Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[Alex]

One of the movie related podcasts I listen to is a BBC radio show and they had Craig on a couple weeks ago. During that he was talking about ideas he has for Bond and hoping to get to collaborate on them, especially with Mendes if he returns.

I was fine with omniscient villain until:

Serious spoilers in here so don't read if you don't want to know.

Spoiler:

He apparently so perfectly planned his escape from MI6 that he had planted an explosive in the roof of an unused station, apparently knowing that Bond would catch up to him in that room and exactly where he would be when it happened and that a train would be coming along at the right time.

A moment of lightly showing the diabolical nature of the villain could have been had if they'd shown him waiting around in that abandoned station until warned that Bond was almost there and then he starts scurrying up the ladder.

Of course, all of that relied on knowing that Bond would shoot at him three times and each time hit a 2 inch wide strip of metal instead of the bad guy.

All the other omniscience didn't bother me*, but at that moment it went a step too far.

*And that is apparently considering that Bardem's diabolical plan was apparently this:

1. Steal hard drive but don't have your guy get away so clean that Bond isn't in pursuit.
2. Arrange that pursuit so perfectly that Bond will be shot by his own team and put out of commission. But first your guy will shoot him with a bullet that will leave shrapnel behind but not fatally or seriously impair him.
3. Wait until Bond has healed enough to implement the next part of the plan.
4. Assume that Bond will return to service after seeing the news.
5. Assume that after six months M will lie so that he can return to service.
6. Assume that Bond will finally have the shrapnel so that it can be used (making sure your bad guy used a type of bullet that apparently only three people in the world use) to track down your bad guy).
7. Arrange a job for your bad guy that hopefully MI6 will learn about from the Americans, who want your bad guy but apparently not enough to pursue him when they know where he is going to be.
8. Assume Bond will be sent to track him down.
9. Assume that once Bond catches up to him he will kill the bad guy rather than capturing him.
10. Assume that Bond will not wonder why a casino chip was actually given a special space in the glass cutter case and smell a trap.
11. Bond will go to that casino and survive an apparently very serious attempt on his life.
12. Bond will offer to kill you so that your sex slave will bring him to you. Bond will then do the extremely creepy thing of announcing his arrival to a woman he deduced has been a sex slave since 12 years old by joining her in the shower.
13. Bond will capture you (not kill you) once on your island. So that you can, from custody, engage in an escape even more improbable than the plan so far.