The GREATEST movie villain of all time. I saw Hannibal Lecter when I was younger; don’t think I slept for a whole week. Anthony Hopkins?! Wow!
*****
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Heath Ledger’s Joker was brilliant. BRILLIANT. Jack Nicholson didn’t do The Joker justice. The Joker is not supposed to be silly. He’s evil. There’s nothing good about The Joker. Heath Ledger became The Joker and scared the living crap out of everyone because he showed how a conscienceless person can turn a civilized society into savages in the blink of an eye.
um, UT, I’m not sure where you’re going with this thread.
If you’re trying to make me get off TOD and do some work….I think this might have done the trick :D
Agree, Anthony Hopkins, yum. Haven’t seen any of these dark flicks, but after Meet Joe Black, for a long time I thought I ought to marry Anthony Hopkins. :oops: (I got over it tho)….
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I love that line: Why so serious? I say it to my dog all the time.. and he cracks up. okay I made that part up. And Hannibal Lector is an excellent scary character, I had read the book before the movie.. and Anthony Hopkins was perfecto as Lector.
You are so freaking cool! I have the Heath Ledger ‘The Joker’ poster and it has his manic expression with the words “Why So Serious?” and every time I look at it day or night (especially night), I grin because his Joker is oh so perfect.
I was going to post the scariest movie I saw, but it has sent shivers up and down my spine again. I’m not going to inflict that on anyone. I think I had nightmares for a week. It was Rosemary’s Baby.
I stayed away from them after that one. I didn’t really find Hannibal that scary. He was just creepy. Just the very end. Never saw any sequels. I’ve still got the shakes from watching the clip.
On my top list of villains:
HAL - 2001 A Space Odyssey
Norman Bates - Psycho
Amon Goeth - Schindler’s List
Mr. Potter - It’s A Wonderful Life
Hans Gruber - Die Hard
Wicked Witch of the West - Wizard of Oz
The Borg Queen - Star Trek First Contact
yep he made that character. I do have a soft spot for the evil guys who are funny too… I think another one is the King in the Princess Bride… “I’m going to cut your heart out with a spoon”
Not quite. That was Alan Rickman again (same guy who played Hans Gruber) in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He was the Sheriff of Nottingham. Another one where he’s bad, but still sexy.
The bad guy in The Princess Bride was Chris Sarandon (Susan’s ex), playing Prince Humperdinck. Another classic, by the way. :-)
Yeh, I don’t watch horror movies. So the villains in those are in a class by themselves. Psycho is on my list, because I saw it as a teenager. Going into the shower creeped me out for months after seeing that.
Just my older sister and I were allowed to see it and my sister was so mean to me afterwards, that for weeks, I would only take baths - no shower curtain for me - no way!
When I was very young- way too young, my mom and aunts sent me along with my older sister and cousins to a ‘matinee’ double feature in which one of the movies was about a man growing a second head on his shoulder… it started with just an eyeball.. I think it was called the “Two Headed Man” or the “Man with Two Heads”… anyhoo I literally had nightmares for years and have never forgotten it. Its been over 50 years since I saw it .
yep I ran across it on tv in my 20s and had to chuckle at all the horrible dreams I’d had.. poor wee child.. I think its even still in black and white.
This was shared earlier today, but as you are talking of villains, I figured the MoDowd person would fit right in. (The extract is from a Sullivan post. I particularly like that Sullivan accedes that PBO HAS CHANGED American politics.)
//…
Then MoDo stumbles onto the truth … and leaves it lying there on the sidewalk:
‘His White House runs on the idea that if you are virtuous and true and honorable, people will ultimately come to you. (An ethos that sometimes collides with political success.)’
That “sometimes” is a classic. It almost reminds me of the Monty Python Life of Brian skit about “what the Romans ever did for us”. Obama’s political style is useless, apart from becoming the first black president, saving the US from another Great Depression, succeeding at getting universal healthcare, rescuing the American auto industry, presiding over a civil rights revolution, ending two failed wars, avoiding two doomed others (against Syria and Iran), bringing the deficit down while growing the economy, focusing the executive branch on climate change, and killing bin Laden. Yes his ethos “sometimes” “collides” with political success.
But no, he has never obsessed about whom the capitol is buzzing about – i.e. boomers and their Clinton obsession. Which is proof enough of his transformation of American politics. He has transformed it so much that MoDo cannot even understand how he has been so successful.
A character that scared me was the guy in GoodFellas… I am terrible with names anymore.. but the short guy, always smiling and talking fast ?? I don’t like Mobster movies- they all scare me- but my sons of course liked them and thus I’ve watched a few.
It’s small enough to carry around or use in your chair. Anything you can google and then of course a YouTube app so all I had to do was search for Good-fellows.
okay I feel dumb … The only Ipad I’ve seen is my little granddaughter’s.. she uses it to Skype me. So yes I can see how its convenient for you due to size… no wonder GGail made her comment to me, lol.
Worth a read: @nytimes editorial “A Clean-Car Boom” says govt support pays big dividends for economy & environment. nyti.ms/11ZsPyy— Ernest Moniz (@ErnestMoniz) August 12, 2025
In an effort to solve the problem of child obesity, The White House is calling on the hip-hop community to help this generation get more active and achieve their goals. Michelle Obama and her “Let’s Move Campaign” are teaming up with the Partnership for a Healthier America and Hip Hop Public Health to promote and release a hip-hop album
focused on the cause.
Jovie, thanks for posting this. I saw it a couple of weeks ago and thought someone had already posted it.
I think it’s great that Doug E. Fresh & Dr. Oz along with others are supporting FLOTUS!
This is the rodeo announcer’s lawyer talking, but he said all the escalating, anti-Obama hysteria originated from the clown who wore a microphone—-who was fired. The announcer’s lawyer said the announcer, a rodeo official and a superintendent of schools, only said, “Watch out for that bull Obama”. Whatever the truth, a despicable event. I think the rodeo should fire the announcer and be barred from the fair as a result.
Norman Bates “Bates Hotel” sent me screaming and the Exorcist, Linda Blair (heading spinning around). Call me a wuss because both scared the hell out me!
Bad, baddies (but kinda Hawt):
Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban) - Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Wah Sing Ku (Jet Li) - Lethan Weapon 4
Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) - Blade Runner
Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) - The Matrix Trilogy
Brandt (Taye Diggs) - Equilibrium
Darth Maui (Ray Park) - Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace ( I just liked the way he moved, okay?)
Bill Sikes (Olver Reed) - Oliver!
El Indio (Gian Maria Volonté) - For a Few Dollars More
Crassus (Laurence Olivier) - Spartacus
Bad, baddies with no redeeming qualities:
Voldemort - Harry Potter movies (Rafe Fiennes plays evil too damned well)
Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine - Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi
Nazis - All of the Indiana Jones movies
Gollum - Lord of the Rings movies
Yellow Bastard - Sin City
Bill - Kill Bill series
Charles Manson - Helter Skelter
Oh, didn’t see it. I haven’t seen a lot of the movies mentioned. I’m sticking to Rosemary’s Baby. I had to have a glass of wine to settle my nerves after watching three clips. Maybe because I was only 16 at the time.
“They mentioned the president’s name 100 times. Sickening. It was feeling like some kind of Klan rally.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/missouri-…— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 12, 2025
HF, how could I forget about the Shining…”honey, I am home (as he is banging on the door with an ax” and “I’m not gonna hurt ya, I’m just gonna bash in your head”. Redrum, Redrum!
Denzel Washing in Training Day was a magnificent performance, so different from his usual MO. I couldn’t sleep after that. Johnny Depp in Once Upon Time in Mexico. Cool mean.
I couldn’t watch Training Day all the way through. It was just too much for me to see my Denzel like that. I couldn’t take it.
Sorry to say, I’ve never seen Once A Time in Mexico either. But Henry Fonda in Once Upon A Time in the West, was another one that disturbed me, because he was always such an upstanding citizen, if not outright hero. He played bad, REALLY GOOD in the one. :-)
Per Smerconish on Hardball just now…..Negative Tweets of ACA outnumber positive tweets by 7 to 1.
That is just hard to believe. OFA do they not use the President’s Twitter followers to convey Positive messages. The TOD family here do. So I am suspect of that story.
White House.gov
yea
um, UT, I’m not sure where you’re going with this thread.
If you’re trying to make me get off TOD and do some work….I think this might have done the trick :D
Chicken. :D
cluck, cluck :D
Maleficent.
Not looking at your clip either, Tally-ho, but “Hell-oooo, there! It’s nice to see you.”
Bonjour VC!!!
Bonjour, ma chere! I notice you have been ‘staying out of trouble’. ;)
Trying anyway… :D
Fantastic choice Tally! Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty was freaking awesome to me as a kid.
I can’t wait to see Angelina’s version.
Since I have enough difficulty sleeping under normal circumstances, Utal, I think I’ll skip over the shared clips. Thanks for the ‘warning’. :grin:
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Actually the new movie, Elysium, features a great villain with a wicked South African accent played by Sharlto Copley.
Old folks (I’m getting there fast) think a little slower than the young ones.
Pet peeve of the day.
I smell a more-than-justified lawsuit (and hopefully a sorry excuse for a human being getting fired from the police force)
Let us pray so.
Follow this guy
:)
Done :-)
Great!
Agree, Anthony Hopkins, yum. Haven’t seen any of these dark flicks, but after Meet Joe Black, for a long time I thought I ought to marry Anthony Hopkins. :oops: (I got over it tho)….
Hahahahahahahahahaah….Oh Pamela.
I remember that feeling MP!
I had it for Jerry Butler (the Iceman Cometh), then for Lou Rawls
NLRB at full strength as four Obama appointees are sworn in Monday
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08/12/13 03:18 PM ET
For the first time in a decade, there are five Senate-confirmed members on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).…
This is what the long game looks like in action! I love this man!
I love that line: Why so serious? I say it to my dog all the time.. and he cracks up. okay I made that part up. And Hannibal Lector is an excellent scary character, I had read the book before the movie.. and Anthony Hopkins was perfecto as Lector.
You are so freaking cool! I have the Heath Ledger ‘The Joker’ poster and it has his manic expression with the words “Why So Serious?” and every time I look at it day or night (especially night), I grin because his Joker is oh so perfect.
oh ut you are the coolest one ever my dear :) Yep that’s a great line, and it makes me grin too.
From the bottom of the previous thread ….
#TrustBarack He’s Earned It
I was going to post the scariest movie I saw, but it has sent shivers up and down my spine again. I’m not going to inflict that on anyone. I think I had nightmares for a week. It was Rosemary’s Baby.
Mine was ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” completely freaked me out!!!!!!
Great choice. Yay for Leatherface.
I stayed away from them after that one. I didn’t really find Hannibal that scary. He was just creepy. Just the very end. Never saw any sequels. I’ve still got the shakes from watching the clip.
To see the greatest movie villain ever, watch a movie called “I Saw The Devil”. I believe it’s still on netflix.
On my top list of villains:
HAL - 2001 A Space Odyssey
Norman Bates - Psycho
Amon Goeth - Schindler’s List
Mr. Potter - It’s A Wonderful Life
Hans Gruber - Die Hard
Wicked Witch of the West - Wizard of Oz
The Borg Queen - Star Trek First Contact
ohh Hans Gruber… definitely a great bad guy.
Only one on the list that I had a crush on. :-)
yep he made that character. I do have a soft spot for the evil guys who are funny too… I think another one is the King in the Princess Bride… “I’m going to cut your heart out with a spoon”
Not quite. That was Alan Rickman again (same guy who played Hans Gruber) in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He was the Sheriff of Nottingham. Another one where he’s bad, but still sexy.
The bad guy in The Princess Bride was Chris Sarandon (Susan’s ex), playing Prince Humperdinck. Another classic, by the way. :-)
ohhh well done Dudette. I have been known to mix up characters occasionally ;)
Ralph Fiennes (Amon Goeth) for the win. Saw Schindler’s List a while back and Ralph’s portrayal of Goeth was chilling. What a talented actor.
Yep, he plays evil like nobody else can, except maybe Anthony Hopkins.
Yes, Hal was creepy. And of course Amon Goeth.
Now these types of villains I can tolerate to watch and hate. It’s the gory ones that I now avoid.
I agree Dudette - these are good ones
Yeh, I don’t watch horror movies. So the villains in those are in a class by themselves. Psycho is on my list, because I saw it as a teenager. Going into the shower creeped me out for months after seeing that.
Just my older sister and I were allowed to see it and my sister was so mean to me afterwards, that for weeks, I would only take baths - no shower curtain for me - no way!
yep no horror movies for me either… never really liked them.
Another scary villain - Dressed to Kill- now that movie scared me.
When I was very young- way too young, my mom and aunts sent me along with my older sister and cousins to a ‘matinee’ double feature in which one of the movies was about a man growing a second head on his shoulder… it started with just an eyeball.. I think it was called the “Two Headed Man” or the “Man with Two Heads”… anyhoo I literally had nightmares for years and have never forgotten it. Its been over 50 years since I saw it .
I remember that movie sherijr - we saw it too.
Now that’s the kind that I can tolerate now - because they don’t look so real - hahahaha!
yep I ran across it on tv in my 20s and had to chuckle at all the horrible dreams I’d had.. poor wee child.. I think its even still in black and white.
it was the eyeball blinking and looking around in his shoulder.. still creeps me out thinking about it. :)
Hahahahahaha!!!!!!!
Here is a much lighter version
Ha! I’ve never seen that one.. sure would have put my childhood nightmares in perspective ~
I can’t see the trailer, just the still….is that Rosie Greer?
yep Rosie Greer.
OMG! I remember that one! LOL!
This was shared earlier today, but as you are talking of villains, I figured the MoDowd person would fit right in. (The extract is from a Sullivan post. I particularly like that Sullivan accedes that PBO HAS CHANGED American politics.)
//…
Then MoDo stumbles onto the truth … and leaves it lying there on the sidewalk:
‘His White House runs on the idea that if you are virtuous and true and honorable, people will ultimately come to you. (An ethos that sometimes collides with political success.)’
That “sometimes” is a classic. It almost reminds me of the Monty Python Life of Brian skit about “what the Romans ever did for us”. Obama’s political style is useless, apart from becoming the first black president, saving the US from another Great Depression, succeeding at getting universal healthcare, rescuing the American auto industry, presiding over a civil rights revolution, ending two failed wars, avoiding two doomed others (against Syria and Iran), bringing the deficit down while growing the economy, focusing the executive branch on climate change, and killing bin Laden. Yes his ethos “sometimes” “collides” with political success.
But no, he has never obsessed about whom the capitol is buzzing about – i.e. boomers and their Clinton obsession. Which is proof enough of his transformation of American politics. He has transformed it so much that MoDo cannot even understand how he has been so successful.
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/08/11/modos-pure-washingtonism/
A character that scared me was the guy in GoodFellas… I am terrible with names anymore.. but the short guy, always smiling and talking fast ?? I don’t like Mobster movies- they all scare me- but my sons of course liked them and thus I’ve watched a few.
Was it Joe Pesci?
yes Joe Pesci.
thank you Carol.
Your very welcome sherijr. It drives my husband and me crazy when we can’t think of the character or actor.
I used to care - a lot… but now I’m so used to it ;) I know someone will know the name of a movie, book, song, actor.. and rescue me.
That’s why I love my iPad. ;)
I don’t have one.. does it answer stuff like that?
:lol:
and on that note, I’m gonna get on the highway heading for home…
It’s small enough to carry around or use in your chair. Anything you can google and then of course a YouTube app so all I had to do was search for Good-fellows.
okay I feel dumb … The only Ipad I’ve seen is my little granddaughter’s.. she uses it to Skype me. So yes I can see how its convenient for you due to size… no wonder GGail made her comment to me, lol.
It’s almost all I use. Good for everything but typing anything very long.
It works like a Kindle too. You can download books from Amazon or iTunes.
oh that’s nice.. especially like if you have a long wait somewhere, you can just pull it out and read.
Exactly, or just listen to music.
:shock:
What the “H” kind of cake is that?
I think it was for a “Dexter” after party.
Happy B’Day CarolMea ;)
This Cake of yours is giving me the chills….. :roll: :roll: :roll:
I’m a little crazy when Halloween comes around.
Egads!!!
:lol: Chips might need to worry about her cake tomorrow. ;)
RT this…
In an effort to solve the problem of child obesity, The White House is calling on the hip-hop community to help this generation get more active and achieve their goals. Michelle Obama and her “Let’s Move Campaign” are teaming up with the Partnership for a Healthier America and Hip Hop Public Health to promote and release a hip-hop album
focused on the cause.
http://m.mtv.com/blogs/rapfix_post.rbml?id=2013/08/08/michelle-obama-releasing-hip-hop-album-for-lets-move-campaign/&weburl=http%3a%2f%2frapfix.mtv.com%2f2013%2f08%2f08%2fmichelle-obama-releasing-hip-hop-album-for-lets-move-campaign%2f&alt=http%3a%2f%2fm.mtv.com%2fblogs%2frapfix.rbml&cid=300
Jovie, thanks for posting this. I saw it a couple of weeks ago and thought someone had already posted it.
I think it’s great that Doug E. Fresh & Dr. Oz along with others are supporting FLOTUS!
The clown from IT scared the “ever-lving shhh” out of me back in the day. I was like 10-13! Also too Freddie Krueger too
I’m sorry, maybe I’m falling prey to stererotypes of The Amish, but is this “Amish Mafia” show REAL??? REALLY?
This is the rodeo announcer’s lawyer talking, but he said all the escalating, anti-Obama hysteria originated from the clown who wore a microphone—-who was fired. The announcer’s lawyer said the announcer, a rodeo official and a superintendent of schools, only said, “Watch out for that bull Obama”. Whatever the truth, a despicable event. I think the rodeo should fire the announcer and be barred from the fair as a result.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-clown-obama-20130812,0,1862612.story
I think the superintendent of school should be fired.
That announcer can moon-walk all he wants - there were witness’ who speak differently - it wasn’t just the clown who stirred up the crowd.
Exactly!!!!!
Norman Bates “Bates Hotel” sent me screaming and the Exorcist, Linda Blair (heading spinning around). Call me a wuss because both scared the hell out me!
More Villains
Bad, baddies (but kinda Hawt):
Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban) - Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Wah Sing Ku (Jet Li) - Lethan Weapon 4
Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) - Blade Runner
Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) - The Matrix Trilogy
Brandt (Taye Diggs) - Equilibrium
Darth Maui (Ray Park) - Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace ( I just liked the way he moved, okay?)
Bill Sikes (Olver Reed) - Oliver!
El Indio (Gian Maria Volonté) - For a Few Dollars More
Crassus (Laurence Olivier) - Spartacus
Bad, baddies with no redeeming qualities:
Voldemort - Harry Potter movies (Rafe Fiennes plays evil too damned well)
Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine - Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi
Nazis - All of the Indiana Jones movies
Gollum - Lord of the Rings movies
Yellow Bastard - Sin City
Bill - Kill Bill series
Charles Manson - Helter Skelter
Oh, I love how Bill died. :twisted:
Which one?
Oh, sorry, Kill Bill.
Natzis- also in the Meryl Streep movie where she had to choose which one of her children would live and which would not.
Right! Good call!
The Good Son?
no I don’t think that’s the name… I’ll see if I can find it.
it was Sophie’s Choice.. saddest movie ever, imo.
Oh, didn’t see it. I haven’t seen a lot of the movies mentioned. I’m sticking to Rosemary’s Baby. I had to have a glass of wine to settle my nerves after watching three clips. Maybe because I was only 16 at the time.
lol… I understand completely, some movies just stay with you.
Brrr.
I loved Equilibrium - and Christian Bale swordfighting in that white suit? Hawt!
It wasn’t a “lone clown gone rogue”
Horror
1. The Shining
2. Psycho
3. The Exorcist
4. Silence of the Lambs
Creepy
1. The Omen
2. The Others
3. The Sixth Sense
HF, how could I forget about the Shining…”honey, I am home (as he is banging on the door with an ax” and “I’m not gonna hurt ya, I’m just gonna bash in your head”. Redrum, Redrum!
The Bird that one was a bit cheesy in my book…..The Dawn of the Living Dead….gastly. I saw that one at Midnight.
North By NorthWest….Is a Fun one with Cary Grant. I have seen that one at least 5X.
Denzel Washing in Training Day was a magnificent performance, so different from his usual MO. I couldn’t sleep after that. Johnny Depp in Once Upon Time in Mexico. Cool mean.
I couldn’t watch Training Day all the way through. It was just too much for me to see my Denzel like that. I couldn’t take it.
Sorry to say, I’ve never seen Once A Time in Mexico either. But Henry Fonda in Once Upon A Time in the West, was another one that disturbed me, because he was always such an upstanding citizen, if not outright hero. He played bad, REALLY GOOD in the one. :-)
I have never watched Training Day either- for exactly the same reason Dudette.
I know, I have never stopped thinking about it. Hoped until the very last scene that he was going to be good.
Neither have i. Same reason.
Per Smerconish on Hardball just now…..Negative Tweets of ACA outnumber positive tweets by 7 to 1.
That is just hard to believe. OFA do they not use the President’s Twitter followers to convey Positive messages. The TOD family here do. So I am suspect of that story.
Me too. That doesn’t seem right.
The good is all I see on my TL. ;)
Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeews of the Day!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/08/12/news-of-the-day-17/
Delurking to wish you a very Happy 21st Birthday Chips. 😊 Thank you for the great service and gift you’ve been offering at TOD.
Bondye beni’w. 💐🍷🍨🍰