1. Warning: Never Hire Henchmen Who Find Old Men Irresistible - A View To A Kill
The Plan: Monopolise the microchip market by destroying the industry's hotbed, Silicon Valley, after triggering a massive earthquake. As if the opening of Bond (Roger Moore) on a snowmobile with the Beach Boys blasting out in the background wasn't tasteless enough, A View to a Kill ensures cinematic indigestion via the half-baked plans of Christopher Walken's delirious businessman Max Zorin. A product of Nazi medical experimentation and a few sandwiches short of even the most modest of picnics, Zorin is as sadistic as he is psychotic, which perhaps explains his hairstyle but still renders his actions unfathomable. This is the kind of guy who wears a hardhat to open fire on a bunch of unarmed miners but throws caution (and anything resembling a safety net) to the wind when it comes to fistfights on the highest point of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge... But let's face it - his plan was doomed from the start. For a kick-off he hired the phenomenally strong but far from loyal May Day (Grace Jones!) as his accomplice only for her to have a change of heart and sabotage his crucially placed bomb after being seduced by Roger Moore's crinkly charms. Then there's the all-too-late realisation that the bulk of the microchip manufacturing market is most probably outsourced overseas anyway so wiping out Silicon Valley probably wouldn't help him that much. Which other ridiculous Bond villain schemes belong on this list? Share your picks below in the comments thread.
Despite a fear of using plastic cutlery and drinking overly milky brews, Dave is open to indulging in most other things at least once especially when it comes to movies and music.
10 of his favourite films are: Masaki Kobayashi's Hara-Kiri, Ingmar Bergman's Persona, Martin Brest's Midnight Run, Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill, Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, H.G. Clouzot's Les Diaboliques, Hector Babenco's Kiss of the Spider Woman, Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse and Sidney Lumet's Network.
