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shmokes:

I remember loving The Living Daylights, but not thinking License to Kill (Timothy Dalton's movies) was anything special.  Of course, this was when I was like 12 years old and I haven't seen them recently so my assessment is virtually meaningless.

Texasmame:


--- Quote from: shmokes on January 18, 2007, 09:07:56 am ---Some stuff I read on Wikipedia about Roger Moore that I found entertaining (and pretty accurate, IMO):

. . . fans of his from outside the UK have often been surprised and disappointed to find that, in Britain, he is not critically respected (in the way that Anthony Hopkins and indeed, Sean Connery are), and has sometimes been viewed as a joke figure, in the way Americans regard David Hasselhoff or William Shatner.

In The Good Film And Video Guide (published 1986), David Shipman wrote of A View To A Kill that Moore as James Bond was 'not so much like a piece of plastic, as something embalmed but moving'.

The satire show Spitting Image once had a sketch in which their latex likeness of Moore, when asked to display emotions by an offscreen director, does nothing but raise an eyebrow. . . That series later featured a Bond movie spoof, The Man With The Wooden Delivery, with Moore's puppet receiving orders from Margaret Thatcher to kill Mikhail Gorbachev, and many other comedy shows of that time ridiculed Moore's acting . . .

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Those were the damn weird looking puppets in Genesis' "Land of Confusion" video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jmqiOvgBAew

Texasmame:


--- Quote from: shmokes on January 18, 2007, 06:06:51 pm ---I remember loving The Living Daylights, but not thinking License to Kill (Timothy Dalton's movies) was anything special.  Of course, this was when I was like 12 years old and I haven't seen them recently so my assessment is virtually meaningless.

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Damn, I'm the only one with manlove for Dalton?  I thought the rougher edge he brought to the character was good.  Plus, I thought Carey Lowell was hotter 'n hell (yes, wall-eye and all!).

http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/girls/lowell.php3

I guess I'm not really supposed to count that, tho.  ;)

patrickl:


--- Quote from: Texasmame on January 19, 2007, 04:45:41 pm ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on January 18, 2007, 09:07:56 am ---The satire show Spitting Image once had a sketch in which their latex likeness of Moore, when asked to display emotions by an offscreen director, does nothing but raise an eyebrow. . . That series later featured a Bond movie spoof, The Man With The Wooden Delivery, with Moore's puppet receiving orders from Margaret Thatcher to kill Mikhail Gorbachev, and many other comedy shows of that time ridiculed Moore's acting . . .

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Those were the damn weird looking puppets in Genesis' "Land of Confusion" video.

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The Spitting Image puppets appeared in the video clip yes. They did some commercials too.

That sketch with Roger Moore was really cool yes. Actually, I think he could raise both eyebrows. So he could really act!

Grasshopper:


--- Quote from: Texasmame on January 19, 2007, 04:48:44 pm ---Damn, I'm the only one with manlove for Dalton?  I thought the rougher edge he brought to the character was good.  Plus, I thought Carey Lowell was hotter 'n hell (yes, wall-eye and all!).

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Dalton's stated aim at the time was to make the character grittier and I think he had the right idea. But in my opinion he couldn't quite pull it off. So we ended up with a Bond that lacked Connery's (and now Craig's) "rougher edge" but who also lacked Moore's charm and humour. Basically the worst of both worlds.

However despite that, I think the Dalton era films are generally better than the Brosnan era ones.

Also, I agree about Carey Lowell. Perhaps we should start a thread to see which is the most popular Bond girl.....


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