• Darth Vader, giving instructions to the bounty hunters in The Empire Strikes Back
• The Joker, sitting down at the table with Gotham City's crime lords in The Dark Knight
• The naming of the Reservoir Dogs

What are your favorite scenes in which a crowd of villains gather to plot their master plan?

oh darn for perspire id say... Cool hand Luke...now thats a sweaty movie...


hands down: THe Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah

Oliver! 1968 Carol Reed ... Fagin and the boys .... seared at 7

The Cowboys...Bruce Dern as Long Hair and his chronies...first film i ever saw by myself... age of 10 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming...and first experience of cold hard dread in a film..

Gilliam's Time Bandits; ....as evident here in this ImDB quote...

Evil: God isn't interested in technology. He cares nothing for the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time, forty-three species of parrots! Nipples for men!
Robert: Slugs.
Evil: Slugs! HE created slugs! They can't hear. They can't speak. They can't operate machinery. Are we not in the hands of a lunatic?

The Cook the Thief His Wife and His Lover : Peter Greenaway .... Albert Spica and his henchmen ...not only for a whole new meaning to dining out..but talking with a mouthful of food as well

How about The Muppets Take Manhattan? The scene that cross-cuts between the bad guys running down their checklist of sophisticated gear and the Muppets running down their checklist of gear, which includes a pizza and a whoopee cushion, if memory serves.

Al Capone's baseball-bat speech in The Untouchables.

The various resistance groups in Life of Brian.

It's been nearly 20 years since I saw Fritz Lang's M, but don't members of the Berlin criminal underground meet for the purpose of hunting down the child murderer?

Also, the meeting of the heads of the five families in The Godfather, where they decide how the distribution and sale of drugs in New York city will be managed.