I like it when villains have proper depth. When they're real people that have problems, and not just evil personified. That being said, there are movies and books I like which just have an evil villain. And I'm guilty of that occasionally.
(for Frozen and The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
I think in Frozen, it could have been a pretty simple fix. I even posted about it before. I think it would have been more interesting if Prince Hans wasn't totally evil. He could have tried to win Ana over without trying to murder her. And when true love's kiss fails, he has to admit that he doesn't really love her. He was just hoping to marry well. (I don't think the kiss would have healed Ana anyway - she had to do something to prove her own love, as happens when she saves her sister. The trolls gave her bad advice. Like encouraging her to marry someone she just met. Even though Kristoff was just lecturing Ana how that's bad).
And Horvath in The Sorcerer's Apprentice is one of those classy British bad guys. It may be cliché, but it is entertaining. His story boils down to, "I hath been spurned by a girl. I will now team up with the bad guy to kill everyone." Now, I'm probably reading too much into this. But I kinda feel like the actor tried to give the character more depth than he was given in the script. Because when Horvath opens the last layer of the grimhold, he seems hopeful that it's Veronica, the lady he liked. So maybe the whole time he was really trying to save her? In a sort of ends-justifies-the-means way. (I'm still confused by the ending. Because he's clearly still at large. Did they plan a sequel?)
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