Not The Greatest Bond Film Ever Made...

[Lord Jim]

But probably the best music intro routine:(cue the dancing nude on the Beretta: )



Other choices?

[MajGenl.Meade]

[Big RR]

Jim--actually, The Spy Who Loved Me was the only Roger Moore Bond film I liked.

Live and Let Die had a pretty good title song, but was one of the worst Bond films IMHO.

Roy

[Long Run]

Off on the Meade tangent, I know that Roger Ebert rates McCabe and Mrs. Miller as one of the all-time greats, but it was pretty much unwatchable . . . just like Lenoard Cohen is pretty much unlistenable

[TPFKA@W]

I liked Octopussy.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Here's your "c"

[Lord Jim]

Off on the Meade tangent, I know that Roger Ebert rates McCabe and Mrs. Miller as one of the all-time greats, but it was pretty much unwatchable . . . just like Lenoard Cohen is pretty much unlistenable

What he said...

[Bicycle Bill]

As far as the Bond movie title-credit sequences go, I would say that the first 15 films — with the possible exception of the very first one ("Dr. No") and the non-Cubby Broccoli effort ("Never Say Never Again") — were all good and set the standards by which we judge the title credits now, and it would be hard for me to pick one over the other unless I spent an hour binge-watching each sequence one right after another in order to make a fair comparison.

But once Dalton took over the role (in "The Living Daylights"), it seems that as long as they were making a clean break from Roger Moore's portrayal of James Bond as little different than his earlier character, 'The Saint', they went and tried to make the opening sequence different as well.... with the result that, in my opinion, they lost some intangible something, some je ne sais quoi, that told you to sit back and lose yourself for the next couple of hours.  Now, they just don't seem like the escapist Bond films that I grew up with.

By the way — doesn't it seem rather telling too that we made it through the first fifteen Bond movies with either Connery or Moore (well, OK, *fourteen* movies if you set aside "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" which was George Lazenby's one-time shot) playing 007, but over the ten films since then we've had three different men (Dalton, Brosnan, and Craig) taking turns at the role as we move away from the practical — that is, where everything was done with real props, actors, and stuntmen — films and more into the realm of special effects, CGI, and 'green-screen' movie-making?

-"BB"-

[MajGenl.Meade]

You're all full of it....

[Lord Jim]

The lyrics to the intro music from The Spy Who Loved Me really sums up the whole mythos of James Bond...

"Nobody does it better..."

That's the appeal of James Bond...he's ridiculously "good"...he can do it all...sleep with a gorgeous woman, take out a bunch of bad guys, save the world, and then dress for dinner, all without breaking a sweat...

He's a super hero without a cape...

That's James Bond...

Now, they just don't seem like the escapist Bond films that I grew up with.

I completely agree with you on that...

Connery set the standard for the role...James Bond isn't supposed to be all darkness and brooding...(like Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig have interpreted the role) there's supposed to be a kind of impish playfulness to him as well...

Roger Moore's portrayal of James Bond as little different than his earlier character, 'The Saint',

Nailed it...

That's what made Roger Moore so successful in the role; he didn't try to be Sean Connery (that was George Lazenby's mistake) he basically adapted "Simon Templar" to the role of "James Bond" and it worked...

When The Spy Who Loved Me came out, I took the girl I was dating at the time to see it, and after the chase scene where Moore goes over the cliff and pulls out that parachute with the Union Jack, and the music starts, the whole audience in the movie theater stood up and cheered and applauded...(I remember it well because it's the only time I've ever seen that happen in a movie theater)

I doubt very seriously that happens at a showing of a Daniel Craig version...

Craig is my absolute least favorite Bond...(including Lazenby, who if you take his film...and ignore the bizarre casting of Telly Savalas as Ernst Stavro Blofeld...on its own merits rather than in the context of trying to follow Connery, really isn't that bad...)

[MajGenl.Meade]

the whole audience in the movie theater stood up and cheered and applauded

You and the young lady should have sat in the back row....

[Bicycle Bill]

the whole audience in the movie theater stood up and cheered and applauded

You and the young lady should have sat in the back row....

-"BB"-

[Gob]

Sean Connery turned 85 today.

Hen still wants his slippers under her side of the bed.

[Lord Jim]

Sean Connery turned 85 today.

Hen still wants his slippers under her side of the bed.

Every woman probably wants that...

[Scooter]

(cue the dancing nude on the Beretta: )

More like a full fledged gymnastics routine.

[Guinevere]

Sean Connery turned 85 today.

Hen still wants his slippers under her side of the bed.

Every woman probably wants that...

85 is a bit long in the tooth for me....

[RayThom]

What a drag it is getting old.

Metamucil... shaken, not stirred.

[Big RR]

(cue the dancing nude on the Beretta: )

More like a full fledged gymnastics routine.

Actually my favorite opening sequence was the one to Thunderball; probably given to my age at the time I was transfixed by the nude swimming silhouettes that actually showed NIPPLES--can you believe that? We talked about it for days.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Saw it for the first time last week, eh?

[Big RR]

Well, I'm still talking about it.