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WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Ian Fleming once said that he thought Moore was the actor who would be best suited to the role of Bond. I sort of grew up with Moore, in terms of the films I saw in theaters rather than the older Connery flicks on TV that were released either before or shortly after I was born, but I thought that Connery was a more serious and dangers mofo than the debonair Moore, who played the role with increasing tongue in cheek humor in every new installment. By the end Moore was a self-parody and probably 10 years past his sell-by date as a super spy.
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I don’t disagree. I love Moore, but there was a lot of lame stuff in his films, which I still love by the way, just because it’s part of what I grew up with. I was in the era of no Bond really - 10 years old when the Dalton flicks came out, but that wasn’t much of an event. Then like 17 when Brosnan started. But I still think of Moore as my original Bond because I saw all his Bond films several times on tv over the years as a kid (and like him and the films far more than the Dalton ones that were released).
 
Roger Moore was a great Bond, though his films were pretty uneven and it did become a parody of itself by the end. But Live and Let Die, The Spy Who Loved Me, and (controversially, maybe?) The Man With the Golden Gun are excellent Bond movies.

Hard to say who the "best" bond was, a lot of people like Connery and the early films were awesome, I might go with Moore & Craig though.

And Lazenby's On Her Majesty's Secret Service as my favourite Bond movie.
 
axlsalinger said:
Roger Moore was a great Bond, though his films were pretty uneven and it did become a parody of itself by the end. But Live and Let Die, The Spy Who Loved Me, and (controversially, maybe?) The Man With the Golden Gun are excellent Bond movies.

Hard to say who the "best" bond was, a lot of people like Connery and the early films were awesome, I might go with Moore & Craig though.

And Lazenby's On Her Majesty's Secret Service as my favourite Bond movie.
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I like Connery too, but sort of one note in his Bond performance. Moore sort of brought more range to the role with a little more humor and winking. He was a more fun Bond to watch, while Connery was a bit more of a one dimensional Bond. Brosnan probably captured exactly how I’d imagine Bond to be. Craig feels the most unlike Bond out of all of them, but I liked him and his films for the most part. Cavill would be a return to the Brosnan Bond mold for me, and likely with much better scripts to work with, which is why I’d be thrilled if he was the next one.
 
axlsalinger said:
Everyone thought Brosnan would be the perfect Bond, and he was pretty good. Unfortunately all his films had mediocre scripts, so there really isn't a definitive "great" Brosnan Bond film (with his 1st, probably being the best).
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I love Goldeneye, but the rest were average.
 
axlsalinger said:
Roger Moore was a great Bond, though his films were pretty uneven and it did become a parody of itself by the end. But Live and Let Die, The Spy Who Loved Me, and (controversially, maybe?) The Man With the Golden Gun are excellent Bond movies.

Hard to say who the "best" bond was, a lot of people like Connery and the early films were awesome, I might go with Moore & Craig though.

And Lazenby's On Her Majesty's Secret Service as my favourite Bond movie.
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He IS a great Bond and very underrated. He had the balls to try something different and not copy Connery. He had great charm and charisma.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
I don’t disagree. I love Moore, but there was a lot of lame stuff in his films, which I still love by the way, just because it’s part of what I grew up with. I was in the era of no Bond really - 10 years old when the Dalton flicks came out, but that wasn’t much of an event. Then like 17 when Brosnan started. But I still think of Moore as my original Bond because I saw all his Bond films several times on tv over the years as a kid (and like him and the films far more than the Dalton ones that were released).
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I hated License to Kill because it was just a random action flick rather than a Bond flick. It didn't follow the Bond formula and the villain, rather than being a megalomaniac hell-bent on world domination, was just a random Central American drug cartel leader. It was like Dalton was doing a guest role on Miami Vice.

Living Daylights, however, was a nice pallet cleanser from the last couple of Moore films. Once again we had a "serious" Bond.
 
License to Kill had Robert Davi which automatically makes it awesome. Not to mention a young Benicio as one of his henchmen.
 
Moore and Brosnan kinda really sucked unfortunately. They went way too much with the "look" of Bond, but shitty actors are shitty actors and they just ended up making Bond way, way too campy.

Moore benefitted from some great villains and bond girls. Also a couple of kickass themesongs.
 
axlsalinger said:
Roger Moore was a great Bond, though his films were pretty uneven and it did become a parody of itself by the end. But Live and Let Die, The Spy Who Loved Me, and (controversially, maybe?) The Man With the Golden Gun are excellent Bond movies.

Hard to say who the "best" bond was, a lot of people like Connery and the early films were awesome, I might go with Moore & Craig though.

And Lazenby's On Her Majesty's Secret Service as my favourite Bond movie.
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Yep,

Live and Let Die, Man With the Golden Gun and The Spy Who Loved Me were top-notch. But Moonraker was a cheap attempt to cash in on the "pew-pew" appeal of the Star Wars flicks and turning the Jaws character into one of the good guys was cringe-worthy. For Your Eyes Only continued the campiness with figure skater turned actress Lynn Holly Johnson and the killer hockey players.
Here is a decent action scene (obviously filmed with a stunt double) followed by the killer hockey players, which turns the whole thing into a farce.


Octopussy was good. View To A Kill was abysmal.
 
zeke said:
License to Kill had Robert Davi which automatically makes it awesome. Not to mention a young Benicio as one of his henchmen.
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But he was just a random drug trafficker. That type of villain is beneath Bond. Bond deals with people trying to rule the world. All the Davi character wanted was more money. Let Clint Eastwood deal with him.
 
zeke said:
Moore and Brosnan kinda really sucked unfortunately. They went way too much with the "look" of Bond, but shitty actors are shitty actors and they just ended up making Bond way, way too campy.

Moore benefitted from some great villains and bond girls. Also a couple of kickass themesongs.
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Goldeneye was one of the best Bond films ever. It was also the only truly great Brosnan Bond film.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
It’s not any reason. Every actor has been in films that didn’t perform as hoped. The film is actually excellent, so if making excellent movies is a bad thing, then yeah, he could destroy the franchise. Pfff.
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that’s true….box office returns for a film, aren’t indicative of its quality.
 
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