The James Bond Film Discussion Thread (With Bonus Lazenby!)
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LALD is a pretty close fourth of the Moore run and great.
I like the song. It might be the first Bond I saw in the theatre.
I mean, Baron Samedi and Tee Hee. What's not to love? Samedi may be evidence of the paranormal being a thing in the Bond universe. 
I mean, Baron Samedi and Tee Hee. What's not to love? Samedi may be evidence of the paranormal being a thing in the Bond universe.
There was a time when Octopussy was one of my favourite Moore films and FYEO my least favourite. Boy have those two ever switched round in my head in the last decade or so!
Oddly I think Bond defusing a nuclear bomb while dressed as a clown is one of the highlights of the film. Too much of it plays like a Carry On Film though
Oddly I think Bond defusing a nuclear bomb while dressed as a clown is one of the highlights of the film. Too much of it plays like a Carry On Film though
My Roger Moore movie rankings:
- Octopussy
- A View to a Kill
- For Your Eyes Only (Worst theme)
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- The Man with the Golden Gun (Best theme)
- Live and Let Die
- Moonraker
My Rog ranking (ooh matron) is
1. The Spy Who Loved Me
2. For Your Eyes Only
3. Live and Let Die (honestly, until the last few posts. I thought everyone rated it)
4. The Man With The Golden Gun (largely for Christopher Lee)
5. Octopussy
6. A View to a Kill (largely for Christopher Walken)
7. Moonraker
Honestly, I don’t find much to choose between the bottom 4; they’re all just “there.” All have few decent set pieces and villains of varying memorableness but I could probably have put them in any order, depending on when I last saw them.
1. The Spy Who Loved Me
2. For Your Eyes Only
3. Live and Let Die (honestly, until the last few posts. I thought everyone rated it)
4. The Man With The Golden Gun (largely for Christopher Lee)
5. Octopussy
6. A View to a Kill (largely for Christopher Walken)
7. Moonraker
Honestly, I don’t find much to choose between the bottom 4; they’re all just “there.” All have few decent set pieces and villains of varying memorableness but I could probably have put them in any order, depending on when I last saw them.
For Your Eyes Only is probably my favorite Moore Bond. It’s hampered mainly by the lovely Carole Bouquet’s rather lifeless performance and that extremely unfortunate Bill Conti score.
Live and Let Die would be in second place (and speaking of scores, George Martin’s fantastic work may well be the best non-Barry effort in the franchise).
Live and Let Die would be in second place (and speaking of scores, George Martin’s fantastic work may well be the best non-Barry effort in the franchise).
I have a soft spot for FYEO since it was the first Bond movie I saw on the big screen.
The previous Moore movies I had watched on television, probably as part of ABC Sunday Night Movie.
Octopussy would probably rank second for Louis Jourdan, the fight on the wing of the plane and the nuclear bomb sequence.
The previous Moore movies I had watched on television, probably as part of ABC Sunday Night Movie.
Octopussy would probably rank second for Louis Jourdan, the fight on the wing of the plane and the nuclear bomb sequence.
ABC never ran them in exact order, though they had them at least once a month, and not always on Sundays. The GOLDFINGER prologue was completely cut for time. I saw the first 11 on ABC.
It’s one of the more “knowing” ones (“Spend the money quickly,” cue the audience laughing as they’re absolutely supposed to, etc), and especially for a Moore Bond, that’s fine!
EDIT: I actually like For Your Eyes Only a lot, because it’s so atypical — like Moore doing a Connery film, almost. OTOH, I also love The Spy Who Loved Me, the quintessential Moore Bond.
I mean, yes… but on the other hand, that’s the one where every single black person on the planet is evil, except the one guy, who dies. So, erg.
My Moore list would be
For Your Eyes Only
The Spy Who Loved Me
Man with the Golden Gun
Octopussy
Moonraker
A View to a Kill
Live and Let Die
The sad thing about Golden Gun is that it would only take a few minor edits to make it a much better film (nix the Lulu song, the whistle overdub of one of the greatest stunts ever filmed, and maybe find a way to get Pepper out of the movie). Live and Let Die may be a better movie but I don't like it at all.
For Your Eyes Only
The Spy Who Loved Me
Man with the Golden Gun
Octopussy
Moonraker
A View to a Kill
Live and Let Die
The sad thing about Golden Gun is that it would only take a few minor edits to make it a much better film (nix the Lulu song, the whistle overdub of one of the greatest stunts ever filmed, and maybe find a way to get Pepper out of the movie). Live and Let Die may be a better movie but I don't like it at all.
It's true, but I think the flip-side is that Kananga isn't a henchman or a flunky, he's the villain, the top dog and an eloquent, menacing bad guy to boot, one of the franchise's best villains.
That said it would have been better is Solitaire had been black as I believe she is in the book, but then maybe that's problematic too?
Alongside Goldeneye I think LaLD has the best collection of Bond villains ever!
That said it would have been better is Solitaire had been black as I believe she is in the book, but then maybe that's problematic too?
Alongside Goldeneye I think LaLD has the best collection of Bond villains ever!
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