I'd like to know who you think the best Bond Villains are. One of the issues I had with the Bond films, which Austin Powers made fun of where the elaborate and slow deaths out of the villains sight.
Goldfinger, Sean Bean from Goldeneye and Katanga are my top picks. I pick Katanga because he has the most memorable death for a villain.
Dr. Kananga you mean?
I liked Nick Nack, the little minion of mister Scaramanga as well.
I wish they made Gordon Ramsey the main villain in the new movie - "No Thyme Today"
I like Scaramanga a lot, both because he makes a real game of his rivalry with Bond, and because, despite his ego and his arrogance, it's his insecurity and jealously that lead to his downfall.
shareI love Christopher Lee. One of my favorite actors. I didn't pick him because he didn't really have a point. He's just stealing stuff just because and causing havoc just because. Yeah, it brings 007 to him and his maze, but I would think he would want a bit more of a challenge than being on his own home field.
shareSilva, Goldfinger, Dr. No, Trevelyn(?), and Scaramanga.
shareThis Bond movie wasn't that good, but this villain has a special place for me because of this one line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jGNxTyVH7c
Always makes me laugh.
Best part of the movie....
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shareThere have been a lot of great ones. My favourites are Zorin and Blofeld in both YLOT and OHMSS.
shareI like Christopher Walken a lot, but the movie was just so bad.
shareIt's better than the crap we've gotten in the Craig era. At least AVTAK had a great villain and some fun action scenes.
shareI agree. Outside of Casino Royale, all the Craig era villains motivations are kind of stupid. I mean it's Christopher Walken. He's got presence. I'll have to give it another chance. My memories of that movie aren't too flattering.
shareI think it's a good enough Bond film. It has one of the best villains and some of the best action we've ever seen which make up for some of the weirder moments. Walken is amazing in this. It's a solid B in my book.
shareI like VTaK. Walken looks like he is enjoying himself, Tanya Roberts is so gorgeous, and the film feels like classic Bond, doesn’t take itself so seriously either.
shareThey could never make a film like AVTAK again because Grace Jones' very existence is 'racist' or whatever, and the mine massacre is too controversial because of all the mass shootings in America. Shooting someone at point blank range is totally okay in films nowadays, but a cartoonish villain gunning down people in a mine with a smile on his face is 'far right incel violence' or something or other. Society has changed a lot since 1985, mostly for the worse.
And I wasn't really a fan of Tanya Roberts in this one, but a female character like her can never exist in a Bond film again because she's too weak and in need of a masculine hero. NTTD is apparently doing the exact opposite of that.
What is YLOT?
shareI think it's YOLT. You only live Twice.
shareI agree, but I think he meant A View to a Kill. Never liked that movie myself. One of the few Bond films I do not own.
shareI think AVTAK is underrated. To me, it's only real failing is they held onto Moore too long. He was just too old. Had someone like Dalton been in it, it would have been solid.
shareI'll have to give it another try. It is one of my favorite Bond Themes. I really like Christopher Walken. It's probably the first movie where I noticed his quirky creepy personality. The two Christophers, Walken and Lee make great Bond villains, I feel they could've been utilized more.
shareWalken & May Day were great. The score and theme song were awesome. Moore was too old. Tanya Roberts was awful. Playing California girls while Bond is snowboarding was cringe worthy. The movie felt tired and meh
shareBarbara Broccoli & Michael Wilson
shareYou know I've never seen a Bourne movie. I'm not a fan of shaky cam action scenes. The Craig era was supposed to be more Bourne like, as I've heard. How do these compare with the Bourne movies?
shareI think I've only seen the first Bourne movie and that was a long time ago now, but I would say the Craig films are more or less indistinguishable from Bourne. Some more than others I suppose. Skyfall is about a 95% copy of The Dark Knight, so Bourne isn't the only popular series from the 2000's that they (poorly) ripped off.
shareThis is the correct answer.
shareAlec Trevelyan. Hands down
shareSean Bean was fine at playing the role, but I think Alec was one of the worst villains ever with the most absurd motivations. He isn't much different than the crappy villains in the Craig era: "It was me James" "I was the author of all your pain" and etc. I think GoldenEye being as overrated as it is played a huge role in why Skyfall and Spectre were so abysmal. They mimic GoldenEye, but then amp up the 'darkness' of it to an even greater extreme.
Also, there's absolutely no way that the average person watching GoldenEye in 1995 knew what a Lienz Cossack was. The hipsters who think they're cool for liking GoldenEye are very good at pretending they know what that is. It's probably the most obscure story line they have ever done in a Bond film.
Interesting that you think Alec is one of the worst villians. Yes I agree with you that 'Skyfall' and 'Spectre' mimic 'GoldenEye'. I don't think 'GoldenEye' is the most obscure story line. I'd say it's the most unique story especially at the time it was released in 1995. Bond going against a villain who's an ex-MI6 agent. This was never seen before in the series which made the film feel fresh.
shareThe plot really doesn't hold up to scrutiny. In the pre-title scene, it isn't clear whether Alec set up the events in the facility or whether he somehow survived the execution and then turned during his imprisonment. I have discussed this with other Bond fans, and there is genuine confusion as people interpret this scene differently and never realized that this isn't fully explained.
And there's a 0% chance that someone would spend their entire career working for MI6 and advancing Britain's interests only to secretly want to destroy the country the whole time. It's absurd. If he really wanted revenge, then he could have just been some average terrorist waging war against Britain from the outside. His prior life in MI6 ended up having nothing to do with his plot to use the GoldenEye weapon. Even M confirms that she didn't know for sure that GoldenEye existed until after the EMP attack, so it's not as if Alec had learned about the GoldenEye satellite through top secret information at MI6. If M didn't know, there's no way he could have known. It was just lazy writing. The writers put the cart before the horse and arbitrarily decided that Alec and Bond had to be intimately connected in some way when the simpler option of Alec being a random terrorist would have actually worked better.