Best Villain of All Time
9 2018-01-26 by Not_My_Real_Acct_
Just watched "No Country for Old Men" again, and I think that Javier Bardem manages to portray the best villain of all time.
He's basically the human embodiment of cancer: he doesn't care about you, has zero remorse, you cannot escape him. But I appreciate that he doesn't appear to be crazy, he's just doing his job. Which makes it that much scarier.
31 comments
1 itsclivepeters 2018-01-26
Wow thanks for your opinion on a 10 year old film. Great movie tho surprised you just watched it then
1 NemoNobody_2092 2018-01-26
Why would you post this here?
1 Toss__Pot 2018-01-26
he's trying to have the conversation he imagines he'd have with friends over a couple drinks... I'm all for it.
1 Sicboy69 2018-01-26
They can’t all be tired Colin Flaherty “I guess I forgot” shit posts.
1 Not_My_Real_Acct_ 2018-01-26
management likes the new direction of the sub
1 shimshammcgraw 2018-01-26
This is decent content. Do you prefer the rhymes?
1 866-Ron-0-Fez 2018-01-26
Nurse Ratched is all those things as well as being sexy as fuck.
1 Zazz_Lacker 2018-01-26
Liam Neeson’s Oskar Schindler, a man who stood in the way of progress. Truly despicable. Great performance.
1 Horst-Wessel-Lied 2018-01-26
The two Hillbillies in Deliverance are scarier to city people except ones from San Francisco
1 A_Friendly_Creeper 2018-01-26
I loved John Lithgow in season 4 of Dexter.
1 Not_My_Real_Acct_ 2018-01-26
That was so fucking good. It's amazing how one good actor can make a series bearable.
1 enzo_trash 2018-01-26
great call
1 A_Friendly_Creeper 2018-01-26
The show went down hill fast after that season.
1 Not_My_Real_Acct_ 2018-01-26
There was a great villain on "The Shield:"
She was a young woman dating a much older man, and Wagenbach was trying to arrest her boyfriend for murder. Wagenbach was convinced that she was in abusive relationship, and tried to get her to 'flip' on her boyfriend.
She wouldn't do it, and the BF was released due to lack of evidence.
Later they found the dead body, and it turned out that the woman was the one who convinced her BF to kill her, because she was jealous of her.
1 WaterFromTheWell 2018-01-26
Anthony Anderson had a great recurring villain role on this show too as a ganglord who pretended to be a reformed activist.
1 HandsomeMyles 2018-01-26
from now on - ah say suck mah dick, you say want me to lick your balls daddy?
1 WaterFromTheWell 2018-01-26
FYI: That episode is called "Tar Baby". The Shield did not fuck around with the savagery.
1 HandsomeMyles 2018-01-26
fantastic villain
1 hahfdjahdfsja 2018-01-26
Rutger Hauer in the original The Hitcher.
1 Not_My_Real_Acct_ 2018-01-26
I had a really hard time trying to come up with ONE black villain. Hollywood seems to be a bit nervous about that role. But my nomination goes to "Marlo Stansfield" from The Wire.
1 CoolerKing37 2018-01-26
Alonzo Harris is the only one I can think of.
1 shimshammcgraw 2018-01-26
Gus Fring.
1 Not_My_Real_Acct_ 2018-01-26
Gus Fring is the hero of the whole series! Walter White is just a despicable human being. The whole dynamic between the two of them was that Gus was doing his best to mentor Walter White, but "no good deed goes unpunished" and Gus paid the price.
1 shimshammcgraw 2018-01-26
Yeah I was thinking about that as I wrote It. Boxcutter is still proper horror movie shit though. That and all the gloating to Hector.
1 Not_My_Real_Acct_ 2018-01-26
The writers of Breaking Bad were concerned that the show wouldn't be renewed, and that's why the show changes direction in the last season. After the death of Gus Fring, they'd basically finished telling their story.
And it's such a great way to end things!
We basically see that Walter White has become as vile and corrupt as Hector Salamanca and all the other shitheads in the business. But Gus had a nobility about him, you could tell that Gus was doing his best to be a good man in a business that's full of vile human beings. For me, the high note of Gus' character was when he put his life on the line to save Hank. It was completely unnecessary for him to do that, but he did it anyways.
Walt kept playing the "Gus is going to kill me" card, but it was Walt that was running around killing people, not Gus. Admittedly, Gus got sick of Walt's shit and certainly intended to ice him in the second-to-last season, but that was only after Walt had murdered a complete innocent. (Gale Bediker)
1 Jungies 2018-01-26
Stansfield always seemed kind of blank, to me. A blank slate you could project your own emotions on to, like Ryan Gosling in Drive.
I think Jubal Early in Firefly's better. When he's discussing how he's going to rape Kaylee not out of need, but as punishment if he doesn't get his way? For a PG-rated network television show, it was pretty effective.
1 fantomas_87 2018-01-26
Brad Dourif as the Gemini Killer in Exorcist 3 was pretty frightening.
1 TriangleDimes 2018-01-26
Bill the Butcher is great, but I would classify him as the hero of that movie.
1 MoeGreenVegas 2018-01-26
The last president
1 A_Real_OG_Readmore 2018-01-26
Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) in Blue Velvet.
1 Billyassman 2018-01-26
Artie Lange in Crashing.