Although usually in the cinema the audience is enthusiastic about the adventures of the hero of the day, titles where people prefer the villain more featuring some very charismatic characters that will inevitably hook you.
Not only that, but there are certain films where the protagonists are downright bad guys. We find many characters of this type that are now iconic in the world of cinema.
From Hannibal Lecter to the Joker, there are antagonistic characters who, although in real life we would consider them the smallest and most terrifying, on screen we find ourselves fascinated by their evil.
Today at Hobby Consoles we are reviewing 10 Movies Where (Almost) Everyone Goes With A Bad Boy.
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
- Year: 2018
- Duration: 156 min.
- directorsStory by: Anthony and Joe Russo
- Floor: Superheroes
Undoubtedly superhero movies are a good example of finding villains that excite the public.
In all of them, we especially highlight the role of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity Warthe main villain of the arc known as the “Infinity Saga”, played by actor Josh Brolin.
The reason Thanos liked it is mostly because managed to defeat the Avengers, fulfilling his goal of wiping out half the universe with the power of the Infinity Stones., thus finding the perfect balance he was looking for. We leave you here our review of Avengers: Infinity War.
TRAINING DAY
- Year: 2001
- Duration: 122 min.
- directorStory by: Antoine Fuqua
- Floor: Police Thriller
Starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. training day in an interesting cop thriller that follows Jake Hoyt, a young cop newly assigned to the DEA who begins his rounds with Sergeant Alonzo Harris to learn from him.
The problem is that Alonzo, Although he is a good drug specialist with 13 years of experience, his questionable methods blur the line between legality and corruption..
As the training day progresses, we see Alonzo casually doing all sorts of dirty things; robbing drug dealers, confronting ex-cops, and even killing a few people along the way.
Alonzo is clearly the villain in Training Day, and yet almost everyone sides with him. thanks to director Antoine Fuqua’s more honest approach, culminating in a brilliant performance by Denzel Washington.
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
- Year: 1991
- Duration: 115 min.
- directorStory by: Jonathan Deme
- Floor: Psychological thriller
There is no doubt that one of movies where almost everyone goes with a bad guy This Silence of the Lambsfilm starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levin and Anthony Heald.
Its plot follows Clarice Starling, a brilliant college graduate and expert in psychopathic behavior who seeks to join the FBI. Her boss Jack Crawford hires her to visit Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a psychoanalyst and serial killer who devoured his victims in a maximum security prison.
Clarice’s mission is to try and get information from Lecter to help them find and capture “Buffalo Bill”.another serial killer who kidnaps and kills young women after carefully grooming and skinning them.
Although he appears on screen very little (only 17 minutes), Anthony Hopkins had enough time to drink one of the best villains in movie history. Lecter’s escape scene is pure gold.
joker
- Year: 2019
- Duration: 121 min.
- directorStory by: Todd Phillips
- Floor: psychological drama
After movies about villains we have jokerbased on Batman’s iconic nemesis, who plays Joaquin Phoenix so brilliantly.
The film tells the story of Arthur Fleck, a broke comedian who suffers from a mental breakdown that causes him to laugh out loud involuntarily.
Despised by society Fleck begins to slowly descend into insanity, transforming into the criminal mastermind known as the Joker..
Although it bears little resemblance to the comic book version, Todd Phillips makes a very interesting interpretation of the character exploring the depths of his psyche, “justifying” why he goes to such lengths. Here we leave our review of the Joker.
SRUELLA
- Year: 2021
- Duration: 134 min.
- director: Craig Gillespie
- Floor: thriller
Another film dedicated to the main villain – cruelone of the last Disney films starring Emma Stone and Emma Thompson.
The film is set in the 1970s and tells the story of a young con artist named Estella. recounting the events that led her to bring out her evil side and become the infamous villain of the Disney classic known as Cruella de Vil, reflecting on how from a very young age she was already a psychopath, obsessed with fashion and animal skins.
In the style of the Joker movie, Cruella delves into the character’s personality, explaining what made her become the despicable person in 101 Dalmatians. You can read our Cruella review here.
HEAT
- Year: one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five
- Duration: 172 min.
- directorStory by: Michael Mann
- Floor: action, thriller
Written and directed by Michael Mann. Heat is a thrilling action movie starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore and Ashley Judd.
Its plot follows Neil McCauley, a seasoned bank robber who, along with his gang, manages to impress Vincent Hanna with his skills, a detective who is so obsessed with his job that he puts his personal life in danger.
As the McCauley gang prepares a death blow and Hannah’s team tries to prevent it, each of them understands that they have to deal with the most brilliant mind they have encountered in their careers.
Despite being a thief, Robert De Niro’s character wins the public’s love not only because of how meticulously he prepares his work, but also because he is a thief who is very clear that he does not want to stain his hands with blood trying to carry out his robberies without casualties.
PLEDGE
- Year: 2004
- Duration: 120 min.
- directorStory by: Michael Mann
- Floor: thriller
Starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. Pledge an interesting thriller, the plot of which follows Max, a taxi driver, is forced to take Vincent, a hitman on a mission, as a passenger..
It is considered one of the best roles of Tom Cruise. Vincent’s character is the most charismatic and, although he dedicates himself to eliminatingsonas and crossing them off his list as if he were shopping, he is incredibly good at what he does, earning the respect of the public.
DAY OF FURY
- Year: 1993
- Duration: 112 min.
- directorStory by: Joel Schumacher
- Floor: social drama
Another one from movies where people go with the bad guy This Day of Ragefilm directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Tikotin and Lois Smith.
It tells the story of Bill Foster, an ordinary person who suddenly violently and destructively rebels against everything around him during a traffic jam in Los Angeles.
The film skillfully portrays Foster as an ordinary hero for most of the film, showing a principled and courageous man who unites against the evils of modern civilization, forcing many viewers to side with him.
But as the day goes on and Foster becomes more violent, doubts about his actions are inevitable. It’s only when it’s revealed that his “wife” is actually his ex-wife, that he has a restraining order against him, and that Foster lost his job months ago, that it becomes clear that this “hero” actually broke up a long time ago. . .
WELL of ambition
- Year: 2007
- Duration: 158 min.
- directorStory by: Paul Thomas Anderson
- Floor: Historical drama
inside movies with villains that almost everyone likes we have wells of ambitionperiod drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano.
Its plot takes us to Texas at the beginning of the 20th century and tells us the story of Daniel Plainview, a man who moves to an unhappy city to get rich.
However, As he gets richer, his principles and values fade and he ends up at the mercy of ambition, becoming a wealthy tycoon after discovering an oil field in 1902.. Years later, Daniel tries to take over a new oil field, but has to fight preacher Eli Sunday.
Although he is a despicable being who does real barbarism to amass a fortune, the way he becomes more and more evil has fascinated most of the audience. And, of course, this is facilitated by the excellent performance of Daniel Day-Lewis.
THIRD PERSON
- Year: 1949
- Duration: 104 min.
- directorStory by: Carol Reid
- Floor: Film noir
Classics where they are third man is a film by Carol Reed starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles and Bernard Lee.
Its plot takes us to the beginning of the Cold War and follows Holly Martins, an American writer who travels to Vienna to visit Harry Lime, a childhood friend who promised him a job. However, when he arrives, he finds that his friend has died in a hit-and-run.
The head of the British military police informs Martins that Lyme is heavily involved in the black market. However, Mārtiņš does not add details, because everyone says they saw two men at the site of their friend’s escape, with the exception of one witness who claims to have seen a third man..
There is no doubt that Orson Welles’ image captivated most of the public, for, although he is a schemer and egoist, his legendary speech “men are like ants” made Harry Lime especially sympathetic.
While our review of these 10 Movies Where (Almost) Everyone Goes With A Bad Boy. Moving on to filmophile stuff, here we remind you of these films that turn 40 in 2022, but which we continue to enjoy today as we did yesterday.
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