Bad Guys

Norma_Desmond

I was watching Gladiator the other night, great film and all that but I've always preferred the character of Commodus than the character of Maximus.
I think that Commodus is a much more interesting character to watch than Maximus.
I also felt sorry for Commodus. I don't think this was the intention of Ridley Scott or David Frazoni (the writer).
Are there any films that you preffered the bad guy instead of the good guy?

Frank Black

Silence of the Lambs would be an obvious one.

enda1

black francis wrote: »

Silence of the Lambs would be an obvious one.

Really? The bad buy was complete vermin in that film!

Hannibal Lector wasn't really the bad guy in that (I assume you're talking about Hannibal anyway).

krudler

The Dark Knight is a definite one, the Joker was way more interesting a character than Batman.

Frank Black

enda1 wrote: »

Really? The bad buy was complete vermin in that film!

Hannibal Lector wasn't really the bad guy in that (I assume you're talking about Hannibal anyway).

Yep, meant Hannibal - who probably kills more people in that film than the "real bad guy" they were hunting.

enda1

black francis wrote: »

Yep, meant Hannibal - who probably kills more people in that film than the "real bad guy" they were hunting.

Yeah but he's more like the lovable rogue in the film.
Well, not really lovable and more psychopath than rogue, but you get what I mean :P

Frank Black

enda1 wrote: »

Yeah but he's more like the lovable rogue in the film.
Well, not really lovable and more psychopath than rogue, but you get what I mean :P

"Oh, and Senator, just one more thing


love your suit! "

Duggy747

All the bad guys from Die Hard 1.

Instead of being run-of-the-mill shady, slimy bad guys we were shown they all had personalities and were collectively quite intelligent in what they were doing.

They felt more like a group of theives than just 1 bad guy and all of his henchmen.

Except Karl's brother (The one McClane wrote "I have a machine gun now. Ho, ho, ho!), he was an uber German goon.

Frank Black

Dr Evil is much funnier than Austin Powers as well.

karma_

Roy Batty, is the most obvious choice I can think of at the minute.

also..

Any Alien race attempting invasion since the original war of the worlds.

Peyton Manning

Lil Ze from City of God is one I always preferred. He's not an evil genius, nor is he a dominant brute. He's just a short, skinny kid from Brazil who happens to be a crude, evil, all guns blazing runt of a young adult. Fantastic character.

TheManWho

The rubbish sequel to anaconda has a team of researchers on an expedition in the rainforest looking for this magically medicinal flower. The inevitable anacondas show up, and the team leader wants to press on, willing to sacrifice their lives for the good of mankind. The rest are too afraid and want to turn back. Somehow they tried to make the team leader out to be the villian, and the rest as the good guys. It's possibly some of the worst writing I've seen in a film, where you end up rooting for the 'bad guy' to succeed, and the 'good guys' to die because of their cowardice.

Overature

the snake in that one was way more interesting than everyone else

TheManWho wrote: »

The rubbish sequel to anaconda has a team of researchers on an expedition in the rainforest looking for this magically medicinal flower. The inevitable anacondas show up, and the team leader wants to press on, willing to sacrifice their lives for the good of mankind. The rest are too afraid and want to turn back. Somehow they tried to make the team leader out to be the villian, and the rest as the good guys. It's possibly some of the worst writing I've seen in a film, where you end up rooting for the 'bad guy' to succeed, and the 'good guys' to die because of their cowardice.

abouttobebanned

What about law abiding citizen? An ok Hollywood flick but at what point in the film did he become a "bad guy"?

Oh_Noes

Very few movies do I find myself not rooting for the baddy.

Home Alone especially, I want to see Joe Pesci violentally murdering that annoying little sh1t.

TheoBoone

Timothy Daltons character in Hot Fuzz. He's just such a cool dude. That scene where he smiles at the camera next to his picture is brilliant.

Also, maybe Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (they made it into a movie!).

rednik

Heat. Neil McCauley (De Niro) is the ultimate criminal, ice cold, calculating and yet human.

James Forde

The Town

You want them to get away with everything even though they're the "Baddies"

Sl!mCharles

The antagonist in Oldboy was a pretty cool dude. Quite a complex, original character.

sky88

back to the future i wanted biff to succeed :pac:

DazMarz

I always wanted Darth Vader and his white-clad Stormtrooper minions to put the Rebels to the sword and conquer the galaxy. Vader to overthrow the wizened up Palpatine and claim the galaxy for himself. But it wasn't to be...

tony1kenobi

Everyone in Pulp Fiction.

The shark in Jaws.

Apollo Creed in Rocky 4.

ziedth

tony1kenobi wrote: »

Apollo Creed in Rocky 4.

Are you sure you don't mean Rocky or Ivan Drago? Drago is a good one.