Bond. James Bond.

Sean Connery is holding out in hopes of seeing Scottish independence some day.

And so Jibbs' purge of his namesakes begins. Hell hath no fury like a Jibbond scorned

Neverending, you just don't get it, do you? You don't.

I enjoy The Man with the Golden Gun. It has its faults but it's generally well done. Roger Moore is a bit more serious but still has charming moments. I like the gags and action scenes. The story has more grit but makes room for the outlandish. One of the better Roger Moore movies.

Whoever was in charge of upscaling Moonraker to high definition deserves a fucking cake.

Triple take.

People don't give Roger Moore credit for surviving three phases of James Bond. His first two efforts were a bridge between the fantasy adventure of the 60's and trends from the 70's (blaxploitation, Bruce Lee knock off's). His next two films were blockbusters and his last three were 80's action movies. In that 12 year period they could have had three actors with their own distinct style but Roger Moore plowed through it with not too much compromise. He's labeled the funny Bond but he could be serious or an action star when he needed to. What held all these performances together were his charm and sense of humor.

For Your Eyes Only was his biggest attempt to be taken seriously as James Bond. It's grounded in reality and story driven and the action scenes don't rely on gadgets or fantasy. But it's also not immune to the occasional one-liner.

Many consider it the best of the Roger Moore era - or at least second best if pressured to choose The Spy Who Loved Me. Quite frankly, I've never bought into that. For Your Eyes Only can be boring at times. The pre-title sequence is fantastic, it features James Bond disposing of Blofeld. There's two fun action scenes, a car chase and a ski chase. And good gags sprinkled throughout the film. Oh - and Roger Moore kicks a car off a ledge. Badass! The rest doesn't work for the simple fact it's a weak revenge story. James Bond is investigating a Greek crime lord and runs into a woman avenging the death of her parents. That's fine except when the villain is forgettable. It has the opposite problem of Live and Let Die. That movie is littered with great villains and henchmen but the premise is idiotic. Here, you got a decent plot wasted on villains you won't even remember once the end credits start rolling.

One of the criticisms of the James Bond franchise is the wonky plots. Some of them are silly enough to remember: radiating Fort Knox, stealing spaceships, starting wars to sell newspapers. But the majority are forgettable. Either they're generic or just... confusing.

Dr. No is a good start of the series. Sean Connery is awesome. Many of the tropes are there. But the plot makes very little sense. An agent is murdered in Jamaica. His office is trashed. His secretary is killed. James Bond is summoned, and as soon as he steps foot in Jamaica, all the bad guys know who he is and try to kill him. How? Is there a mole or something? I can understand his presence being known once he's interacting with local authorities but the man just got off the damn plane. Then he learns the bad guys scheme is to disrupt American space launches. For what purpose? So Russia could win the space race? They haven't even landed a man on the moon yet. A little soon to worry space weapons or whatever. World War III wasn't gonna break out over whatever shenanigans Dr. No was up to.

Also, this movie must have been bonkers when it came out. We lose sight of that now cause of what came later. "It's about the Cold War ... and space ... and a white man playing a China man." Thank God for Sean Connery. This movie could have been a total flop.

Even Bond girls are dying now. These people dropping like flies.

Someone apparently made a supercut of all 6 actors trying to kill each other.

www.avclub.com/the-entire-james-bond-series-has-been-recut-into-a-sing-1822228444

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