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LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
Mon Aug 6, 2012, 10:43 AM Aug 2012

Post here - Biggest Douchebags in the movies

I just watch "Contagion" again on HBO. Jude Law manages to play a HUGE Douchebag, a Matt Drudge type that pushes alot of false information about the Virus wrecking havoc on the globe. He thinks he is some sort of prophet but he's so douchey that he promotes a fake story about how homopathic medicines cured him when in reality he was taking money from Hedge Fund managers who were looking to make a profit on this crisis.

And Jude Law is one of those very attractive actors and yet they made him look like a douchebag. His face was nasty, greasy looking and his teeth were really bad (I watched Gattaca again just to confirm that the teeth he was wearing in 'Contagion' was probably fake).

Post here other giant Douchebags in the movies.

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Post here - Biggest Douchebags in the movies (Original Post) LynneSin Aug 2012 OP
Kevin Bacon in "Sleepers". ohiosmith Aug 2012 #1
Biff Tannen from Back To The Future immediately comes to mind. Initech Aug 2012 #2
Absolutely! ohiosmith Aug 2012 #3
Percy from "The Green Mile" geardaddy Aug 2012 #4
Ditto, nt Broken_Hero Aug 2012 #58
My first thought. yesphan Aug 2012 #68
Joaquin Pheonix in Gladiator charlie and algernon Aug 2012 #5
Excellent choice, excellent actor. Scuba Aug 2012 #26
He portrayed the narcissistic personality of the historical Commodus perfectly. Odin2005 Aug 2012 #56
Douglas C. Neidermayer - Sgt. at Arms Initech Aug 2012 #6
Is that a pledge pin on your uniform?! geardaddy Aug 2012 #12
Hooked it!!! Initech Aug 2012 #17
Tony Montana Initech Aug 2012 #7
Another Al Pacino bad guy to root for was Lefty Two Guns in "Donnie Brasco". Kaleva Aug 2012 #44
Zander Kelly, Doc_Technical Aug 2012 #8
Dabney Coleman in every role he ever had. Swede Aug 2012 #9
Best was '9 to 5' LynneSin Aug 2012 #10
Not every role... MessiahRp Aug 2012 #33
Weird. I just watched "Contagion" last night. One sentence plot. Not a good movie. HopeHoops Aug 2012 #11
Yeah. I watched it and was underwhelmed. Liberal Veteran Aug 2012 #21
Are you a "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" sort? HopeHoops Aug 2012 #23
Y'know, Franklin in "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" is quite a douche Tom Ripley Aug 2012 #72
Sack. Lodge. HughBeaumont Aug 2012 #13
Totally. geardaddy Aug 2012 #18
Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. Liberal Veteran Aug 2012 #14
Jason Robards-The Enemy Within Equate Aug 2012 #15
Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross. woo me with science Aug 2012 #16
Christopher McDonald in "Thelma and Louise" Enrique Aug 2012 #19
OMG Yes - he even dressed liked on LynneSin Aug 2012 #20
He pretty much always plays a douchebag n/t RZM Aug 2012 #25
Shooter McGavin MessiahRp Aug 2012 #34
Hilly, and Skeeter's mom in "The Help" Bertha Venation Aug 2012 #22
Biggus Dickus in "Life of Bryan" yellowcanine Aug 2012 #24
Frank Burns in M*A*S*H, who also got perhaps the best all-time come-uppance. Scuba Aug 2012 #27
Obviously the Lord and Lady Douchebag One_Life_To_Give Aug 2012 #28
Patrick Bergen... WinstonSmith4740 Aug 2012 #29
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." KamaAina Aug 2012 #30
Can you blame him? LynneSin Aug 2012 #32
I agree. The only thing that mattered to Scarlett was what she wanted. Kaleva Aug 2012 #41
But she always loved him even though she didn't know it Robyn66 Aug 2012 #67
Rhett Butler?? Oh hell NO!! MicaelS Aug 2012 #76
Matt Damon in School Ties. n/t RiffRandell Aug 2012 #31
Jude Law played a great douchbag in the Road To Perdition lunatica Aug 2012 #35
Take your pick sadbear Aug 2012 #36
. Shrek Aug 2012 #37
Top one was a douchebag but not Hannibal Lector LynneSin Aug 2012 #47
The antoganist in Rob Roy JonLP24 Aug 2012 #38
Peter Fonda as cult leader, Neil Kirklander, in the little-known 1982 sleeper drama, "Split Image" nikto Aug 2012 #39
Ahhnold obxhead Aug 2012 #40
Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd. valerief Aug 2012 #42
That reminded me of Tim Robbins in Bob Roberts. sadbear Aug 2012 #43
Ah, yes, another great douche in a great movie! nt valerief Aug 2012 #46
Nurse Diesel Skittles Aug 2012 #45
James Woods in Casino <eom> Big Orange Jeff Aug 2012 #48
Any role performed... awoke_in_2003 Aug 2012 #49
Oh yes. One of the shittiest actors out there RZM Aug 2012 #51
Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity <eom> Big Orange Jeff Aug 2012 #50
Stanley Tucci, in The Lovely Bones Spirochete Aug 2012 #52
bar none... absyntheminded Aug 2012 #53
brilliant performance, but completlely douchbag absyntheminded Aug 2012 #54
Alan Rickman Jeff In Milwaukee Aug 2012 #55
Catherine Hicks in The Razor's Edge bluedigger Aug 2012 #57
Burke slutticus Aug 2012 #59
tony montana by a mile djames59434 Aug 2012 #60
Tom Cruise in "War of the Worlds." OnyxCollie Aug 2012 #61
No acting required Major Nikon Aug 2012 #65
The Ayn Rand loving, woman hating little prick from "Dirty Dancing" demmiblue Aug 2012 #62
Robert Prescott's character "Kent" in the film "Real Genius". Zorra Aug 2012 #63
Christopher Walken in At Close Range. geminifemini Aug 2012 #64
Jar-Jar Binks Angleae Aug 2012 #66
Wring her neck ! yesphan Aug 2012 #69
The Magnificent William Atherton in Everything Except CBGLuthier Aug 2012 #70
Wow. I've only seen like two of these movies. sinkingfeeling Aug 2012 #71
Ben Affleck in Mallrats shawn703 Aug 2012 #73
Not as douchey as Ben Affleck in 'Dazed and Confused' LynneSin Aug 2012 #75
Ben Affleck in anything. geardaddy Aug 2012 #77
I'd also say JonLP24 Aug 2012 #78
"In the back of a Volkswagen??" opiate69 Aug 2012 #79
Paul Reiser in Aliens geardaddy Aug 2012 #74

Initech

(100,076 posts)
2. Biff Tannen from Back To The Future immediately comes to mind.
Mon Aug 6, 2012, 10:51 AM
Aug 2012

Especially his corrupted, powerful, mega billionaire alter ego from Part II that marries Marty's mother and legalizes gambling in Hill Valley - turning it into a slum.

Initech

(100,076 posts)
6. Douglas C. Neidermayer - Sgt. at Arms
Mon Aug 6, 2012, 11:21 AM
Aug 2012

"And most recently during a Roman toga party - of which we received over two dozen reports of individual acts of perversion so profound and disgusting - the decorum prohibits listing them here."

Kaleva

(36,301 posts)
44. Another Al Pacino bad guy to root for was Lefty Two Guns in "Donnie Brasco".
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 08:06 PM
Aug 2012

In real life it was Sonny Black who was killed by the mob for allowing an FBI under cover agent into their midst. Lefty was to be killed too but the FBI arrested him on his way to his supposed final meeting. He refused to cooperate and the Mob called off the contract on him.

In the pic below, Lefty is the man in the center:

 

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)
72. Y'know, Franklin in "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" is quite a douche
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 09:50 AM
Aug 2012

You know you are watching masterful depravity when you find yourself saying, "I can't wait until that whining, annoying prick in the wheelchair gets it!"

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
20. OMG Yes - he even dressed liked on
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 11:22 AM
Aug 2012

Like somehow because he wears all that gold chains and has that big poofy hair with the moustache that it will drive women wild.

He was a creepy douchebag

Bertha Venation

(21,484 posts)
22. Hilly, and Skeeter's mom in "The Help"
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 12:29 PM
Aug 2012

Hilly's an evil racist and Skeeter's mom is a spineless racist. GOD that movie made me mad!

WinstonSmith4740

(3,056 posts)
29. Patrick Bergen...
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 04:31 PM
Aug 2012

as Martin Burney in "Sleeping With The Enemy". I was literally on my feet at the end screaming, "SHOOT HIM!!!"

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
32. Can you blame him?
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 05:44 PM
Aug 2012

In that movie the only douchebag was Scarlett O'Hara.

She kept pining for a man who was not available, marrying the wrong man just for social status and all the while leading Rhett Butler around but never quite loving him as much as he loved her. That douchebag Scarlett deserved what she got in the end.

Robyn66

(1,675 posts)
67. But she always loved him even though she didn't know it
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 08:04 AM
Aug 2012

I always pictured that they got back together. I read the book that was supposed to be the sequel which was HORRiD, but I just KNOW Rhett and Scarlett got back together (said with a southern accent)-sorry to digress

MicaelS

(8,747 posts)
76. Rhett Butler?? Oh hell NO!!
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 12:06 PM
Aug 2012

He was one of the decent ones. Scarlett O'Hara is the biggest douchebag in the entire film. Never understood people's love affair for that character and that film.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
35. Jude Law played a great douchbag in the Road To Perdition
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 06:17 PM
Aug 2012

Yellow scummy teeth, dirty fingernails, really yucky!

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
47. Top one was a douchebag but not Hannibal Lector
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 08:17 PM
Aug 2012

He was just a misunderstood cannibal. The real douche in that movie was that weezel that was Dr. Chilton, the guy who ran the crazybin where Lector was originally kept. Just went Clarice was making a breakthrough with finding Buffalo Bill, Dr Chelton decided to cut a deal with the Senator whose daughter was kidnapped in order to get his name in the papers. THAT, my dear friend, is a douchebag

 

nikto

(3,284 posts)
39. Peter Fonda as cult leader, Neil Kirklander, in the little-known 1982 sleeper drama, "Split Image"
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 06:56 PM
Aug 2012





Best film about cults, and one of the best about "family values", ever made.

See it if you can!

A very un-manichean film.


Truth can be messy.



Kirklander:
"It will happen that fast...!"
 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
49. Any role performed...
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 08:49 PM
Aug 2012

by Bill Paxton. They say some 50% of matter in the universe is dark matter. I disagree. 50% of matter in the universe is suckage, and BP knows how to tap that power at will.

Spirochete

(5,264 posts)
52. Stanley Tucci, in The Lovely Bones
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 10:12 PM
Aug 2012

Samuel L Jackson in Lakeview Terrace
Michael McKean in Mystery, Alaska
Ryan Philippe in The Lincoln Lawyer
Andy Romano in Pump Up the Volume.

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
55. Alan Rickman
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 10:52 PM
Aug 2012

Don't get me wrong. LOVE HIM as an actor, which is why he plays pricks to well.

Hans Gruber in "Die Hard"
Sheriff of Nottingham and one of the few good things about "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"
Severus Snape in some obscure magic-and-wizard movie, I forget the title.

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
70. The Magnificent William Atherton in Everything Except
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 09:39 AM
Aug 2012

Day of the Locust and Sugerland Express.

Otherwise



Die Hard 1 and 2



Real Genius



Ghostbusters


A True Trifecta of Doucherie

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
78. I'd also say
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 12:27 PM
Aug 2012

He was douche in "Changing Lanes" but a douche w/ a conscious so he wasn't the biggest douche in that film. Probably have to be his boss.

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