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[Blofeld's Cat]

They all have good points, some better than others.

They all have bad points, some worse than others.

They all excite me, some more so than others.

Having said that:

• The Spy Who Loved Me - "It's Bond And Beyond"
• Moonraker - Wanna make something of it?
• Octopussy
• Live and Let Die
• For Your Eyes Only
• The Man with the Golden Gun - the 1st Bond I ever saw, but I still became an avid fan of the movies.
• A View to a Kill - Only because of the age factor.

NB: Can change subject to my mood.

[Double-Oh-Zero]

Here's my list, but most of them are depending on how many times I've watched them:

1.Live and Let Die- a good start for Rog. "Y'all take this honkey out and waste 'im!"

2.The Man with the Golden Gun- Yeah, that's right, second. Please don't send any hate mail.

3.Octopussy-Because of the Q scene, one of the funniest of the series. Oh, and Vijay's line: "Don't worry, this is a company car."

4.Moonraker-See no.2 above. I like the locations, I suppose, and the humour as well.

5.The Spy Who Loved Me- XXX. Need I say more?

6.For Your Eyes Only- Alright, don't kill me, but I just never really get into it as I do with other Moore's. I suppose I could warm up to it later.

7.A View to a Kill- Does anyone else think Roger was really pushing it with this film? And that credits sequence was sorta... questionable.

[Zao]

As a distraction from revision.....

1) FYEO. A great film that stands out from the rest because of it's lack of dreadful 'comedy', serious and realistic heroine, even dealt with the talking parrot quite well. Plus Greece looks amazing.

2) TSWLM. Basically coz of Egypt - I admit it, I'm a location fetishist - plus XXX and Naomi.

3) AVTAK. And I'm proud of it!! ;-) Dodgy moments asside Mayday and Zorin rock. And lets be fair, Stacey has kept the Bond community debating for years, gotta be worthwhile.

4) Octopussy. India, obviously. Maud Adams and Magda were my ideal women for a very long time. Loved the Faberge/Property of a Lady first hour. Shame that Bond did the whole clown thing though...

5) LALD. The Carbibbean does nothing for me. Solitaire would have been better named Wet Haddock, the only redeeming feature was Baron Samedi.

6) Moonraker. AAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH. Horrible horrible horrible. Bar a few damn good lines and the scene with Corinne and the rotweilers the film is unmemborable. Dare I mention the Bondola.....

7) TMWTGG. Last and far and away the worst Bond film ever in my opinion. It's list of crimes are numerous: Scaramanga was a poor baddie, words cannot describe my hatred of Nick Nack, the flying car, Goodnight, the return of the Sherriff, 'the' gun, the solex seemed to be a second thought, the final maze scene....and on and on and on. I've tried many times to accept it but have never managed to watch it all the way through twice. Once was very definately enough. Even the location is not enough to save it. Give me OHMSS anyday.

[Dr. Tynan]

My top 3 Moore movies would be MR FYEO TSWLM. (I'm not sure in what order).

I'm not sure about the order of the rest of them.

I'd need to think about it all a bit more.

[IcePak]

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

[Mourning Becomes Electra]

Not my favorite group of Bond films, and this is the Bond I grew up with. For what it's worth only one, maybe 2, would make my top 10, and the last 3 would make my last four with room for LTK.

1 The Spy Who Loved Me- easily Moore's best film & performance as Bond. Magnificent Egyptian location wonderfully used.

2 For Your Eyes Only- nice adult Moore Bond film even with a couple of missteps like BiBi and the parrot.

3 Octopussy- stunning locations, great women, very good Moore. Too bad the film seems to end about 4 times, each less exciting than the last.

4 Live and Let Die- for the villians, the crocodiles & I confess the voodoo. Love the Un-Cola man. ;-) Too bad the NYC location was a complete waste, he might as well have gone to Newark.

HUGE chasm

5 Moonraker- great locations, except the last one... space....just too over the top for me.

6 A View to a Kill- some great locations in the first 1/2 of the film but some very dodgy casting (Hello Ms Robert, I'm looking at you), a mish mash of a second 1/2 half and an actor now physically completely unbelievable as Bond. (and not just because of age, you know some 57 yr olds can still MOVE)

Huge yawning chasm.

7 The Man with the Golden Gun- UGH... a horrid Bond who I actively dislike in this film. There's just something wrong with a Bond film when you're cheering for the villian (a wasted Lee) to snuff Bond. Dreadfully embarrassing lead Bond girl. Juvenile slapstick with a killer dwarf, wedgied sumo wrestlers, karate girls, annoying boat kid and an odious misplaced sheriff. Oh and I don't find it very visually pleasing either.

MBE

[Tanger]

At the moment:
For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy
The Spy Who Loved Me
Live and Let Die
Moonraker
A View to a Kill
The Man with the Golden Gun

This list is subject to change on a weekly basis. Generally the top 6 are the ones that move up or down. The Man with the Golden Gun will forever remain at the bottom of the list.

[mrWint]

Something like this:

Excellent: The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only

Average: Live And Let Die, Octopussy and A View To A Kill

Not so good: The Man With The Golden Gun and Moonraker

[D-Murda]

Here goes my rankin'

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

I might get ridiculed for my rankin but it is very honest

[License To Kill]

First and foremost having The Spy Who Loved Me last is outrageous even if your "honest", you must have been asleep, or something. LOL, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Here's my ranking of the Roger Moore movies:

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

[rafterman]

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

[General Koskov]

Mourning Becomes Electra (28 Apr, 2002 11:02 p.m.):
7 The Man with the Golden Gun- I actively dislike in this film.
MBE

Er, does that mean you jump around and scream whenever you watch it, rather than just yawning?

[Blofeld's Cat]

RANKING OF THE MOORE BOND MOVIES
(Update)

Except for the clear runaway favourite, all the other movies have changed positions since my last list.

1st with 38 points is The Spy Who Loved Me(static)
2nd with 88 points is For Your Eyes Only (up 1 position)
3rd with 90 points is Octopussy (down 1)
4th with 120 points is Live and Let Die (up 1)
5th with 121 points is The Man with the Golden Gun (up 2)
6th with 126 points is Moonraker (down 2)
7th with 146 points is A View to a Kill (down 1)

It's interesting to note that while 55% of the rankers voted A View to a Kill either 6th or last, 62% voted The Man with the Golden Gun in the same positions. However, 17% also voted it either 1st or 2nd, thus bumping it up to 5th position.

[General Koskov]

The list makes perfect sense...except that The Man with the Golden Gun is higher than A View to a Kill!

[General Koskov]

Just for the record, in my opinion, Moonraker is the best of the worst*.

*'The worst' being: Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, You Only Live Twice, and The Man with the Golden Gun.

[Mouse]

1 - FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

2 - THE SPY WHO LOVED ME

3 - LIVE AND LET DIE

4 - THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN

5 - OCTOPUSSY

6 - MOONRAKER

7 - A VIEW TO A KILL

[Joyce Carrington]

Octopussy
For Your Eyes Only I think these two were Moore's best
The Spy Who Loved Me
A View to a Kill Good movie, though Rog is getting a bit old and I can't stand Stacey Sutton ('James!')
Live and Let Die I thought this was pretty bad..
The Man with the Golden Gun Don't start me on this one..
Moonraker Complete nonsense..

[MicroGlobe One]

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

Incidentally, the last two on this list are also, in my opinion, the two worst 007 films ever produced. I rank them eighteenth and ninetheenth in the larger listing. Moore, too often, just didn't do it for me... but he certainly was a Bond all his own.

[Colonel Mooney]

Oli here,

Okay, so this is my current opinion:

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME: Eon producers clearly made something from nothing here, and it's great! Although if there wasn't silly music in the "van in desert" scene and at the beginning of the end credits, it wouldn't be quite so embarrasing to watch.

LIVE AND LET DIE: A great film in it's own right. I like everything about this film bar Kananga's demise. JW Pepper?????

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: For me this is somewhere in the middle. While it is a great film, there isn't really very much that keeps me gripped while watching, but nothing's bad. Moore should have quit after this one.

MOONRAKER: A good film with a great bad guy in the form of Michel Lonsdale for the first half. That is, until James Bond hops into that space shuttle, where everything turns a bit sci-fi.

A VIEW TO A KILL: Would have been a good film if Rog hadn't been in it. Sorry Mr. Moore, but you did get a bit boring to watch after 13 years. Fight on GG bridge still a joy to watch.

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN: Scaramanga is a great villain (well done Mr. Lee) but that's about it. Britt Ekland's dumbness is extremely annoying, and offensive to women. I think Roger Moore has something on his teeth - they seem to glow in the dark.

OCTOPUSSY: A comedy, and a bad one at that.

[BONDage]

Kewl Topic! Here are mine w/ reasons

The Spy Who Loved Me:
Excellent, top-notch action/adventure film! Great Villain/ Henchmen, Great Bond Girls, Great car/Sub, Great Plot, Great scenery, Great Set design, Great opening credits/ song... This film had it all! My only complaint

[Colonel Moon]

I. The Spy Who Loved Me [the most gorgeous Bond girl XXX]
II. Moonraker [ideas and humour]
III. Live And Let Die [Solitaire]
The Man With The Golden Gun [Goodnight]
IV. For Your Eyes Only
V. Octopussy
VI. A View To A Kill

[Lady Sinclair]

TSWLM
OP
FYEO
LALD
AVTAK
Moonraker
TMWTGG

[Sanchez]

If I HAD to make a list then this'd be it...

1: For your eyes only.
2: Octopussy.
3: A view to a kill.
4: Moonraker.
5: The spy who loved me.
6: The man with the golden gun.
7: Live and let die.

[Carver]

These rankings tend to change, but these are the latest ones:
1.TSWLM: my favourite Bond film overall, outstanding.
2.FYEO: this film is just as good as TSWLM, but it does bore me in places, still, it comes second in my list.
3.OP: this is a good film, fun to watch, good villians, and great action sequences.
4.LALD: 'the weird one' as i've always considered it as, a good first outing for Moore.
5.AVTAK: well, some of you don't like it, but i love the titles song, and some parts are good (maybe).
6.MR: i never really watch this film, but seeing it yesterday made me see it in a new light, its an ok film really.
7:TMWTGG: poor, the only good thing being the jump from bridge to bridge and Christopher lee.

[IrishCrown]

Here I go.....

1. For Your Thighs Only. Roger kicking the car off the cliff. The scene at Tracy's grave. It's still Roger, but hey, who's complaining?
2. The Spy Who Shoved Me. Roger overkills Stromburg. Jaws was absolutely embarassing. XXX was the real thing, baby! I liked the scene with XXX spilling the beans about Bond's history over drinks. See? Roger can act.
3. Austinpussy. I liked Magda. Orlov was an over the top nut, but what do you expect from Steven Berkhoff? Roger was getting old, but, hey, who's complaining?
4. The Man With The Golden Gum. I liked Chris Lee. I hated Goodnight. Roger was okay. Mini-Scaramanga was...different.
5. Live and Let Shag. VERY early 70s. The score bites. Moore is better here if you think of him as playing Simon Templar.
6. Crapraker. Bond in space? Thanks a bloody lot, Star Wars!
7. A Moo To A Shrill. Roger was waaaaaay too old, and even I was complaining. I gotta give him credit, he was hardly in the opening credits whatsoever. He had it easy. Poor stuntmen, though. I liked John Barry's score, too.

[Loomis]

My list:

1. THE?@MAN?@WITH?@THE?@GOLDEN?@GUN
Okay, this is not a movie I'm even going to try defending on an artistic level. Point out all the stupidities in "The Man With the Golden Gun", and I'll agree with you all the way. Still, for some reason TMWTGG is a personal fave: the gorgeous, exotic locations (Macau, Hong Kong, Thailand), the gorgeous, exotic Maud Adams, Christopher Lee, Nick Nack (how cool is this guy?)... somehow it all combines into a breezy, don't-give-a-damn loony burlesque that I find impossible to dislike. At any rate, I think it holds up immeasurably better than "Live and Let Die".
2. THE?@SPY?@WHO?@LOVED?@ME
Another Bond with a climax that goes on forever (oo-er Missus!). A lot of the effects now look very dated, but there are certainly plenty of great things about "The Spy Who Loved Me".
3. FOR?@YOUR?@EYES?@ONLY
Definitely the most adult of the Moore Bond movies, with by far the best script. Moore tries very, very hard indeed to give a much more "realistic" portrayal of Bond (but he reverted to what Q called his "adolescent antics" for "Octopussy" and AVTAK), and in all fairness he pulls it off pretty well. Some great action scenes, particularly the long ski chase. But a number of flaws keep it from being the best Moore outing in my book: an uninteresting heroine in Carole Bouquet, a boring villain in Julian Glover, and a general lack of engaging supporting characters (only Topol has any charisma). It also goes on too long and the last half hour really drags, with a very boring underwater scene. There are also some elements which make the film look painfully dated: the Thatcher scene and Bill Conti's horrifying disco-flavoured score, for example. The pre-credits helicopter tussle with a guy in a bald cap supposedly meant to be Blofeld plays very badly nowadays.
4. LIVE?@AND?@LET?@DIE
Far and away the most hideously dated of all the Bond films, due to its portrayal of blacks in both the United States and the Caribbean as a united community of voodoo-crazed criminals with a hatred of whites. So embarrassing that it should be an automatic choice for the bottom of my list, were it not for the fact that it's reasonably well put together as a film. It leaves a nasty taste in the mouth, but I?@do think it's a better movie than:
5. MOONRAKER
Nowhere near as bad as it's made out to be; there are actually plenty of very funny lines and some good action scenes. Michel Londsdale as Drax is a memorable villain. The pre-credits freefall is still exciting, and "Moonraker" - while nowhere near among the best of the Bonds, and, let's be frank, still something of an embarrassment - is definitely watchable as brain-in-neutral, campy fun, the ideal Bond film to slump drunkenly infront of on Boxing Day after the Queen's Speech (if you're a Brit, of course). I'd take it over "Diamonds Are Forever" any day.
6. A?@VIEW?@TO?@A?@KILL
Something oddly endearing about such an absurdly old James Bond. The script isn't actually all that bad, it's just that the execution is uninspired. It plays like a film that no one had their heart in, but Moore is still fun to watch, even though he's as old as the hills and does things like cook quiche. Not a bad score from John Barry.
7. OCTOPUSSY
I'd rather see James Bond in space than in a clown costume.

[PaulZ108]

1. The Spy Who Loved Me (Obvious)
2. Octopussy (I always loved it when I was first introduced to Bond, Maud Adams and Kristina Wayborn are great, and everything in the film seems to work...except the clown thing)
3. The Man With The Golden Gun (Yeah, you heard me. I like Lee as Scaramanga, Maud Adams is gorgeous, and I still like Goodnight. I really thing the script was to blame for the character's incompetence and not Britt Ekland's acting.)
4. Moonraker (That's right, I put it above of FYEO. The plot works, the villain is okay despite his lack of neck movement, I like the girls, and I love the precredits sequence. Would have been #2 if it hadn't been for the Bondola, the pidgeon, and Dolly.)
5. Live and Let Die (The voodoo feel is great, Solitaire is gorgeous, and overall it's a great start to Moore's tenure. Still, it doesn't feel quite as Bond as it should and the villain's plot is ridiculously insignigicant.)
6. A View to A Kill (Walken is perfect as Zorin, the locations work, the title song is great, and the precredits sequence is one of my favorite. Still, the combination of Stacey's scripting and Tanya Roberts' acting was disastrous, Mayday scares me and comes across as somewhat monstrous, and Roger looked older with the facelift than he would have without it.)
7. For Your Eyes Only (Yeah, I put it last. I still love the film, but it's just not enjoyable as the other Moore films. The locations work, Roger gives one of his best performances, Carole Bouquet is gorgeous and her character is competent, and the precredits sequence and title song are great, but Bibi annoys me beyond belief, the score doesn't appeal to me, and the film just isn't as enjoyable to watch for some reason)

[14 20 02]

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

[Max Zorin007]

the best moore movies are the ones with the memorable villains.
live and let die
the man with the golden gun
and a view to a kill

the other ones are good but the villains arent so great

[Peter]

Okay, so...

1. The Spy Who Loved Me--besides the locations, the relationship between Bond and Anya in the first half of the film give it an extra zing which most of the other girls don't have (see for example the failed attempt to recreate this with Christmas Jones). Always loved the cool Atlantis, Lotus which TURNS INTO A SUB!! The so patriotic opening sequence with the Union Jack on the parachute and how that leads into the sub plot of Anya's revenge at the end of the film. Even though Jaws is over the top, he's really scary (not so much in MR), and I like the "string of deaths" in Egypt which is suspensful as well.

2. Octopussy---maybe cause it was my hey day to discover Bond, but the locations are so great, and Octopussy is super glamourous and smart. I always liked Kamal, too, as being evil and oily, but not really crazy. Despite some people hating the clown thing, I think the whole circus finale, and the 20 minute chase to stop the bomb really works. It brings a nice circle to the death of the first 00 agent.

3. For Your Eyes Only-- Melina has a great story which gives the film additional depth, and although lower key than the others, I still think the villians are menacing. Loved the ski chase and keel hauling scenes, and good graveside scene, too. Wished there was more chemistry between Bond and Melina, but Colombo makes up for it, especially at the warehouse raid sequence.

4. A View to a Kill-- Once again, great locations. May Day was always memorable, and Zorin's good too. I never minded Stacey so much, but yeah she does shout James alot. But it seems appropriate for her character to me. Too bad Tibbets had to die.

5. Moonraker-- Well, it's pretty, but the script is pretty weak. There's just not a lot going on for such a long film. Some dumb humor, and why is Manuela so stupid? But Corinne is impressive as is Drax, and Holly is at least appealing and beautiful. Did they really have to show a pigeon doing a doubletake?!

6. Live and Let Die-- The film seems halfbaked to me. They bring in (from the book) all these cool ideas about voodoo, etc, but don't really follow through. And while Solitaire is intriguing, she seems stupid, esp in the last train scene. Liked Kanaga except for his death and the fact that he doesn't have a first name. Baron Samedi is also very cool--that's a good ending!

7. The Man with the Golden Gun-- It's just not good. Even less going on than in LALD. Andrea brings an interesting story, and I liked Lt. Hip, but where's the tension? Maybe the "energy crises" storyline just doesn't resonate. Britt Ekland will never live down that role (turning on a laser with her butt)!