Hans Gruber was the best kind of villain: The one you root for.
Would Robert De Niro's character in Heat qualify as a Villain, because I was definitely rooting for him. I suppose he's more of an antagonist than a villain though.
Would Robert De Niro's character in Heat qualify as a Villain, because I was definitely rooting for him. I suppose he's more of an antagonist than a villain though.
anti-hero, maybe.
Not an altogether respectable guy, but not an outright evil ####### either.
Would Robert De Niro's character in Heat qualify as a Villain, because I was definitely rooting for him. I suppose he's more of an antagonist than a villain though.
Neil Macaulay is one of my favorite film characters of all time, and The Pacino/Deniro coffee shop scene was absolutely amazing. But yeah, I would call him more of an anti-hero than a villain. Mann didn't try and make him unlikeable, in fact Neil has a very strict moral code, and treated his crime as a business, nothing else. When he dealt with Wayne Gro at the end, that was a true fist pump moment.
As far as Anti-Heros go, my vote would be with Kowalski, from the original Vanishing Point.
Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter, James Earl Jones/David Prowse's Darth cadet from the Star Wars Trilogy, and Heath Ledger's Joker were already mentioned.
Michael Emmerson's Ben Linus on Lost was stellar.
While it may be a comedy Gary Cole's Bill Lumbergh in Office Space is great.
I also love the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica (at least until we learned about them, as unknown unemotional killing machines they were epic).
Lastly no greatest villains list is complete without Aziz Ansari's vote for the greatest Disney villain of all time: the hockey team from Iceland in The Moghty Ducks 2.
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