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That Russian scientist was NUTS


I've never seen a more eccentric or other weird sub-villain henchman character. I'll never forget his line "My nose!" when Bond looks out at that pool of nanobots.

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Never? He's a carbon copy of Boris from Goldeneye. How did you not make that connection?

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I clean forgot about Boris.

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Truthfully, I found Boris far more sensible than the Russian guy.

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It’s funny because when they first showed him in the British lab the image that immediately came to my mind was the lab from Goldeneye.

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It was identical. Even the small detail of needing two scientists to turn the key at the same time.

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I gotta admit, the villains plan seemed like something out of Inspector Gadget.

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The original cartoon of Inspector Gadget (which I saw most episodes of back in the 1980s) or the movie Inspector Gadget (I don't give a damn about that)?

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The original cartoon, never saw the movie

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I honestly can't remember the cartoon, but it played to the same formula throughout: Gadget was his usual bumbling self, Penny (the brains of the operation with her computer book) ordered Brian the dog to aid Gadget whenever she could, Gadget always won out in the end through sheer dumb luck and Doctor Claw constantly lamented his choice of minions ("I'll get you next time, GAAADGEEEETTTTT!!")

Wow, I remembered that much.

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Yeah the villain schemes would be things like using diamonds to make invisibility cloaks, or trying to build an army of killer inspector gadgets , etc. nanobots seem right up it’s alley

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I didn’t like his origin scene where the bad guys come in and mercilessly annihilate his co-workers including the two that were joking around with him about his lunch. There was another workplace mass murder scene like this in the Jason Bourne movie with Jeremey Renner. I just feel like these scenes cut too close to active shooter / mass shootings in recent real life tragedies. It’s hard to sit watching this in an action movie where you’re expecting to be entertained by what’s on screen.

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No worries. Eventually all fiction will be canceled and stopped and art will be staring at blank walls.

I know what you mean, but not a fan of the solution to this.

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