100 Greatest Movie Characters

[Titanss]

"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."

[Dimmauk]

"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."

James T. Kirk: Khan. Khan, you've got Genesis. But you don't have me! You're going to kill me, Khan, you're going to have to come down here. You're going to have to come down here.

Khan Noonien Singh: I've done far worse than kill you. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on... hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her. Marooned for all eternity, in the center of a dead planet. Buried alive... buried alive.

James T. Kirk: [shouts] KHHHHAAAAAAAAN! [echoes] KHHHHAAAAAAAAN!
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[Brill Weave]

While I enjoyed Fight Club it's pretty asinine to think of Tyler Durden as number 1. Look at the other characters he beat out in the end. Tyler Durden is not a more captivating character than John Rambo or Indiana Jones or Clubber Lang. Poor choice. Very poor choice. He belongs in the top 25, not number 1.

[Celeste]

That guy would batter the fuck out of Tyler. Absolutely wicked character.

Proof of this.

Spoiler: show

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Another favorite of mine, Kakihara from Ichi the Killer.

[Lebzile]

Ace Ventura so shoulda been higher up on the list, my favorite two movies of Jim Carry's.

[Eticket]

I don't see Verbal Kint on either of those lists.

[tyven]

though john mcclane made the list, i find it retarded he's not top 5.

[Eticket]

Premiere actually did a list like this and John McClane barely even made the top 50

Premiere - The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time

The top 10:

1. Vito Corleone of The Godfather
2. Fred C. Dobbs of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. Scarlett O'Hara of Gone With the Wind
4. Norman Bates of Psycho
5. James Bond of Dr. No
6. Annie Hall of Annie Hall
7. Indiana Jones of Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Ellen Ripley of Alien
9. Jeff Spicoli of Fast Times at Ridgemont High
10. Gollum of Lord of the Rings

[Dimmauk]

Batman and Superman not on the top 25 is just dumb. But the Joker is.

[Dimmauk]

Premiere actually did a list like this and John McClane barely even made the top 50

Premiere - The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time

The top 10:

1. Vito Corleone of The Godfather
2. Fred C. Dobbs of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. Scarlett O'Hara of Gone With the Wind
4. Norman Bates of Psycho
5. James Bond of Dr. No
6. Annie Hall of Annie Hall
7. Indiana Jones of Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Ellen Ripley of Alien
9. Jeff Spicoli of Fast Times at Ridgemont High
10. Gollum of Lord of the Rings

Spicoli and bates not even in the top 25 on the new list.

[Norelco]

LOL holy crap. I literally came into this thread specifically to look for Tyler Durden to see if he even made the list and he ended up as #1.

[Eticket]

Neither Durden nor Bateman are on the Premiere list.

This was in April of '04 so it was late enough for both of them.

I'm a bit disappointed that they left Inigo Montoya out as well.

[Eggroll]

Ok, seriously how is Patrick Bateman from "American Psycho" not on the list or even mention? Patrick Bateman greater than all. Patrick Bateman would fuck Tyler Durden up anyday, just a few lines from Patrick would leave Tyler utterly speechless.

He is on the list, was #38 I think or somewhere around that.

[Byrd]

I don't see Verbal Kint on either of those lists.

Good call. Kevin Spacey has three characters that should have been on this list. Verbal Kint, John Doe (Se7en) and Lester Burnham (American Beauty) were all really intriguing characters (and very different characters). For that matter, I liked him as Lex Luthor, too.

[Headspace]

Spacey is just the man. Period.

[Brien]

Spacey is just the man. Period.

in that respected but bizarrely creepy way...

[grantlogan]

Howard the Duck should be number 1!




/runs

[wyrmtung]

Ok, seriously how is Patrick Bateman from "American Psycho" not on the list or even mention? Patrick Bateman greater than all. Patrick Bateman would fuck Tyler Durden up anyday, just a few lines from Patrick would leave Tyler utterly speechless.

He's #40

I don't see Verbal Kint on either of those lists.

He is listed at #69 as Keyser Soze. Fucking White Goodman from Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story finished ahead of him.

In fact there are a lot of garbage picks on the list. When I read the topic, I thought of two characters which I thought were definitely going to be on the list. Much to my surprise, they were not.

How could you not put Blake or Gunnery Sergeant Hartman on the list?

Most awesome speech ever:
YouTube - Alec Baldwin - Best performance

A movie role so powerful that it typecasted R. Lee Ermey for the rest of his movie career:
YouTube - Full Metal Jacket - 10 Minutes of Boot Camp

[Melena]

Fucking terrible formatting so I'm not going through all of them right now, but no mention of Doc Holiday from Tombstone?

glad to know i wasn't the only one thinking this. I still feel this has been Val Kilmer's best performance ever.

[Tanthalass]

1. The Joker (Heath Ledger)
2. Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando)
3. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino)
4. Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)
5. Darth Vader (James Earl Jones)
6. Han Solo (Harrison Ford)
7. Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp)
8. Hannibal Lecter (Sir Anthony Hopkins)
9. Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall)
10. Indana Jones (Harrison Ford)
11. Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson)
12. Tony Montana (Al Pacino
13. Charles Foster Cane (Orson Welles)
14. The Terminator (Ahnold)
15. James Bond (Daniel Craig)
16. John McClane (Bruce Willis)
17. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)
18. Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen)
19. Gollum (Andy Serks)
20. Batman/Bruce Wayne(Christian Bale)
21. Jason Bourne (Matt Damon)
22. Derek Vinyard (American History X)
23. Bonnie & Clyde
24. Gandalf (Sir Ian Mckellan)
25. HAL-9000