Roger Moore RIP
Died at home in Switzerland aged 89 following a "short fight with cancer".
Kind of got missed with the understandable focus on the Manchester atrocity. He was the Bond I grew up with so, though not my favourite, he is the ur-Bond for me. And a complete gent on and off the screen by all accounts. Plus the single best sequence in the history of the Bond movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kyQauA2udc[/URL] |
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Moonraker and Octopussy are still my favourites.
A great story here: This truly wonderful Roger Moore story will soothe your aching soul | The Poke |
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Originally Posted by NorthernLad
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Moonraker and Octopussy are still my favourites.
A great story here: This truly wonderful Roger Moore story will soothe your aching soul | The Poke |
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Originally Posted by Miss Ann Thrope
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Plus the single best sequence in the history of the Bond movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kyQauA2udc[/URL] Roger Moore was indeed a legend. Seems a genuinely nice guy, very funny too in an understated way. He never took the Bond role too seriously, and unlike a lot of actors who seem to resent the roles that made them famous, he always seemed happy to keep being Bond long after he stopped starring in the movies and said he never minded at all when people in restaurants or hotels called him Mr Bond. I guess you always prefer the Bond you grew up with, for me Moonraker was the first Bond film I saw, so Roger Moore will always be the real Bond. |
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My Bond was Brosnan, who I'll only ever see as Bond.
Roger Moore though, was an absolute joy to watch and I remember being a kid watching old Bond movies and thinking he was the coolest man on earth. |
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Originally Posted by captainflack
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Originally Posted by NorthernLad
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Moonraker and Octopussy are still my favourites.
A great story here: This truly wonderful Roger Moore story will soothe your aching soul | The Poke But.......Blofeld was not actually a character in any of the RM Bond movies because of the lawsuit arising from Moonraker. The start of FYEO does feature a character who is clearly meant to be Blofeld but is never named as as such in the short sequence. Seems unlikely then that Moore would have referenced him in a conversation with a small boy 12 years after Blofeld's last appearance in a Bond movie - and even that was only briefly at the start of DAF, which was Sean Connery's last (official) appearance as Bond.... |
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no disrespect to Roger Moore (May Allah swt bless his soul in peace)....my fav all time bond has to be Sean Connery....that schexy accent of his:o
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OSN kindly obliged with an excellent double bill last night: The Man With the Golden Gun, the first Bond I ever saw and which I had under-rated I think on rewatching, and the peerless The Spy Who Loved Me, complete with dodgy Egyptian geography (driving to Luxor from Cairo, really?).
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Originally Posted by Miss Ann Thrope
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OSN kindly obliged with an excellent double bill last night: The Man With the Golden Gun, the first Bond I ever saw and which I had under-rated I think on rewatching, and the peerless The Spy Who Loved Me, complete with dodgy Egyptian geography (driving to Luxor from Cairo, really?).
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Originally Posted by Miss Ann Thrope
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OSN kindly obliged with an excellent double bill last night: The Man With the Golden Gun, the first Bond I ever saw and which I had under-rated I think on rewatching, and the peerless The Spy Who Loved Me, complete with dodgy Egyptian geography (driving to Luxor from Cairo, really?).
The one speaking Thai says how good looking he is, why is his face is like this etc, but the other niece understands?? |
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Originally Posted by Scamp
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My Bond was Brosnan, who I'll only ever see as Bond.
Roger Moore though, was an absolute joy to watch and I remember being a kid watching old Bond movies and thinking he was the coolest man on earth. For me it's Moore and Dalton close behind. |
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Originally Posted by Boomhauer
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Stopped being into Bond when Brosnan took over. Brosnan as Bond just doesn't work for me. Haven't watched any of the Danial Craig Bond movies.
For me it's Moore and Dalton close behind. |
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Originally Posted by mission
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no disrespect to Roger Moore (May Allah swt bless his soul in peace)....my fav all time bond has to be Sean Connery....that schexy accent of his:o
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Originally Posted by Boomhauer
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Stopped being into Bond when Brosnan took over. Brosnan as Bond just doesn't work for me. Haven't watched any of the Danial Craig Bond movies.
For me it's Moore and Dalton close behind. Apart from the one where Craig had to stop a guy stealing water. That one was awful. |
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