Top 30 Cinematic Assholes - Page 4

I don't get why Ferris is an ass-hole. If Cameron really didn't want to do it, he didn't have to, and Ferris genuinely cares about his girl and Cameron, worrying about his best friend's future and being dicked around by a girl when Cameron doesn't think he could do better and has to settle, and then he offers to take the big heat for Cameron at the end. Without Ferris, Cameron would have never stood up to his dad.

The bigger A-Hole in that movie is Ferris' sister who tries to mess up Ferris because she's not as popular.

I second the Biff Tannen nomination. That guy is an assholeishness changes the course of human history.

We need a follow-up: TV's Greatest Assholes.

I nominate Dr. Robert "Rocket" Romano.

I had so many to add that have been said: Ted Night, Biff, Gleason, Lumberg, Ernie McCrackin, Shooter McGavin, Ed Rooney, Spader.

But I still have a few left.

The #1 quintessential teen asshole of the 80s was none other than WILLIAM ZABKA with his run in the holy trilogy of Karate Kid, Just One of the Guys, and Back to School, with an honorable mention for European Vacation.

Also, JOE PESCI had just a slight attitude problem in Casino.

And Deebo aka Zeus aka TINY LISTER was pretty legendary in Friday.

This is a great thread, We should expand the list to 100, there are so many good ones still out there. My nomination: Mr Potatohead, TOY STORY. Essentially leads a lynch mob against Woody despite a total lack of evidence.

Someone needs to compile a list so we know who's already been mentioned.

 

I nominate:

 

1) Malcolm Tucker from IN THE LOOP... Probably my favourite asshole in recent memory.

 

2) Every character Danny McBride has ever played. If I need to narrow it down, since Kenny Powers is ineligible, the award probably goes to Fred Simmons from FOOT FIST WAY.

What about Henry Czerny in "Clear and Present Danger". He sets the whole thing up to make Jack Ryan take the fall, and it's just because Ryan looks at the world in black and white and not shades of grey . He knows Willem Dafoe's troops are getting killed, and when Dafoe calls him....he just hangs up. Plus he pulls out his "get out of jail free card" with the memo and when Ford does his patented "glower and hold one finger up" move.....he just smirks "You don't have one of THESE, do you Jack?"........plus he plays tennis. TENNIS!....such an asshole.

Czerny is an asshole in EVERYTHING. He's the Canadian William Atherton. The way he sneers "alright, Hunt" in his first café scene with Cruise in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE makes me want to beat him to death with a garlic baguette.

Very true. I was excited to see his name in the opening credits for A-Team......but he doesn't even have one fucking line. I liked the A-Team.....buy why tease me like that???

I nominate Daniel Plainview.  And Ronnie Barnhardt.

 

Also, I agree with Evi - McBride needs to be represented on this list somewhere.  Maybe its cheating, but I'd still use Kenny Powers.   

I recall there being a whole spaceship full of Assholes in Spaceballs...

How about Mr. Phoenix in Gladiator?  Almost-sister raping, father-killing, and just general cowardly fucking with the protagonist.  

Richard Gere as Dennis Peck  in Internal Affairs.  Fuck.  I only ever watched it once but man he is a full on cunt (not used lightly)

 

Best line - to Andy Garcia - talking about Garcias characters wife. "You know what she really wanted? You know? Yeah, I should have guessed. She liked it in the ass, Raymond. That's right. Right in the fucking ass! Drove her crazy. She came so much, for a second I thought she was going to pass out on me."

 

Also James Cromwell as Cpt Dudley Smith in LA Confidential.  From nice paternalistic Irish chief to 'holy fuck what an arsehole' in one second.

 

Finally,although it pains me to admit it, Jack Burton.  Much as I LOVE the character and the movie as a whole you can't deny Burton is, at best a clueless idiot and at worst a fucking arsehole.  Russel just nails that character.

Vince Vaughn as Nick Van Owen in THE LOST WORLD. Hey asshole, releasing killer dinosaurs and putting your friends in danger to fix a baby T-Rex's leg isn't heroic, it's just unbelievably dumb.

How has Captain "I'M RUNNIN' THIS MONKEY FARM NOW, FRANKENSTEIN!!!" Rhodes - immortalized by the one and only Joe Pilato - only got one endorsement in this thread? His lung capacity in that meeting scene is Pacino-esque.