marurun wrote:I think Roger Moore might be my favorite Bond as well, which is a very unpopular opinion. He's more the gentleman spy than the special agent.
prfsnl_gmr wrote:Moore is one of my favorite Bonds too. The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker are classics, and the rest of his movies aren’t bad either.
Moore's Bond gets all the hate because some of the movies got a little too silly. His movies are definitely a lot more lighthearted, and I'm willing to admit that it's probably why I liked them the most as a kid. It's really the laser fight in space at the end of Moonraker that gives the Moore Bond films the silly stamp. But you know what? Aside from a few stupidly silly moments (Jaws pulling the steering wheel off the boat, the pidgin doing the double look while Bond rides his car/boat in the streets) and obviously the space laser fight, Moonraker is a pretty solid movie. There's really nothing THAT silly in the rest of Moore's films.
People like to hate on the clown costume in Octopussy, which I never understand. The plot of that movie is a little all over the place, but it's otherwise a pretty solid Bond flick. The clown disguise is awesome because of the other 00 agent that gets killed in the beginning while wearing the same costume. OK, so it's a CLOWN, so a little silly inherently. But in the context of the movie it really isn't silly at all. And Octopussy has some of the best action sequences of any of the Moore films.
People like to use the Connery films as the gold standard, but ignore that fact that there's some really silly things in those movies too. Sure, Moonraker finally got Bond in space, but space wasn't a new concept to the Bond franchise. Dr. No is diverting Cape Canaveral space launches. You Only Live Twice is hijacking space crafts (something Moonraker also does) and Diamonds Are Forever is using a diamond powered laser gun in space to hold the world hostage. Speaking about laser guns, even Goldfinger (everyone's "favorite" Bond movie) has a gold powered laser gun. There's a lot of 60's campy feeling stuff going on. Perhaps the silliest thing to ever happen in a Bond film is Bond going undercover as a Japanese local, which makeup and a wig. That's WAY more silly than the clown disguise! There's really no one around to even fool with the disguise, and it disappears quickly anyway.
Anyway, my point being that the Moore films have some silly things going on but the Connery films do too. Even Moore's age in A View to a Kill. Well, Connery doesn't look nearly as good in Diamonds as he did as Bond previously. Hell, he might actually look better in Never Say Never Again than he does in Diamonds.
/rant
