• AFK BRB Chocolate
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    9024 days ago

    He seemed like a classy guy. He made the decision to stop playing Bond because he said the leading ladies were young enough to be his granddaughter, and “it was disgusting.”

  • @[email protected]
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    4024 days ago

    I always preferred Sean Connery but Sean was a horrible person.

    I’d like to think that actors get remembered for who they were rather than who they pretended to be.

    • rustydomino
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      5324 days ago

      Yeah, you could tell he was a horrible person by how he gave Alex Trebek such a hard time.

    • @[email protected]
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      1824 days ago

      Connery’s Bond was also awfully sexists and misogynistic. It’s incredibly cringe trying to watch certain scenes of that era. Some are rape fantasies through and thru.

      • @[email protected]
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        2224 days ago

        The first book is interesting… it has the typical Bond setup… here’s your mission, your exotic location, and your beautiful assistant… and Bond goes:

        “A woman? What are you sending a woman for, she’ll only get in the way.”

        (!)

        I was surprised!

        • @[email protected]
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          523 days ago

          Book Bond is a much more textured and vulnerable character than movie Bond is generally allowed to be.

        • @Klear
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          323 days ago

          Casino Royale is awesome. And I was also very surprised that the movie kept a lot of the plot.

          The books start getting real bad at some point. I had a feeling it was because Flemming was writing them just as movie fodder, though I never checked the chronology.

          • @[email protected]
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            423 days ago

            Wasn’t Casino Royale the first novel to be published? It might have just been that he was new to writing, and not thinking about movie rights.

            • @Klear
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              323 days ago

              I meant that the first book and at least some more were great. Then the quality of the writing did a nosedive for whatever reason.

              I highly recommend reading Casino, though not the full book series.

          • @[email protected]
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            223 days ago

            It’s interesting, Casino Royale and Live and Let Die were the first two published in 1953 and 1954, then the first adaptation was Casino Royale as a 1 hour drama for television in 1954.

            Moonraker - 1955
            Diamonds are Forever - 1956
            From Russia, With Love - 1957
            Doctor No - 1958
            Goldfinger - 1959
            For Your Eyes Only - 1960
            Thunderball - 1961
            The Spy Who Loved Me - 1962

            All of that would be done before the first film, Doctor No, in 1962. Filming was January to March and it released in October.

            The Spy Who Loved Me released one month after filming completed but before the premiere.

            On Her Majesty’s Secret Service - 1963
            You Only Live Twice - 1964

            Posthumous publications, Fleming died in August, 1964:
            Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - 1964
            The Man With The Golden Gun - 1965
            Octopussy and the Living Daylights - 1966

    • @[email protected]
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      524 days ago

      Huh, I had missed that he passed away (or forgotten about it). Hope he’s being abused by women in the afterlife.

  • @[email protected]
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    3524 days ago

    If you liked this, you need to see Roger Moore’s performance in Cannonball Run. Lolol, he plays a rich boy who is pretending to be a spy/actor named Roger Moore, it’s beautiful and fits well with this story.

  • @[email protected]
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    2424 days ago

    Goldeneye was my favorite film as a kid but Moore was always the classiest, a real gentleman.

    • qyron
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      1523 days ago

      Timothy Dalton was the best Bond, closest to the books.

      • @[email protected]
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        923 days ago

        License to Kill was a bit before its time. Bourne before Bourne was a thing. I think people still wanted the campy Moore era and just weren’t ready for that.

        Casino Royale aped the Bourne thing later and was a smash hit.

        He was much better as a supermarché owner in any case.

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          123 days ago

          How many times has Bond quit/fired MI-6 at this point? The Craig Bond being a lonely beach boozer was a nice callback but damn dude put on a suit and shoot

      • @[email protected]
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        423 days ago

        I don’t think Lazenby gets enough credit but yeah I’d agree. Dalton is also the best actor outside of Bond, Connery probably has more credits but he’s not a time lord.

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          223 days ago

          Connery was a good actor but I think he got stuck to the role of the secret agent/military man/though guy, although I enjoyed his performance in Finding Forrester.

          Lazenby was the forgotten Bond, right? I agree. He had a presence but I think he was badly received after the Connery era as his Bond was more mild mannered. When Roger Moore took the character and broke off the previous mold, it simply erased the previous Bond and started the fan theory that Bond was a codename and not an individual.

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    2023 days ago

    The Roger Moore films are extremely corny and campy even by Bond standards - which is saying something! I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for them though. All the Jaws plotlines probably resonated with me as a freakishly tall person.

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      923 days ago

      Not FYEO. It was intentionally written to ground Bond in reality after the absurdity that was Moonraker. He has one gadget, the Lotus, which gets blown up immediately, leading us into the iconic 2CV car chase. Even has Moore, well aware of the age gap between actors, blowing off the advances of the much younger Lynn-Holly Johnson by offering to instead buy her an ice cream. Great action sequences throughout, and one of the most kick ass Bond girls in Carole Bouquet.

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      623 days ago

      They were all a bit shit, but since I grew up in the 80s, most of the time a Bond film was shown it was a Moore one so I’ve got a soft spot for them.

      The only one that was actually good was probably Live and Let Die, and that scared the shit out of me as a kid because I didn’t like the scarecrows.

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        “My name is—”

        “Names is for tombstones, baby! Y’all take this honky out and waste him!”

        Love it.

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        423 days ago

        You’ve got a couple of seasons of the Saint to go! It’s basically Moore doing exactly the same thing!

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        I’ve got a friend who thinks Pierce Brosnan is the best one because he was “our generation’s Bond”. Both born 92/93 so Goldeneye, et al. were a sensation for us at the time.

        Personally I like Sean Connery but that’s an unoriginal opinion. I enjoyed the story about the casting producer who wanted him for the role immediately because he “walked like a panther”. What a departure from being a milkman in Edinburgh!

  • mad_asshatter
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    1524 days ago

    I have to admit, I was a bit leary coming in here, but that’s a great story.

  • Sagrotan
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    1223 days ago

    That pressed a tear out of this man here. Great story! Great man!

  • @[email protected]
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    1124 days ago

    That’s a great story, it’s nice hearing about people being treated well by famous people. Thanks for sharing.