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Live And Let Die - 40 Years On and Still the Best Bond


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#1 quantumofsolace

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 06:03 PM

http://www.huffingto..._b_2481652.html



#2 Iceskater101

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 10:07 PM

Um.. definitely not.



#3 AMC Hornet

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 10:20 PM

Perhaps not the best, but it did it for me in '73 (and ever since).



#4 S K Y F A L L

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 10:35 PM

Its all a matter of opinion..IMO... Funny story about the disappearing table.



#5 Hockey Mask

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 10:48 PM

Solitaire is still my favorite Bond girl.



#6 Brett Sinclair

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 10:58 PM

This was the first Bond movie I saw as a kid and I've loved it ever since :)

#7 Iceskater101

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Posted 17 January 2013 - 06:45 PM

Soltaire is probably one of my favorite Bond girls too.



#8 Mallory

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Posted 17 January 2013 - 07:52 PM

I enjoy the film every time I watch it. It isn't my favorite but it is really entertaining.

 

Solitaire is one of the hottest Bond girls ever. 



#9 danielcraig007casinoroyale

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Posted 17 January 2013 - 07:59 PM

Cannot watch any Bond film with Moore in them.A piece of celery has greater acting skills.



#10 AMC Hornet

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Posted 18 January 2013 - 12:40 AM

Oooohh...



#11 delfloria

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Posted 18 January 2013 - 01:08 AM

Everyone has their own personal favorites. All in the timing.



#12 Professor Pi

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Posted 18 January 2013 - 05:26 AM

I'll grant this for Live and Let Die ... it salvaged Bond from Connery's departure, has a rocking soundtrack, and introduced Jayne Seymour to the world.  But it's not even Moore's best film, let alone Bond's or Connery's best.  But without it, it's doubtful the franchise survives the seventies.



#13 SecretAgentFan

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Posted 18 January 2013 - 06:22 AM

Cannot watch any Bond film with Moore in them.A piece of celery has greater acting skills.

 

You must have pretty good celery on your market.



#14 Mallory

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Posted 19 January 2013 - 03:15 AM

I loved the scene where he meet Mr. Big for the first time. He pisses everyone off, gets the girl's attention which ultimately leads to sleeping with her and manages to escape death. That scene made him worthy of the role.

 

He also has to be the only Bond to take a woman's virginity. 


Edited by Mallory, 19 January 2013 - 03:16 AM.


#15 seawolfnyy

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Posted 31 January 2013 - 05:27 AM

Cannot watch any Bond film with Moore in them.A piece of celery has greater acting skills.

*spits out tea* Excuse me!?



#16 AgenttiNollaNollaSeitsemän

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Posted 31 January 2013 - 02:45 PM

I enjoy the film every time I watch it. It isn't my favorite but it is really entertaining.



#17 Iceskater101

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Posted 05 February 2013 - 03:38 AM

Cannot watch any Bond film with Moore in them.A piece of celery has greater acting skills.

 

I mean I dislike Roger Moore for different reasons than this.



#18 AMC Hornet

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Posted 08 February 2013 - 04:39 PM

Cannot watch any Bond film with Moore in them.A piece of celery has greater acting skills.

You must love Peter Davison as Doctor Who, then.



#19 Dustin

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Posted 04 July 2013 - 08:18 PM

Now on the main page: http://commanderbond...e-turns-40.html



#20 Walecs

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Posted 05 July 2013 - 06:18 PM

In my opinion this movie is terrible.

First of all, and most important, it really disappointed me because it was vaguely based on the novel.

Second, I find it so boring.

Third, the soundtrack. Listening to it without earmuffs hurts me so much. 


Edited by Walecs, 05 July 2013 - 06:18 PM.


#21 Dustin

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Posted 05 July 2013 - 06:48 PM

Can't agree there, Walecs. I found LALD - despite it using the book only as a rough guide - quite entertaining, in a circus act way. Kananga's outfit is a welcome departure from the usual SPECTRE types with their black/blue/red uniforms and their schemes to play two sides against each other to the profit of a third. The minions are characters in their own right for a change and actually quite likeable as villains go. Haven't had that spirit since. And Big/Kananga is genuinely hurt about Solitaire's betrayal, it seems. Compare this case with Carver's and I think it's obvious how much better LALD plays this theme.

 

Loving every second of it, warts and all.   



#22 AMC Hornet

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Posted 06 July 2013 - 10:46 PM

LALD had warts?

Not to me...



#23 RJJB

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Posted 06 July 2013 - 11:00 PM

I enjoyed this movie the first time I saw it, up until the climax when Moore's watch turns into a buzzsaw. We had no idea it could do that, so it was a cheap move. What killed the movie entirely though was Kananga inflating, floating up to the ceiling and exploding. Completely impossible and against all laws of physics. I expect that type of nonsense in Looney Tunes, not a James Bond movie. The silliness did not start with Moore, but the Moore embraced it and pushed the entire series into the realm of idiocy.



#24 DLibrasnow

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Posted 07 July 2013 - 05:45 PM

It's an entertaining movie and I doubt that James Bond would have survived the 1970s without it, but I think it's a stretch to refer to it as the best Bond movie. Still, without "Live and Let Die" there would have been no "The Spy Who Loved Me" (probably my favorite Roger Moore 007 movie), "The Living Daylights," "Casino Royale," and "Skyfall" so there is a reason to be thankful. Without "Live and Let Die" the last of the movies would have been the dreadful "Diamonds Are Forever" and the James Bond films would only be remembered by movie buffs as a long forgotten series of movies in which Sean Connery got his start - much like "The Pink Panther" series with Peter Sellers is today.

 

Of the highlights I would count the boat chase and the scenes at the Crocodile farm. On the point of Jane Seymour which a lot of people have noted here, I think she actually became more attractive as the years went on. I would say she was at her most attractive in the early 1980s (a particular favorite being "Somewhere in Time")



#25 Iceskater101

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Posted 07 July 2013 - 10:07 PM

Live and Let Die is probably my second favorite moore film. I mean sure it has it's flaws.. I absolutely hate Pepper for sure.... He is an awful character but I love the villain and Solitare makes up for a lot of this. Also I like the whole supernatural thing for this, because it's different for Bond.



#26 scaramunga

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Posted 09 July 2013 - 03:11 PM

I like Live and Let Die and I also think its one of the best Bond films too.

 

The speed boat chase is amazing. The chase in the plane always makes me laugh too.



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Posted 10 July 2013 - 03:24 PM

Ahh, my first ever Roger Moore Bond film, on old VHS introduced me to a highly entertaining and escapist character. My 2nd favourite Moore Bond and full of winning elements like one of the best and most fitting soundtracks, a beautiful and sensitive Bond girl, a great villain(s), Moore on fine form to convey danger, humour and action, as well as great action and stunt sequences.

 

It also has 2 brilliant cigar uses in the same sequence: i) Use to make an aerosol flamethrower and ii) Burning a womans hand with a satisfying hiss.

 

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Plus it has my favourite extra of the 50 years - the man who shouts "ABOBO!" 3 times on San Monique in the finale: I don't know why, I just find him brillaint, and he even shouts it as he is about to kill Bond. Talk about giving the game away when you're moving for the kill.

 

For a debut, it certainly ticks all the right boxes and is one of the most different, yet entertaning, Bond films to date.

 

Happy Birthday indeed 'Live And Let Die'! :D

 

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Posted 15 July 2013 - 01:19 PM

It's been a while since I've watched the film but when I was a kid it was one of my favorites. Give Kananga a better exit (let the sharks eat him) and it's overall vastly improved. Now that I think about it I believe the last time I saw it was screening it with a girl who'd never seen the film, and she remarked that, on the surface, it had more violence than most of the other Bond films she had seen. The humor/overall lightness of the movie kind of neutralizes the perceived violence for most but of course it's nothing compared to the book -- which I regret was not faithfully adapted, but at least had quite a few elements carried over.



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Posted 18 July 2013 - 05:08 AM

40 years yes, definitely not the best Bond. Good for that era where blaxplotation was jump starting though, but its not even in the top 5 for me, although its a entertaining movie. Solitare is one of the hottest Bond girls in the series and still is to this day.

Edited by jmarks4life, 18 July 2013 - 05:14 AM.


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Posted 18 July 2013 - 02:43 PM

I've always been sort of baffled by the love this movie gets. Aside from it being one of the most financially successful entries in the series, I see it top a lot of lists. It's never quite done it for me as a whole, but it does have some individual moments that I really like. The alligator jump being one of them.