Thread by @KevinRothrock

Some thoughts on my favorite Russian villains from Hollywood movies. In no particular order, let's start with Air Force One. Remember Gary Oldman as Egor Korshunov? I think he dies when a parachute gets wrapped around his neck. Kinda like Mark Strong at the end of Sherlock.

Theon Greyjoy's dad in John Wick calls Keanu Reeves "Baba Yaga," which is meant to be the same as "The Bogeyman" but actually means "that old witch lady who lives in the woods in the house on chicken legs." (The new Hellboy did a gross rendition of her.)

Ray Winstone's General Dreykov in Black Widow is maybe the most British Russian to grace the screen since whoever Connery was in Hunt for the Red October. Scottish people are British too, right? (Only English people are allowed to answer.)

Kenneth Branagh may have shot a reverse bullet into his wife in Tenet as Andrei Sator, but I remember his evil Russian ways best when he threatened to make Keira Knightley eat a lightbulb as Viktor Cherevin in Shadow Recruit.

Remember when Dolph Lundgren was training as Ivan Drago and he punches that thing while running indoor laps? That sounds like fun. Apparently, he put Stallone in the hospital when he accidentally connected a punch in one scene. What a baby, Sly.

Peter Bull as Soviet Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky has so many great lines in Dr. Strangelove. "Our source was the New York Times" is still something I like muttering to myself.

Mickey Rourke's Ivan Vanko was mostly off-putting, but at least the screenwriters gave him that fascinating pet bird storyline.

I don't really remember Rambo II or Lieutenant Colonel Podovsky very well, but I think this was lampooned in Hot Shots Part Deux. That was a fun movie.

That's it. Those are all the Russian villains ever to appear in Hollywood films.

Okay I forgot one: Alfred Molina's Boris the Butcher in The Man Who Knew Too Little. Molina's ethnic range is incredible. Is he Russian? Iranian? Latin American? Literally no one knows.

Okay that's all the Russian movie villains ever.