Sos Fantomes II

Well, as promised, I've just finished watching Ghostbusters II. Okay, it's nowhere near as good as the first one, but i'd truly forgotten just how funny it is.
Again, the "guys", i.e. Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson, are
in fine form, with some excellent humour injected by the supplementary cast, i.e.
Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis and Annie Potts. Peter MacNicol (a.k.a. "him out of Ally McBeal") also makes an appearance as the rather bizarre Dr. Janosz Poha. The supreme casting of the film, though, must go to Wilhelm Von Homburg, a 6' 3" german boxer / actor (who, unfortunately, died in 2004) as Vigo the Carpathian, 15th century ruler of "Carpathia", a fictional place assumed to be in the Carpathian Mountains.

In some ways, it feels more of a Bill Murray vehicle than anything, but
that doesn't detract from the enjoyment. If you suspend your disbelief, and try and control the urge to vomit at the "far too easy to defeat the bad guy" finale, for the whole 104 minutes, then it's a fine bit of 80s nostalgia.

I suppose the whole "15th century tyrant from Carpathia" attracts the interest, to me, because of my interest in the whole vampire mythos. Vlad Tepes (a.k.a. Vlad the Impaler), Prince of Wallachia (now part of Romania), was, of course, one of the sources of the Dracula story.

Which led me thinking about bad guys in general. I'd love to see some "celebrity battles". We've already had Aliens vs. Predator (okay, a bit of a bobbins film, but one up to Predator (sort of)) and Freddie Vs. Jason (very tongue-in-cheek funny, and one up to Jason (sort of)), but what about
some classics we'd like to see? I'm therefore running a bit of a fun idea about
"bad guy battles".

Here are my suggestions with an opinionated probable outcome :

-> Gozer vs. Vigo

Gozer wins by a mile (Sumerian god vs. Carpathian magician, it's got to be one to Gozer here...)

-> Darth Vader vs. Magneto

Difficult one to call this, but it'd go for Vader. True, Magneto could affect the
machinery of Vader, but the force could enable vader to affect magneto even with that silly "i'll protect the wearer from psychic attack" hat.

-> The ghost girl (Samara) from The Ring vs. The ghost woman and boy (Kayako and Toshio) from The Grudge

You've got to go with Kayako and Toshio on this one, it's simply 2 to 1. Also, Samara has this unswerving ability to get trapped in wells all the time, which (I'm sorry to say) is simply not what a cool, rock hard ghost should let happen. I also get the impression that Samara simply hasn't made it into the 21st century yet, still relying on VHS to get her message across, come on Samara, what's wrong with DVD, or even better, a good MPEG that can be downloaded via P2P???

Any more "celebrity bad-guy scrap" ideas?