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Title: Villains and Generally Creeeeeepy Performances
Post by: Strangeluv on March 12, 2008, 02:46:15 am
We've seen them - we think they're either badass or creepy as hell. There's some of them we love to hate and some of them we feel so guilty about loving, whether they're just a pure psychopath or a corrupted DEA agent. They're vile, they're disgusting, they're evil, they're scum and they've got it out for everyone else in the film. They're villains!

So, some of these dudes aren't villains, but just overall creepy performances, but I just had to include them.






















So, tell me about some of your favourite villainous performances!
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Post by: Beasley on March 12, 2008, 03:28:08 am
i am going to go post more on topic but i had to comment on your assumption with American Beauty:
I entirely disagree! I feel like

just saying because this really changes the way someone would interpret the movie so i am kinda wondering which interpretation is correct!
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Post by: Strangeluv on March 12, 2008, 04:07:38 am
Beasley,


Hope that covers what you needed to know but since it seemed to be the screenwriter's intention, I'm gonna go along with that.
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Post by: local_dunce on March 12, 2008, 09:26:28 am
I pretty much agreed with everything on you list, but I can't agree with Travis Bickle. Man he IS a hero, a creepy hero but he knows what he's doign all along, and he only ever killed the drug dealers/pimps who were pimping out CHILDREN and saved little Jodie Foster. At the end of the movie you can even see that his life has gotten better and he seems to feel more purpose.

But yeah that's all opinion I guess.
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Post by: Vellfire on March 12, 2008, 01:02:31 pm
Annie Wilkes needs to be a little higher up on that list, holy shit she scares me like crazy.
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Post by: UPRC on March 12, 2008, 01:10:02 pm
Quote from: Velfarre on March 12, 2008, 01:02:31 pm
Annie Wilkes needs to be a little higher up on that list, holy shit she scares me like crazy.

Yeah, I agree. Kathy Bates played that role so well that it's frightening.
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Post by: Strangeluv on March 12, 2008, 01:18:15 pm
He didn't get out of the COCKADOODIE CAR!
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Post by: Vellfire on March 12, 2008, 01:22:58 pm
Kathy Bates played that role so well that no matter WHAT kind of movie you see her (or even someone that looks KIND OF LIKE HER) in you get chills down your spine.
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Post by: UPRC on March 12, 2008, 01:26:14 pm
Quote from: Velfarre on March 12, 2008, 01:22:58 pm
Kathy Bates played that role so well that no matter WHAT kind of movie you see her (or even someone that looks KIND OF LIKE HER) in you get chills down your spine.

I am agreeing with you again. Whenever I see her, I immediately think of Misery. Every time.
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Post by: thecatamites on March 12, 2008, 01:46:53 pm
Good list... but you left out the "Mystery Man" from Lost Highway and Jack Palance's character from Shane...

EDIT: Descriptions...
The Mystery Man is creepy just because he's just so weird. Everything about him is just kind of off-balance and unreal, like something from a bad dream... It's kinda hard to describe, but this clip gives a hint of it (Although it's best seen within the context of the actual movie): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLQW2qr5Hs
Jack Wilson (Palance's character from Shane) is great because he's just so wonderfully, OTT evil... Perpetually grinning, taking all the time in the world to pull on his duelling glove, with a refreshing lack of compunction about blasting hapless villagers into the mud... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbVCMDfJAfQ (Palance's character is the one in black). It's the little pause before he actually shoots him that gets me every time...
Interesting side note: He got his distinctive skull-like face after being disfigured bailing from a burning airplane during the war.
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Post by: Strangeluv on March 12, 2008, 01:48:57 pm
Didn't see either of those movies but I've heard about Mystery Man and I know Lynch has a tendency to make some weird-ass characters. You can write about them if you wish - this topic is to discuss your favourite villains.
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Post by: 4Dsheep on March 12, 2008, 07:32:48 pm
(http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/6778/11074350201760252184253bg9.jpg)

Leo Bill. In everything I've seen him in, he's the creepy psychopath. Always. It's gone to the point that every thriller/detective he's in is spoiled by the fact that he's in it and we know he's going to be starring as the creepy psychopath. He talks accomplices into commiting suicide. He kills scores of prozzies out of righteous indignation. He's always got just the verse to justify whatever sick deed he's commited. It's really fun answering who is playing the creepy psychopath in any given production with "the creepy psychopath" and getting "oh him".
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Post by: Ragnar on March 12, 2008, 08:18:30 pm
call it friendo :/

actually I thought Anton Chigurh was just so amoral it was comical but that's just me - I mean I guess that's creepy but as far as having a really fucked up way of thinking I thought Kevin Spacey in Seven was better

I thought Daniel Day-Lewis (Daniel-Day Lewis) was good in both There Will Be Blood and Gangs of New York but Gangs of New York was where I really thought man this guy is a bastard - I dunno I'm doing Shakespeare now and we did Richard III and I kind of thought of There Will Be Blood because both were kind of a waste of a person - like someone who could've been good but just kind of failed at that
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Post by: Liman on March 13, 2008, 12:35:33 am
(http://www.gamingw.net/pubaccess/52407/mr_asthma.PNG)
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Post by: post on March 13, 2008, 01:09:09 am
I think the only character that has actually effected me, to be honest, is Denzel Washington when he plays Alonzo in "Training Day."  Seriously.
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Post by: Ragnar on March 13, 2008, 05:09:09 am
I think part of the downright creepiness of that Mystery Man guy is that somehow at that exact angle it feels like he's staring at a third person but at the same time you're being stared directly at it's like he has the ALL-SEEING EYE or something

Edit: Maybe they bluescreened in a different pair of eyes or something
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Post by: Roman on March 13, 2008, 10:45:32 pm
Quote from: Ragnar on March 13, 2008, 05:09:09 am
I think part of the downright creepiness of that Mystery Man guy is that somehow at that exact angle it feels like he's staring at a third person but at the same time you're being stared directly at it's like he has the ALL-SEEING EYE or something

Edit: Maybe they bluescreened in a different pair of eyes or something

also he doesn't have eyebrows
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Post by: Strangeluv on March 13, 2008, 10:56:47 pm
Like Cowboy from Mulholland Drive or


Seriously, that guy is one creepy-lookin' bastard
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Post by: Ohlichris on March 13, 2008, 11:39:51 pm
Man... You got me.
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Post by: thecatamites on March 14, 2008, 12:03:20 am
Quote from: Strangeluv on March 13, 2008, 10:56:47 pm
Like Cowboy from Mulholland Drive or


Seriously, that guy is one creepy-lookin' bastard

Ha! That's pretty cool, actually... Even if I did have to sign out and then view the topic again before I worked out what was going on...
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Post by: UPRC on March 14, 2008, 12:04:53 am
Strangeluv, you sly dog!

You have now earned a place in UPRC's library of creepy villains... Because what you just did was very villainous and creepy!
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Post by: pburn on March 14, 2008, 12:09:33 am
What about SHE-BITCH from Army of Darkness? Creeped the hell outa me.
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Post by: local_dunce on March 14, 2008, 12:12:19 am
aha... SL, that was pretty good.
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Post by: Roman on March 14, 2008, 12:26:21 am
Quote from: Strangeluv on March 13, 2008, 10:56:47 pm
Like Cowboy from Mulholland Drive or


Seriously, that guy is one creepy-lookin' bastard

this trickery reminds me


ps imagine that it says "that bastard roman"
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Post by: Liman on March 14, 2008, 12:47:17 am
... and I thought I was popular in your eyes, Strangeluv :(
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Post by: Strangeluv on March 14, 2008, 02:04:10 am
You are...
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Post by: Ragnar on March 14, 2008, 02:37:54 am
Quote from: Roman on March 13, 2008, 10:45:32 pm
also he doesn't have eyebrows

ahahahahahahaha that's why I was thinking he kind of looked like a creepy grandma
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Post by: jsnnoa on March 14, 2008, 08:10:16 pm
Oh wow Stangeluv that confused me for a moment. I was trying to think what I had done to make you hate me haha.

I just saw No Country last night and I thought Anton was quite creepy.

And that hair....
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Post by: Parker on March 14, 2008, 09:00:05 pm
Wonderful list!

But you forgot Sam Neill from Event Horizon. The only movie to absolutely TERRIFY me. I literally could not sleep after I saw this movie.
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Post by: Vesper on March 14, 2008, 11:23:27 pm
Quote from: Strangeluv on March 13, 2008, 10:56:47 pm
Like Cowboy from Mulholland Drive or


Seriously, that guy is one creepy-lookin' bastard

hey thanks :(
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Post by: Jeff on March 15, 2008, 01:56:43 am
Quote from: JOJOFACE on March 14, 2008, 09:00:05 pm
Wonderful list!

But you forgot Sam Neill from Event Horizon. The only movie to absolutely TERRIFY me. I literally could not sleep after I saw this movie.
yes yes yes

Also Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood. If you need a reason, just go watch the movie; it is all about how evil he is.
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Post by: XxSylverxX on March 15, 2008, 02:52:00 am
Quote from: Vesper on March 14, 2008, 11:23:27 pm
hey thanks :(

Im pretty sure thats a script that show whoevers looking at it there name.

I definetely agree with daniel Day-Lewis I only recall seeing him in there will be blood and gangs of new york but both times he kind of struck fear into my soul.
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Post by: Xeno|Soft on March 15, 2008, 03:33:09 am
Quote from: post on March 13, 2008, 01:09:09 am
I think the only character that has actually effected me, to be honest, is Denzel Washington when he plays Alonzo in "Training Day."  Seriously.
I was thinking the same thing, I was watching that movie the other day...I want to watch it again.
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Post by: Parker on March 15, 2008, 07:01:36 am
Quote from: Strangeluv on March 13, 2008, 10:56:47 pm
Like Cowboy from Mulholland Drive or


Seriously, that guy is one creepy-lookin' bastard

Haha! It was not until I quoted this that I realized that you're a jerk. :(
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Post by: Fire Mage on March 15, 2008, 07:14:14 pm
Quote from: JOJOFACE on March 15, 2008, 07:01:36 am
Haha! It was not until I quoted this that I realized that you're a jerk. :(
STOP QUOTING IT!!! GDAGSDF

But um, I actually agree with this list a lot. Some of the movies I haven't seen yet, but I mean too. So I haven't read the spoilers for movies I haven't seen.

I do agree with Chigurh's spot, because he's not the sickest son-of-a-bitch, just pretty fucking loony.
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Post by: Strangeluv on March 15, 2008, 07:22:08 pm
Stop ruining the post like the above guy said >=(

Best Villains

- Cocaine, "Traffic"

- Midlife crisis, "American Beauty"

- Drugz, "Requiem for a Dream"

- Hood life, "Boyz n the Hood"

- Outer space, "Apollo 13"

- Infertility, "Children of Men"

- Human trafficking, "Human Trafficking"

- Literature, "Stranger than Fiction"

- Reality TV, "The Truman Show"
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Post by: Fire Mage on March 15, 2008, 07:23:29 pm
Actually literature was a damn good villain in Stranger than Fiction.
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Post by: Shinan on March 15, 2008, 07:56:27 pm
Quote from: Strangeluv on March 15, 2008, 07:22:08 pm
Best Villains

- Cocaine, "Traffic"

- Midlife crisis, "American Beauty"

- Drugz, "Requiem for a Dream"

- Hood life, "Boyz n the Hood"

- Outer space, "Apollo 13"

- Infertility, "Children of Men"

- Human trafficking, "Human Trafficking"

- Literature, "Stranger than Fiction"

- Reality TV, "The Truman Show"
I also liked

-Light, "The Others"
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Post by: Vellfire on March 15, 2008, 08:05:52 pm
Holy shit I was watching TV the other day and saw this Direct TV ad that was based on the hobbling scene in Misery.  I get that it was a joke but it still fucking creeped me out.
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Post by: Finality on March 16, 2008, 11:19:15 pm
You have some pretty awesome characters lhere. My personal favorite on the list is Gary Oldman from Leon. I hadn't watched the movie until years after it was released, so I was surprised that he had done such a great job. Even then, his performance was slept on by many critics.

Off the top of my head, I would add Tom Cruise from Collateral. Even though he's gotten a case of the crazies recently, he still is a good actor and Vincent was fucking psychotic. He seemed invincible in the film at times, especially when he was in the club. :D​ 
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Post by: TheInquisitor on March 17, 2008, 12:30:32 am

(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/walt_disney/the_lion_king/scar2.jpeg)
Scar, voiced by Jeremy Irons in The Lion King

He may be a lion. He may be animated, but what a voice! He's a sarcastic, cynical but a deliciously devilish schemer. The "Be Prepared" song was very chilling when he boasts about his desire to kill his brother.



And, of course, someone has to mention Darth Vader. Yeah, everyone knows him, everyone puts him at the top of the list. He seems to be ignored here so far, but there's no doubting that on the list of creepy villains, that breathing when you were all younger did the trick.
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Post by: jumar1987 on March 17, 2008, 12:19:37 pm
If anyone had the chance to see the Funny Games remake (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808279/)  last Friday, then you'd know why I'm posting in this thread.

Essentially, because of my pretentiousness/artsy-ness, I'll say that watching this movie makes you the villain as well. But the two kids play their parts pretty well as sociopathic, but polite, deliquints. Their a lot more likable and funny, in my opinion, in the remake than they were in the German original. Whether that took away from the film is kinda debatable, because I felt pretty shitty laughing at a lot of there jokes.
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Post by: Roman on March 17, 2008, 04:29:11 pm
Quote from: jumar1987 on March 17, 2008, 12:19:37 pm
If anyone had the chance to see the Funny Games remake (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808279/)  last Friday, then you'd know why I'm posting in this thread.

Essentially, because of my pretentiousness/artsy-ness, I'll say that watching this movie makes you the villain as well. But the two kids play their parts pretty well as sociopathic, but polite, deliquints. Their a lot more likable and funny, in my opinion, in the remake than they were in the German original. Whether that took away from the film is kinda debatable, because I felt pretty shitty laughing at a lot of there jokes.

actually i really want to see this movie
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Post by: Parker on March 17, 2008, 08:32:30 pm
Strangeluv: I just watched Bug last night, based on you saying he has a pretty creepy performance, and... Yeah. Holy crap. I wouldn't give the movie anything over a 60% but his performance was fantastic. Some really, really nice scenes in that film.
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Post by: Strangeluv on March 17, 2008, 08:44:20 pm
Yeah, Bug is based on a play of the same name and Michael Shannon is the original actor in the play. William Friedkin had to fight the studios to let him reprise his role in the film or he wasn't going to direct the movie. I'm glad they gave in and let Shannon play the part because that performance had so much range, lonely and quiet to some hyperactive lunatic.
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Post by: Ragnar on March 17, 2008, 11:04:53 pm
Quote from: Finality on March 16, 2008, 11:19:15 pm
Off the top of my head, I would add Tom Cruise from Collateral. Even though he's gotten a case of the crazies recently, he still is a good actor and Vincent was fucking psychotic. He seemed invincible in the film at times, especially when he was in the club. :D​ 

Yeah Vincent was kind of spooky, like it kept shifting from 'this guy is badass' to 'this guy is like this unstoppable psycho' and not sure whether it was Tom Cruise acting crazy or crazy Tom Cruise acting normal occasionally
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Post by: Parker on March 18, 2008, 12:08:37 am
Oh. And Christian Bale from American Psycho.
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Post by: ThugTears666 on March 18, 2008, 01:46:10 am
Quote from: Strangeluv on March 13, 2008, 10:56:47 pm
Like Cowboy from Mulholland Drive or


Seriously, that guy is one creepy-lookin' bastard


Haha dude WWHAT
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Post by: Liman on March 18, 2008, 04:31:41 pm
The script gets another victim!
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Post by: Jester on March 18, 2008, 07:22:51 pm
i wanna add rutger's character from The Hitcher. i dont usually like villains without motives, but ryder is.. really really mean. and calculating.

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Post by: Strangeluv on May 26, 2008, 07:43:32 am
Aaron Stanford (PYRO in X-Men) in TADPOLE (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271219/). Dude's in love with his mother and slept with his mother's friend while pretending she was his mother! Ffffffffffffff! Actually it was his stepmother but still ffff...