September Film Challenge 🎬

[curious_slut]

Day 17: A movie with the greatest villain

Ursula checks the important villain boxes for me.

Fabulous
Bad witch
Bad bitch
Sings the best song

One of the greatest villains for sure.

 

[DirrrtyDanny]

Day 17 -- best movie villains. I present you, Warden Norton.

 

[SluttyShannon]

Day 17: A movie with the greatest villain

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 17: A movie with the greatest villain

Whatever I think of the current state of the franchise. The xenomorphs are the greatest movie monsters ever.

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Day 17: A movie with the greatest villain

The Usual Suspects

Keyser Soze

 

[vagrantx]

Day 17: A movie with the greatest villain

Watchmen is a... flawed movie. It doesn't capture the nuances of the graphic novel, but still I love it. Especially Ozymandias. He's an incredible villain; he does what he does for what he thinks is the betterment of mankind, but his methods are sociopathic. World peace at any cost.

But his speech is what seals it for me...

Rorschach: We can't let you do that...
Ozymandias: "Do that", Rorschach? Do you think I'd explain my master stroke to you, if there was even the slightest possibility that you could stop it? [Dramatic Pause] I triggered it thirty-five minutes ago.

Seeing the villain win in a mainstream blockbuster is so incredibly rare. It blew my mind. It's just too bad that the movie changed his ultimate weapon to tactical nuclear strikes, from what in the comic book is an inter-dimensional rain of mutant alien squids, crushing everyone and everything in their path

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 17: A movie with the greatest villain

Watchmen is a... flawed movie. It doesn't capture the nuances of the graphic novel, but still I love it. Especially Ozymandias. He's an incredible villain; he does what he does for what he thinks is the betterment of mankind, but his methods are sociopathic. World peace at any cost.

But his speech is what seals it for me...

Rorschach: We can't let you do that...
Ozymandias: "Do that", Rorschach? Do you think I'd explain my master stroke to you, if there was even the slightest possibility that you could stop it? [Dramatic Pause] I triggered it thirty-five minutes ago.

Seeing the villain win in a mainstream blockbuster is so incredibly rare. It blew my mind. It's just too bad that the movie changed his ultimate weapon to tactical nuclear strikes, from what in the comic book is an inter-dimensional rain of mutant alien squids, crushing everyone and everything in their path

Great choice! Did you watch the TV show?

 

[lavendersilk]

Day 18: A movie with your favorite ending

This one comes to mind. I'm almost certain I've mentioned this movie before, probably for this very question, but, I gotta say it again...

Being There (1979)

 

[vagrantx]

This was a work of fiction. Hannibal Lector isn't real.

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Great choice! Did you watch the TV show?

I didn't! Haven't? I've completely missed that there's a TV show!! Binging weekend, here we come!

Day 18: A movie with your favorite ending

This one comes to mind. I'm almost certain I've mentioned this movie before, probably for this very question, but, I gotta say it again...

Being There (1979)

Never even heard of this one either!! I have so much catching up to do

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 18: A movie with your favorite ending

A lot to choose from... Much respect for "Being There" getting posted first... I'll go with this one.

 

[Awaywego]

A movie with your favorite ending

Bull Dirham slightly based on a real baseball player but in the end quantum physics and sex with "long, slow, wet, deep kisses that last 3 days"

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 18: A movie with your favorite ending
I don't know if it's my absolute favorite, but it's a damned good one.

 

[Grant55]

Day 18: Meet John Doe

No one could portray the common man as well as Gary Cooper

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 18: A movie with your favorite ending

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 18: A movie with your favorite ending

Such a great movie. Christopher Lee is soo good in everything. Almost unique -- a cozy horror film.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Such a great movie. Christopher Lee is soo good in everything. Almost unique -- a cozy horror film.

Folk Horror is probably my favorite sub genre.

 

[vagrantx]

Such a great movie. Christopher Lee is soo good in everything. Almost unique -- a cozy horror film.

And tangentially related - The Wicker Man's Bruce Dickinsons' favorite song to perform live!

 

[curious_slut]

Day 18: A movie with your favorite ending

I'm from America, I'd be lying if I said I didn't want happy endings. However...Beast is a fucked up little movie with a satisfying ending, at least as much as can be expected. It's open to interpretation apparently but I took it at face value This was the first time I saw Jessie Buckley in anything and I've been slightly in love with her ever since.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 18: A movie with your favorite ending

I'm from America, I'd be lying if I said I didn't want happy endings. However...Beast is a fucked up little movie with a satisfying ending, at least as much as can be expected. It's open to interpretation apparently but I took it at face value This was the first time I saw Jessie Buckley in anything and I've been slightly in love with her ever since.

I’ve never even heard of this but I’m so intrigued!

 

[curious_slut]

I’ve never even heard of this but I’m so intrigued!

It appears to be on Prime until the end of the month. I think I'll rewatch it, it's been a long time. Let me know what you think if you get around to watching

 

[Bry1313]

Day 18 - A Movie with a favorite ending

Was gonna go a couple of different ways but favorite would be hard for some of the more unpleasant endings.

Let’s go with a more sentimental one

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 18: A movie with your favorite ending

My favorite ending I used last time, and I am doing my best to not duplicate. And there are so many other options! Oh, this move has options...so many options...

So when this film was first made, it was a brilliant , beautiful, future noir. Then the studio looked it over and said " hey, you can't really tell that Harris Ford is the good guy. And it's confusing. Add a voice over. And why do we need this dream sequence with the unicorns? And the ending? No really happy enough. Fix that." So they added Ford doing the most lifeless voice over ever. Cut scenes. Then added a happy ending that involved Ford's character having an entire conversation with another character, off screen, that completely changes a big part of the story, but everyone apparently forgot about it until the end. And don't look to close at the ending scene or you will notice it looks a lot like an aerial shot from Kubrick's version of The Shining. The end.

Except not. It was a brilliant film, and Scott had the best eye in movies. So it was recut. And again. There are no less than five official cuts of this film, as well as the European broadcast version. Cut out are the "happy" ending and voiceover. And you get the original final shot: An origami unicorn, and the other Replicant hunter, Gaff's, final words. "Too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?" So much in one image and quote. It solidified to many the answer of whether Deckard was the last escaped Replicant, used to hunt the others. And it turned what sounded like a threat into an affirmation. Rachel has the short life of a Replicant, then she will die. But we all die. It is part of being human. Gaff could have killed them both, but he chose to let them have the time they had. It was an affirmation of life.



And a brilliant ending.

Blade Runner -- The Final Cut (2007)

 

[EndCreditsPart2]

Day 18: A movie with your favorite ending.

I don't want to give it away so no clips, but: The Lives of Others

 

[DirrrtyDanny]

Day 18: Favourite ending — Usual Suspects. (But only the first time you see it. Every other subsequent viewing - and there will be many - is chasing that original high and mind-fuck.)

 

[vagrantx]

Day 18: A movie with your favorite ending.

This is an odd choice, maybe, but the only ending to a film I've seen in the theatre where the entire audience collectively went "vad i helvete (what the hell)" and gasped so hard I thought we'd all suffocate, is SAW.

Say what you will about the torture-porn subgenre of slashers, they're gory and fucked up, but holy shit what an incredible twist it was. EVERYONE was buzzing about it on the way out. Considering how good the special effects were for such a low budget flick, and how awful the gore was, nobody said a word about it - it was all about that one story element.

You know the one.