On villains in modern cinema in the face of adversity

Why the hell do they keep letting themselves get captured only to reveal some magnificent escape ten to fifteen minutes later?

It was brilliant when The Joker pulled off his escape in The Dark Knight.



When Loki did it in The Avengers it was pretty cool.



And when... that guy...  did the very same thing in Skyfall I thought, "Oh. He's watched The Dark Knight and The Avengers."


Yes, it's good and fine using a subway train to attack your enemies. We all know how cool it looked in Batman Begins. But the perfection of it...



"Don't worry. I have this figured out. While I'm climbing a ladder and James Bond catches up to me and holds me at gun point, I'll hit several buttons on my radio attack him with a conveniently timed train out of nowhere."



Oh... uh.... spoilers?



Not that I didn't enjoy the movie. The sequence when they were rigging the house with traps and explosives would've been even cooler if Macaulay Culkin showed up and said, "I can save you! I've done this with paint cans and Micro Machines as a boy." But over all, pretty good flick. James Bond continues to be awesome. Not unlike Jason Bourne and Jack Bauer.



...Also, if I ever write a spy novel, I'm just going to call the protagonist Agent Ja-Bo.