Favourite villians/people you'd like to play villians?

[BiscLimpkit]

I think that Kiefer Sutherland makes a great villian - I still find it weird seeing him on 24 playing a good guy (although fair enough, he's hardly PC). I thought he was funny in Freeway (adult version of Little Red Riding Hood), where he plays a child molesting serial murderer. Also in Phonebooth, he was quite smart in that.

Other favourite villians include Christopher Lee (as Saruman in LOTR and Summerisle in Wicker Man), Michael Rosenbaum as Lex (before Smallville started to get all whack)... will think of more later.

But I'd love to see Jackie Chan take a really evil role, same with Arnie (but guess he's not doing much acting these days).

[Yi-Long]

I liked Patrick Tam as a scheming bastard in Century of the Dragon.
Depp is great as Pirate Jack... who is also a bit of a villain...
Jude Law in Road to Perdition

same with Arnie (but guess he's not doing much acting these days

Are you kidding me? He's a politician: acting is all they do

[BiscLimpkit]

Class.

Also forgot to mention Gary Oldman. One of the greatest villians ever.

[thelostdragon]

But I'd love to see Jackie Chan take a really evil role.

Which is supposed to be happening soon.

I think my favourite HK villain is Shing Fui-on. Isn't he just evil in "The Killer"? But if we speak about old school kung fu films, many people will vote for Hwang Jang Lee. I don't know. I always found him to be charismatic though and didn't buy his evil doings. The best villain of old school flicks is Fung "the rapist" Hark-on.

Also Ed Harris in "The Rock" was awesome.

[ReconFive]

Stuart Wilson in No Escape is the best villian ever.
"NOW THAT'S FUNNY!!!!!!"

Billy Drago in Delta Force 2!
Have you guys seen that movie? He is so cartoonishly brutal its hilarious.
Also on the topic of bad 80s action movies...Richard Lynch is also hilarious in Invasion USA.

Ed Harris is great in Enemy at the Gates.

Gary Oldman (as Bisc mentioned) ..most notably in Leon.
I liked Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator, even if a bit over the top.
John Lithgow is classic in Cliffhanger.

A few Asian movies i can think of off hand -
Goro Kishitani is good in Returner, despite being overly cartoonish
Park Joon-hoon in Say Yes.
Lee Sung-jae in Public Enemy

[Yi-Long]

While I was lying in bed not being able to get to sleep (insomniac is a bitch: I can be lazy all day long, then when I'm supposed to go to sleep, I get all creative and active and whatever....), I thought of Mr BadAss himself, one of the most interesting bad guys ever: LEE VAN CLEEF.

Of the HK Villains I also quite like Mr Han from Enter the Dragon, cause he has such an evil face but he seems like a cool guy in person. Very funny in Millionaire's Express, making fun of his old role as arch-nemesis of Wong Fei Hung

[EvaUnit02]

I thought of Mr BadAss himself, one of the most interesting bad guys ever: LEE VAN CLEEF.

Agreed. Bright Eyes is a great villain.

Also forgot to mention Gary Oldman. One of the greatest villians ever

Agreed, he's all class.

-Kevin Spacey in Se7en & The Usual Suspects
Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner & The Hitcher - Fantastic particular in Hitcher.
-Michael Ironside - He's done a few. Scanners is highlight, Daryl Radchek(sp?)
-John Lithgow in De Palma thrillers.
-Sean Bean - done a few villain roles (typecast), Alec 006 from Goldeneye and the Irish terrorist from one of the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan movies (forget which one) come to mind.
-Robert DeNiro - Cape Fear, The Untouchables and Heat come to mind.
-Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West. Utter chilling.
-Gian Maria Volontè in the first two Dollars films.
-Alan Rickman as Hans Grubber in Die Hard.
-Arnie in T1.

From Asian films:-
-Anthony Wong in Hardboiled.
-Yu Gi-tae in Oldboy.
-The badass transfer student from Battle Royale.
-Simon Yam in Full Contact.

[dragonhero005]

Gary Oldman is great!

He´s also one of my favourites...
I also loved his rather small role in "True Romance"






Some of my favourite villians:

-Gary Oldman
-John Malkovic
-Lee van Cleef
-Yu Ji-tae
-Tommy Lee Jones
-Robin Williams (One Hour Photo)
-Bruce Willis
-Richard Kiel as Jaws from the bond movies
-Dick Wei (Project A)
-Jim Carrey (Batman)
-Whang In-sik
-Yam Sai-kwun
-Hwang Jang Lee
-Sammo Hung (I´d like to see him as a villian again!)

[grim_tales]

I think that Kiefer Sutherland makes a great villian - I still find it weird seeing him on 24 playing a good guy (although fair enough, he's hardly PC). I thought he was funny in Freeway (adult version of Little Red Riding Hood), where he plays a child molesting serial murderer. Also in Phonebooth, he was quite smart in that.

Other favourite villians include Christopher Lee (as Saruman in LOTR and Summerisle in Wicker Man), Michael Rosenbaum as Lex (before Smallville started to get all whack)... will think of more later.

But I'd love to see Jackie Chan take a really evil role, same with Arnie (but guess he's not doing much acting these days).

Hey,

The bit about Kiefer Sutherland got me thinking about the story arc in S3 of 24 when he pretends to switch sides and be evil to dupe the Salazars. He could be great as a bad guy.

[BiscLimpkit]

Hey,

The bit about Kiefer Sutherland got me thinking about the story arc in S3 of 24 when he pretends to switch sides and be evil to dupe the Salazars. He could be great as a bad guy.

I think Kiefer's better at playing a bad guy than a good guy.