One quality about Roger Moore that I'm really starting to appreciate is the instant chemistry and friendship he can create with his allies and sidekicks. I'm thinking specifically of:
Sitting with Jim Fanning at the Sotheby's auction, "Now there is a lady" "James, stick to the business at hand"
Driving with VeeJay in India, "We've got company!" "No problem, this is a company car" (Bond rolls his eyes)
Investigating Zorin with Tibbet lugging all the bags up the stairs. "A good cover becomes second nature"
The other Bond actors were sometimes irritable or short tempered when forced to work with others. Like Dirty Harry enduring another sidekick. Whereas, Roger took genuine delight with sharing someone's company.
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One quality about Roger Moore that I'm really starting to appreciate is the instant chemistry and friendship he can create with his allies and sidekicks. I'm thinking specifically of:
Sitting with Jim Fanning at the Sotheby's auction, "Now there is a lady" "James, stick to the business at hand"
Driving with VeeJay in India, "We've got company!" "No problem, this is a company car" (Bond rolls his eyes)
Investigating Zorin with Tibbet lugging all the bags up the stairs. "A good cover becomes second nature"
The other Bond actors were often irritable or short tempered when working with others. Like Dirty Harry enduring another sidekick. Whereas, Roger was always friendly and fun to be around. Seemed like he took genuine delight with sharing someone's company.
If I had to work alongside Connery he would probably just bark orders at me or tell me to piss off. The other Bond actors seemed to prefer to work alone as well.
Hmmm.....Connery's Bond seemed to get along just fine with Felix Leiter in Dr. No, Kerim Bey in FRWL, Tiger Tanaka in YOLT, Felix again in DAF........I understand that you prefer Moore over Connery, but I think you're giving Sir Sean a bit of a bum rap with this particular criticism.
I revised my above post . It just seems that he prefers to work alone which is cool.
Tiger and Kerim were both great allies. Personally I don't think Sean got to work with a decent Felix until Never Say Never Again where they seemed like old friends. (Going jogging together ) I suppose he was actually pretty friendly with Bean...I laugh when he advises him to make use of the natural cover.
As for interpersonal skills: Remember when he broke the news of Kerim's death to his son on the train platform? Pretty harsh if you ask me. Roger is more of a "people person" and a bit more sensitive. FYEO: "The Havelocks? I'm sorry" and then makes her laugh, "I love a drive in the country, don't you?"
My current 10 favorite:
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Moore is my least favourite BOnd. however, his movies are easy to watch. It is actually quite simple: If I want to watch a stylish, intense, exciting movie, I will end up watching Connery, Lazenby or Dalton. Which is 80% of the time.
If I want pure entertainment and laughter, I would watch Moore, Brosnan, DAF, YOLT. This is about 20% of the time.
Both type of movies I enjoy tremendously, but at different times.
Roger Moore is my favorite Bond & I still think the best. I went from Moore to Connery but now back to Moore. He's made my favorite Bond Movies. The best Bond movie I still think is OHMSS but my favorite is Moonraker for sheer audacity. Moore was the only Bond that adapted to the absurdities of the script, he would be winking or (Eyebrow Raising) to the audience in one scene and deadly serious in the next. His films also had more variety. Crazy voodoo & the supernatural that ends up being real, midget butlers, flying cars, submarine cars, outer space lazer battles, underwater kingdoms, finding Atlantis, lost civilizations, spandex wearing female armies, indestructable humans..outraged chefs, jealous husbands, humiliated tailors, the list is endless.
Bonds in order
Connery-The Template, The Man, the Macho Bond. The professional the guy you take seriously until he blasts off in a jet pack and tries to pass himself off as a Japanese fisherman. Brought the camp to the franchise in Goldfinger (Although present from the beginning) & culminated in the absurdities of Hollowed out volcanoes and the camptastic DAF with Blofeld in Drag and the two campiest and "puntastic" henchman. Love all his films excluding Never Say Never Again,unwatchable now and Thunderball which I used to love but the bloatedness and gray color depress me.
Bonus Connery Doesn't cry.
George Lazenby awesome in the best Bond movie, great soundtrack, even though he looks awkward in the role.
Negatives..he cries..for good reason..but he still cries.
Roger Moore-the unflappable preposterous,relaxed Playboy Bond, walks in a room and women automatically have sex with him, seemingly harmless but he's really a gleeful sociopath having a good time globetrotting until he blows you up, stabs you, kicks you in the face when your not looking, kicks you off a cliff while your looking, harpoons you, drops a nuke on you, throws you out of a window, shoots you in the groin twice and then the chest, steals a parachute from you, throws you into outer space, and he doesn't discriminate...(Yeah ya think I am going to be politically correct and mention he was the first Bond to make love to a black woman in Live & Let Die & the first to sleep with a Black man in A View To A Kill) nope it's his treatment of the handicapped....if your in a wheel chair and defenseless he'll pick you up in a helicopter make fun of the fact that your bald and dump you into a smokestack, then makes a joke about killing you. Awesome!!!
Saw his Bond movies starting from Moonraker theatrically and audiences never ceased to laugh or applaud. Bonus Doesn't cry.
Timothy Dalton-The super intense even when he shouldn't be Bond, who overacts in his stagey Shakespeare thing, and makes me laugh all the time..but made audiences groan when his movies were out theatrically. Love him, but his movies came out at the wrong time. Borders on crying with Death of Leiter.....probably did off screen.
Pierce Brosnan-the perfect Bond on paper. Great first movie (with the confidence of Moore & Connery) with dubious soundtrack. After that saddled by weak scripts and trying too hard...& breathing too hard (out of his nose) during his dramatic pauses. So when the movies escalated into farce he didn't seem to be along for the ride. DAD is unwatchable for me. Bonus Doesn't cry.
Daniel Craig-CR great first traditional Bond film. QOS- just depressing & unwatchable, a bunch of punching and killing your leads before you ask them anything. Skyfall lots of nods to Roger Moore era but was shot digitally some of it looked amazing, some of it looked like watching tv, very little action...but the very end was promising..hopefully a traditional Bond is on the horizon. Big Negatives he cried Twice once for Vesper & again for his mommy M. )
P.S. Roger Moore also had the best villains...Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big, Baron Samedi an immortal Voodoo God!!! Scaramanga a three nippled assasin, Stromberg an insane megalomaniac with webbed hands who ate fish food, Drax who has a home in outer space!!!! Max Zorin a genetic mutant Nazi!!! Connery Had Goldfinger a guy who really likes gold, Dr. No, a cripple, and Blofeld as a villain 5 times if you include NSNA. He had him 6 times if you include the Spectre Organization of which he was the head...so he would have been behind Dr. No which would make him just one of his lackeys. Finally Roger Moore's Bond killed Blofeld.
Something that gets overlooked with Moore is that despite his "superhuman" portrayal, the two times Tracy is referenced, he shows pain at the thought of Bond's deceased wife... even though Bond married and was widowed in a NON-MOORE Bond film. Great continuity points, too.
Really showed a great human side to Bond... something Connery should have had the chance to do in DAF...
Something that gets overlooked with Moore is that despite his "superhuman" portrayal, the two times Tracy is referenced, he shows pain at the thought of Bond's deceased wife... even though Bond married and was widowed in a NON-MOORE Bond film. Great continuity points, too.
Really showed a great human side to Bond... something Connery should have had the chance to do in DAF...
"Okay..you've made your point" - Roger in TSWLM when XXX mentions his marriage.
My current 10 favorite:
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
He's made my favorite Bond Movies. Moore was the only Bond that adapted to the absurdities of the script, he would be winking or (Eyebrow Raising) to the audience in one scene and deadly serious in the next. His films also had more variety. Crazy voodoo & the supernatural that ends up being real, midget butlers, flying cars, submarine cars, outer space lazer battles, underwater kingdoms, finding Atlantis, lost civilizations, spandex wearing female armies, indestructable humans..outraged chefs, jealous husbands, humiliated tailors, the list is endless.
[...] having a good time globetrotting until he blows you up, shoots you in the groin twice and then the chest, steals a parachute from you, throws you into outer space, and makes a joke about killing you.
haha great write up on the Roger Moore era. -{
My current 10 favorite:
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
Connery seems to chase the ladies whenever he comes across with one
Moore made the ladies wanting him
Dalton showed almost no interest in them at all - if best as a buddy.
President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
He's made my favorite Bond Movies. Moore was the only Bond that adapted to the absurdities of the script, he would be winking or (Eyebrow Raising) to the audience in one scene and deadly serious in the next. His films also had more variety. Crazy voodoo & the supernatural that ends up being real, midget butlers, flying cars, submarine cars, outer space lazer battles, underwater kingdoms, finding Atlantis, lost civilizations, spandex wearing female armies, indestructable humans..outraged chefs, jealous husbands, humiliated tailors, the list is endless.
[...] having a good time globetrotting until he blows you up, shoots you in the groin twice and then the chest, steals a parachute from you, throws you into outer space, and makes a joke about killing you.
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Sitting with Jim Fanning at the Sotheby's auction, "Now there is a lady" "James, stick to the business at hand"
Driving with VeeJay in India, "We've got company!" "No problem, this is a company car" (Bond rolls his eyes)
Investigating Zorin with Tibbet lugging all the bags up the stairs. "A good cover becomes second nature"
The other Bond actors were sometimes irritable or short tempered when forced to work with others. Like Dirty Harry enduring another sidekick. Whereas, Roger took genuine delight with sharing someone's company.
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
Hmmm.....Connery's Bond seemed to get along just fine with Felix Leiter in Dr. No, Kerim Bey in FRWL, Tiger Tanaka in YOLT, Felix again in DAF........I understand that you prefer Moore over Connery, but I think you're giving Sir Sean a bit of a bum rap with this particular criticism.
Tiger and Kerim were both great allies. Personally I don't think Sean got to work with a decent Felix until Never Say Never Again where they seemed like old friends. (Going jogging together
As for interpersonal skills: Remember when he broke the news of Kerim's death to his son on the train platform? Pretty harsh if you ask me. Roger is more of a "people person" and a bit more sensitive. FYEO: "The Havelocks? I'm sorry" and then makes her laugh, "I love a drive in the country, don't you?"
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
If I want pure entertainment and laughter, I would watch Moore, Brosnan, DAF, YOLT. This is about 20% of the time.
Both type of movies I enjoy tremendously, but at different times.
1. Connery 2. Craig 3. Brosnan 4. Dalton 5. Lazenby 6. Moore
Bonds in order
Connery-The Template, The Man, the Macho Bond. The professional the guy you take seriously until he blasts off in a jet pack and tries to pass himself off as a Japanese fisherman. Brought the camp to the franchise in Goldfinger (Although present from the beginning) & culminated in the absurdities of Hollowed out volcanoes and the camptastic DAF with Blofeld in Drag and the two campiest and "puntastic" henchman. Love all his films excluding Never Say Never Again,unwatchable now and Thunderball which I used to love but the bloatedness and gray color depress me.
Bonus Connery Doesn't cry.
George Lazenby awesome in the best Bond movie, great soundtrack, even though he looks awkward in the role.
Negatives..he cries..for good reason..but he still cries.
Roger Moore-the unflappable preposterous,relaxed Playboy Bond, walks in a room and women automatically have sex with him, seemingly harmless but he's really a gleeful sociopath having a good time globetrotting until he blows you up, stabs you, kicks you in the face when your not looking, kicks you off a cliff while your looking, harpoons you, drops a nuke on you, throws you out of a window, shoots you in the groin twice and then the chest, steals a parachute from you, throws you into outer space, and he doesn't discriminate...(Yeah ya think I am going to be politically correct and mention he was the first Bond to make love to a black woman in Live & Let Die & the first to sleep with a Black man in A View To A Kill) nope it's his treatment of the handicapped....if your in a wheel chair and defenseless he'll pick you up in a helicopter make fun of the fact that your bald and dump you into a smokestack, then makes a joke about killing you. Awesome!!!
Saw his Bond movies starting from Moonraker theatrically and audiences never ceased to laugh or applaud. Bonus Doesn't cry.
Timothy Dalton-The super intense even when he shouldn't be Bond, who overacts in his stagey Shakespeare thing, and makes me laugh all the time..but made audiences groan when his movies were out theatrically. Love him, but his movies came out at the wrong time. Borders on crying with Death of Leiter.....probably did off screen.
Pierce Brosnan-the perfect Bond on paper. Great first movie (with the confidence of Moore & Connery) with dubious soundtrack. After that saddled by weak scripts and trying too hard...& breathing too hard (out of his nose) during his dramatic pauses. So when the movies escalated into farce he didn't seem to be along for the ride. DAD is unwatchable for me. Bonus Doesn't cry.
Daniel Craig-CR great first traditional Bond film. QOS- just depressing & unwatchable, a bunch of punching and killing your leads before you ask them anything. Skyfall lots of nods to Roger Moore era but was shot digitally some of it looked amazing, some of it looked like watching tv, very little action...but the very end was promising..hopefully a traditional Bond is on the horizon. Big Negatives he cried Twice once for Vesper & again for his mommy M.
P.S. Roger Moore also had the best villains...Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big, Baron Samedi an immortal Voodoo God!!! Scaramanga a three nippled assasin, Stromberg an insane megalomaniac with webbed hands who ate fish food, Drax who has a home in outer space!!!! Max Zorin a genetic mutant Nazi!!! Connery Had Goldfinger a guy who really likes gold, Dr. No, a cripple, and Blofeld as a villain 5 times if you include NSNA. He had him 6 times if you include the Spectre Organization of which he was the head...so he would have been behind Dr. No which would make him just one of his lackeys. Finally Roger Moore's Bond killed Blofeld.
Really showed a great human side to Bond... something Connery should have had the chance to do in DAF...
"Okay..you've made your point" - Roger in TSWLM when XXX mentions his marriage.
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
haha great write up on the Roger Moore era. -{
1. GE 2. MR 3. OP 4. TMWTGG 5. TSWLM 6. TND 7. TWINE 8.DN 9. GF 10. AVTAK
Someone else put it that way:
Connery seems to chase the ladies whenever he comes across with one
Moore made the ladies wanting him
Dalton showed almost no interest in them at all - if best as a buddy.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Have to agree that is a pretty good summary!