Best Villian in a Vietnam War Movie

[LynneSin]

My vote is for Gunnery Sgt Hartmann from "Full Metal Jacket" - who is yours?

[underpants]

1. I didn't take him as a villian

They should have gone to Lou Gossett's house and taken his Oscar and given it to R. Lee Ermey

BTW Ermey also played a helicopter pilot in Apocalypse Now

[Seeking Serenity]

4. I didn't, either. He was just a hard drill sergeant.

My vote: Staff Sgt. Barnes in Platoon.

[Crazy Dave]

11. My drill sergeants would sometimes come in still drunk from the night before

And their antics and verbal abuse made Hartman seem pretty tame.

[Lincolngirl]

2. Platoon,

Sgt Bob Barnes, Berringer, was brilliant!

Second to FMJ, one of my favorites...

[Crazy Dave]

6. Yep

"Barnes" came to my mind first.

[underpants]

8. Bunny

Kevin Dillon

Great lines..that I won't post here

[Wetzelbill]

13. same here, first one I thought of

[Parche]

3. LT Cleophus Bighowitzer In The Movie "Saving Ryan's Privates"

:woohoo: :hi:

[LynneSin]

7. huh?

smoking crack again?

[tjwash]

9. Hey...they had a double feature with that one and "free your willy"

:yoiks:

[tjwash]

5. "You had best unfuck yourself or I will tear off your head and shit down your NECK!"

Our CC in boot camp used that one all the time. /flashback


Anyway...

Mine; had to be Kurtz from Apocalypse Now...


Freaky and sinister

[underpants]

10. "Whatever you do Private Pyle DON'T DIE that would break my heart!!"

Pvt. Pyle of course went on to one of the Law&Orders and was fantastic as Abbie Hoffman in "Steal this movie"

and Animal Mother is hilarious on "Chuck" <--highly recommend that show

[tjwash]

16. Pyle...were you born a scumbag dumbass puke piece of shit...or did you have to work at it ?

That dude WAS our CC in boot camp.

D'Onofrio took off after that movie. What the hell ever happened to Matthew Modine? Talk about disappearing of the face of the planet.

[Crazy Dave]

17. I think my favorite was

"Did your parents have any children that lived?"

"Sir, yes sir!"

"I'll bet they regret that!"

[tjwash]

22. Five foot eight? I didn't know they stacked shit that high...you trying to squeeze an inch in on me?

:rofl:

[Crazy Dave]

23. Holy dog shit Texas!

:rofl:

[Aristus]

15. Again, the question: a villain? Kurtz was as much "sinned against as sinning."

He was the end-product of the soul-less "war for profit" corporate nation that sent him over there in the first place. I think one of the flaws of "Apocalypse Now" is that it talks about Kurtz's pain without ever really showing it. Brando intellectualizes the monologue in which he talks about the Viet Cong cutting off the arms of inoculated children. He refused to be emotional about it, and I think that was a mistake.

Kurtz's best line, in my opinion, comes when he is dictating one of his manifestos right before being killed: "They train young boys to drop fire on people; and yet, their commanders will not allow them to write the word 'fuck' on their airplanes because...it's obscene!"

That sums it up right there: perceptions and misperceptions of what is obscene...

[tjwash]

20. That's what made him THE perfect villain.

He was cold and calculating, and would not hesitate to cut off your buddies head and toss it to you while you were penned up in a cage, just to show you who was in charge. Yet Brando humanized him in a way that you felt for him, and you could feel his outrage, and understood what drove him insane. It blurred the line between good guy and bad guy, and made you realize that there really was no such thing as "sides" in their conflict.

[Deep13]

12. Tom Berenger in Platoon. nt

[SteppingRazor]

14. Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), Apocalypse Now. n/t

[XemaSab]

18. That Charlie guy

:shrug:

[underpants]

19. ...

:rofl:

[Seeking Serenity]

21. I know. And he was in everyone of them. Weird!

[martymar64]

24. Sgt Maserve (Sean Penn) in Casualties of War

What a fucking asshole

[nomorenomore08]

25. Since Kurtz has been mentioned several times, I'll go with Animal Mother (if he counts).

Psychotic, homicidal, and horribly racist - I think that about covers it.

[Twillig]

26. What the hell do you know about surfing, Major?

You're from goddamn New Jersey!



Villain because he made his war into sport.

He might be an ok Commanding officer despite that!