OK, let's talk movie characters.

Who are your favourites, whether completely fictional or based on a real person, whether good or evil, whether you love or hate them.

Who is the greatest?

A few to get the ball rolling,

Leon from Leon, best assassin ever,

Ting from Ong-Bak, wouldn't wanna fight that dude,

David Wooderson from Dazed & Confused, coolest high school dropout in history.

Just a few of my favourites.

Let the debate begin.

Great Topic!

hmmm... heres a good list, if anyone else wants to use the list and just replace the characters with their choices thats cool...

Most Hilarious: Ruby Rod - The Fifth Element
Most Memorable: Captain Jack Sparrow - Pirates of the Caribbean
Most Inspirational: Gandalf the White - Lord of the Rings
Most Loyal: Samwise Gamgee - Lord of the Rings
Most Kickass: John Preston - Equilibrium
Best Speeches: Theoden - Lord of the Rings
Favorite Hero: Charles Xavier - Xmen
Favorite Villain: Hannibal Lecter - Silence of the Lambs

Favorite Overall Movie Character: Darth Vader - Star Wars

this was hard to start but as I got going answers kept popping to me... I think I'll do more later with some other categories... but heres a good few

Great list

thanks I was both surprised and not surprised to see Lord of the Rings take 3 of the categories for me... I love the movies but it is not my favorite film by far. It did however have many great characters, each with their own well defined qualities... some of those qualities were ones I thought of... there can definitely be no argument about loyality and samwise gamgee.... and how do you not give best speeches to a king whose every other word was an inspirational line fed to his countrymen.

One character has impacted modern cinema like no other, that is...



Tyler Durden

Talk about tapping into the psyche of the modern man. Not only is he the embodyment of all that every man wishes to be but he also does it with a sly whit that only a very few manage to obtain. Ok, so he isn't exactley a 'positive' role model, but hey, in a time when all our supposed heros are muscle bound lunk heads, here is a character that gives hope to a generation of misrepresented men. Telling it like it is, we can't ask for more than that.

Best Irishman: Steven (braveheart)
Best ladies man: Guido Orifice (La Vita e bella)
Best female character: yu shu lien (wo hu cang long)
Easiest to identify with: (tie!) Bruce Wayne (batman begins) Gollum (LOTR: TTT)

Man With No Name (Clint Eastwood) in Leone trilogy
Tyler Durden

Evil
Martians (War of the Worlds)
Darth Vader
Yuzuha (Daughter of Darkness)

Good
Ash (Evil Dead)
The main guy from "Princess Bride" - I forget his name - says "as you wish" a lot
"Osaka" (Azumanga Daioh - also responsible for about 50% of the YTMND fads)

Anti-Heroes
Hannibal Lecter
Jack Sparrow
The Warriors
Gendo Ikari (Evangelion)

Inexplicable
The Jackass Crew

a bunch of good characters.... and the man with no name is indeed awesome... inspired me to do some new categories:

Favorite Western Character: The Man with No Name - Spaghetti Westerns
Favorite Mob Character: Tom Hagen - Godfather
Favorite Superhero: Superman - Superman 1
Favorite Sports Character: Willie Mays Hays - Major League

I'll go with the Jackass Crew.

they are indeed quite a group of characters

Best Hitman - I think I would have to go with Leon, edging out Creasy (Man on Fire)
Best Comedy - Jay and Silent Bob (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks II)
Best Mob Figure - Michael Corleone (The Godfather Trilogy)
Best Villain - this is a hard one, I'll say Vader, with Keyser Soze (The Usual Suspects) second. And after a couple more movies in the series Voldemort may make it up there.
Anti-Hero - Antonio Montana
Straight Up Weird Mofo - Darwin Tremor (Smokin' Aces)

Best character EVER - Antonio Montana

Although Stephen from Braveheart is great, I have to give "Best Irishman" to Micky O'Neil from Snatch.

And "Straight Up Weird Mofo" for me is Buffalo Bill from Silence Of The Lambs.

Also, a new category, "Favourite Loveable Dumbass", which for me is Dirk Diggler/Eddie Adams from Boogie Nights.. "You're not the boss of me Jack, you're not the king of Dirk, I'm the boss of me, I'm the king of me, I'm Dirk Diggler, I'm the star, it's my big d*ck and I say we roll"

well i have a few fav movie charactors Terminator, Neo{matrix}, Gandalpf{LOTR} and James Bond.

Kevin Spacey as David Gayle in "The Life Of David Gayle"

Some great lists here..

Leon character is a favourite of mine also.

from my childhood loved ..

Rambo
Rocky
Man with no name
Dirty Harry

tommy devito (pesci in goodfellas)
chopper (eric bana)
elvis in bubba ho-tep (bruce campbell)

MiHo in Sin City
The Bride in Kill Bill

Any Groucho Marx character (they are all the same really) is great. I sometimes try to emulate his extremely quick wit in every day life, and it's always a blast. Hard as hell though

Villain - Hannibal Lechter: hands down
Drama Man - Jack Nicholson - Melvin Udall - in As Good As It Gets

good choice

Terminator

Yeah Baby!!!!!!!

will have to be Dirty Harry at the top!

others..

Alex..Clockwork Orange

Ben Hur

Moses..the ten commandments

obi wan kenobi

leon..

Ujio is awesome in last samurai.

Not really the best character ever, but Davy Jones is worthy of a mention for the squid beard and great accent.

Vader, anyone say Vader, has to be Vader

Vader, I say Vader! Good call

No.. wait... I thought he was dead?

I wish...

The best movie character is coming soon, J.R. Ewing in Dallas, as portrayed by John Travolta.

Travis Bickle