favourite movie bad guys?

[mayorquimby]

having just finished re-watching trainspotting, i realised how much i love begby as a bad guy.
got me thinking who are the best movie baddies?
my votes are going to
begbie (robert carlisle) for just being a brilliantly violent sociopath
alan rickman in die hard for the terrible accent
and maybe heath ledger for batman

Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List, Harry Potter and Red Dragon comes to mind. He's vile and nasty in all three.

Gary Oldham is a fabulous baddie.

Ruger Hauer in The Hitcher
Joaquin Pheonix in The Gladiator
Christian Bale in American Psycho

Darth Vader of course.

And any villain played by Ralph Fiennes.

He always adds a little humanity to his villains which I love.

Heath Ledger as the Joker. I just love him. Also Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs. He is quite terrifying.

Darth Vader
Heath Ledger the Joker
Kaiser Sosa
I have more, let me think

Robert de Niro as Travis Bickle and as Max Cody in Cape Fear

agree with Ralph Fiennes in schindlers list

Tim Roth as the evil rapist in Rob Roy

Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant - that scene where he wanks through the car window - eurgh.

Rob Lowe in Bad Influence
Sean Penn in Carlito's Way

Orson welles in touch of evil

Oh so many (I do love the bad guys )

One that springs to mind now though is Michael Madsen as Mr Blonde in Reservoir Dogs.

He's not a bad guy in the end of course but in the films so far he appears to be: Alan Rickman as Snape.

Ray Liotta playing the mafia gangster Henry Hill in .....I've forgotten the name of the film

was it Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter?

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Good choices Polly

Also:

Eric Bana as Uncle Chop Chop (Chopper)

Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd

Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice

Sergi López i Ayats as Captain Vidal in Pan's Labyrinth

Sir Ian McKellen as Magneto in X-Men

Ray Parks as Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode I

Ladislav Beran as Kroenen in Hellboy

Oh yes...soooo many good bad guys

paddy considine in "dead man's shoes"

good call RR

Paddy Considine in "A Room For Romeo Brass" too

yes deffo! very disturbing.

I love Paddy

Alan Rickman as the sheriff of nottingham

James Gandolfini in True Romance.

Christopher Walken in same movie, in fact whenever he plays a villain.

Eric Bana - Chopper

Heath Ledger - The Joker

Agree with Ralph Fiennes, he is an amazing villain.

Denzel Washington - American Gangster.

Oh and the very worst Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men.

Oh yes anyone played by Christopher Walken, he's an incredible actor. Too many to name, though I have a particular fondness for his Gabriel in The Prophecy.

molesworth: i'll fight you for him

scorpio in dirty harry always scared me - he's such a baddie he even beats himself up.

the captain in pan's labyrinth was horrid.

most evil of all, of course, is the childcatcher from chitty chitty bang bang.