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Who is your favourite baddie in a film?
Me ^ | March 13, 2017 | beaversmom

Posted on 03/13/2018 6:03:03 PM PDT by beaversmom

I like Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator as Commodus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W71Cg00R0w

and

Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner at Roy Batty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCucXQ3IASs>

but I'm sure I have others if I really pondered it.


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KEYWORDS: baddie; film; movies; stupidvanity; villains
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To: hoagy62

Not in the 1933 Flash Gordon—Charles Middleton played Ming with evil gusto.


261 posted on 03/14/2018 11:37:36 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: A_perfect_lady

John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons... he was such an amusing snake.


Omg that was one of the best movies. I haven’t seen it in years. He wants the older woman, she promises she will be with him if he seduced the young virgin girl. He is excellent at slow grooming and seduction, but he finds himself falling in love with the young beauty. And is still forced to ruin her life or whatever, while he is in love with her. And the older woman apparently really does love him but when she then is available to him he doesn’t really want her any more because he is totally broken hearted over the young one. Oh my gosh. What an amazing love and broken heart triangle and how well acted. I’d like to see that again.


262 posted on 03/14/2018 11:45:03 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: beaversmom

I fell in love with James Woods in Against All Odds.


263 posted on 03/14/2018 11:45:51 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: stylecouncilor

Billy Drago as Frank Nitti in The Untouchables.


That was a great little performance. Until he became the hood ornament.


264 posted on 03/14/2018 11:47:52 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

It’s amazing how well that movie has held up in terms of production quality. It’s from 1988 but it’s really beautiful. It’s based on a play, and Alan Rickman played Valmont on stage. What a thought, eh?


265 posted on 03/15/2018 5:01:03 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: nopardons
Things I remember from Flash Gordon

1)Their "space ships" taking off in a slow, upward spiral
2) Parachuting from one spaceship to another in Outer Space

266 posted on 03/15/2018 8:02:40 AM PDT by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once..)
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To: wardaddy; beaversmom
You like sympathetic bad guys Wallach and Rutger

Wallach played a very likeable crook, Don Altobello, in Godfather III, also. He was a first-generation American, Polish Jew; yet his command of Sicilian Italian dialect was amazing, just as he was quite believable in Westerns. Great actor and U.S. Army veteran. RIP


267 posted on 03/15/2018 9:29:20 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: Albion Wilde

I have to agree. Eli Wallach is likely the best bad guy. However, Lee Van Cleef deserves an honorable mention. I’m watching most of his lesser known movies now - even the bad ones are great because he’s in them.

Totally loving the old Van Cleef movies.


268 posted on 03/15/2018 9:32:08 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Albion Wilde

I never thought of him as Jewish to be honest even though he obviously is

He mastered Tuco.

Boy was he dastardly in GFIII

I have friends like Tuco

Even when they act their helpless selfish nature you can’t help but like them


269 posted on 03/15/2018 9:33:39 AM PDT by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: wardaddy

Bill the Butcher. Awesome performance. Daniel Day-Lewis, imho, is the world's greatest character actor other than Robert Duvall.

270 posted on 03/15/2018 9:40:12 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: beaversmom
If there's a sub-category for best bad guy in a comedy, I'd say O Brother Where Art Thou had multiple contenders:


Daniel von Bargen as Sheriff Cooley


Michael Badalucco as George Nelson, the manic-depressive bank robber


John Goodman as Big Dan Teague

271 posted on 03/15/2018 9:54:59 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: Albion Wilde

I like Coehn Brothers movies. They’re all good.


272 posted on 03/15/2018 9:58:08 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: beaversmom

And for something completely different...

-PJ

273 posted on 03/15/2018 10:12:41 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

I wasn’t a great fan of Burn After Reading, but find most of the Coen’s films highly entertaining and also great evocations of a locale or a time in American life, as in Fargo, O Brother, Ladykillers or No Country for Old Men. Their partnership with T Bone Burnett, who curates American folk music so lovingly, has been genius.


274 posted on 03/15/2018 10:20:33 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: wardaddy
I never thought of him as Jewish to be honest even though he obviously is

I never thought "it" was all that obvious, to be honest, and I grew up in a largely Jewish area. He was a great chameleon.

275 posted on 03/15/2018 10:23:08 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: A_perfect_lady

I bet he was equally good in that role. It’s what I loved about James Woods in Against All Odds. It was just the fast talking bad guy part, but he made SO much more out of it by his obvious love for her. Same thing in Liasons.


276 posted on 03/15/2018 11:01:57 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: All

The Princess Bride - Count Tyrone Rugen, the notorious six-fingered man (Christopher Guest)

Mommy Dearest - Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway)

Phineas & Ferb - Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Daniel Kingsley Povenmire)

Misery - Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates)

*posted by Mrs Klemper


277 posted on 03/15/2018 7:56:31 PM PDT by Klemper (And then... and ONLY then... do they get their only chance to come back into America the legal way.)
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