Best Movie Where "Bad" Guy Gets Away

[DorkisFig]

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After watching Law Abiding Citizen, I asked myself, why couldn't Butler's character have gotten away with everything? Why does the good side always win? It has become really predictable and I just want to celebrate the movies that went against the grain and have the villain or "bad guy" get away or win.



A couple I thought of right away were

THE USUAL SUSPECTS
SAW
SAW II

and if we are discussing the bad guy "winning" or getting what he wants,

SE7EN
V FOR VENDETTA - he is kinda the villain

Please post more becauase I would love to know some more.

[Le_Big_Mac]

Chinatown

[God of War]

No Country For Old Men

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[ilovemovies]

Se7en and The Usual Suspects are great choices. But the movie that first came to my mind for this topic:

Arlington Road


A brilliant, punch in the gut ending!

[athf1980]

zodiac

[Highspeed]

Silence of the Lambs of course. Fallen too.

[Jig Saw 123]

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SE7EN
V FOR VENDETTA - he is kinda the villain

Please post more becauase I would love to know some more.

I wouldn't call V a villain.

A movie that comes to mind the most is Watchmen.

http://www.morethings.com/fan/watchmen/ozymandias-adrian-veidt-watchmen-105.jpg

[Antonio141]

All the ones mentioned already...The Usual Suspects, Saw, No Country For Old Men and Arlington Road. I'd like to add: Halloween and Hannibal!

[QUENTIN]

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Chinatown

[drc5145]

Not Hannibal but...

Silence of The Lambs

[PSUDelVec]

Klaus Kinski in 'The Great Silence'.

[HurricanesR1]

No Country for Old Men

[bigred760]

Revenge of the Sith
Empire Strikes Back

[FireCaptain4]

Hellraiser
The cycle starts again and, well, you can't really defeat a demon hobo.

Phone Booth
Keifer just strides right by.

Basic Instinct
Though I can't stand Sharon Stone.

and not really "bad guys," but...

Bandits

and Sphere
That damn sphere is still out there somewhere!

[ilovemovies]

I wouldn't include The Silence of the Lambs because:

I don't consider Hannibal Lecter to be the movie's villain. That would be Buffalo Bill, IMO. He's the movie's true villain.


And holy crap! How could I have forgotten about Fallen! That was such a shocking and awesome ending!


I would also add this movie:


Primal Fear

[Le_Big_Mac]

I wouldn't call V a villain.

A movie that comes to mind the most is Watchmen.

http://www.morethings.com/fan/watchmen/ozymandias-adrian-veidt-watchmen-105.jpg

I thought you considered Ozymandias a hero.

[KillerKlown]

Hannibal
Beyond Re-Animator

[Tony_Montana]

Scarface (Sosa)
Things to do in Denver when You're Dead
Carlito's Way (Benny Blanco from the Bronx!)
London to Brighton

[TheRedDeath]

Inglourious Basterds

[Mr. Creasy]

Inside Man

[Dirtyfrog]

Spellbinder (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096152/)
Fallen (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119099/)

[Smiert Spionam]

Inglourious Basterds

How? :confused:

I don't think having a swastika carved into your forehead constitutes "getting away with it."

[echo_bravo]

No Country For Old Men

Wolfcreek (really really underrated bad guy)

[Potter82]

I don't know if this warrants a spoiler tag given the very concept of this thread is inherently spoiler-rific.

The Usual Suspects
No Country for Old Men
Silence of the Lambs
Primal Fear - just devastating; "you don't get it, there never was an Aaron"

[Potter82]

How? :confused:

I don't think having a swastika carved into your forehead constitutes "getting away with it."

Well, he presumabley lives to see another day, albeit with an unfortunately placed scar. Fav villian of the year.

[TheRedDeath]

How? :confused:

I don't think having a swastika carved into your forehead constitutes "getting away with it."

Well, he gets all the things he wanted and he never gets to pay for his acts. I mean, a scar is an extremely small price to pay for some of the stuff he'd done.