@Martin saidEveryone has his favorite and least favorite Bond actor. I have to agree w/ you about Moore, my least favorite--but, then again, even he did not take the role seriously. It had become self-parody and he knew it. I'm sure he laughed all the way to the bank.
A classic line.
I like all the Bond ,movies except those with Roger Moore; absolutely hopeless and all he did was make strange facial expressions.
@Martin saidI only saw the one with Pierce Brosnan. I thought he was really good but some people said he wasn't quite "macho" enough to be Bond. I'm not familiar with the older movies so I wouldn't be able to make that call.
A classic line.
I like all the Bond ,movies except those with Roger Moore; absolutely hopeless and all he did was make strange facial expressions.
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@AThousandYoung saidI think the problem was it was the crazy mid 70s to early 80s; and everything became even more or should I say Moore ridiculous; even for Bond movies.
I only saw the one with Pierce Brosnan. I thought he was really good but some people said he wasn't quite "macho" enough to be Bond. I'm not familiar with the older movies so I wouldn't be able to make that call.
It is quite interesting to read about the 'stars' who turned down the Bond role.
As Moonbus mentioned; think about the bank account.
@Rajk999 saidI don't know where you guys get the idea that Paul Martin is Australian. He is a New Zelander.
Apparently Martin forgot he started a thread with that post.. a classic case of 'stirring'. There was no comment, no points raised, no links or videos. The guy was just fishing for comments about the Australian PM.
Anyway AU is in deep $..t with these Palestinian supporters. Lots of demosntratons in Sydney because the Israel president visited. I saw a clip were the AU police were dragging off some Muslims from the street who where praying. Nice.
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@AThousandYoung saidBrosnan wasn't the best, or the worst, Bond. He had been offered the role when he was too young for it and turned it down before.
I only saw the one with Pierce Brosnan. I thought he was really good but some people said he wasn't quite "macho" enough to be Bond. I'm not familiar with the older movies so I wouldn't be able to make that call.
The ones with Timothy Dalton were quite good stand-alone thrillers, whether they were Bond films or not.
The Moore films were just explosions and fluff and gadgetry. There is a really stupid scene in one of the Moore films where he supposedly scans a hotel room with a metal box the size of a pack of cigarettes with a radio antenna attached to it. Totally hokey, and neither the scene nor the gadget has anything to do with the plot.
The only really intentionally funny scene in any of the Moore films was when he and the Bond-girl drive up onto the beach from the sea in the amphibious car.
@Earl-of-Trumps saidMartin, and Paul Martin are two different people on this site.
I don't know where you guys get the idea that Paul Martin is Australian. He is a New Zelander.
@AThousandYoung saidBrosnan's Bond is one I'll have to give another chance sometime. I thought he was too "light" for the role somehow (vibe- or aura-wise), too smooth, not enough edge, not as much of a killer as some other Bonds.
I only saw the one with Pierce Brosnan. I thought he was really good but some people said he wasn't quite "macho" enough to be Bond. I'm not familiar with the older movies so I wouldn't be able to make that call.
For me, Sean Connery was THE Bond, but I also enjoyed Roger Moore's films (I watched "Man with the Golden Gun" about five times on HBO when I was a teen).
I thought Daniel Craig was very well cast as Bond with his icy eyes, but I didn't like any of the movies, and haven't even bothered to watch his final one.