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Posted: 1/27/2015 3:50:07 PM EDT
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How many people have even seen "In Her Majesty's Secret Service"?
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Posted: 1/27/2015 3:52:09 PM EDT
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I grew up with Roger Moore as Bond, yes they were campy, but I still love them!
There are two style of James Bond. The campy Bonds: Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, and Sean Connery to a certain extent. Then there are the darker, serious Bonds: George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton, Daniel Craig, and to a certain extent Sean Connery. Sean Connery falls into both categories because he had some campy one liners and a bit of kitsch, but, at other times he was dark and brooding. He kind of balanced on the edge. Daniel Craig is all seriousness and the darkest Bond yet. I like all the actors who played Bond because they all brought something different to the character. My two favorites are Roger Moore and Daniel Craig for exactly the opposite reasons, Moore is the campy, fun Bond, and Craig is the dark and dangerous Bond. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 3:52:16 PM EDT
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How many people have even seen "In Her Majesty's Secret Service"? I have and it's actually not bad at all. I have and stated in this thread it was a decent movie. Lazenby just couldn't pull it off. Put Connery in and it would have been a winner. I refused to watch it for years because bond fans (including my aunt who got me into bond) said it was complete and utter shit. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 3:54:48 PM EDT
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Moore was better in his series "The Saint".
I never saw a Bond movie in the theater that didn't have Connery or Moore in it. I lost interest with the series after Moore. And I didn't think his movies were that good. But I'm old and creaky wtf do I know. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 3:58:56 PM EDT
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I'll always have a fondness for Moore as Bond.
Moore was Bond when I was a kid hitting puberty and finally getting all the double entendres and enjoying ogling the bond girls.
Be honest. Saying 'Octopussy' out loud in 6th grade was freedom of speech in its truest form!  |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:00:39 PM EDT
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I bought the Bond 50th anniversary blu-rays and have been watching all the movies with my buddy and his son on the weekends that he has his son. It's so simple a kid can figure it out, Roger Moore is the best. The Sean Connery movies are good but the props and some of the filming is so bad it takes away from the quality of the movies. While I like the Daniel Craig movies a lot they were way more serious than any of the older ones which I think takes some of the fun out of them.
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:02:50 PM EDT
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I remember being in the theater for some other movie(1983ish I think), and the Octopussy preview was on... they didn't say the name until the end of the preview and the entire theater erupted in laughter.
was great being a 13 year old kid and getting to laugh in public with all the adults about a pussy joke 
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:03:02 PM EDT
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I've got Craig as the best bond and Connery second. I liked Moore in Live & Let Die and The Spy Who Loved Me, but I didn't care for the other ones. Brosnan was OK, but the films were lame I can get behind this. Craig's 007 has been excellent. My wife will disagree... I think she's got a Connery thing. Skyfall has rebooted the whole franchise only after the first 2 craig films nearly killed it. Craig is awful the films he's been in are awful. skyfall wad a great film because they dropped the shitty revamp eco terror plots and returned to the formula a tleast partially. bond must have Q without Q it's mr. bean but not funny. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:04:12 PM EDT
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Conery had the look and most of the attitude but the action scenes are pretty meh. Good for the time they were made in but he looks awkward with weapons. I'll try to watch some again Craig has the swagger , his action scenes are legit and has this slight edge like he might just waterboard someone with battery acid to make a point. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I've got Craig as the best bond and Connery second. I liked Moore in Live & Let Die and The Spy Who Loved Me, but I didn't care for the other ones. Brosnan was OK, but the films were lame This Craig is the only one who seems like a previous SAS/SBS operator turned spy rather than a lounge comedian who found a gun and decided to play scooby doo Connery was the closest to the real thing of all the actors (unless you include Niven). Served in the Royal Navy and was a real athlete. Also, if you watch Dr. No and From Russia With Love, you'll see that Connery could very well play the part of a serious operator turned spy. Conery had the look and most of the attitude but the action scenes are pretty meh. Good for the time they were made in but he looks awkward with weapons. I'll try to watch some again Craig has the swagger , his action scenes are legit and has this slight edge like he might just waterboard someone with battery acid to make a point. Watch Dr. No and see if you don't get a similar impression about Connery's Bond. Connery's fight scenes weren't done as well as some of the most modern one's, but as shown in the train fight scene in From Russia With Love, they could be pretty brutal. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:07:14 PM EDT
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I like Moore better than Connery. I cant believe im actually agreeing with a guy that likes ABBA
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:10:43 PM EDT
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I have and stated in this thread it was a decent movie. Lazenby just couldn't pull it off. Put Connery in and it would have been a winner. I refused to watch it for years because bond fans (including my aunt who got me into bond) said it was complete and utter shit. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How many people have even seen "In Her Majesty's Secret Service"? I have and it's actually not bad at all. I have and stated in this thread it was a decent movie. Lazenby just couldn't pull it off. Put Connery in and it would have been a winner. I refused to watch it for years because bond fans (including my aunt who got me into bond) said it was complete and utter shit. On Her Majesty's Secret Service is a decent film. I personally enjoy it. It was the original film explaining why Bond kept his relationships with women on a superficial level. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:16:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Watch Dr. No and see if you don't get a similar impression about Connery's Bond. Connery's fight scenes weren't done as well as some of the most modern one's, but as shown in the train fight scene in From Russia With Love, they could be pretty brutal. That's the magic about Connery's bond. You could tell there was a brutal, eye-gouging, water-boarding, skull-fucking mofo buried under all the hairgel, but you could also tell that he completely got off on "playing the game" and doing it in style, no fucks being given that or any other day indeed. No one else ever quite captured that. Basically, Connery was the honeybadger of Bonds. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:21:29 PM EDT
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All I know is Craig did waaaayyyy better than I thought he would . I remember when they first announced he was the new Bond, all I could do is think of the Riddler in the old 60's Batman and Robin show. Casino Royale was a fresh start for the franchise and a turn back to spy thrillers vs. the hokey gadgetry and Austin Powers type villains. Oh, and Connery is #1 are you dumb  they weren't Austin powers type villains Austin powers are a satirical characters based on bond villians why was powers films a success because the bond villains were so iconic, and well known everyone got the joke.
this is exactly why the franchise under craig has been so sad. as far as the craigs' bond is vicious BS He spends most of his movies getting his ass kicked and loosing the girl yeah real vicious guy 
Shit craigs' bond could not handle jaws for a scene. moore's bond survived jaws through 3 films(yes I know moonraker sucked ass but it's there.). |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:35:20 PM EDT
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How many people have even seen "In Her Majesty's Secret Service"? I have and it's actually not bad at all. opens on a beach bond gets his ass kicked the girl gets kid napped ...he smiles and says "this never would have happened to the other guy." VERY TRUE |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:41:43 PM EDT
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How many people have even seen "In Her Majesty's Secret Service"? I have and it's actually not bad at all. It's a very good film IMO. Visually one of the best with the exception of "Thunderball". Lazenby wasn't a great actor but did manage to pull off a pretty good Bond. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:43:58 PM EDT
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How many people have even seen "In Her Majesty's Secret Service"? I have and it's actually not bad at all. Diana Rigg was crazy hot. The chick who was allergic to chickens was also crazy hot, but IIRC, she actually committed suicide, drinking drain cleaner or something. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:47:14 PM EDT
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Diana Rigg was crazy hot. 
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:54:17 PM EDT
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IMO, the only real failure in the franchise was dalton. lazenby did a very solid job with the character, and the moore bond might have been the must purely fun. i can see why some people don't like brosnan, but i enjoyed his performance (though i think he got a bit shafted by writing/direction).
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:55:02 PM EDT
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opens on a beach bond gets his ass kicked the girl gets kid napped ...he smiles and says "this never would have happened to the other guy." VERY TRUE Quote HistoryQuoted:
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How many people have even seen "In Her Majesty's Secret Service"? I have and it's actually not bad at all. opens on a beach bond gets his ass kicked the girl gets kid napped ...he smiles and says "this never would have happened to the other guy." VERY TRUE Actually Bond kicked their asses. The girl got away by herself and drove off in a car. Is there anything else you would like to get wrong? You are 0-2 so far. Maybe you will bitch about Orson Wells. 
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:56:45 PM EDT
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I like Moore and Connery, Connery was obviously a bit more suave. I really loved Timothy Dalton, though. He was supposed to have done one more, I wish he would have. As I recall, Broccoli said Dalton was the most true to the character he'd written. I did not care for Pierce Brosnan as Bond or the movies he was in, even though I like him. I liked him as well. Don't see why others think he was so bad. Different strokes I guess. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 4:59:57 PM EDT
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I agree with him too. I like Sean Connery and Daniel Craig, and OHMSS is one of my favorite movies for the story, I would like to have seen more with George Lazenby.
But Roger Moore was the first James Bond that I saw as a kid. I was young and did not know it was a series of movies. I think I saw him in The Spy Who Loved Me, I really liked that movie. I don't like all of Sean Connery's Bond movies, but I do like a few of them. From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever. I thought Dr. No was ok. I liked On Her Majesty's Secret Service. From Roger Moore I liked The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, and For Your Eyes Only. I liked Casino Royale a lot, I thought it was a great "restart" of the series! The other two Daniel Craig movies I have only seen once each. S |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 5:08:43 PM EDT
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Actually Bond kicked their asses. The girl got away by herself and drove off in a car. Is there anything else you would like to get wrong? You are 0-2 so far. Maybe you will bitch about Orson Wells.  http://youtu.be/q7v9ClAH1LI
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How many people have even seen "In Her Majesty's Secret Service"? I have and it's actually not bad at all. opens on a beach bond gets his ass kicked the girl gets kid napped ...he smiles and says "this never would have happened to the other guy." VERY TRUE Actually Bond kicked their asses. The girl got away by herself and drove off in a car. Is there anything else you would like to get wrong? You are 0-2 so far. Maybe you will bitch about Orson Wells. http://youtu.be/q7v9ClAH1LI
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Posted: 1/27/2015 5:12:08 PM EDT
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Connery is #1 Pierce is #2.......everyone else and the spoof on Casino Royal rank higher than Craig with me.
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Posted: 1/27/2015 5:33:54 PM EDT
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Roger was Bond when I learned of Bond. He will always be bond to me with Craig second and Connery third.
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Posted: 1/27/2015 5:33:55 PM EDT
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Diana Rigg was crazy hot. http://img.spokeo.com/public/900-600/diana_rigg_2007_10_22.jpg I'd forgotten how truly beautiful she was. Now she plays an old lady on GOT. 
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Posted: 1/27/2015 5:59:35 PM EDT
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Diana Rigg was crazy hot. http://img.spokeo.com/public/900-600/diana_rigg_2007_10_22.jpg I'd forgotten how truly beautiful she was. Now she plays an old lady on GOT. I think Diana Rigg in her leathers in The Avengers was the first woman I had a crush on
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Posted: 1/27/2015 6:01:37 PM EDT
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Sean Connery is James Bond.
Dalton is closest to the way he is described in the books. Brosnan played a good Bond but it got a little to silly, thats not really the actors fault though. Craig is a badass as Bond. But he does need just a little softening. Moore was way to campy. Live and Let Die was great the others were meh. Lazenby... Who was he again? Brosnan was screwed up by his contract with the Steele series and the writers strike. I saw a screen test with Sam Neill as Bond. He did an outstanding job and should have gotten it and Broccolli wanted him to get it but he did not for some reason. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 6:05:56 PM EDT
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I think Diana Rigg in her leathers in The Avengers was the first woman I had a crush on
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Diana Rigg was crazy hot. http://img.spokeo.com/public/900-600/diana_rigg_2007_10_22.jpg I'd forgotten how truly beautiful she was. Now she plays an old lady on GOT. I think Diana Rigg in her leathers in The Avengers was the first woman I had a crush on
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/2065/Avengersepeel1ps1.jpg She made an impression on me too as a youngster. 
The Avengers was a great show btw. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 6:08:47 PM EDT
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Seems about right to me. +1 I agree that George Lazenby is underrated. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 6:10:18 PM EDT
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I liked Moore in Live & Let Die and The Spy Who Loved Me, but I didn't care for the other ones. The Man With The Golden Gun was good as well. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 6:17:09 PM EDT
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for a moment i really thought i had entered an alternate ARFCOM universe where men actually spend three pages discussing which man was the best james bond. who the fuck cares who was the best guy? let's talk bond girls! ar-jedi 
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Posted: 1/27/2015 6:18:41 PM EDT
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And I agree with him, never cared for his Bond movies as much as some others. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/01/27/roger-moore-im-fourth-best-james-bond/?intcmp=features FOX411: How do you think Daniel Craig is doing as Bond? Moore: I believe he’s an excellent Bond. He’s much stronger than I am. I think he does a hell of a good job of it. He and Sean (Connery) are I think undoubtedly the best Bonds. FOX411: Where do you rank yourself? Moore: I think a little bit behind George Lazenby I suppose. He's right. Connery's the best. Anyone who disagrees is just wrong (and gay). Dalton and Brosnon suck. At least Lazenby was a man.. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 6:19:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I like Moore better than Connery. Ditto. He was just smoother, more of a brains > bullets/brawn kind of guy. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 6:21:47 PM EDT
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I would rank Steele dead last. Bond is supposed to be a stone cold killer like Dalton. At least Moore made the character his own.For better or worse it was a good 1970's Bond.
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Posted: 1/27/2015 6:28:37 PM EDT
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Bugger, didn't work
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Posted: 1/27/2015 6:32:27 PM EDT
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Lazenby would be dead last. I never did care much for Dalton, but he's been in some other stuff I liked. Pierce Brosnan should have bumped Dalton way back then. At the time, there was already talk that Brosnan would/could play Bond and he was already established as a TV actor doing a similar type role. He could have walked right into, just like Moore came out of The Saint TV show. Then Brosnan would have had a 6 movie run, on par with previous Bond actors. Daniel Craig almost plays a different character than the traditional James Bond. There is no humorous banter. Not saying he's a bad actor. They put out a great movie, it's just not in the same vein as the previous movies. I'd put Moore after Connery. Moore's Bond was appropriate for the 1970's/80's era. Craig is dead last for me. His movies make ok action movies, but MO they're not Bond. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 6:36:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I like Moore and Connery, Connery was obviously a bit more suave. I really loved Timothy Dalton, though. He was supposed to have done one more, I wish he would have. As I recall, Broccoli said Dalton was the most true to the character he'd written. I did not care for Pierce Brosnan as Bond or the movies he was in, even though I like him. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 6:45:40 PM EDT
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Moore is best Bond. no Moore was the Saint.. and always will be.. never Bond.. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 6:47:13 PM EDT
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I didn't care for a lot of the bond movies but I liked Connery and Moore most.
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Posted: 1/27/2015 6:48:32 PM EDT
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When I think of James Bond it's Roger Moore.
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Posted: 1/27/2015 6:51:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sean Connery is James Bond. Dalton is closest to the way he is described in the books. Brosnan played a good Bond but it got a little to silly, thats not really the actors fault though. Craig is a badass as Bond. But he does need just a little softening. Moore was way to campy. Live and Let Die was great the others were meh. Lazenby... Who was he again? Brosnan was screwed up by his contract with the Steele series and the writers strike. I saw a screen test with Sam Neill as Bond. He did an outstanding job and should have gotten it and Broccolli wanted him to get it but he did not for some reason. |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 7:16:29 PM EDT
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This is what a Roger Moore Bond movie should have been.
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Posted: 1/27/2015 9:41:15 PM EDT
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Live and Let Die is probably my favorite Bond film... I always thought Roger Moore was the best.
Nobody does it better, makes me feel sad for the rest, nobody does it half as good as you, baby, you're the best.
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Posted: 1/27/2015 9:42:08 PM EDT
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Connery was the best one
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Posted: 1/27/2015 9:51:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lazenby got a bad rap. He was the only Bond to compete against absolutely fantastic actors on the screen and he did a great job with it. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: And I agree with him, never cared for his Bond movies as much as some others. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/01/27/roger-moore-im-fourth-best-james-bond/?intcmp=features FOX411: How do you think Daniel Craig is doing as Bond? Moore: I believe he’s an excellent Bond. He’s much stronger than I am. I think he does a hell of a good job of it. He and Sean (Connery) are I think undoubtedly the best Bonds. FOX411: Where do you rank yourself? Moore: I think a little bit behind George Lazenby I suppose. So humble. Roger Moore has class. I would personally put him before George Lazenby. Lazenby got a bad rap. He was the only Bond to compete against absolutely fantastic actors on the screen and he did a great job with it.  |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 11:01:04 PM EDT
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for a moment i really thought i had entered an alternate ARFCOM universe where men actually spend three pages discussing which man was the best james bond. who the fuck cares who was the best guy? let's talk bond girls! ar-jedi http://m.onet.pl/_m/9db94401d2928f4bc53c8a22d0814839,14,1.jpg http://www.thepolarbear.com/thepolarbear/images/jamesbond/malena_youreyesonly.jpg http://fogsmoviereviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/melina_havelock_carole_bouquet_for_your_eyes_only.png http://www.commeaucinema.com/images/galerie/big/132473_f70b4a26869023c20895f02ce28a84f7.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bkFIPLIOGL8/Rx6IRCNU-fI/AAAAAAAAEjQ/svWvjHPa8Ew/s400/nm_CaroleBouquet_071022_ssh.jpg http://www3.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Cesar+Film+Awards+2009+Show+7dxR9idvjVLl.jpg http://www2.pictures.fp.zimbio.com/Celebs+Bal+De+Paris+2008+i40iro8ajLjl.jpg http://www.top10point.com/wallpaper/carole-bouquet/carole-bouquet-4684.jpg where do you guys come up with this retarded stuff? go you even Google, bro? http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/bondgirl.asp ar-jedi |
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Posted: 1/27/2015 11:11:00 PM EDT
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I think the best Bond is the one you grew up with, and for me that meant Roger Moore
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Posted: 1/28/2015 2:21:32 AM EDT
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Tough call between Craig and Connery for #1. Moore would be #3. Brosnan #4. Lanzby #5. Dalton #6. JMO Edit for Brosnan. QFT. Exactly. Connor is the archetype for me. Gritty cold war with a bit of suave. Moore fit the time we'll, he was humorous but deadly. Craig is the new Bond for a more chaotic, evil world. . The rest, meh. HaM |
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