Best Bond film

[Loki882]

I love Xenia Onatopp (dat Famke Janssen) and Red Grant as well. Although I tend to separate the "Bond Villains" and "Bond Henchmen" into separate categories myself, it makes things easier I've found.

 

[The Joker]

Jaws was too slapstick comedy for me to rate him as best Bond villain. He reminded me of the coyote in the Roadrunner cartoon in how his constant attempts to kill Bond ended in him getting buried in debris or something. Then when they had him turn good and fall in love with that goofy looking girl in the schoolgirl like pigtails in Moonraker, that was the finish.

As far as henchmen go, Oddjob is the gold standard, and is yet to be beaten in that category. Hinx had potential to be up there with him, but they didn't utilize it fully.

 

[Loki882]

Xenia is my favorite. She was just so, delightfully insane and psychotic.

 

[The Joker]

Xenia didn't really feel like a henchman in my book. She was more like Fiona Volpe in Thunderball. A villainess in her own right, just working in a hierarchy along side the main bad guy.

 

[Duke]

I know right Jaws was at his best in The Spy Who Loved Me but another iconic Bond villain definitely would be Baron Samedi or Oddjob or Mayday

Red Grant was a great Bond villain too.

 

[Golgo-13]

Jaws was too slapstick comedy for me to rate him as best Bond villain. He reminded me of the coyote in the Roadrunner cartoon in how his constant attempts to kill Bond ended in him getting buried in debris or something. Then when they had him turn good and fall in love with that goofy looking girl in the schoolgirl like pigtails in Moonraker, that was the finish.

As far as henchmen go, Oddjob is the gold standard, and is yet to be beaten in that category. Hinx had potential to be up there with him, but they didn't utilize it fully.

I've never understood the praise that Batista got for Hinx. Any muscular guy with minimal acting training could have done an equal job. I think he was over rated due to the fact that most liked him in GotG.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Auric Goldfinger is my favorite Bond villain. He was both fun and threatening. He had Bond at his mercy for half the movie and only lost because his henchwoman betrayed him. And just his overall smugness the entire time is just great to watch. This guy is one cocky bastard.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I've never understood the praise that Batista got for Hinx. Any muscular guy with minimal acting training could have done an equal job. I think he was over rated due to the fact that most liked him in GotG.

Also, because we haven't had a great Bond henchman since what...Goldeneye? The Living Daylights if you don't count Xenia?

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Xenia didn't really feel like a henchman in my book. She was more like Fiona Volpe in Thunderball. A villainess in her own right, just working in a hierarchy along side the main bad guy.

The reason why I count her is because she fulfills the main henchman role of being the big physical threat of the film for Bond to fight. Her role as Trevelyan's right hand and muscle is far more clear than in Thunderball, where Volpe is a separate SPECTRE agent who doesn't work directly for Largo. Largo's main henchman is Vargas. Xenia has more in common with Mayday than Volpe.

 

[Slade W]

From Russia with Love and Skyfall are my favourite Bond movies. My favourite villains are Red Grant, Goldfinger, Jaws, Elektra King and Silva. Elektra King is my favourite Bond girl too.

 

[Duke]

Octopussy also had some memorable henchmen. Gobinda & the knife throwing twins were pretty good. On Her Majesty's Secret Service didn't have a good henchmen other than Irma Bunt & of course Blofeld.

 

[The Joker]

Auric Goldfinger is my favorite Bond villain. He was both fun and threatening. He had Bond at his mercy for half the movie and only lost because his henchwoman betrayed him. And just his overall smugness the entire time is just great to watch. This guy is one cocky bastard.

Snap. Gert Frobe just owned it. The golf match between him and Bond is my favorite scene between Bond and any villain. There's just this sense of underlying tension through the whole thing. The way Bond out cheats him was class. Oddjob crushing the golf ball with his bare hands afterward.....loved it.

 

[Tg11]

Batista he was actually great as Hinx...big bad muscular henchman who doesn't say much if at all just a henchman who loves to kill people...but at the same time did you see the fight scenes between him and Bond?

Another great Bond henchman definitely was Oddjob back in the day

But for Bond villains themselves 006 Alec Trevelyan is up there most definitely as well as Elektra King the first main Bond villainess who was a woman

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Snap. Gert Frobe just owned it. The golf match between him and Bond is my favorite scene between Bond and any villain. There's just this sense of underlying tension through the whole thing. The way Bond out cheats him was class. Oddjob crushing the golf ball with his bare hands afterward.....loved it.

The whole movie is just one classic moment after the next, and yes, this was one of the best parts. Another scene I love is when Bond and Goldfinger are sitting on Goldfinger's porch where Goldfinger is just lounging drinking a mint julep watching Bond try to figure out his master plan.

 

[The Joker]

Batista he was actually great as Hinx...big bad muscular henchman who doesn't say much if at all just a henchman who loves to kill people...but at the same time did you see the fight scenes between him and Bond?

I can tell their big train fight left an impression on you

The whole movie is just one classic moment after the next, and yes, this was one of the best parts. Another scene I love is when Bond and Goldfinger are sitting on Goldfinger's porch where Goldfinger is just lounging drinking a mint julep watching Bond try to figure out his master plan.

Oh yeah, Bond tries to be a smart ass telling him his plan to rob Fort Knox is hopeless, and quotes him all these facts and stats about how long it would take, how many trucks he'd need etc to move all that gold out of there. Goldfinger just smiles and casually says "Who mentioned anything about removing it? Is the Julep tart enough for you?".

 

[godisawesome]

I tend to think of Trevelyn as the best single Bond badguy, simply because he's both the complete package for an antagonist, and because he's very much not the stereotypical Bond Badguy. He's a personal foe who does his own dirty work and actually showcases the same cool-headedness that makes Bond so persistent.

And I just love that ****-eating grin he gives Brosnan before stomping on his hand.

 

[AnneFan]

I've never understood the praise that Batista got for Hinx. Any muscular guy with minimal acting training could have done an equal job. I think he was over rated due to the fact that most liked him in GotG.

I now think Hinx was a missed opportunity. He had metal thumbs, but so what? I get they wanted him to be mute like Oddjob and Jaws, but at the same time, I felt like that didn't exactly work either. Something was missing with the character to go the next level. He was just sort of there.

 

[Tg11]

So you think that Hinx talking would have been a good thing? I think using Dave Bautista as a mute henchman was perfect especially given the physical menacing presence that Hinx was

 

[Golgo-13]

Speaking on which; what's going on with the Bond franchise? It's seems to be in limbo at the moment….

 

[Tg11]

I think Bond 25 we will get it by 2017, 2018 or 2019 at the latest

 

[Loki882]

If we're listing villains, then my top five would be (in no particular order):

-Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
-Alec Trevelyan.
-Francisco Scaramanga.
-Raoul Silva.
-Elektra King.

And Top Five Henchpeople (again in no real order):

-Xenia Onatopp.
-Red Grant.
-Oddjob.
-Jaws.
-Mayday.

And yeah, I think that Hinx was a bit of a wasted opportunity. He was SO CLOSE to being an epic henchman. He had the look, he has a great entrance scene, Bautista is menacing, etc. But, a couple of things hold him back. He doesn't get enough screentime, he doesn't get to actually physically fight Bond enough, he gets taken out of the movie too quickly, and they don't let him talk (Bautista has shown that he can be quite charismatic, and funny, so Hink should have been allowed to talk imo).

 

[Tg11]

My top 5 villains would be:

1- Alec Trevelyan (Goldeneye)
2- Elektra King (The World Is Not Enough)
3- Le Chiffre (Casino Royale)
4- Blofeld (Spectre)
5- Raoul Silva (Skyfall)

Top 5 Henchman

1- Oddjob (Goldfinger)
2- Jaws (The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker)
3- Mayday (A View to A Kill)
4- Xenia Onatopp (Goldeneye)
5- Mr. Hinx (Spectre)

 

[Roose Bolton]

I tend to think of Trevelyn as the best single Bond badguy, simply because he's both the complete package for an antagonist, and because he's very much not the stereotypical Bond Badguy. He's a personal foe who does his own dirty work and actually showcases the same cool-headedness that makes Bond so persistent.

And I just love that ****-eating grin he gives Brosnan before stomping on his hand.

I completely agree, the scene with him disarming Bond's watch and casually asking about Q was perfect in its self awareness.

 

[gwynplaine]

Best Bond Couple:

 

[Tg11]

How is Le Chiffre Mads Mikkelsen's character getting no love? That is what surprises me but seriously Javier Bardem's Raoul Silva now he was not only terrifying he was downright creepy