How To Make A Boring Villain — No Time To Die

The reason why Dr. Evil saying "We're not so different, you and I" to Austin Powers is great is because they're the same actor.

I agree it was quite odd when he let the daughter go for essentially no clear reason.

He unironically wrote an amazing plot for no time to die, a better one than an entire team of professional script writers

I think there are two ways to fix Safin. Either expand on his motivations and backstory or do the exact oposite. Why not keep him as the creepy masked guy? A villain of few words, who is mysterious but also intimidating, would have worked well in a personal Bond centric story. Maybe if he got his facial scars when encountering Madeleine in the begining and wants revenge for it? It could have been that simple.

This is so upsetting because I absolutely adore Rami malek and his outstanding performance in almost every movie/tv show he does. This movie really doesn’t do him justice and it’s a shame

It’s also quite frustrating to have him be the one who kills Bond after all the other way more impressive vilains he has defeated

The problem these days with a villain having one motivation..... is that there have been plenty of villains that already have had the same motivations and in turn it becomes a cliche. So i don't mind that there are multiple motivations for a villain... all that really matters is execution.

11:15 Bond has been betrayed countless times in these movies. His initial reaction to the betrayal even reinforces this a bit, as he very quickly realizes and accepts the betrayal, and even maintains focus and self control in spite of it. I feel like the twist is good because it gives Bond immense guilt. He realizes how much pain she must’ve felt being falsely accused, and regrets completely ignoring her when she tried to plead her innocence. I appreciated how it deviated from the typical Bond tropes like that. At the same time though, I feel like they should’ve acknowledged that more and took actions to show that their relationship would never be the same when they finally did reunite.

This Bond series was so sloppy with it's evil organizations. "The big bad is Quantum, and they are everywhere and unstoppable... but still not as bad as Specter, who is the same but more so... but are actually really easy to destroy."

The "we are not so diferent" line in no time to die is made even worse when you consider that In skyfall they already had that character. And its even worse because despite being infinitely more similar to bond, Javier bardems character didnt have to say it. It was inplied very organically.

I felt sorry for Rami too, because you've got Christop Waltz as Blofield, a developed character. I think Rami's character was a filled in (ie last minute) for the story.

This video gets a lot of things right except the Blofeld part. He had two pretty good reasons to tell Bond that Madeleine was innocent. Firstly, it would break Bond's heart to know that he lost 5 years of his life because of his inability to trust. Secondly, it would make it much clearer for Bond who the real enemy is. Mind you, Bond didn't kill spectre, Rami Malek did. So now Bond could chase the main guy rather than trying to figure out if Madeleine cheated on him

Some of the most cliche dialogue for a villain in a big film in some time IMO.

I mean…it’s rami Malek ffs…give him a decent script

This really is a film that had a villain just because it needed one. Honestly I think they wanted to make a story about just Bond and his arc but needed something

The main takeaway from this video is how great Dr.Evil's theme is. It not only captures the feeling of a James Bond theme, but it is also completely over the top and hilarious.

It could have been so simple: Safins father was the original founder of SPECTRE but Blofeld killed him and everyone else in SPECTRE didn't care or speak up. Now he feels like they betrayed him and he needs to take revenge.

Sky fall is 2 hours and 17 mins long and silva shows up exactly 1 hour and 10 mins into the film and is still a FANTASTIC villain!!! Introducing a villain into a story more that half way through can still work if executed well 💯

I only saw this movie for Rami and they gave him barely any screen-time. I felt catfished. I would have liked to see more of his obsession with Lea’s character

Unrelated to the villain, but I really felt James' apology and reconciliation with Madeline should have been at the very end just before he dies. I feel the whole arc of the Craig Bond has been an emotionally closed off person gradually letting people in, and I think it would have been more powerful to hold off on fully letting Madeline in again until the very end, apologizing and telling her he loves her right before dying.