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By: annoymously genius

annoymously genius — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:49:15 +0000

Live and Let Die (Sir Roger Moore)- What a horrible start to Roger Moore’s career as bond– it’s a wonder that he didn’t end up like George Lazenby. The pre– title sequence was horrible– there was absolutely no action in it. The only good parts were Roger Moore’s hop across the alligators to escape the alligator farm (which was probably Roger Moore’s best forty seconds as Bond), and when M came to visit and Bond was trying to keep him out of the bedroom (for obvious reasons).
It’s really hard to believe that most people give this a rating of an average bond movie or a terrific bond movie. It was actually Roger Moore’s worst outing, hands down and searching for any other bond movie except this waste of DVD space.

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Movie Notes: Scoop » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:20:16 +0000

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By: Slammerworm

Slammerworm — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:10:30 +0000

Yep, agreed; this is one of the least ‘Bondian’ movies of the lot. Oddly colourless performance by Sir Roger in his first Bond outing, he seemed like he was still doing an episode of ‘The Saint’. Jane Seymour was the true revelation here; an extraordinarily attractive woman who also managed to inject some real personality into what was essentially just another ‘Bond Girl’ role (they generally start off powerfiul and confident and then go all ‘help me, James’ once they succumb to his libido. To be fair though, in this movie Solitaire arguably succumbed to her own). She was the best thing about it. The ‘Blaxploitation’ idea was not bad, but it really only worked in the urban Harlem environment, where Bond is an uncomfortable fish out of water. He might as well be in Moscow. Once down in de Bayou however, the gritty urban vibe disappeared to be replaced by a garish cartoon of dumbass Southern lawmen, hokey ‘voodoo’ trappings and a speedboat chase during which one had time to make a coffee, check the email, reminisce with friends of times past, etc. Continuing on from ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ both the ‘Americanisation’ of the Bond films and the creeping tide of ‘comedic’ content are patently obvious. Silly moments abound; a table sinks below the floor in a nightclub and no-one notices? The villains didn’t so much as point in the other direction and shout ‘hey, what’s that over there’ before it happened. Also, all the people in the ‘funeral parades’ are in on the plot? Oh yeah. Where did Bond get an entire tarot deck of ‘The Lovers’ card? Q? Kananga’s explosive yet bloodless death would have been a lot less cartoonish in real life (but there’s a PG rating to be kept in mind), and so on. Oh, and a Bond movie plot with actual supernatural elements? We’ve sure moved on from the ‘dragon’ in ‘Dr No’. Then again, Baron Samedi did look quite cool riding that train at the end…