes, the video is safely working for me.
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Posted: May 15 2023 at 14:30 |
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Kathy Bates in Misery.
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Posted: May 15 2023 at 14:33 |
What was the one where James Bond (Sean Connery) asks the villian if he expects him to talk and the villian says something like "no, mr. Bond I expect you to die."
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Posted: May 15 2023 at 14:37 |
Goldfinger
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Posted: May 15 2023 at 17:40 |
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Love Bond films, love Jaws, who is one of the more comedic villains. I find Dr. No creepy. I really, really like License to Kill -- one of the darker Bond films. Timothy Dalton was superb, and I wish he's done more.
I'm a fan of Christopher Lee and loved his Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun. Still, his henchman Nick Nack (Hervé Villechaize) is what really made Scaramanaga's weird fantasy island a very good spectacle to me... And Scaramanga's superfluous yet strangely sinister third nipple, perhaps. Scaramanga: A duel between titans... my third nipple against your Walther PPK. Bond: What, your three nipples against my six bullets? Scaramanga: I only need the third one, Mr. Bond. That said, seeing Javier Bardem's picture from No Country..., his villain from the Bond films might take the cake for me, other than Jaws whose teeth would make mincemeat of that cake faster than Raoul Silva's (Bardem) teeth any day. Edited by Logan - May 15 2023 at 17:48 |
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Posted: May 15 2023 at 18:18 |
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Javier Bardem, Christoph Waltz, Samuel Jackson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Harvey Keitel, Benicio Del Toro, Klaus Kinski, Joe Pesci, even Robert De Niro, Gary Oldman, and Christopher Walken, all have that special ability to carry off unsettlingly unhinged villains.
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Chris Lee's a genius, even on his last legs in Star Wars.
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