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Same here. It's Roger's best performance as Bond IMO. Also, the film is charming as hell. I watch MR, it feels like I'm in love. Great fun!
Glad to see some MR fans !! :)>-
That's not suggesting it's a good film, merely stating that there is so much to keep the interest, in that the viewer has a hard time getting bored, although It's hardly classic Bond fare and not even in the Top Three of Moore's tenure. It is a fun watch though and gives us in Michael Lonsdale a very good James Bond adversary, but also out there are a fair number of negatives
MR is kind of fun I have to admit but the last time I watched it I found myself squirming
Watching Jaws and Dolly embrace eachother in the space station? Nah ;)
By that point in the film, all bets were off. I don't think it's out of logic with the rest of the film so I dig it. :)
#2 The Man with the Golden Gun
#3 The Spy Who Loved Me
#4 For Your Eyes Only
#5 Moonraker
#6 Octopussy
#7 View to a Kill
in order of my own favorite Moore 007 releases, although FYEO maybe should be higher as it is a truly epic Bond adventure, but I'm sticking with that
I sometimes get bored to tears by some of the later 'action' on the Liparus though :-<
Here's a few examples:
1. The scene in TMWTGG where Bond first questions Ms. Anders
2. The scene in Octopussy with Bond & Orlov on the train.
3. The scene in "The Wild Geese" where you first meet Roger's character--the scene with the drugs.
1. The Man Who Haunted Himself
2. North Sea Hijack/Ffolkes
3. Gold
4. Sea Wolves
5. The Wild Geese
Not to mention several pivotal scenes in his Bond performances noted here.
His crime is his refined looks & suave manner leaned him more towards the smooth characters which he could do better than nearly anyone from his immediate generation (a true successor to Grant or Niven). He was typecast because he was just so damn good at those type of roles. They fit him like a glove in an era when he was the 'go to' guy for that type of personification.
Out of these, I've only seen The Man Who Haunted Himself and Gold, but they were both quite good, and so was Moore's performance in each. I also enjoyed him in The Cannonball Run, although I can't remember too much about that one.
But I'm totally on-board with what you said about suaveness and smoothness.
His fights in TSWLM or AVTAK don't hold up very well today for example...
Apparently he kicked a drunken Lee Marvin's ass during the filming of Shout at the Devil though.
You can really feel his utter disgust for Loque when he delivers the first line and tosses the dove pin in the car.
As good as Roger Moore is I don't think he has the comedic talent of say John Cleese, Peter Sellers or Leslie Nielsen. When it comes to humour Moore will play a variation of the "Roger Moore" persona.
To be fair, when he does do the serious stuff in the Bond films, I like it, like the car over the cliff stuff, and I wish his Bond films had more of that aspect in them.
What does that have to do with Roger's acting abilities? He wasn't the stuntman flapping his arms or the double taking pigeon.
That's fair. Like I wrote on another thread, there's good stuff like Moore slashing at his tie and the bad guy falls to his death. Is that SWLM? Such a good gag that they homaged it in QoS.
Would Fleming himself had liked all that stuff?
No offense intended, Moore-ites.
At least you didn t call us Moore-ons.