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Posted: Jan 21, 2008 in Movies
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You know 'em and love 'em: the scuzziest of the scuzzy, the douche in your favorite movies. Sometimes they're cannon fodder for the villain, others they're just there to gum up the works and make the hero's job that much harder.
So here's the cream of the rotten crop, those guys whose presence made our favorite movies so much more fun because they're so fun to hate.
5) Troy Perkins (Steve Antin), The Goonies-He thinks just because his daddy is buying up all of the houses in the Goon Docks so he can build a country club that it gives him the right to be a punk to Brand (Josh Brolin), Mikey (Sean Astin) and the gang. The ultimate spoiled rich kid.
4) White Goodman (Ben Stiller), Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story-He's pumped up, has a fat 'stache, and the decor in his office has just a little too much homoerotic imagery. Plus he's trying to buy out poor Peter(Vince Vaughn)'s little gym to build a parking lot for his massive chain gym.
3) Cal Hockley (Billy Zane), Titanic-Okay, so maybe he's the ultimate spoiled rich kid. He smacks around his fiance (Kate Winslet), who is only with him because her mom is poor to begin with, then he snags a little girl to punch his ticket off of the sinking ship. Sure as a character he's flatly written, but Zane brings a slimy arrogance to the role that makes him memorable.
2) Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson), Back to the Future-The thick-headed bully who torments George McFly (Crispin Glover), and an out-of-his-element Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), he gts his comeuppance when Marty teaches his pops how to stand up for himself, but later makes his comeback (as do both his progeny and his ancestors) to torment Marty and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd...no not OUR Chris Lloyd), for films to come.
1) Harry Ellis (Hart Bochner), Die Hard-the quintessential d--------, Ellis openly flaunts that he's after John McClane(Bruce Willis)'s wife, isn't as discreet about his cocaine habit as he thinks, and is arrogant enough to think he can talk McClane into a certain death at the hands of Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) and his cronies.
I love these lists you're always bringing us Joe. Some good choices that I wouldn't have been able to come up with. Here are a couple though: Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze and Daniel Cosgrove as that spoiled brat in Van Wilder.
I love these lists you're always bringing us Joe. Some good choices that I wouldn't ...
Thanks! I got the idea for this one watching the first "Die Hard" last night. I thought "that Ellis is the biggest d-bag in movie history, isn't he?", and there you go.
Arnold as Mr. Freeze is a good choice. I'm hoping Christopher Nolan rectifies Joel Schumacher's mistake and casts Patrick Stewart as Mr. Freeze in the third or fourth film of his Batman series.
Awww... I feel a bit mislead. Yet, good list.
Tell me, can anyone identify and avatar?