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Yeah Spy is missing a good villain, although I guess Jaws actually manages to make up for him.
It's hard to tell how it's going to go: lots of people say they'd cast someone else as Blofeld in Spectre, but I think in 2014 or so any one of us would have leapt at Christolph Waltz playing him after Inglourious Basterds, Django etc. - he's incredible in those other films. (I still don't think he's as bad as Blofeld as lots of folks say, but regardless).
Likewise Jonathan Pryce, someone I was really excited for and yet he didn't quite meet what I was hoping for; even so i think he's no disaster.
I kind of don't mind what they were going for with that: Greene is like a cornered animal at that point and just goes goblin mode; Bond can't really predict what he's going to do and he's just liable to hurt himself as Bond (which of course he does do) and that makes him dangerous, especially with an axe. It's quite an interesting moment, although it's no big showdown as you say. I still rather like Amalric in that film, he gives good creepy when he's afforded the chance. But he doesn't get to look Bond in the eye much, which Mikkelsen got to do loads of, and I think that helps a baddie a lot.
I often think Amalric would have made a good Le Chiffre too.
Yeah, Forster was trying to subvert the norm with Elvis, but it's a joke which crashes to the ground every time. There may well have been a writers strike on, but shooting a comedy character and it coming out as baffling rather than funny is just bad direction, pure and simple. Maybe some of the worst direction in the whole series in fact; John Glen might be bland but I struggle to think of many other situations where you're not actually sure of what the film is trying to say to you.
I rest my case.
Grow up. They should totally establish an evil version of Ana De Armas, and have her kick Bond's ass. That would be awesome.
To be fair, they usually try to avoid direct confrontations with a villainess. Rosa Klebb is killed by Tania, he does not shoot Fiona Volpe, I think he only ever kills Elektra directly. I cannot remember how Irma Bunt dies.