10 Movies Which Insult Your Intelligence

Speaking of James Bond, fans of history’s best-dressed misogynist were highly hopeful for the franchise’s 2015 offering, Spectre. This was the follow-up to the excellent Skyfall, which was also helmed by director Sam Mendes, and people couldn’t wait to see what he’d do next.

The answer? Not much. 

Spectre is thunderingly boring, a cardinal sin for the patron saint of cinema spectacle. Bond spends a lot of the movie tracking down Franz Obenhauser, later revealed to be his old enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and that quest is sadly not very interesting. 

However, when he finally meets his foe, things somehow get even worse. 

During a classic villain monologue, Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) reveals that, after Bond’s parents died when he was young, the family he came to live with was his. That makes Bond and Blofeld adoptive brothers, a twist nobody saw coming and, more importantly, nobody wanted. 

There have been plenty of retcons in the Bond series, but asking long-time fans to accept that these two characters were now related was a step too far. 

Blofeld would appear in the next series instalment, No Time to Die, but thankfully only to get killed.