R.I.P Sir Roger Moore

[El Kabong]

[TitoFan]

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40018422



Oh no!!!


OMG..... people get old and die without us realizing how time goes by. I was even shocked he was 89 years old.

Man... it's too bad. There's gonna be a lot of news coverage over this one. So many generations have enjoyed the James Bond movies. And invariably conversations always include the obligatory "Who was the best James Bond" argument.

Well... for my money, I always felt Sean Connery was tough to beat as the original James Bond (well technically he wasn't, but he really was). Roger Moore was a wonderful replacement and totally James Bond-ish. After that, I thought Pierce Brosnan did a pretty decent job. The current Bond sucks rocks.

Geeez... too bad about Moore dying. R.I.P., 007.

[Master]

I remember him as The Saint.

He was a comedy James Bond.

RIP

[Kirkland Laing]

This is the first I heard of it. Bugger. He was a brilliant Bond. I watched the one where he was skiing down a hill being chased by the baddies at a cinema in Sunderland and when he skis off the cliff and the Union Jack parachute opened the entire cinema stood up and cheered.

[Master]

[Master]

[El Kabong]

This is the first I heard of it. Bugger. He was a brilliant Bond. I watched the one where he was skiing down a hill being chased by the baddies at a cinema in Sunderland and when he skis off the cliff and the Union Jack parachute opened the entire cinema stood up and cheered.

ah yes at first I thought it must be 1985's 'View to a Kill' starring Christopher Walken as bad guy Zorin (a role originally offered to David Bowie and then Sting).


but then I searched and.....good lord there are a ton of James Bond ski chases, I mean a TON

Yours was from 'The Spy Who Loved Me'




But there's 'View to a Kill' & 'For Your Eyes Only' as well which are Moore movies.

[Mark TKO]

On another day this sad news would be dominating the headlines over here.

But 89 is a damn good innings. I'd take it.

For me the best Bond but that's because I was born in his era. I'd see Moore on the big screen playing Bond, my first The Spy Who Loved Me, then see Connery playing Bond on the TV. At that age there's no comparison.

And he still makes me laugh now with his raised eyebrow and wise cracks.

RIP legend

[Beanz]

Moore is for many of us "The" Bond, having been on screen as 007 when we were growing up. Not sure if the U.S ever saw 'The Saint' but it was that scaled up that did it for him. Camp and knowing. The humour was such a big part of his performance. Never really understood Connery's appeal, thought Brosnan was neither one thing or the other but really think Craig has nailed it in making the role his own which is what you have to do.Moore made other work but he just is Bond for so many of us. RIP

[Master]

Lazenby was the other Bond when there was a dispute over the rights. He made a good Bond but as Beanz says Graig really is the best fit to the original Bond.

[El Kabong]

Moore is for many of us "The" Bond, having been on screen as 007 when we were growing up. Not sure if the U.S ever saw 'The Saint' but it was that scaled up that did it for him. Camp and knowing. The humour was such a big part of his performance. Never really understood Connery's appeal, thought Brosnan was neither one thing or the other but really think Craig has nailed it in making the role his own which is what you have to do.Moore made other work but he just is Bond for so many of us. RIP

The only "Saint" we got was Val Kilmer .....oh boy that's a rough one


Pierce Brosnan did well


Ralph Fiennes could have been a decent Bond...played M in Skyfall.

Here's something to stir up a bit of debate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...Bond_character


Jeremy Brett, hmmm....still prefer him as Sherlock Holmes to be quite honest, he was the absolute best at it! Think he was a bit too sissy to play Bond though, Bond needs a certain Alpha Male machismo whereas Holmes is just cerebral and aloof.
Dick Van Dyke would have been God awful as Bond....good fellow, but not a James Bond guy.

Liam Neeson 1994 Not interested in starring in action movies....GAAAAAAAY

Good on Burt Reynolds, Clint Eastwood, and Adam West for turning down the role, they are all way too American for the role.

[Master]

The Saint, flopped as a film but was a good TV series.

[Mark TKO]

Did you know Lazenby had never acted before and got lucky when spotted by Cubby Broccoli at a barbers.

Am sure there's a stretched truth to it but that's how the story goes

[TitoFan]

Moore is for many of us "The" Bond, having been on screen as 007 when we were growing up. Not sure if the U.S ever saw 'The Saint' but it was that scaled up that did it for him. Camp and knowing. The humour was such a big part of his performance. Never really understood Connery's appeal, thought Brosnan was neither one thing or the other but really think Craig has nailed it in making the role his own which is what you have to do.Moore made other work but he just is Bond for so many of us. RIP

No no no no.....

Craig is absolutely a HORRID Bond.

James Bond used to be this debonair, intelligent, savvy secret agent who defeated his foes with his wits, as well as his force. Connery did it, and so did Moore. Craig is all about brute force, acrobatics, athleticism, etc. He's gotten fooled by women (a huge "no-no"), almost poisoned, beaten the crap out of, in fact... the antithesis of a Bond. That signature line "The name's Bond..... James Bond" does not fit Craig, like it used to fit Connery and Moore.

Which brings me to the inevitable task of ranking the Bonds.
For my money:


1. Connery
2. Moore
3. Brosnan
4. Dalton
5. Craig
6. Lazenby

[Master]

Bond was a stoic, heavy drinker, masochist, loner. Hence why Daniel Craig is the best Bond.