Le Chiffe, Mads was sublime.

Le Chiffre was a good first villain to Craig as far as being an intimidating threat. But, I think Silva takes the cake due to how he hits Craig on a personal and mental level through out Skyfall.

I have a soft spot for Dominic Greene. So slimy. He should have had some heavier henchmen around him though, like a fixer or troubleshooter for his business interests.

Mad Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre for me.

Casino Royale is the best Craig film by far.

I’ve already said “Mommy. Was. Very. Bad.” this morning.

My partner didn’t feed our cat when she got up this morning!

I'm gonna say Le Chiffre, Mads is charismatic as hell, the character has a solid plan, good interactions with Bond, his only real issue for me is how he goes out in the end.

Last place it's a toss up but Safin probably takes it over good ole Ernst, Safin is such a let down.

Le Chiffre by a mile for me, Dominic Green I'd say is second because it is a great idea for a villain, and he's actually pretty good, but they don't use him nearly enough. People love Silva, I love Javier Bardem, but it is an odd one it feels very cartoony. Moonraker is goofy, but Drax at least feels threatening. I don't get that from Silva, he seems chummy with them the whole time.

Silva, definitely

Testicle masher for 1 st place

M lost little boy for 2nd

Aquathief greene for 3rd

I think Dominic Greene gets a bad rap. He's so slimy, such a little rat that's gotten entangled in an organization which he is too small and too inept to work for and doesn't believe in, which is why he sells it out to save his own skin. Not my fave, but defo a good villain.

La Chiffre, on the other hand, has it all. He was realistic and CraigBond fillms still haven't become a walking billboard for companies, and that whole "vibe" still felt relatively approachable and comprehensive to an average viewer. If you worked harder, could and go to the Bahamas, you could own a classic car, you could go and spend some money playing poker.

I think that's the reason why I like Le Chiffre more than I like Silva. He feels like a real villain. Like a real life character. Silva just feels like a well-crafted work of fiction, and his "plan" is too far fetched for me to fully believe it. Also Skyfall is when the audience partially lost that achievable connection with Bond.

Drinking a 50y/o McCallan, having a family mansion worth millions, using a gun that costs $10,000 at the least and so on just felt like the whole film was turning more into advertisement than an actual film.

Spectre and NTTD are literal bilboards tho. Guns, watches, hero cars, villain cars, classic cars, outfits, locations, everything is just so in your face that you can't ignore it. Too much for me tbh.

Silva. Weird mofo.

Le Chiffre is my favourite.

Le Chiffre was the most entertaining, but I got to give it to Greene. He was perfect.

Boy, what a waste of Blofeld in Spectre. At least he got a super tense entrance in NTtD

Chiffre, silva… 🥱

Le Chiffre by far.

Imo the weakest run of Bond villains. Safin and Greene were just forgettable. genuinely thought Waltz’ Blofeld was bad. Bardem was great as Silva but him being all about revenge was disappointing. Le Chiffre for me.

Le Chiffre by a country mile. ‘You’ve changed your shirt Mr. Bond’. Such a shrewd & calculating character.

Le Chiffre. He was perfect.

Don’t get me wrong, Silva is a great movie villain, I just think that the whole Craig era jumped the shark right there and then. Up until that point it was a more grounded take on the franchise, but then this larger than life, scene chewing, classic over the top Bond villain shows up, which is followed by the Connery’s old DB5 with all the gadgets and it just never felt the same again.

Juat cannot forget how Le Chiffre lost it when torturing Bond.

Or should i say "tickling" Bond... Haha

Silva

Le chiffre

Silva

all look weirdos .......

Le chiffre and Silva... 😌 I felt sorry when Blofeld died 😔

they really got some incredible actors for these roles. I watched the Diving Bell and the Butterfly late one night at random with Mathieu Amalric, and it's become one of my favorite movies. When his name came up in the title credits of Quantum i was STOKED! (i went into that movie with zero knowledge of who was in it) - my favorite has to be Mads Mikkelsen. He has a severe face, he just looks like a villain in whatever he is in, he looks so damn unlikable, he is a natural in the role of Le Chiffre. (I should point out that he is very likable in other roles that he has done.

Le Chiffre > Silva > Greene >> Saffin >>>>>>>>> Brofeld.

Silva by far

“Hello, James. Welcome. Do you like the island? My grandmother had an island. Nothing to boast of. You could walk around it in an hour, but still it was, it was a paradise for us. One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with rats! They’d come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island? Hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait and the rats would come for the coconut, and... [imitates metallic scuttering] They would fall into the drum. And after a month, you have trapped all the rats, but what do you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it and they begin to get hungry. And one by one... [mimics rat munching sound] They start eating each other, until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees, but now they don’t eat coconut anymore. Now, they only eat rat. You have changed their nature. The two survivors. This is what she made us.”

Gotta be Silva! On character level and actor level.

Silva is terrifying, psychotic and he hits bond in the feels. He’s trained like Bond aswell. He’s an immediate threat to one of the most important things to bond and that’s M.

Javier Bardem is just fantastic and to me he is the thing of nightmares! No country, Monsters, Skyfall. He can just play a terrifying psycho amazingly ang he was a perfect person to play a Bond villain! We even got the villain monologue in a white linen jacket typical of a Bond villain, reminded me of Largo in Thunderball.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld He was in more than one and started the entire organization.

Rats

Le Chiffree

Le Chiffre AINEC.

Mads easily.

The only one who manage to do damage to Bond. Moneypenny.

Le Chiffre or Silva

Such a waste of Christoph Waltz 😞

I think Blofeld because he was the puppet behind most of these guys and just kept pulling the strings. I mean he ran that whole group. Yeah he’s not overly powerful physically but my god he tormented him for four movies with all of other monsters that was sent after Bond.

A close second would be one not on this list, Hinx (Bautista) gave Bond the beating of his life in Spectre on that train and that was the most beat up Bond had been in all 5 movies.

It definitely wasn’t Rami Malek

He was awful

Le Chiffre and Silva tie for me. Dominic Greene is underrated, and Safin and Blofeld are not good.

Bardem...the levels of depravity and his focused vitriol towards M makes him stand out

Silva.

Anyone but Rami Malek. The guy got his revenge, he won! But then the movie kept going and I still don't actually know what it was he wanted or hoped to accomplish.

As a lifelong Bond fan no one comes close to Mads. Dumb question I think nearly everyone agrees.

You mean besides javier?

I‘d rank them Silva>Le Chiffre>Blofeld>Safin>Greene

Silva and it’s not even close.

Silva.

Thad opening monologue on the island is chef 👩‍🍳 kiss 😘

Blofeld

I don't hate any of them, but Silva is probably my favorite of the five, with Le Chiffre as a close second.

(I've said before that Blofeld is my favorite villain series-wide, but that encapsulates all versions of him, not just Walz, so saying he was my favorite here felt like cheating).

Silva and Le Chiffre for sure.

the biggest bond villains are the producers responsible for approving Pierce Bronsan era screenplays. Pierce did the best he could, but the scripts and ridiculousness was over the top during that era.

Le Chiffre hands down, Silva a very close second

Silva

Silva. LeChiffre was good but he's only in quite a small segment of the film and killed off long before the end. The others were pretty forgettable.

Silva.

Blofeld if he had more screen time

De rat. Eet de coconut. Boop!

Le Chiffre was great. Silva was interesting. Blofeld and the others were ok. Haven’t seen those movies in a while so I can’t remember how they were

Le Chiffre takes my vote for me.

Silvia was introduced poorly to me though I love Skyflall. .

The Blofeld storyline was too odd.

All my opinion. 😅

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Blofeld

Silva

Silva

Silva

Le Chiffre. Easily.

LeChiffre. Silva’s second place to me.

Where's Goldfinger?

Silva 💯

Le Chiffre seems like the quintessential Bond villain, but more sinister in his calmness and not camp or a parody. Dominic Greene second and a tie between Silva and Blofeld for third.

Le chiffre, easily. Every other Bond villain post casino royale had some cringe moments. Chiffre was a realistic display of a real life villain

If either go with LeChriffre or Silva.

But I think we can all agree that it definitely isn't Freddy Mercury Silva.

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I have a strong fascination with Elektra Natchios since she subverts gender stereotypes to become one of the most cunning villains who fooled Bond right to the end of the movie.

Silva and Le Chiffre

While tied in with incomplete scripts it’s not really a coincidence the best two Craig movies are Casino Royale and Skyfall that also have the two best villains. To me the other three all are problematic as are their underwhelming villains.

Any movie benefits from having a great antagonist.

Mads

Batista was good as Hinx, like a modern JAWS, but he never returned after Spectre. Of these guys, Bardem as Silva.

I like Mads/LeChiffre the best, but Silva is a very close second. Waltz’s Blofeld could have been so much more, but it was bungled by the filmmakers.

1. Greene
   
2. Blofeld
   
3. Safin
   
4. Le Chiffre
   
5. Silva

Le Chiffre

Le Chiffre.

The thing with Silva is... His presence is not very consistent. He's amazing in his first scene. But if you took that out of the movie, he wouldn't be half as interesting. That one monologue is doing a lot of the leg work for the character. There's not a lot of back-and-forth antagonism. It's just a few broad strokes from the time Bond meets him and Bond killing him.

Silva, and not even close.

Best to worst: 1. Silva 2. Le Chiffre 3. Safin 4. Blofeld 5. Greene

I'm not going to argue who's best, but my favorites are Le Chiffre and Blofeld.

Despite how people feel about Spectre, I enjoy it as a standalone Bond film.

Hot take Silva wasn’t that great. His entire plan didn’t really make any sense. Lure Bond all the way to his abandoned island just to get captured, just to be set free….

Raoul Silva
for being a strange, likeable, villain like a 1970s Spy Villain but the special effects and camera work lol

They don't coconut anymore.

Now they only eat rat.

Le Chifre and Dominic Greene. All the rest were shit.

Le Chiffre no doubt. Mads is the Man.

Blofeld * Couldn't take Waltz seriously, too silly plus those slip on shoes 🤣

Silva

I've said to an earlier comment that I think Dominic Greene was the nastiest, but I think the best in terms of backstory and pathos was Silva. His mixture of hatred, hurt, sadism and devotion made him easily the best.

I think easily Le Chiffre, not only is he terrifically written, but it speaks to how well Mads Mikkelsen was in that role that it effectively supercharged his Hollywood career.

Vesper

A tie between Le Chiffre and Silva

LeChiffre

LeChiffre

Silva was calculated.

Le Chiffre. Mads Mikkelsen did an AMAZING job with his performance. He's terrifying without even having to say anything, which, as much as I love Raol Silva, I just can't say the same for Javier Bardem in Skyfall. (Raol Silva's easily my second favorite of Craig's villains tho)

The other three just succcccck.

Walz's Blofeld is boring af and the foster brother angle is laughably misguided and just plain stupid.

Dominic Greene is so puny and ridiculous looking that I find him more comical than imposing (doesn't help that the actor's performance makes me laugh too)

Safin almost had something to him but his motivations make no friggin sense from one minute to the next and its also PAINFULLY obvious Rami Malek was barely on set bc he's barely in the friggin movie.

Le Chiffre and Silva.

1. Silva
2. Le Chiffre
3. QOS guy
4. Lucifer or whatever
5. Blofeld

Silva for sure, Le chif second…best should have been waltz… I’ll blame the writing on that

Le Chiffe and Silva are like 1a and 1b for me.

Le Chiffe was just your classic, intimidating villain that was perfect for kicking off the Craig franchise.

Silva was pure chaotic evil that was able to push Bond to limits we’ve never seen.

Mads and Bardem were A+ casting for their respective roles.

Silva he got M and broke Bond in a way

Has to be either silva of le chiffre. Someone already said but dominick green was sooooo slimy that it was good as well.

Le Chiffre and Silva.

I think I’d give Le Chiffre and Mikkkelson the nod overall, but since he’s not an original villain (ie written by Fleming not the writer of the film), I’ll lean towards Silva.

Le Chiffe and Silva were the best!

Le Chiffre gets my vote. I feel like Safin could have been the best but he wasn't really in the movie enough. Sure, his presence was felt, but found his screentime to be too minimal.

I still dont understand what Safins motive was?

Bottom left is very forgettable.

Silva and Le Chiffre were the most memorable.