On to Roger Moore

[jon-nyc]

So we watched Live and Let Die yesterday, the first Bond film with Roger Moore.

I know he grows into the role over time, but man, Sean Connery he’s not. It’s strange for me to say that because he’s the Bond I grew up watching. I didn’t see the Sean Connery films until much later.

Another weird thing is he was older than Sean Connery. How weird for the producers to use one actor for an entire decade and then switch to an older one? Granted he didn’t look older. Especially in Diamonds are Forever, Connery looked a decade older than his actual 41 years.

[George K]

When does Lazenby appear? Midway through the Moore era?

[jon-nyc]

No we skipped him. He was toward the end of the Connery era. As was David Niven, who we also skipped.

[Loki]

You guys should watch “Our Man Flint” of the Sean Connery era. Great Bond parody and lots of fun. Your boy will like it.

[jon-nyc]

Never heard of it. I’ll check it out.

[Mik]

Yep. James Coburn. Fun movie.

[jon-nyc]

Let me say one downside to the Bond film odyssey- that theme song is quite the ear worm.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in On to Roger Moore:

quite the ear worm.

"For Your Eyes Only" was the "wormiest" for me.

[jon-nyc]

Oh yeah the title songs. But I’m talking about that perennial theme with the horns and the bass guitar line.

Link to video

[Loki]

The Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movies are great fun (your son will love) and come with a powerful ear worm that will help get rid of the Bond one.

I am ambivalent about Tom Cruise. It’s like he can’t act but I seem to forget that in several movies.

[George K]

@Loki said in On to Roger Moore:

Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movies

You know he does a lot of his own stunts for those?

[jon-nyc]

We watched the first mission impossible and no doubt will watch others.

I’m just glad to be out of the talking-animal stage of movie viewing.

[George K]

This is a real airplane, and that's really Tom Cruise on the outside.

[Loki]

@George-K

Is that Copper first responding to a passed out pilot?

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc Did you watch Never Say Never Again with Connery?

[Copper]

How could someone not hear of Flint?

I refuse to believe that is possible.

Anyway, Flint is required at some point if you are watching Bond.

[jon-nyc]

@LuFins-Dad said in On to Roger Moore:

@jon-nyc Did you watch Never Say Never Again with Connery?

Is that the one he did in 83 with the other production company ? If so, not yet. But we will.

If it’s one of the ones he did with Eon then we saw it.

[Jolly]

@Loki said in On to Roger Moore:

You guys should watch “Our Man Flint” of the Sean Connery era. Great Bond parody and lots of fun. Your boy will like it.

There are two Flint movies, Our Man Flint and In Like Flint.

[Jolly]

And one where the books(especially the early ones) are much better than the films, are the Matt Helm series. The movies are kinda Bond parodies, the books are more Ian Fleming meets Mickey Spillane.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in On to Roger Moore:

We watched the first mission impossible and no doubt will watch others.

I’m just glad to be out of the talking-animal stage of movie viewing.

Don't give up on talking animals just yet. Guardians of the Galaxy volumes 1 and 2 are a couple of my favorite movies, I suspect you and the kid would enjoy them.