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[MR. BOND 93]

Am I the only one that thought Roger Moore played a terrible James Bond? I just couldn't stand him! He's uglier than crap, he's a terrible actor, and he has an annoying voice! Plus the only thing I can look at during his films is that mole on his face! He looked gay when he was shooting his Walther, He wore ugly Jerry Seinfeld Pirate shirts under his jackets, and he made the worst bond film in the franchise: Moonraker.

ROGER MOORE PLAYED THE WORST JAMES BOND!!!

[carddoug]

no I think roger is the best. but I liked everyone except for brosnan

[AgentPB]

I think each Actor who played Bond brought something special and different to the character. I don't hate any of them except Connery!

[00Twelve]

Only if I am judging Rog's Bond against Ian Fleming's standard of Bond would I consider his the "worst," or at least the furthest away, but I also know his mentality in approaching the role. He actually mastered the art of personalizing the role and refusing to mimic anyone else's interpretations. So, as an actor, I commend him. As for playing Bond as *I* would want to see Bond, he's not even close.

I'm in a very diplomatic mood right now, so I hope my sentiments don't come off as too inconclusive.

Edited by 00Twelve, 29 October 2006 - 06:17 AM.

[Publius]

Easy now. You can and are better off phrasing your criticisms without the vitriol.

Anyway, I would have an overall stronger opinion of Moore if he had played it as dark as he did in much of his first two films, or in a few other scenes thereafter (knocking the guy off the building and shooting Stromberg in SPY, kicking Locque's car in FYEO, etc.).

However, he was too friendly, cordial, and even grandfatherly otherwise. And I not only find his jokes to be not funny, but his delivery of them was poor (if not cringeworthy), so he's my least favorite as it stands.

Good guy, though, and a solid actor when he had to be. I'd have liked to see him starring in a Saint movie franchise paralleling Bond during the 70s and early 80s (presuming Ogilvy didn't mind), with Brosnan taking over from the late 80s to today. He seemed more comfortable and at home in that role.

[CowboyFunk22]

Easy now. You can and are better off phrasing your criticisms without the vitriol.

Anyway, I would have an overall stronger opinion of Moore if he had played it as dark as he did in much of his first two films, or in a few other scenes thereafter (knocking the guy off the building and shooting Stromberg in SPY, kicking Locque's car in FYEO, etc.).

However, he was too friendly, cordial, and even grandfatherly otherwise. And I not only find his jokes to be not funny, but his delivery of them was poor (if not cringeworthy), so he's my least favorite as it stands.

Good guy, though, and a solid actor when he had to be. I'd have liked to see him starring in a Saint movie franchise paralleling Bond during the 70s and early 80s (presuming Ogilvy didn't mind), with Brosnan taking over from the late 80s to today. He seemed more comfortable and at home in that role.

Yeah i get the grandfather vibe from him. I was just about to type it, then i thought "these people are gonna wonder what i'm on". Then you said it too so its not just me. I think he seems like a really nice guy, so that is the best thing for bond and the series at the time. If it was going to keep going, you have to have somewhat cordial and semi accessible to the fans.

Do i like the bond he played? Yes and no. Whats fun about the bond movies is that sometimes you'll be seeing bond having a good time in one film and then serious in another. Roger was the fun bond to perfection. Funny and kinda camp. Crazy gadgets, cars, beautiful women, and light hearted atmosphere is sometimes what you need.

[Colossus]

He's my second favorite Bond behind Connery and i'll tell you why.

Here's how i look at the spsetrum of the different type of Bond actor we've had so far from one end of the spectrum to the other:
Light------Both------Serious

Roger Moore is the only only one to have played it with a lighter take on it. Meanwhile Dalton is the only one to have done it serious, closest to the novel Bond like so many have said. Meanwhile we have the people who are a mix of both, a balance, just like everything in existence always works best in balance. Connery, Lazenby, and Brosnan were lighthearted and serious. A balance is always best. I digress a little into this part and say that Brosnan didn't feel intimidating to me and was overly smug-confident in what he was doing, there was no sense of belief in his vulnerability. Lazenby wasn't really an actor but pulled it off adequately. Connery is the only one who 'nailed' it for me on what the onscreen Bond should be.

Now onto the two polar ends. However Fleming wrote the novel Bond, serious, cold, works great in his written form, in the novels. However cinema is a totally different medium -- where the novel Bond would just not have survived into what is now the most successful film franchise ever. No one wants to see a stiffas Brit onscreen. I'd rather watch a more enjoyable light-hearted approach as opposed to seriousness any day.

This isn't just my opinion, why the very master himself Terence Young knew this and he and Connery infused the movies with a humor and the post-kill quips and other light material which made it significantly more enjoyable and humanistic to watch. Of course i prefer the balance of Connery, but if i were to pick between light-hearted and serious, i'd go with light-hearted. Moore had great amounts of charm and is just plain more enjoyable for me to watch than Dalton's or Brosnan's movies. Lazenby would be my third favorite solely because Moore had 7 over his 1 so we just get overwhelming more material from Moore.

Edited by Colossus, 29 October 2006 - 08:17 AM.

[Mr_Wint]

Roger Moore was born to be a leading man in movies. Both Roger Moore and Sean Connery have an incredibly strong presence on screen. They are movie stars! The other Bond-actors are just reading lines from a script. They are not even playing in the same league.

[SecretAgentFan]

Am I the only one that thought Roger Moore played a terrible James Bond? I just couldn't stand him! He's uglier than crap, he's a terrible actor, and he has an annoying voice! Plus the only thing I can look at during his films is that mole on his face! He looked gay when he was shooting his Walther, He wore ugly Jerry Seinfeld Pirate shirts under his jackets, and he made the worst bond film in the franchise: Moonraker.

ROGER MOORE PLAYED THE WORST JAMES BOND!!!

No. What

[CharlieBind]

[quote name='MR. BOND 93' date='29 October 2006 - 06:04' post='635432'

ROGER MOORE PLAYED THE WORST JAMES BOND!!!
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Substitute the word BEST for WORST and you might be right.

Roger's my favourite Bond, Sean's probably the best,Brosnan was very good and I hope Craig will prove to be a worthy successor. As a fan I must admit I'm getting a bit sick of all this negativity, first is was the Craig haters, then the people bashing Brosnan and now this. Looney's the lot of 'em! Somebody pass me a Walther

Edited by CharlieBind, 29 October 2006 - 10:09 AM.

[Simon]

[quote name='SecretAgentFan' post='635472' date='29 October 2006 - 09:44']
[quote name='MR. BOND 93' post='635432' date='29 October 2006 - 06:04']
Am I the only one that thought Roger Moore played a terrible James Bond? I just couldn't stand him! He's uglier than crap, he's a terrible actor, and he has an annoying voice! Plus the only thing I can look at during his films is that mole on his face! He looked gay when he was shooting his Walther, He wore ugly Jerry Seinfeld Pirate shirts under his jackets, and he made the worst bond film in the franchise: Moonraker.

ROGER MOORE PLAYED THE WORST JAMES BOND!!!
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No. What

[Lady Templar]

[quote name='Simon' post='635478' date='29 October 2006 - 12:23']
[quote name='SecretAgentFan' post='635472' date='29 October 2006 - 09:44']
[quote name='MR. BOND 93' post='635432' date='29 October 2006 - 06:04']
Am I the only one that thought Roger Moore played a terrible James Bond? I just couldn't stand him! He's uglier than crap, he's a terrible actor, and he has an annoying voice! Plus the only thing I can look at during his films is that mole on his face! He looked gay when he was shooting his Walther, He wore ugly Jerry Seinfeld Pirate shirts under his jackets, and he made the worst bond film in the franchise: Moonraker.

ROGER MOORE PLAYED THE WORST JAMES BOND!!!
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No. What

Edited by Lady Templar, 29 October 2006 - 10:37 AM.

[SecretAgentFan]

[quote name='Simon' post='635478' date='29 October 2006 - 11:23']
[quote name='SecretAgentFan' post='635472' date='29 October 2006 - 09:44']
[quote name='MR. BOND 93' post='635432' date='29 October 2006 - 06:04']
Am I the only one that thought Roger Moore played a terrible James Bond? I just couldn't stand him! He's uglier than crap, he's a terrible actor, and he has an annoying voice! Plus the only thing I can look at during his films is that mole on his face! He looked gay when he was shooting his Walther, He wore ugly Jerry Seinfeld Pirate shirts under his jackets, and he made the worst bond film in the franchise: Moonraker.

ROGER MOORE PLAYED THE WORST JAMES BOND!!!
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No. What

[bogard]

Nah, from me Roger was the best most of the times (sometimes it's Connery, and when I'm in a nasty mood it's LTK Dalton). But then I like funny. Let's face it the Bond movies were full of nonsense starting with Goldfinger (the duck on Connery's head), and I prefer it that way. And even the so called more serious Dalton movies had pleny of nonsense (skiing to Austria on a cello, dodging rockets with a heavy truck).

Let's hope CR is full of the same nonsense too.
I have to admit though, that Tarzan yells and elephants playing jackpot were a bit OTT.

Edited by bogard, 29 October 2006 - 11:23 AM.

[Publius]

Roger Moore was born to be a leading man in movies. Both Roger Moore and Sean Connery have an incredibly strong presence on screen. They are movie stars! The other Bond-actors are just reading lines from a script. They are not even playing in the same league.

Funny, I always got the impression that Rog was the one reading lines. He seemed to suffer from Halle Berry-itis at times: good actor acting poorly. However, I thought he was not only great at being dark, but better at it than being lighthearted. Maybe because it was contrary to his nature and a challenge for him (I think that benefited Dalton).

When it comes to playing it light, I still think the best was Brosnan in TND mode, and yes, Lazenby in Piz Gloria mode.

[Loomis]

Technically, yes, Moore is the worst Bond, since he's mostly the furthest away from Fleming's creation and completely unbelievable.

However, he does it with such incredible style and charm that, actually, he also ends up being the best Bond.

[Simon]

Well, technically, it is all a moot point.

All the incarnations were perfect for their time so trying to compare them with Today's criteria for what makes the technically correct portrayal, is pointless.

And in this basket, you can even put in Fleming's own portrayal - his version wouldn't work today anymore than Craig's would work in Moore's time.

But I should probably stop here as all this has probably floated far and above Mr Bond 93's head like a lofty cumulus, and I wouldn't want to confuse the very starter of this (pointless) thread.

[zencat]

I think Roger might have been the best Bond. I know he's my personal favorite.

[james st.john smythe]

dont be so stupid!!!! grow up man, boy!

[Matt_13]

I think he was the worst.

[Spurrier]

Am I the only one that thought Roger Moore played a terrible James Bond? I just couldn't stand him! He's uglier than crap, he's a terrible actor, and he has an annoying voice! Plus the only thing I can look at during his films is that mole on his face! He looked gay when he was shooting his Walther, He wore ugly Jerry Seinfeld Pirate shirts under his jackets, and he made the worst bond film in the franchise: Moonraker.

ROGER MOORE PLAYED THE WORST JAMES BOND!!!

You are in a very small minority with that opinion.

Ugly? You must be way overdue for an appointment with your opthomologist.

Terrible actor? He had too much range for that to be a credible statement. He played it dark, witty, cruel, charming and emotional at one point or another during his 12 years. A "terrible" actor could not do that.

Annoying voice? Not according to a survey that described a "sexy voice as a Roger Moore voice".

Looked "gay" shooting a Walther? Linking "gay" with shooting a gun is like linking Schwarzenegger with Oscar. Gay would be running like Brosnan.

Fashion? I believe Rog had his own men's clothsline at one time.

Moonraker the worst Bond film? You must have missed DAD.

Look, there's a Bond portrayal that most of us can't stand. The flip side of that is that there's a Bond portrayal for everyone's taste. If you don't like a Bond portrayal, well, no one is forcing you to watch them. Just do what the rest of us do when a particular Bond, we don't like, is shown on television: Don't watch it. But to come on here and bash the actor who has been most loyal and supportive to the franchise than any other former James Bond, well that's low.

Roger Moore rocks.

[Colossus]

And Moore could be just as brutal as the rest of them but believable too, in TMWTGG my favorite Moore Bond, there's a lethality and perfect blend between Fleming seriousness and Moore's naturalistic approach which i've covered in a thread on this already when he shows his "dark side" with hitting the woman, saying how'd he liked to kill Scaramange to his face, almost morphing into the bad guy it seems. He still had the brutality in TSWLM when killing Sandor.

[MR. BOND 93]

ok sorry guys I just think he wasn't a very good Bond from the way that Fleming created him.

[Pam Bouvier]

First of all, there is NO such thing a a bad or worst Bond. Each ahs brought something new to the role. We all simply have our favoites. Bond is bigger than any one actor.

Second, Riger Moore is about a far from ugly as you get. Even as he ages, he looks great!

[Lady Templar]

You are in a very small minority with that opinion.

Roger Moore rocks.

Definitely. Did you ever watch one of his movies ? I doubt. About him being "ugly", you must certainly be joking. About him being a "terrible actor", ditto. Just watch e.g. "The Man Who Haunted Himself" or "The Wilde Geese".

Now regarding his look. He was linked with Debenhams.

About his voice, just check this article: The deeper the better

[Taro Todoroki]

Uh......no.

[MR. BOND 93]

Second, Riger Moore is about a far from ugly as you get. Even as he ages, he looks great!

http://www.spotlight...ger_moore_2.jpg

http://www.stars.org...roger_moore.jpg

http://www.zdf.de/ZD...,2583427,00.jpg

http://newsimg.bbc.c..._smilepa203.jpg

http://upload.wikime..._Moore_2002.jpg

http://img.timeinc.n...44__moore_l.jpg

http://www.hindu.com...12700150501.jpg

http://johngushue.ty...roger_moore.jpg

http://www.cartoonst...es/ate0016l.jpg

Look at all of those and then tell me if he's as far from ugly as you can get.

[Simon]

Speaking purely on the spur of the moment, I think you're a f--king idiot.

But take heart in the thought that at least your mother loves you.

Probably.

[mcsearg]

First,Sir Roger made 7 movies and kept the legend of Bond going...
Second, he fit the character perfectly, and if you think hes ugly, then dont ask him for a date. I think he is one of the best Bond's!

[Spurrier]

Second, Riger Moore is about a far from ugly as you get. Even as he ages, he looks great!

http://www.spotlight...ger_moore_2.jpg

http://www.stars.org...roger_moore.jpg

http://www.zdf.de/ZD...,2583427,00.jpg

http://newsimg.bbc.c..._smilepa203.jpg

http://upload.wikime..._Moore_2002.jpg

http://img.timeinc.n...44__moore_l.jpg

http://www.hindu.com...12700150501.jpg

http://johngushue.ty...roger_moore.jpg

http://www.cartoonst...es/ate0016l.jpg

Look at all of those and then tell me if he's as far from ugly as you can get.

Just which Bond(s), in fact, do you consider to be good-looking? And I'm referring to any of them from Connery to Craig.