Best Roger Moore Bond

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Favourite Roger Moore Bond.

Live And Let Die
7
23%
The Man With The Golden Gun
1
3%
The Spy Who Loved Me
11
37%
Moonraker
1
3%
For Your Eyes Only
7
23%
Octopussy
2
7%
A View To A Kill
1
3%
 
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I voted for The Spy Who loved me. I get a great feeling when watching it although Live and Let Die is pretty solid too. :cheers:
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Finally voted for Spy as well. It was a three-way toss up between that, LALD and FYEO, but I think Spy has the edge.
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Sky Who is a lot of fun easy to see why it saved the franchise.
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Kristatos wrote:Toss-up between TSWLM and FYEO for me. It's a bit of an apples and oranges comparison really - the former is a big, epic Bond adventure, whereas the latter is more low-key, like a Terence Young film.
same here.my vote was the spy who loved me as well and for your eyes only is a close second.most fans like TSWLM the best and how could they not with these things going for it? the hottest Bond girl Barbara Bach was in it,best theme song,awesome opening sequence,his most dangerous villain Jaws was in it,and he drove the coolest car in the Bond movie,the lotus sutra.Moore said that film was the funnest one he had doing and it shows on screen and in the final product.
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I like all the Roger films but The Spy Who Loved Me is the most fun. You can see they really tried to up their game here and bring Bond back in a big way.
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James wrote:You can see they really tried to up their game here and bring Bond back in a big way.
I hope this doesn't happen with the next one. Otherwise, you may as well hired Carrot Top as the next Bond once DC retires.
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Jerry would make a much better Bond than Carrot Top.
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James wrote:Jerry would make a much better Bond than Carrot Top.
He is Scottish yet he was born in New Jersey.
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Jerry was born in New Jersey? I didn't know that.
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James wrote:Jerry was born in New Jersey? I didn't know that.
He was born there. If he becomes James Bond, he will be the first Bond born in the US. I wonder if DC haters would consider Sadowitz Bond to be worse than DC Bond.
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Toss up between TSWLM and FYEO. Like someone wrote TSWLM is larger-than-life adventure with Jaws and that car.Also loved the moment when Bond says to Triple X."When someone's chasing 40 miles an hour trying to bullet in your head you don't have time to remember faces.People die in our job.He knew that,I knew that.The answer to your question is yes.I did kill him." The first time Moore's Bond actually seemed like a spy.
FYEO is on the other side,a low-key spy movie.Love it.If I had to pick,I choose the latter.
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For Your Eyes Only is mine hands down. It sticks to the source material 100 times closer than any of Moore's other films which is important to me as a fan of the novels.
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It's a toss up betweenThe Spy Who Loved Me and A View To A Kill, but I'll give my vote to A View To A Kill for having my favourite title song/John Barry score, favourite villain, and the Golden Gate Bridge fight. I find enjoyment in all the Moore films, though. He's the most entertaining Bond for me.
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Seven great fun adventures. Unlike the depressing James bond films made today.
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I like all of his films, i personally never had an issue with his visible old age in the later films like most fans did. To me it was like watching a Bond movie with an older experienced 007.
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For Your Eyes Only.
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Too late to vote it seems. Oh well, nevertheless, a clear favourite for me... Live and let Die. Stokes me up every time I sit down and watch it.
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I have to go and say how "The Spy Who Loved Me" is a definitive Moore Bond movie. One of the most iconic Bond movies hands down. Starting with the brilliant title of the movie through the iconic pre-title sequence to the great title opening to the twist where Bond kills Triple X's lover. To the scene where I bought Moore as a spy. To the plot that was a ground for Kingsman. Jaws. Moore being totally cool. "When one is in Egypt,the man has to dive deep in all of his treasures." :lol: I voted for "For Eyes Only" first but after watching it last time it isn't as great as the first two times to be quite honest. I was quite bored during some bits actually. TSWLM is as exciting the third time around as it was for the first. A stample of the Moore era-no doubt. Oh and can't forget the lotus car!!
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Moonraker is the best Moore Bond.

The Spy Who Loved Me is not bad either, but still not quite as good as Moonraker. I'll agree Spy has more iconic moments though, like the pre-credit ski jump, Lotus car, etc.

Both Spy and Moonraker are big lavish epic Bonds with Moore at his best, and these times (the late 70s) were overall a high point in the Bond series.

For Your Eyes Only is a solid down to earth action adventure, with a story based on some genuine Fleming material. To me Bill Conti's score rather destroys the film though. The film seems a bit tame as well, not big enough really.

Live And Let Die I have never understood why many Bond fans hold in such high regard. It's a really silly variant of a blaxploitation movie with no epic scope whatsoever.

The Man with the Golden Gun is somewhat better, but also has not much epic scope. There are some good ideas in the film though and the cast is excellent, there is a John Barry score, there is 70s kung fu movie influences. The film should have been much better.

Octopussy and A View To A Kill are rather tired mediocre Bonds, with Moore starting to be a bit too old. At least he's no longer believable in the action scenes.

It seems the Bond filmmakers pulled themselves together when they made The Living Daylights since it feels much more fresh and vital than the two preceding 007 movies.
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Jim wrote:Too late to vote it seems. Oh well, nevertheless, a clear favourite for me... Live and let Die. Stokes me up every time I sit down and watch it.
Nice to see this topic revived, and my first in many a months, my apologies.... still have to go with LALD. Moore was at his freshest and best blend of his later over-the-topness and being Bond (a touch of cadness, which we also see in the very next film TMWTGG*). George Martin's score is excellent, was he ever offered another? I recently read his bio but don't recall anything to that effect; maybe he didn't enjoy film scoring.
* Just reviewed TSWLM ..... I didn't realize how cringe-worthy Roger's expressions were during the times of supposedly great danger: eg when he and Anna's truck is being pounded by Jaws, there is an absolute lack of any danger; he just makes comments like, Would you like me to drive? And poor Barbara Bach is trying to act like they're in danger or whatever. Sadly, in the commentary by Lewis Gilbert he said that he wanted to change Roger's Bond after he saw TMWTGG. "They were trying to make him like Sean .." he wanted him lighter. It seems much lighter. As the film progresses we then see Roger 'acting' more serious, but after the previous scenes he has lost all credibility. A big change from the first two films. Now compare it with YOLT, which of course 'Spy' was based on. While it was also over the top, Sean played the dangerous bits like he always has, where you can at least suspend disbelief for a bit and imagine that Bond is actually facing extinction. Or at least playing Bond with cool and coldness. Example, the sequence with Dikko Henderson, all along to the fight in the garden, the suave John Berry music as Bond grunts into the car (my favorite 'bass' rift on the theme btw) and then of course to the great fight in Osato's office. He isn't casually smiling as the sword is flinging at him. The 'Spy' Roger would've just raised an eyebrow. :cake:
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