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[RossMan]

As there have been topics recently, receiving many posts, on people's opinions of Roger Moore's movies, I was just curious how you all would rank'em.

For me:
Octopussy (this recently moved to to the top after I watched it again the other day)
For Your Eyes Only
The Spy Who Loved Me (very close to be second though)
A View to a Kill
Live and Let Die
The Man with the Golden Gun (pretty low, but still love it)
Moonraker

[zencat]

This is easy for me...

1. The Spy Who Loved Me
2. Octopussy
3. Moonraker Yes, you heard me, #3!
4. Live and Let Die
5. The Man with the Golden Gun
6. For Your Eyes Only
7. A View to a Kill

[Friedrich Baxter]

I make two top 7-s. One of MY favourite Roger Moore Bonds, and one of the qualitative BEST Roger Moore Bond movies;

My FAVOURITE top 7:
1) Moonraker
2) Octopussy
3) The Spy Who Loved Me
4) For Your Eyes Only
5) Live And Let Die
6) A View To A Kill
7) The Man With The Golden Gun

My QUALITATIVE BEST MOORE BONDS top 7:
1) For Your Eyes Only
2) The Spy Who Loved Me
3) Live And Let Die
4) Octopussy
5) A View To A Kill
6) Moonraker
7) The Man With The Golden Gun

Next time, I will give some good reasons WHY I have choosen for these two top 7-s. Now, I must go to Law college as quickly as possible!!!!!!!!! Otherwise..............

[Ry]

1. The Spy Who Loved Me
2. For Your Eyes Only
3. Octopussy
4. Live and Let Die
5. Moonraker
6. A View to a Kill
7. The Man with the Golden Gun

[benmax]

1. Moonraker
2. A View To A Kill
3. For Your Eyes Only
4. The Man With The Golden Gun
5. Octopussy
6. The Spy Who Loved Me
7. Live And Let Die

[MDSmith]

I hold Roger very low on my list of all Bond movies. The only ones I really like are:
Live and Let Die, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, and maybe The Man with the Golden Gun.

[James Page]

1 The Spy Who Loved Me
2 Live and Let Die
3 A View to a Kill
4 For Your Eyes Only
5 Octopussy
6 The Man with the Golden Gun
7 Moonraker

[RossMan]

I'm surprised to see just how high some people have rated Moonraker, looks like your either love it or hate I guess.

I watched it again last night (usually do it about once a year), still my least liked Bond movie. Was is it in Freemo's article where I read something like "20 years later and it's still not realisitic". Exactly. That battle between the marines and Drax's people in outerspace was aweful, which reminds me, it's very unbelievable for Bond to just hop into a shuttle and blast off like that. I even found that a little stretched in the movie Armageddon and they even had three weeks training. I personally think that The Spy Who Loved Me is as over the top Bond should go. Sorry, didn't mean to ramble like that. I'll probably receive threatening e-mails from all the Moonraker fans now...

The only compliment I can give it: Could have been the series' best pre-title sequence but they had to through Jaws in there.

[mrmoon]

MDsmith, I challenge you to a duel, Mano e Mano.

[Tanger]

Great new sig mrmoon! I see that Mr * is continuing his theme for the staff members. Excellent!

[mrmoon]

1. The Spy Who Loved Me
2. Moonraker
3. A View to a Kill
4. Octopussy
5. Live and Let Die
6. The Man with the Golden Gun
7. For Your Eyes Only

This makes it look as though I hate FYEO but I don't I love it. TSWLM and MR are my 2 clear favourites after that they are all VERY close.

[freemo]

Was is it in Freemo's article where I read something like "20 years later and it's still not realisitic".

Yep, that was me, didn't realise anyone read those. I find Moonraker near impossible to rank, part of me wanted to put it in at about third, and part of me thought it should be way down at 6 or 7. I mean its lots of fun, some great bits, but its more than a little goofy too. Jaws as Wile E. Cyote, the pigions double takes, the space scenes. I guess both sides of fans might have to agree to disagree on Moonraker, maybe thats a good thing.

[Xenobia]

I decided, after a long while to amend myself:


For Your Eyes Only (also in the top five of the Bond canon over all)

The Spy Who Loved Me
The Man With a Golden Gun
Octopussy
A View to a Kill
Live and Let Die
Moonraker

AVTAK moved down the list a bit, because I gave some thought to amazing Maud Adams. Her brief bit in TMWGG (along with Chrisopher Lee and the amazing car stunts) make this movie number three on my list.

Octopussy moves up, also because of Maud Adams.

Much like her effect on "Charlie's Angels," Tanya Roberts kills AVTAK for me.

-- Xenobia

[Mister Asterix]

1. Live and Let Die
2. The Man with the Golden Gun
3.(t)The Spy Who Loved Me
3.(t)For Your Eyes Only
5. Moonraker
6. Octopussy*
7. A View to a Kill

*This is the first time that I have ever listed Octopussy in anything but the last spot. I guess it's growing on me. (And A View to a Kill is shrinking)

[ray t]

The Spy Who Loved Me (in the top 4)
Moonraker

these two are head and shoulders above the other five:

Octopussy
Live and Let Die
A View to a Kill
TMWTGG

FYEO...it seems like a "THE SAINT" feature not a James Bond Epic

[freemo]

1 - Octopussy
2 - The Spy who loved me
3 - For Your Eyes Only
4 - Live and Let Die
5 - Moonraker
6 - A View to a Kill
7 - The Man with the Golden Gun

The highest I've ever had Moonraker, maybe I'm warming towards it, despite yesterdays comments.

[Blofeld's Cat]

I thought I'd colate all the results, so far, into one list.

Allowing the position number to equal the same value (ie: #1 = 1 point, #2 = 2 points, etc), the results are like in golf where lower the score the better.

1st with 30 points is The Spy Who Loved Me2nd with 44 points is Octopussy
3rd with 49 points is For Your Eyes Only
4th with 62 points is Moonraker
5th with 63 points is Live and Let Die
6th with 67 points is A View to a Kill
7th with 80 points is The Man with the Golden Gun

Dr. Tynan only noted three titles and couldn't list them in order, so I had to record them as equal 1st.

[Victor Zokas]

1. Octopussy
2. For Your Eyes Only
3. A View To A Kill
4. Live And Let Die
5. The Spy Who Loved Me
6. The Man With The Golden Gun
7. Moonraker

[RossMan]

freemo (09 Apr, 2002 01:49 a.m.):
didn't realise anyone read those.

Really, I love Freemo's Friday.

[General Koskov]

RossMan (09 Apr, 2002 11:36 p.m.):

freemo (09 Apr, 2002 01:49 a.m.):
didn't realise anyone read those.

Really, I love Freemo's Friday.

Well put. Without it, I would just have anther meaningless day at the end of the week. With you articles, Freemo, my life has a point! ^_^

[Adam]

1. The Spy Who Loved Me
2. For Your Eyes Only
3. Octopussy
4. Moonraker
5. Live and Let Die
6. The Man With the Golden Gun
7. A View to a Kill

I love every one of his movies though, I believe they definitely have the best locations--Greece, Rio, Cairo, India, New Orleans--the list goes on!

[RITZ]

1. TMWTGG - cool
2. LALD - great 70's twang to the film.
3. TSWLM - epic!
4. FYEO - not bad
5. OP - ok
6. MR - outerspace nonsense!!
7. AVTAK - v.poor, enough said.

[Adam]

I need a break from studying, so I continued the compilation of votes, and the overall results:
1. The Spy Who Loved Me
2. Octopussy
3. For Your Eyes Only
4. Moonraker
5. Live and Let Die
6. A View to a Kill
7. The Man with the Golden Gun

The Most First Place Votes: The Spy Who Loved Me
No First Place Votes: The Man with the Golden Gun, A View to a Kill
Most Last Place Votes: The Man With the Golden Gun
No Last Place Votes: The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy (interesting, b/c everyone makes fun of it a lot...)

[Adam]

Oops Ritz you beat me by like 3 seconds..sorry

[Evil Doctor Cheese]

Okay here we go pop pickers!

7. Moonraker
6. A View To A Kill
5. Live & Let Die
4. Octopussy
3. (tie) The Spy Who Loved Me
2. (tie) The Man With The Golden Gun
1. For Your Eyes Only

FYEO moved to the top after learning to love it all over again via watching all the Moore movies in one go and realising that it's the only mature film in the Moore films.
But then again TMWTGG comes in second because it's so damn silly! and TSWLM has the most gorgeous Bond girl in XXX. Moonraker is a stinker!

[General Koskov]

A more original idea might be: 'Rank the best thread on ranking!' , but I too suffer from list-o-philia and can't help myself from ranking my films, whatever the category might be--so here they are:

1 Octopussy
2 The Spy Who Loved Me
3 For Your Eyes Only
4 A View to a Kill
(Actually the Top four are tied, I was just trying to 'fit in' with the FYEO-bashing crowd lead by ray t ;D )

5 Moonraker (definitely the best of the worst, excellent moments only offset by the ''Jaws-in-love' and the space [cuss])

6 Live, and Let Die (If only the myriads of chases were original, that would really benefit this one!

7 The Man with the Golden Gun
(The last two tie: LALD offers more realism, yet has only a minute's worth of plot; TMWTGG has a quite extensive plot, but unfortunately it's never used! )

[freemo]

Poor TMWTGG, too many 7's.

List looks pretty good, seems that TSWLM is a clear winner.

[steg76]

OK, for what's it's worth here's my ranking of the Moore movies:-

1. Live & Let Die
2. Spy who loved me
3. Man with Golden Gun
4. For your Eyes Only
5. Octopussy
6. A View to a kill
7. Moonraker

[Tedley King]

This is a hard one...but I would have to say this...

1) For Your Eyes Only
2) The Spy Who Loved Me
3) Octopussy
4) A View To A Kill (and what?)
5) Moonraker
6) The Man With the Golden Gun
7) Live And Let Die

[Blofeld's Cat]

freemo (08 Apr, 2002 07:34 a.m.):
Poor TMWTGG, too many 7's.

List looks pretty good, seems that TSWLM is a clear winner.

Unfortunately The Man with the Golden Gun, so far, rated last or second last in 10 of 14 lists, and the highest it got was #2.

While The Spy Who Loved Me has so far rated first or second in 10 of 14 lists.

It's interesting to note that Live and Let Die, Moonraker & For Your Eyes Only has rated both 1st and last in various lists.