10 Movies That Pissed Off Audiences Right Away

3. For Your Eyes Only

Picking just a single James Bond movie wasn't easy, but by far the most offputting pre-titles sequence in the entire franchise belongs to 1981's For Your Eyes Only.

Though it begins with promise as 007 (Roger Moore) visits the grave of his late wife Tracy, within a square minute he's whisked away by helicopter and has to deal with Blofeld. Or rather, "Blofeld."

You see, the production was unable to explicitly use the character of Blofeld or the shadowy organisation SPECTRE due to an ongoing legal dispute over the rights to these elements of Bond lore.

As a result, Blofeld is never mentioned by name nor is his face seen, and the unnamed "bald villain in wheelchair" (John Hollis) was created instead as an hilariously unsubtle proxy for the iconic villain.

The immensely awkward sequence then sees Bond commandeering the chopper, scooping up not-Blofeld in his wheelchair and dropping him down a chimney.

Between the inherent goofiness of dispatching the villain in such cartoonish fashion and his hilarious final utterance of, "I can buy you a delicatessen, in stainless steel!", it's tough to know whether to cringe, laugh or cry.

This is also a Bond film that ends with 007 receiving a call from then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (played by impersonator Janet Brown), so at least there's a bookending awfulness to the whole thing.