Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo in Thunderball (1965)
Largo needs to look both ways before crossing the street!
This scene from Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) has to be one of the weakest a Bond villain has ever looked. Who signed off on having the end of this scene? Cringe!
I’ve always thought that Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) Tomorrow plot in TND is one of the most realistic/plausible villain plots of the entire series – controlling information and the media is a very powerful thing (hat-tip Elon Musk/Twitter). I’ll give credit to the double-entendre anchorman quote to Carver, but his end “imitation” of Wai-Lin’s (Michelle Yeoh) fighting skills is nothing short of the “pathetic” word he elicits himself. Gross!
I love the way that Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) bets “300 grand” in Casino Royale (2006).
Sure, splashing the pot is poor poker etiquette, but who can blame our brother from Langley? The way the chips gracefully exit his hand and spin perfectly to the pot…man, he looks cool!
Dentonite toothpaste with the Lark Mild cigarettes detonator from Licence To Kill (1989)
…or end up like this:
Jeez…perhaps the most brutal death in all of the James Bond movies!
“Commander, this tracing means that the Russians can track our nuclear submarines underwater and sink them.”
From The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
James Bond (David Nelson) plays baccarat against Le Chiffre (Peter Lorre) in the unofficial Casino Royale (TV – 1954)