Most nonsensical villain motivations in a Bond movie?

In the films, Stromberg and Drax.

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Carver in TND has to take the cake here.

Ever Bond villain's motivation is nonsensical, but it makes sense to them and that's why they're the villain.

*Blofeld in Spectre (and the Daniel Craig Bond movies in general) - Spectre have already basically taken over the world with massive influence among governments and corporations. It was going fine until they stupidly decided to mess with Bond for Blofeld's idiotic personal grudge.You misunderstand.

SPECTRE had not yet taken over the world with their Nine Eyes Initiative. They only had the tech in place and set to run and it was Denbigh/C's job to get the various nations to agree to the plan by disguising it as a movement for national security, only then would SPECTRE actually have control of the various intelligence programs of the governments. That's why Denbigh is there and that's why SPECTRE is staging all the "terrorist attacks" throughout the country in order to make the countries desperate for security (Sciarra's plan was to blow up a stadium before Bond interfered in the PTS and another attack is mentioned while in the lair).

Blofeld is not actively seeking out Bond to get revenge, Bond is simply getting in the way and Blofeld retaliates. As Blofeld states, "a nice pattern developed, you interfered with my world and I destroyed yours". Bond got involved with Le Chiffre, Vesper ended up dead. Later, Silva goes on his own personal vendetta, Bond gets involved, M ends up dead. Here, Bond gets involved with Sciarra and the plot develops out of Bond's own actions. Blofeld's not making everything happen this way, he's doing his own thing outside of Bond and Bond is messing it up. Their confrontation in SP is a product of classic cinematic convenience, that's how things worked out, not because Blofeld is going out of his way to personally kill people Bond cares for, with the exception of Oberhauser.

I don't like Bond and Blofeld's connection, not at all really, but don't blatantly ignore what's actually going on just because they're foster brothers. The problem is that them being foster brothers really has no relevance, not that they're foster brothers in the first place. It actually could have been an effective twist had they actually done something worthwhile with it.

Quite frankly, if one takes a bit of the hyperbole out of the story, I think Carver probably has the most reasonable and comprehensible motive of them all. Remember the Maine?

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Ceterum censeo OCTOPUSSY esse delendam.

Verily I say unto thee...Carver refused the cake and passed it to the rightful recipient which was Greene in the insipid piffle QoS. Unfortunately the weak wristed Greene found the cake too heavy and it fell to the floor so now no one gets the crumbly treat.

Silva is one of the most fascinating, layered, and complicated villains from the series with incredibly well-defined and reasonable motivations for what he's doing.

But he's not Vin Diesel, so you don't like him.

He wanted M to suffer and yet had all those means right with him the entire movie. Letting himself get captured made no sense and was pointless.

Also, if you diabolical scheme relies on the London Underground running on time, get a different scheme.

Silva's plan was to make M think she had him safely imprisoned, only for him to suddenly show up at the hearing and murder her in public, right when she was in the middle of trying to defend her work. This, along with the stealing of the hard drive, was meant to humilliate and embarrass her. If Silva had merely wanted M to suffer physical pain, there wouldn't have been much of a movie, because as you say, he could've easily found her and murdered her. But there was more to him than that.