That makes about as much sense as a screen door on a battleship.
*** Cyclone Fanatic Movie Villain Tournament Elite 8 ***
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Part 1 is perfection. Part 2 which gets a bad rap is a solid sequel. But 3 with whole wild west setting didn't do much for me.
Sad that looks like Gruber is going down. He's personally my favorite villain but he got a Cyclone like draw even as a 1 seed.
I love that book, movie, and performance (NCfOM), but to me Biff is just more of a villain than a professional hitman trying to avoid the law. Especially in the sequel where he's basically infected the entire planet with his brand of scum. I went with Biff haha.
Same on Silence of the Lambs. Top ten movie for me, love the character, love the performance...but the whole reason Lecter is cool is that he really doesn't even want to kill Clarice and even tells her the world is more interesting with her.
Gary Oldman as Dracula would be the third performance I'd put in with those other two as just mind blowing amazing and complex, but I get why they said no horror characters. That one I might just say "best acting I've seen ever".
I always think of the third one as falling off, but then I watch it and it's really almost as good as the first two. As a kid in the theater seeing the cliffhanger at the end of pt 1 teasing pt 2 already was incredible.
demoncore1031
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Of all the tournaments we have done, this one has had the closest matchups by far.
Anton actually isn’t a compelling villain to me. The guy is basically the T1000. It’s his relentlessness that makes him scary. Outside of that I don’t really think there is much there.
Agreed. He never felt real to me. It felt like violence for the sake of violence.
Agreed. I was going to say he’s kind of like a drone, but didn’t want to piss anyone off. Definitely a frightening character, but he’s just too similar to other villains (i.e. T1000 and Harvey Dent).
Continuing the trilogy discussion … my enduring rank has been 2-1-3, but I find good event a in each.
If there were only one and no sequels, it’d be good on its own. And of course it set template for potential sequels.
I like the timeline twists in 2. It’s a little higher level of thought experiment. It’s a smidge “darker,” of course.
3 is more about Doc (that’s fine) - but adheres to the generic western form. Nothing wrong with that, although not my favorite type of genre so I don’t seem as drawn to it. I do like how Doc got creative with the locomotive to drive DeLorean.
