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The best movie villains of the 21st century so far?


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2 hours ago, Chen G. said:

That's not the point. Whenever you bring Nazis to the table, the audience is already preconditioned (and rightly so) to hate them, even before they do anything villanous. The villain's backstory is in the audience's existing knowledge base.

There are exceptions to the rule. CONSPIRACY won you over with the sheer pragmatic logic of the Final Solution, devised on a weekend in the country. As a piece of drama, one admires the utter mundane ordinaryness, of it all. 

VALKYRIE, on the other hand, says "no more. He's gone too far". The characters recognise the need to save Germany, by sacrificing its leader.

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One of the most memorable villains so far - Lotso in Toy Story 3.

 

The Armistage family (or basically just white people) in Get Out.

 

The residents of Dogville in Dogville.

 

Jack in The House That Jack Built.

 

The children in The White Ribbon.

 

Richie Cusack (Williamt Hurt) in A History of Violence.

 

Dmitri Desgoffe-und-Taxis (Adrien Brody) in The Grand Budapest Hotel.

 

Edwin and Mrs. Epps (Michael Fassbender and Sarah Paulson) in 12 Years A Slave.

 

Bus Driver (Mark Ruffalo) in Margaret.

 

Patrick (Laurent Latiffe) in Elle.

 

The parents in Dogtooth.

 

Michael (Christoph Paou) in Stranger By The Lake.

 

Mr. Yee (Tony Leung) in Lust Caution.

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10 hours ago, Fabulin said:

We need a thread for our extensive collection of the meta-cultural villains of the 21st century

 

If we're going down that road, I don't think anyone will be able to top this guy...

 

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57 minutes ago, Richard said:

I'm sorry, JS, but there's nothing that's even remotely  :lol:  about Margaret Thatcher.

 

:lol2:

 

10 hours ago, John said:

 

If we're going down that road, I don't think anyone will be able to top this guy...

 

george.jpg

 

It always looks like George is wearing a wig - his hairline is too low.

 

12 hours ago, Lord Zimmer said:

I’ll nominate Danny Elfman for his entire career.

 

Nah, his career started out well enough, but he's now merely a shadow of his former self.

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1 hour ago, Richard said:

If you ever create a Thatcher smiley, I will, personally, find out where you live, come round your house, stick my hand down your gullet, and pull your innards inside out of your body, via your mouth.

 

What must you be like during the final 2 minutes of For Your Eyes Only?

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1 hour ago, Romão said:

I have a lot of qualms with the movie, but I loved Ralph Fiennes in "In Bruges"

It's an inanimate fucking object!

You're an inanimate fucking object!

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Stefancos said:

 

What must you be like during the final 2 minutes of For Your Eyes Only?

Actually, Steef, I don't mind that, as she's being lampooned. John Wells is great, in that.

I don't mind "her" at the end of AMAROK, either.

A-tac to St. Cyril's. A-tac to St. Cyril's.

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On 12/11/2018 at 6:23 PM, Lord Zimmer said:

Btw Fiennes as Voldemort was rather underwhelming. In the books he is horrifying in every possible way. In the films he was rather goofy at times and just not that menacing. 

like a goofier Imhotep

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