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[red_grant]

roger moore was a very handsome man by any standards, how on earth could you call him ugly !!! If roger is ugly what about the rest everyone from connery to lazenby to dalton and even craig can be brought down!!!!

STOP judging people solely on basis of their looks

as far as looking gay i really dont understand where you got that from !!!! he was a manly bond the brosnan had moments when he looked gay but never roger.

something is wrong my friend you need help.

Edited by red_grant, 31 October 2006 - 04:52 AM.

[Jim]

STOP judging people solely on basis of their looks

as far as looking gay i really dont understand where you got that from !!!! he was a manly bond the brosnan had moments when he looked gay....

Um...

[K1Bond007]

I usually cite Roger as my least favorite based solely on the light-hearted humor in his films. Sometimes it really worked (TSWLM <3) and sometimes it was just God awful. I don't know though. Pierce has really been losing ground on my list as time goes on and as I've gotten older I've grown to like Roger's films more. Not to say either actor is bad, they both have their moments. Truthfully I've liked all of them thus far. The official ones anyway.

Out of them all, however, I respect Roger the most. From everything I've ever seen he's a class-act all the way. That and his major contributions to causes like UNICEF.

[4 Ur Eyez Only]

how in the world can roger be the worst bond when ...Ian Fleming wanted roger to play the role before anyone!!!!!?

[tonymascia1]

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.

100% Agreed...Ditto...

[Moore Baby Moore]

how in the world can roger be the worst bond when ...Ian Fleming wanted roger to play the role before anyone!!!!!?

PWN3D.

[00Twelve]

I've gotta say, while I love old Rog and some high school kids obviously don't know better than to be nasty about cinematic criticism, I'm pretty amused at the extent to which this guy has been able to everybody off.

[Harmsway]

[quote name='Mr_Wint' post='636235' date='30 October 2006 - 10:19']
[quote name='Harmsway' post='636053' date='30 October 2006 - 05:57']
[quote name='Loomis' post='635655' date='29 October 2006 - 13:16']
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. [/quote]
Change that to second-best Bond and I'll agree with you (I'll always prefer Connery, no matter what).

You bring up an excellent point - it's amazing how fun Roger is to watch, despite the fact that he's utterly unbelievable. He's not a believable womanizer (I find it very hard to believe every woman melting into his arms, perhaps harder to believe than with every other 007), and he's certainly not a believable fighter in any of his fight scenes.

[/quote]
Not a believable womanizer? I feel that Moore's Bond was more charming than many of the other Bonds. As an example, take the way he seduce Solitaire or Anya (on the boat). Those scenes perfectly demonstrate "the magnetism" Moore's Bond has. I think many women could fall for that.[/quote]
I don't buy either of those scenes, honestly. There's just no raw masculinity or sexuality to his character - he's charming, to be sure, but I could hardly see women falling into his arms. Connery, I could see it. That man's a powerhouse of sexual charisma.

[quote]As for the fighting scenes, I enjoy watching Moore's Bond in action. He doesn

[icecold]

No. I've made it perfectly clear I dont like the way he played Bond. But I'll never say he did what he did badly. He always gave a wonderful performance and was quite funny. Just too flippant for me. His comedy was great, but Bond movies are not supposed to be comedies. Therefore my problem with him and ranking him lowest more often than not. His physical action scenes ie: running and fist fighting and such were pathetic most of the time. Which is why I like Connery and now Craig so much, they have intense physicality along with an arrogant yet sexy charm rather than coming off as a weak, smarmy prick like Moore. The only film I ever really believed him as remotely dangerous and worthy of being called "Ian Fleming's James Bond 007" in was TMWTGG. The other's he was too lame or too old.

As for his looks, I'd say he was definitely a good looking man. Had no body and is too pretty for what I think a man, especially a rough one like Bond, should look like but I'm not a woman or a queer so what do I know?

Edited by icecold, 05 November 2006 - 03:23 AM.

[Qwerty]

brosnan had moments when he looked gay

When?

[Lady Templar]

His comedy was great, but Bond movies are not supposed to be comedies.

Roger Moore always made it clear he played the part tongue-in-cheek. This is an answer he gave to a journalist asking him what means the Bond role for him: "because role implies you're playing a part, uh, you know, James Bond was a part. When I was doing it I didn't think about the politics of it, it was just a piece of entertainment and wasn't, uh, a real thing at all. To me Bond, there was no reality because James Bond is supposed to be a spy who is

[ramanovStar]

Roger Moore is much better than Brosnan. He has sort of an odd watchability, even amidst the most lackluster plots. His movies lend themselves to repeat viewings. Connery himself was also flippant at times, and the difference between their two Bond portrayals is much slighter than most people think.

[Four-of-a-Kind]

i liked Roger Moore a lot. I think that Brosnan is the worst bond EVER.

[Tinfinger]

Wow, really? A comment like that from someone here is like going to Al Jazeera's website and being surprised to find they don't like Americans and Jews very much

[stamper]

Actually, thought I prefer the Sean / Laz / Tim / Dan take, I still have a bit of fondness for the Moore and the Brozzas, the kind of fondness you have for really campy movies you still enjoy looking at from time to time.

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

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.

I don't think he's the best...but I agree with your point. He's so unique that you can't really compare him to the others.

[ramanovStar]

Dalton had zero charisma and Brosnan was an efette zombie. Moore was a great Bond

[bond_girl_double07]

Depends on my mood.. for a serious film experience, Connery/Dalton/Craig.. if I want a funnier film, Moore/Brosnan.. If I'm sleeping, Lazenby

I generally like Moore as an actor, but don't prefer him as Bond.. he really doesn't look like he could hurt a fly, and there are a lot of staples in the Moore era (crazy bad guys, bad scripts, tooooo maaaaany gadgets!) that I find annoying as I get older...

[YOLT]

Moore is no way the worst Bond. He made 007 his own. If we are talking about James Bond its because he gave it life after Connery. I think he was also more sucessfull as he got older. ( I like the movie LALD but Moore was bad in it.)

However his films sometimes became too ridicilous. It wasnt his fault, but some scenes seemed like BS, like the Jaws and his love in MR or the Tarzan yell in OP.

The worst Bond is Lazenby. He was just a model not an actor. He was too wooden. OHMSS is a good one but you can easly understand why they fired Lazenby.

Also Craig is the ugliest. But he showed that acting is more important.

[JimmyBond]

The worst Bond is Lazenby. He was just a model not an actor. He was too wooden. OHMSS is a good one but you can easly understand why they fired Lazenby.

They didnt fire Lazenby, Cubby offered him a 7 film contract. George took bad advice from his friends and quit before the film was even released.

[bond_girl_double07]

The worst Bond is Lazenby. He was just a model not an actor. He was too wooden. OHMSS is a good one but you can easly understand why they fired Lazenby.

They didnt fire Lazenby, Cubby offered him a 7 film contract. George took bad advice from his friends and quit before the film was even released.

Everybody wins

Good point, YOLT.. a lot of the aspects of the Moore-Era films that make me cringe really have nothing to do with Moore himself.. He's still not my favorite, but I'll take him over Lazenby

[George Kaplan]

You know...I like Roger Moore as an actor and I certainly still enjoy his Bond films. I thik the thing is that his films vary so wildly during the course of his tenure in the role that it makes it a bit hard to figure which way to take him in the role (and makes it easier for detractors to find various reasons to point out his "flaws".)

[Cody]

I think the first post is too nasty about it, but Roger Moore is my least favorite Bond.

A lot of the time, rather than Bond in his films I really just see Roger Moore as himself going on crazy adventures, and he was around for a few movies too long. Most of the movies he plays Bond in are clumped together near the bottom of my "favorite to least favorite" list. They're too silly, over-the-top, fantastical for me, for the most part I prefer the more down to earth entries in the series. (And A View to a Kill and Octopussy are very low on redeeming qualities IMO.)

Of course, Moore ranking at the bottom of my Bonds list is no reflection on my opinion him as a person - he's a great, classy guy.

[moorebond82]

Well i think the poster of this topic went about stating there point all wrong for example he looked gay and he was ugly are not exactley strong points.Roger is and always will be my favorite bond and i think he did many a fine bond film. But For Your Eyes Only alone makes roger the best bond in my opinion.

[rogermoore007]

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.

He looks great and looks like a bond actor in all of them except the ones where he is in his seventies

Best James Bond BY FAR is Sir Rog

[Lady Templar]

Of course. I'm wondering why we still have to prove it ...

[rogermoore007]

Of course. I'm wondering why we still have to prove it ...

haha yeah I feel ya

[capungo]

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!!!

LOL, are you trying to say you don't like Roger Moore?

Seriously though, I really can't say he was the terrible Bond. He had a style of his own and he executed it well. Although, I'm not a terrible fan of that lighter Bond, it is certainly a big chunk of our era. The only thing I will personally hold against him is that Roger Moore noise; that sort of "AAAAOOOOOUUUGGGHHHH" thing. I can't help cracking up whenever he does that. Anyone else know what I'm talking about?

As for Moonraker being the worst Bond in the franchise, I'd have to go with AVTAK, or DAD on that one.

[rogermoore007]

how in the world can roger be the worst bond when ...Ian Fleming wanted roger to play the role before anyone!!!!!?

PWN3D.

Yea that pretty much does it right there.....PWN3D indeed

[MarkA]

I agree with an earlier post that said there is far too much negativity in the posts recently. Now for me Roger Moore wasn