this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
35 points (80.7% liked)
Movies and TV Shows
3 readers
2 users here now
General discussion about movies and TV shows.
Spoilers are strictly forbidden in post titles.
Posts soliciting spoilers (endings, plot elements, twists, etc.) should contain
[spoilers]in their title. Comments in these posts do not need to be hidden in spoiler MarkDown if they pertain to the title's subject matter.
Otherwise, spoilers but must be contained in MarkDown as follows:
::: your spoiler warning
the crazy movie ending that no one saw coming!
:::
Your mods are here to help if you need any clarification!
Subcommunities: The Bear (FX) - [!thebear@lemmy.film](/c/thebear @lemmy.film)
Related communities: !entertainment@beehaw.org !moviesuggestions@lemmy.world
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Doesn't seem like a mystery to me. We've had plenty of uncomplicated villains, and nuanced antagonists are more interesting and compelling.
I think there's a place for both. But sometimes I tire of anti-heroes, sympathetic villains, bad guys who were right, bad guys who turn good in the end, that kind of thing.
Sometimes it's refreshing when the villain is just evil for no reason. Just bad, that's it, just a bad guy who is defeated in the end because he was bad. No redemption story, you don't feel sorry for them, none of that. I'm thinking like Ernst Blofeld, the T-1000, Palpatine, Sauron, Wicked Witch of the West, Skeletor. Uncomplicated villains, their motivation is just evil for the sake of evil.
Time and a place for both, and sometimes it seems like we only get the one. Like I can't think of a recently popular movie villain who was simply evil.