They're nuts! A crazy movie characters tournament! (1 Viewer)

[Rob Tomlin]

double post

 

[Brian Kissinger]

The Joker
Frank Booth
Killer Kane

 

[SteveGon]

Folks: remember that we are now selecting 32 wild card films for use in round two. Five noms, plus ten seconds and ten thirds for everyone!
Updated Wild Card Nominations
The Abominable Dr. Phibes - Dr. Anton Phibes*
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai - Lord Whorfin*
Affliction - Wade Whitehouse
Akira - Tetsuo Shima*
American Gothic - Pa*
Arsenic and Old Lace - Aunt Abby & Aunt Martha
Barton Fink - Charlie Meadows/Karl 'Madman' Mundt
The Black Hole - Hans Reinhardt*
Breaking the Waves - Bess McNeil*
The Caine Mutiny - Captain Queeg*
Caligula - Caligula*
Catch-22 - Captain John Yossarian
The Conversation - Harry Caul
Day of the Dead - Dr. Logan
Dead Ringers - Beverly & Elliot Mantle*
Dirty Harry - Scorpio Killer*
A Double Life - Anthony John
The Dream Team - Albert Ianuzzi
The Element of Crime - Fisher
Female Trouble - Dawn Davenport*
Fingers - Jimmy Fingers
Fitzcarraldo - Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald
From Hell - Sir Edward Gull
Heavenly Creatures - Pauline Parker & Juliet Hulme
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - Henry
The Hitcher - John Ryder*
Insomnia (1997) - Jonas Engstrom
Lolita - Humbert Humbert (James Mason)
The Lord of the Rings - Grima Wormtongue
Memento - Leonard Shelby
Nurse Betty - Betty Sizemore
Payback - Porter
Peeping Tom - Mark Lewis*
Repulsion - Carol Ledoux
Reservoir Dogs - Mr. Blonde
Robocop 2 - Cain
Romeo is Bleeding - Mona Demarkov*
Seance on a Wet Afternoon - Myra Savage
Seven Samurai - Kikuchiyo*
Shine - David Helfgott*
Shock Corridor - Johnny Barrett
Spellbound - John Ballantine
Spider-Man - Norman Osborne/The Green Goblin*
State of Grace - Jackie Flannery
Strangers on a Train - Bruno Antony
Suddenly Last Summer - Violet Venable
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Tom Ripley
Targets - Bobby Thompson*
The Tenant - Trelkovsky
Tenebrae - Peter Neal
The Train - Colonel Von Waldheim*
Vampire's Kiss - Peter Loew*
Waterworld - The Deacon
What About Bob? - Bob Wiley
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - Baby Jane Hudson*
A Woman Under the Influence - Mabel Longhetti*
A Zed & Two Noughts - Oliver & Oswald Deuce
Zelig - Leonard Zelig
Films marked with an asterisk have been seconded and are in need of a third.

 

[Steeve Bergeron]

The Joker

 

[Vickie_M]

Using up some of my unused seconds:

Affliction - Wade Whitehouse
Arsenic and Old Lace - Aunt Abby & Aunt Martha
Barton Fink - Charlie Meadows/Karl 'Madman' Mundt
Catch-22 - Captain John Yossarian
The Conversation - Harry Caul
Heavenly Creatures - Pauline Parker & Juliet Hulme
Lolita - Humbert Humbert (James Mason)
Memento - Leonard Shelby
Nurse Betty - Betty Sizemore
Repulsion - Carol Ledoux
Reservoir Dogs - Mr. Blonde
Seance on a Wet Afternoon - Myra Savage
Suddenly Last Summer - Violet Venable
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Tom Ripley
Zelig - Leonard Zelig

Third:

The Abominable Dr. Phibes - Dr. Anton Phibes*
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai - Lord Whorfin*
Dead Ringers - Beverly & Elliot Mantle*
The Hitcher - John Ryder*
Peeping Tom - Mark Lewis*
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - Baby Jane Hudson*

 

[Vickie_M]

Elijah Price (Unbreakable) - killing many people to find one person is crazier than killing people for fun. Elijah Price was extremely intelligent, which makes him scarier in my book.
Fred C. Dobbs (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) - no particular reason, just because this is one of my all-time favorite films.
Frank Booth (Blue Velvet) - then again, dimwitted nutzoids who can go off on you at any second are frightfully scary.
Abstain (haven't seen either)

 

[JenB]

Nominate:
Dr. Frank N Furter (Tim Curry)-The Rocky Horror Picture Show-Obsessed with making a perfect man (not unlike Dr. Frankenstein) as well as sex and with himself.
Maxwell Edison (Steve Martin)-Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band-He seemed quite mad to me. ("Bang! Bang! Maxwell's Silver Hammer came down upon their heads. Bang! Bang! Maxwell's Silver Hammer made sure that they were dead...")
Jareth the Goblin King(David Bowie)-Labyrinth-Obsessed with Sarah and with pleasing Sarah (which is part of what leads to his kidnapping of baby Toby) and is the impetus behind much of the action in the movie. His obsession and his seemingly irrational actions to try to please her in his own unique way are part of his way of showing his twisted affection (and possibly love) for her since he also wants her to be his queen. He simply can't understand why his actions to make her dreams come true do not please her. Bowie radiates enough charm and charisma here to make his character very memorable and likable as well. Bowie is definitely very hot here too.

Hehe
The Goblin King, Jareth still also needs a Second in the Movie Characters Tourney.

 

[Ric Bagoly]

Second-
Dr. Frank N. Furter-he was pretty fucked up
Maxwell Edison-so was he
Jareth The Goblin King
Third-
Norman Osbourne aka The Green Goblin-nutty as a fruitcake

 

[Gabe D]

The Joker
Auric Goldfinger
Frank Booth
Killer Kane

 

[Lew Crippen]

Third:
The Mantle Brothers

 

[SteveGon]

Wild card list updated and moved down.

 

[Lew Crippen]

And now for something really different.
Nominate:
Harvey—Elwood P. Dowd
Arsenic and Old Lace—The Brewster siblings
Steve, if you don’t think that the Aunts were crazy, just go with Jonathan.

 

[SteveGon]

Lew, the Brewsters have already been nominated and seconded so I'll consider that a third.
Good call on Elwood!

 

[SteveGon]

The Joker wins 8 - 4.
Auric Goldfinger wins 4 - 3.
Frank Booth wins 10 - 0.
Killer Kane wins 3 - 2.
Round 1 - Bracket 5
The nuthouse match!
Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)
vs.
Jeffrey Goines (12 Monkeys)
Round 1 - Bracket 6
The 'math is bad for you' match!
John Nash (A Beautiful Mind)
vs.
Max Cohen (Pi)
How I would vote:
Dr. Caligari
Max Cohen (Nash didn't try to drill a hole in his head!)
Keep the seconds and thirds coming for the wild card list!

 

[Bill J]

Jeffrey Goines
Max Cohen

 

[ErikG]

Max Cohen
I'll second:
Day of the Dead - Dr. Logan
From Hell - Sir Edward Gull Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - Henry
Payback - Porter
Robocop 2 - Cain
The Tenant - Trelkovsky
Tenebrae - Peter Neal
Third:
Memento - Leonard Shelby

 

[Justin_S]

I'm late, but I guess I'll join the party.
I nominate:
The Killer- Black Christmas (If you've seen this gem, you'll know how insane the killer is, and how his utter insanity makes the film so frightening)
Gordon- Session 9
I third:
Peter Neal- Tenebrae
Mona Demarkov- Romeo is Bleeding
Bobby Thompson- Targets
Trelkovsky- The Tenant
My votes for the current matches:
Dr. Caligari
Max Cohen

 

[Ric Bagoly]

DOUBLE-ABSTAIN

 

[SteveGon]

Justin, sometimes you rule!

 

[Brook K]

Dr. Caligari
Max Cohen

How can you have a crazy people tournament without Johnny Barrett? Surely I'm not the only one who's seen Shock Corridor?