Best and Worst Evil Plans in Movies - Page 2

While I can't remember any details, the labyrinthian "long con" evil plans formulated by David Mamet in The Spanish Prisoner & House Of Games are worth mentioning.

Why is August DeWynters blowing up the world's weather using the Grateful Dead?

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I'm still trying to figure out what the final endgame of Jonathan Pryce in "Tomorrow Never Dies" was. He wants to take over all media? Seems pretty lame in comparison to nuclear warheads, satellite lasers, contaminating Fort Knox, and wiping out all human life on Earth with nerve gas.

He would get exclusive rights for his cable news network, thus having an audience of billions to advertise too. He would have made a ton of money; so his plan makes sense to me. Too bad he was foiled by Bond, James Bond.

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He would get exclusive rights for his cable news network, thus having an audience of billions to advertise too. He would have made a ton of money; so his plan makes sense to me. Too bad he was foiled by Bond, James Bond.

I am a big time TND supporter, but even I must admit Carver really didn't have a plan that makes any kind of real world sense. He was going to precipitate a war with the potential for an exchange of nuclear arms between CHINA and the UK, which the US could be drawn into. In whatever world remains after that scenario, his TV news rights are going to see a substantial devaluation, to say the least 

Charver had a general in his pocket. The plan was to come close to war, and then said general would negotiate a peace settlement.. Of course a British missile was going to take out Beijing; taking out who was actually in charge of China.

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Originally Posted by Chaz 

Charver had a general in his pocket. The plan was to come close to war, and then said general would negotiate a peace settlement.. Of course a British missile was going to take out Beijing; taking out who was actually in charge of China.

I don't believe that once the Britain bombed Bejing that things wouldn't have quickly escalated beyond a single Chinese general's ability to contain, but yes you're correct that I had some of the specifics of his plan wrong

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Re: ALIEN PLANS/WATER

 

The aliens in BATTLE LA had a pretty terrifying plan. They land, and immediately start stealing away our water without offering a word of explanation. If they'd succeeded, the planet would have been ruined, the biosphere destroyed. Within a matter of weeks every living thing on the planet would have been dead, if not from thirst, than from choking dust storms and radiation, as our atmosphere would likely have burned off

 

 

Water: it makes more sense for aliens to be after it than it does for them to covet gold. That's all I'll say

 

 

PS Brad Pitt had a top notch plan in 12M. Noble goals coming together with dastardly means, to create a plan so perfectly crafted that even the forces of time travel were unable to prevent it's ultimate success

As a resource grab? No. There's far more water drifting around the solar system in the handy form of tow-able ice.

As a way to fuck the Earth up just coz? Yes.

12 Monkeys:

Didn't the Army of the 12 Monkeys just release Zoo animals? The dude on the plane released the virus.

Yeah, the 12 Monkeys business was pretty unrelated to David Morse's dastardly plan. He worked at the zoo that they released the animals from, or something tangentical like that. It served the film's theme of not remembering things how they really were; although the councilmember appearing next to Morse on the plane could be argued as a sign that Cole's message did, in some form, change the past.

Littlefinger has a pretty fucking awesome long-term evil plan unfold over the course of A Song of Fire and Ice (Game of Thrones).

I'll also throw in O'Reilly from OZ. That wasn't so much evil planning, it was more evil improvisation. Still, he pulled off an impressive amount of fucked-upery. 

This is either the greatest evil plan in cinema history or the worst. In any case, this tagline is going on my gravestone.

The thing that makes this great is the word unwittingly.

That word throws this into a whole other realm of crazy. Did George C Scott not see the other dolphin trainer showing pictures of JFK to the dolphin then punch the dolphin in the stomach? Did he not realize that the bit of metal was actually a trigger mechanism designed for a flipper? That his dolphin pool was actually shaped like the book depository?

Tyler Durden's plans in Fight Club for the most part went off without a hitch.  Mission accomplished!

I just watched Batman Returns, and I'm still not sure what the deal was with Max Shreck's not-a-powerplant.

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Richard Nixon, John Mitchell, Harold Haldemann etc:

Hire complete bunch of aging nincompoops to break into Democratic party headquarters and plant listening devices/take pictures etc, (the kind of guys who leave a trail like the proverbial bleeding Mammoth, don't even scope the place out properly and communicate over readily interceptable radio frequencies), pay them out of committee to re-elect money and hope no one notices.

Also, they got caught/exposed by either a retard or a couple of teenage girls.

Special shout out to television. The fourth season of 24 has one of the most dazzlingly complicated terrorist plots ever.

They kidnap the Secretary of Defense and his daughter to put him on trial or something!

But wait! That's just a cover for stealing a device to allow them to make all of America's power plants melt down!

BUT WAIT! That was just a cover for stealing a stealth plane to shoot down Air Force One!

BUT WAIT! ALL OF THAT was just so that they could get the nuclear football, so that we can launch a nuclear missile at Los Angeles!

Fortunately, Jack Bauer was there to save us. Although no thanks to those pussy fools in the government and "Amnesty Global."

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Special shout out to television. The fourth season of 24 has one of the most dazzlingly complicated terrorist plots ever.

 

We kidnap the Secretary of Defense and his daughter to put him on trial or something!

 

But wait! That's just a cover for stealing a device to allow them to make all of America's power plants melt down!

 

BUT WAIT! That was just a cover for stealing a stealth plane to shoot down Air Force One!

 

BUT WAIT! ALL OF THAT was just so that they could get the nuclear football, so that we can launch a nuclear missile at Los Angeles!

 

Fortunately, Jack Bauer was there to save us. Although no thanks to those pussy fools in the government and "Amnesty Global."

The amazing thing is that this was clearly the most plausible plot of any season of 24..

I love this thread so much.

So much that it makes me forget every evil plot I've ever seen in a movie so I can't contribute.

Although, having just watched Dead Heat, the evil plot in there is, while not terrible, not exactly well thought out.  I mean, everyone knows about the zombies/immortality at this point!  You're not gonna be able to market it THAT hard.  Also, you resurrected Joe Piscapo as your henchman.  Son, you fucked up, there.

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I just watched Batman Returns, and I'm still not sure what the deal was with Max Shreck's not-a-powerplant.

One thing I love about "Batman Returns" is that Batman foils the Penguin's plan to kidnap the first-born children of Gotham's elite, and the Penguin's immediately got an even more heinous backup evil plan to bomb the city back to the Stone Age using actual penguins with rockets strapped to their backs.

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Originally Posted by Greg Clark 

Yeah, the 12 Monkeys business was pretty unrelated to David Morse's dastardly plan. He worked at the zoo that they released the animals from, or something tangentical like that. It served the film's theme of not remembering things how they really were; although the councilmember appearing next to Morse on the plane could be argued as a sign that Cole's message did, in some form, change the past.

I thought that in the Twelve Monkeys universe, it was established that it was impossible to change the past* (as evidenced by the fact that everything they did just ended up creating the past as it was already recorded, especially the final scene in the airport), however after the whole loop played through a cycle, by observation they were able to find out information they didn't have before about the source of the virus and collect an original sample (presumably by placing the council member being there on the plane) that they could take back to the present and hopefully make a vaccine from**.

*It's been a while, didn't the time travellers and the people sending them frequently say this? Occasionally, I think they tried to do things to see if they could change things (and especially in the airport at the end) but for the best part, they knew it was going to fail to do so even before they tried it. I remember the recorded phone message where the psychiatrist thought she'd leave a totally ridiculous and spontaneous message to prove he was wrong but he already knew the content of the message having learnt it long before in his personal timeline.

**I'm presuming there was something about the virus in the present day that they couldn't use to make a vaccine, I don't remember them specifically stating anything though about that, though I imagine there had to be a reason for the purposes of the story.