Do you ever find yourself liking the bad guy more than the good guy in movies?

When I used to watch these old Cagney,Bogart gangster movies from the 1930s I always felt sorry for them when they got bumped off, even when they played ruthless killers. I was also a big fan of Jack Elam and Lee Van Cleef but they always got killed at the end.

" Let The Bad Guy Win Every Once In Awhile ":(

I loved The Firefly clan from House of 1000 Corpses / The Devil's Rejects.

I liked Captain Howdy from Strangeland.

I also rooted for the classic horror villains a lot: Michael Myers, Jason, Freddy, Chucky...

Yeh I rooted for the bad guy in Payback with Mel Gibson. Of course int hat movie, they were all bad guys.

Oh yeah, I rooted for Darth Vader when he blew up the planet in Star Wars. Are some people insane? The bad guys should be killed or rot in jail for life-preferrably killed!!! :eek:

Oh yeah, I rooted for Darth Vader when he blew up the planet in Star Wars.

Darth Vader didn't blow up Planet Alderaan. The order was given by Grand Moff Tarkin.

^ Stick w/ movies here please, thanks.

^ Stick w/ movies here please, thanks.

Sorry about that, but in his original post he included tv shows with the movies so that's why I listed Prison Break. Do you want me to delete my previous post?

^ I realized that now, which is why I edited it.

No big deal, but you can delete it if you want.

Steven King said that one of his problems with horror movies that become franchises is that in the sequels, you begin to root for and identify with the villain, which he didn't think was too healthy.

I agree that in the case of Jason and Michael Myers (not so much Freddy, where the victims tended to be a bit more sympathetic and realistic), you did have a situation where the people we were presumably rooting for were just miserable human beings...shallow, selfish, often cruel and crude. Thus, by the time they got killed you were almost happy to be rid of them.

I have ALWAYS hated it when you have a time travel movie and they encounter dinosaurs, because I KNOW from experience that many of them are going to die, killed by the main characters. I guess they don't qualify as villains really, since they can't be evil, but still they were positioned as antagonists of sorts.

Steven King said that one of his problems with horror movies that become franchises is that in the sequels, you begin to root for and identify with the villain, which he didn't think was too healthy.

I agree that in the case of Jason and Michael Myers (not so much Freddy, where the victims tended to be a bit more sympathetic and realistic), you did have a situation where the people we were presumably rooting for were just miserable human beings...shallow, selfish, often cruel and crude. Thus, by the time they got killed you were almost happy to be rid of them.

I have ALWAYS hated it when you have a time travel movie and they encounter dinosaurs, because I KNOW from experience that many of them are going to die, killed by the main characters. I guess they don't qualify as villains really, since they can't be evil, but still they were positioned as antagonists of sorts.

But the film makers in the Elm Street franchise wanted people to root for Freddy, which is why he got more and more dialogue(to the point he became more obnoxious than the people he was killing), and even hosted his own TV show.

Part of what I love about New Nightmare (outside of it going back to its darker roots) was how they poked fun of Freddy's celebrity.