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He's one of my all time favorite actors. Plus this thread was about to get nasty so I had to put up a distraction. ;)
He is better,my friend,because he IS...oh and the game has shown that as well eh ? ;)
actually I didn't get the gag, even though I have seen all the Alien movies................... but90% of the post anyway is me rambling about Survivor comparisons, so I was pretty easy on him. :)
By the time Sanchez let's Bond into his inner circle, he's on his own turf where he owns practically everyone and everything, and he has no reason to believe that Bond's a spy or even affiliated with any agencies. His only real problem here is not talking to Krest a little more often.
The government may not have figured out how, but they knew who and that he was doing it.
If we bring coincidence into this, then Dimitrios' plan in CR would have gone off without a hitch had Bond not somehow figured out where Mollaka was, taken his cell phone, discovered Dimitrios in Nassau, seduced his wife, followed him to Miami, and taken down the second bomber who's name, I believe, was Carlos. Most Bond villain's plans would work if not for the unhappy convenience of coincidence. This doesn't make Goldfinger a better villain than anybody.
Goldfinger would have, too! Once an atomic bomb, that they probably could have easily traced back to Goldfinger, was detonated inside Fort Knox, considering that the CIA was already looking into him, they would have done everything possible to negate the effects of all the harm that bomb did to the gold reserves, and Goldfinger's gold would have been worthless. Goldfinger was just as well-known a criminal as Sanchez, he just had the luxury of nobody being able to tie him to anything. Just because the mob boss ordered the hit doesn't mean there's always going to be evidence.
Again, Sanchez had little reason to do a background check, unlike Goldfinger who already knew Bond was snooping around. If the f*cker hadn't been caught cheating at cards, he probably wouldn't have done a background check, either. Chalk that one up to covering up an obvious mistake.
Yes, because despite all this security, all these background checks, all his careful planning, Goldfinger is just stupid enough to forget that there's probably a significant portion of Bond's dossier that includes every vagina's weakness to his charm. I guess causing a Soviet agent (file clerk or not) to defect doesn't count for sh*t when it comes to attracting difficult-to-please women.
And there's your mistake. Right there. No, Sanchez is no better than the gangsters that Goldfinger killed (I'm not even going to comment on the "great public service" that a man who's about to obliterate a national monument with an atomic weapon has going for him), but he's not trying to be. Goldfinger is an over-the-top classical super villain. He may not want the same type of world domination as, say, Blofeld, but he does want domination over the world's gold market. Sanchez, on the other hand, is a realistic villain who's not even trying for world domination, he's just a drug/arms dealer. That is what makes him better. He's not a psychopath for pure black or white reasons like Goldfinger is, he's something that the world created. Goldfinger is something that a man with an imagination created.
Reducing the numbers when the game dragged several times.
And 3rd place for Sanchez, ok, I can live with that, even if he lost out to Dr No and OHMSS' Blofeld.
Not only that, but I figured from the start that Grant would've won the entire game. It's quite surprising.
As far as I remember, Grant was considered by many voters not to be the main villain but a henchman, and that was apparently the reasoning for voting him down. A slightly weak argument in my opininon. There's no crystal clear consensus regarding who the main villain is in FRWL, and when he was included in this game one should vote for him regardless.
I agree completely, and I would dare to go even a bit further: As much as I love Dalton, Connery and Craig... I think Shaw's performance is the best ever in the series. Yes, there I said it! ;)
He is the main reason FRWL is the classic it is. I hope he gets his revenge in the future "Henchman Elimination Game".
Klebb or Blofeld would not have lasted very long.
As a character he does indeed escalate FRWL into 'classic' status.
I'm baffled as to why people would label Grant the main villain. Is it because he's more prominent a character or just more likeable? I, and a few others here voted down Grant because he IS the henchman. HE works for Klebb, not the other way around, so he's the henchman, simple as that. Besides, he's listed everywhere on the internet as a henchman, or Klebb's henchman, and the internet's NEVER wrong...
To restore balance, I expect to see Klebb in the henchman elimination game.
It may seem like I'm making a big deal out of this, and the truth is, I am. :P ;)
I think someone needs to get out more.....
That is not surprising at all. The way this game is configured the villain that is most compatible with most participant wins. So he may not be in the top-3 of the majority, but he is a consensus candidate that most of us can live with.
The game should be repeated with a Champion's League-style elimination formula (rounds of 4, then elimination table), I am sure this would bring out a different result.
That indeed is an interesting idea! But how would the seeding work?
This.
As long as it's healthy, Mr. Osato will also agree. ;)
Couldn't agree more. Grant would have done much better in the henchman/woman elimination game.
And as for Rosa Klebb, I find her to be one of my favourite villainesses in the series.
*Chess. #-o