Roger Moore, Only

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Which of the Moore Bond flicks do you think the best? (and why?)

Live and Let Die
The Man With the Golden Gun
The Spy Who Loved Me
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy
A View to a Kill
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Karl Henning

January 12, 2015, 06:30:02 AM
I'm not even sure I have seen all of them . . . .
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[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

springrite

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January 12, 2015, 06:31:47 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on January 12, 2015, 06:30:02 AM
I'm not even sure I have seen all of them . . . .

I have, but I don't remember which is which...
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Karl Henning

#2
January 12, 2015, 06:33:06 AM
I remember that Geoffrey Holder was in the first, and that they killed off Patrick Macnee in the last . . . .
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#3
January 12, 2015, 06:34:30 AM
All right, I voted for Jane Seymour Live and Let Die
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

AnthonyAthletic

#4
January 12, 2015, 06:35:41 AM
Definately Live and Let Die.

Nice story, taking us away from the USA-GB v USSR stories and into a world of black magic (covering up the drugs)  :D

The voodoo guy really spooked me when I was a child watching it for the first time.  A lot of great fun and innuendo with Moore, the other movies with Jaws in were great watches too.

A View to a Kill was a good story too, well played by all, even if Moore was clocking on a bit at the time.

Not the best Bond, but I think Timothy Dalton had the best two movies (as storylines go)...just my opinion, love em all.

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying"      (Arthur C. Clarke)

Karl Henning

#5
January 12, 2015, 06:39:19 AM
Quote from: AnthonyAthletic on January 12, 2015, 06:35:41 AM
... but I think Timothy Dalton had the best two movies (as storylines go)...

You may be right, at that, Tony!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

kishnevi

#6
January 12, 2015, 07:08:39 AM
Octopussy. Because it consistently refuses to take itself seriously.

Karl Henning

#7
January 12, 2015, 07:12:46 AM
Truest to itself;  yes, you've a good case there, Jeffrey.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Sergeant Rock

#8
January 12, 2015, 07:21:39 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on January 12, 2015, 06:34:30 AM
All right, I voted for Jane Seymour Live and Let Die

Beat me to it (Jane Seymour), although Tanya Roberts (A View to a Kill) rivals her as a Bond girl (in looks, not acting chops). Moonraker for sheer idiotic fun.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
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Sergeant Rock

#9
January 12, 2015, 07:24:46 AM
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on January 12, 2015, 07:08:39 AM
Octopussy. Because it consistently refuses to take itself seriously.

And because it has the best title  ;D 8)

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

North Star

#10
January 12, 2015, 07:46:25 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on January 12, 2015, 07:21:39 AMMoonraker for sheer idiotic fun.

Sarge
You call this 'idiotic fun' ? I thought this was what agents do for a living.  0:)


Tough call between L&LD, Moonraker and FYEO. LL&D it is.
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Cato

#11
January 12, 2015, 07:52:29 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on January 12, 2015, 06:34:30 AM
All right, I voted for Jane Seymour Live and Let Die

Amen, Dude!   0:)
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Jaakko Keskinen

#12
January 23, 2015, 10:42:43 AM
Live and let die, the man with the golden gun, Moonraker and View to a kill are best but I love all of them (except For your eyes only, actually I only really love the opening scene pre-credits, after that there is a serious decline in quality although I still like it). I picked the man with the golden gun when I probably should have live and let die because it is so entertaining. Well, all of them are, they are so camp but I like camp. Christopher Lee is awesome as Scaramanga in golden gun, that's perhaps why I picked it. Several good lines too in true Moore style.

"He has three..."
"Fascinating anatomical tidbit. But probably the most useless piece of information I've ever heard. Unless, of course, the Bottoms Up is a strip club and Scaramanga is performing."

"You're not thinking of...?"
"I sure am boy! Ever heard of Evel Knievel?"

The real gem is in Live and let die: " Y'all Take this honky out and waste him!"

Loved the villains in all Moore movies, except Hugo Drax in Moonraker, who along with Gustav Graves in Die another day is probably the most boring and annoying Bond villain to have ever walked the surface of the Earth. But the henchman Jaws makes up for it. People say he became a joke in Moonraker as opposed to more serious threat in The Spy who loved me. Perhaps so but I don't necessarily see it as a bad thing.
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

North Star

#13
January 23, 2015, 11:03:50 AM
Quote from: Alberich on January 23, 2015, 10:42:43 AM"He has three..."
"Fascinating anatomical tidbit. But probably the most useless piece of information I've ever heard. Unless, of course, the Bottoms Up is a strip club and Scaramanga is performing."
Hmm, did he really say tidbit? The real word is of course titbit, and some Americans (or possibly Canadians, eh) who weren't comfortable with the word 'tit', noticed that 'tid' is an archaic, colloquial word meaning 'tender', and voilà!
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Jaakko Keskinen

#14
January 23, 2015, 11:07:01 AM
Quote from: North Star on January 23, 2015, 11:03:50 AM
Hmm, did he really say tidbit? The real word is of course titbit, and some Americans (or possibly Canadians, eh) who weren't comfortable with the word 'tit', noticed that 'tid' is an archaic, colloquial word meaning 'tender', and voilà!

Not sure. I picked that quote from IMDb. When I watch the movie, I can't quite make it out whether he's saying tidbit or titbit.
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

mc ukrneal

#15
January 23, 2015, 05:35:46 PM
Spy who loved me. Great characters here, have to go with Jaws.

Moonraker was just awful - won't watch that one anymore. And Octothingy was kinda dull.
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snyprrr

#16
January 24, 2015, 05:24:59 PM
Understandably, Karl yearns for the '70s. ::) :laugh:

vandermolen

#17
January 24, 2015, 11:03:50 PM
I much prefer the ones with Sean Connery although I think that Timothy Dalton was underrated as James Bond - he is my second favourite in the role.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Karl Henning

#18
January 25, 2015, 03:10:54 AM
Cheers, Jeffrey!


Quote from: snyprrr on January 24, 2015, 05:24:59 PM
Understandably, Karl yearns for the '70s. ::) :laugh:


Where did this come from? No — I withdraw the question, your honor ....


8)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Bogey

#19
January 25, 2015, 05:22:11 AM
I believe Moore has the record for playing Bond the most times.  I do not have a favorite film from him in the Bond series.  I do recall that the book, Moonraker was excellent, but the Moore film took it in a totally different direction.  To be fair, I have avoided his run for more than two decades.  Maybe I would like them if I gave them another chance.
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