On to Roger Moore
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wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 12:45 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 12:57 last edited by
When does Lazenby appear? Midway through the Moore era?
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wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 12:59 last edited by jon-nyc
No we skipped him. He was toward the end of the Connery era. As was David Niven, who we also skipped.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 13:05 last edited by
You guys should watch “Our Man Flint” of the Sean Connery era. Great Bond parody and lots of fun. Your boy will like it.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 13:06 last edited by
Never heard of it. I’ll check it out.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 13:06 last edited by
Yep. James Coburn. Fun movie.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 13:10 last edited by
Let me say one downside to the Bond film odyssey- that theme song is quite the ear worm.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 13:33 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in On to Roger Moore:
quite the ear worm.
"For Your Eyes Only" was the "wormiest" for me.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 13:35 last edited by
Oh yeah the title songs. But I’m talking about that perennial theme with the horns and the bass guitar line.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 13:51 last edited by
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.
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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.
wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 13:53 last edited by@Loki said in On to Roger Moore:
Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movies
You know he does a lot of his own stunts for those?
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wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 13:54 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 13:57 last edited by
This is a real airplane, and that's really Tom Cruise on the outside.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 14:42 last edited by
@jon-nyc Did you watch Never Say Never Again with Connery?
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You guys should watch “Our Man Flint” of the Sean Connery era. Great Bond parody and lots of fun. Your boy will like it.
wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 15:04 last edited byHow 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.
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@jon-nyc Did you watch Never Say Never Again with Connery?
wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 15:09 last edited by@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.
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You guys should watch “Our Man Flint” of the Sean Connery era. Great Bond parody and lots of fun. Your boy will like it.
wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 15:41 last edited by@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.
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wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 15:50 last edited by
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.
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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.
wrote on 29 Nov 2020, 16:34 last edited by@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.