Bond doesn't go to Africa in Live & Let Die. It's Jamaica, which represented the fictional San Monique that substituted the Caribbean country of Haiti for politically correct reasons. Blaxploitation's heyday was actually in 1975, three years after LALD was released. One could argue Bond was ahead of the curve, as Tom Mankiewicz had the idea of a Black Power cast in 1971 when LALD was publicly announced as the next Bond to be shot in 1972.
@@JimTheMovieGeek Yes, it was also the first big budget Hollywood production to cast a large ensemble of black actors in major key roles. I share your enthusiasm for this movie and place it at the top of the Moore list. I understand what you mean by Moore finding his footing in TSWLM, but also happen to think it was the moment Moore stopped trying to stretch himself as an actor and decided to play the role closer to his own off-screen personality. In other words, a bit of a rake with a dash of schoolboy charm whilst sending himself up. TMWTGG was a rushed production, which is sadly evident, to meet its Xmas release date.
@@JimTheMovieGeek Yes, I totally agree. Moore was always The Saint to me, even when playing Bond. Sadly, Moore stopped playing him as a ruthless spy after TMWTGG. For Your Eyes Only was originally written with a new actor in mind as 007, hence why his persona is slightly different and seems a throwback to his earlier Bond, though sadly ruined by the comical goofiness of Blofeld, Thatcher and the parrot.
Thank you for the time and passion you put into this. I’m going through all of the Bond books and movies. I like the serious, heavy side of things so I appreciate you perspective to help me decide what I’ll like and what to avoid. Cheers!
@@JimTheMovieGeek I just finished The Spy Who Loved Me. Compared to Goldfinger, Casino Royale, and Goldeneye it seemed slow in the beginning. But when it got to the Lotus scene the whole movie became awesome. Cheers!
Truly masterful as Bond, may he rest in peace Great list, be interesting to see how you rank the more recent films - have a feeling where one or two might end up XD
Roger Moore, the first Bond that I ever watched (followed closely by Brosnan), and one that still has a place in my heart. I just feel his charm and natural charisma really left an impression. My ranking of his movies: 1) For Your Eyes Only 2) A View to a Kill 3) Moonraker 4) Octopussy 5) The Spy Who Loved Me 6) Live and Let Die 7) The Man With the Golden Gun I must admit, people are gonna pick the torches up, but I personally feel For Your Eyes Only and A View to a Kill are Roger's best performances. I loved how intense his performance got in some of the more suspenseful and action-packed moments. Also, View to a Kill has one of my favorite Bond girls in Stacey Sutton and one of my favorite theme songs. Plus, I honestly like having an older Bond, so I love Roger's last time in the role. I think it's both underrated and overhated. Plus, Patrick Macnee is great. Moonraker I like mainly for nostalgia. I love Drax and Dr. Goodhead, but once things go into space, it all becomes way too slow paced for me. Octopussy I feel is a very outlandish and fun movie, yet there are some really dark moments (009 being killed and Bond actually uttering a badass "This is for 009" once he kills the remaining twin). I also love Louis Jourdan, Kabir Bedi and Steven Berkoff in their roles, and Maud Adams gets a much better role in this. The Spy Who Loved Me is alright. I do feel Barbara Bach does tend to be a bit flat at times as Agent XXX, but she isn't that bad. Stromberg is a run-of-the-mill villain, but one with an excellent performance from Curd Jurgens. I also love Jaws. I love Richard Kiel in the role. There is menace yet a whimsical charm and humor to him. Live and Let Die... BlaxBondation. I like this movie, but not as much as the others. It actually has my favorite of the official Felix actors in David Hedison, I love Yaphet Kotto as Kananga, Julius Harris is so badass as Tee Hee and Jane Seymour... so beautiful. The Man With the Golden Gun... I don't really hate the movie, but there is stuff that really doesn't work. Hip and Goodnight are just completely moronic that they feel like a hindrance rather than an asset. Bond is also handled really oddly in this movie. However, I do love Scaramanga, Nick Nack and Sheriff Pepper. However, I feel like they don't know what direction to take, because despite the corny stuff being there, this feels a bit too mean-spirited.
I would agree about For Your Eyes Only, it was great to see him finally get a bit more serious and I think he pulled it off. I enjoy A View To A Kill too. I do see what you mean about man with the golden gun, thers this odd mean spitrit throughout and Bond is a bit of a jerk haha. Scaramanga was one of the greatest Bond villains though with the iconic Christopher Lee.
@@JimTheMovieGeek Yup. I think For Your Eyes Only really managed to mix the humor with the hard-edge rather well. And yeah, with The Man With the Golden Gun, there does seem to be a very mean-spirited sense. You can really tell in the M scenes, where he actually chews everyone up (even Q isn't safe from his wrath). You can also tell from the way Maud Adams' character is treated (she just gets beaten pretty badly and she gets killed pretty unceremoniously). But yeah, Scaramanga is great. Christopher Lee is always great to watch. It's just unfortunate that his defeat doesn't really feel well deserved. There were a few shots in the trailer where there is an implication that Scaramanga was cheating during the duel thanks to the dialogue, but that was cut from the film and it makes Bond look a bit too underhanded, because without those scenes, Scaramanga actually appears to be doing everything fair and square. But other than that, a great villain.
I am glad someone else puts FYEO at number 1! Here's my list: 7) The Man With The Golden Gun 6) Live And Let Die 5) A View To A Kill 4) Moonraker 3) The Spy Who Loved Me 2) Octopussy 1) For Your Eyes Only The top three on my list are very tight.
Nice list, here’s mine 7. A View To A Kill 6. Moonraker 5. For Your Eyes Only 4. The Man With The Golden Gun 3. Octopussy 2. Live And Let Die 1. The Spy Who Loved Me
My Movie Obsession I like slower movies a lot of the time, and the first half of Octopussy is quite slow. It’s not number one because the climax with all the women is horrible, everything else is brilliant though
7: A View to a Kill - Tired, gross. The series NEEDED a Re-vamp. 6: The Man with the Golden Gun - The first truly terrible bond film. It’s a lousy picture. Good villain tho. 5: Octopussy - It’s too much camp fore me. It feels tired. Moore looks weird. 4: Live and Let Die - Has the great gadgets and quirky villains, but it’s not necessarily one of the best. 3: For Your Eyes Only - It is very functional. Some great little scenes in it. A gem of a movie. 2: Moonraker - Happily formulaic. It’s a guilty pleasure. Has lots of energy. 1: The Spy Who Loved Me - If I want to go outlandish, this is the ONE. Third times a charm!
How would I rank them... 7) Octopussy 6) Moonraker 5) The Man with the Golden Gun 4) A View to a Kill 3) For Your Eyes Only 2) The Spy Who Loved Me 1) Live and Let Die For Your Eyes Only is a pretty underrated one, though.
Hi Jim you might think I'm insane and I can't quite believe I'm saying this but I think moonraker is the best James bond film. I rewatched it over the weekend and it blew me away. Hadn't seen it for decades. I know it has a lot of problems but I didn't care it was just a lot of fun to watch. It has everything you could possibly want in a bond film. Roger Moore was bond when I was a child I believe the first bond film I watched repeatedly as a child was octopussy.
Not my favorite Bond but better than Brosnan and Lazenby. 7 Moonraker 6 Octopussy 5 A View To A Kill 4 The Man With The Golden Gun 3 Live And Let Die 2 The Spy Who Loved Me 1 For Your Eyes Only P S Moore kicking the car to kill Locke is my favorite scene in a Bond movie, aside from Dalton's first appearance as he turns when another agent is killed in The Living Daylights.
Good list, here’s mine. 7. A view to a Kill - Moore is just way too old here 6 Octopussy - gets better as the action mired to Germany and the train fight is good. 5. Moonraker - I used to hate this movie, it watched it again recently and it has really gone up in my estimation. 4 The Man with the Golden Gun - Scaramanga is a great villian and I love the Hong Kong scenes and the waitress is the bottom’s up club gets my motor running. 3 The Spy Who Loved me - loved the Ken Adam’s sets and the plot, yet we still never find out what had pissed off Stromberg 2 For your Eyes Only - a great espionage thriller reminding us that James Bond was actually a spy in the service of the Queen. 1 Live and Let Die - ‘names is for tombstones baby’. Worth it for that line alone.
My pick is 1. Octopussy 2. For Your Eyes Only 3. The Spy Who Loved Me 4. Moonraker 5. A View To A Kill 6. Live And Let Die 7. The Man With The Golden Gun
7) Moonraker 6) Man with the golden gun 5) Octopussy 4) View to a kill 3) For your eyes only 2) Live and let die 1) Spy who loved me That's just my personal opinion lol
@@JimTheMovieGeek It's just a lot of fun lol, only two bad ones I would say is Moonraker and Man with the golden gun, Octopussy is actually pretty good!
@@StormyWeatherUK Octopussy I have always struggled to get into, has its moments though, man with the golden gun is one people seem to hate that i love!
@@JimTheMovieGeek Like I used to enjoy Golden gun, but I like it less and less over time, the ending and beginning are really creative and fun! But the actual bulk of the film I don't really like sorry xD. Octopussy has done the opposite and grown on me, Louis Jourdan and Roger Moore's conversations are fantastic and has some great scenes! Theme tune is a bit naff but you can't have everything
7 Moonraker 6 Octopussy 5 A View To A Kill 4 The Man With The Golden Gun 3 Live And Let Die 2 The Spy Who Loved Me 1 For Your Eyes Only Sean Connery 7 Diamonds Are Forever 6 Never Say Never Again 5 Thunderball 4 Goldfinger 3 Dr. No 2 You Only Live Twice 1 From Russia With Love Timothy Dalton 2 License To Kill 1 The Living Daylights Didn't like the Pierce Brosnan films. George Lazenby wasn't good, but the movie was good. P S Roger Moore tanked himself at #4 after Sean and Daniel. I don't remember who #3 was. Daniel Craig 4 Quantum Of Solace 3 Skyfall 2 Spectre 1 Casino Royale
-am older tha all Bond films, and I found Connery boring, Dalton uninteresting, Brosnan average and Craig uninteresteing, Sir Roger was the best. Live and Let Die was the best, Moonraker the worst
Sorry I can't take you seriously as a RM Bond fan if in moonraker you like everything but "The space part". The whole point of RM Bond is that he was campy. This is established in his very first movie, where he fights the god of voodoo, who rises from the dead. How can you swallow that but not outer space.
Bond doesn't go to Africa in Live & Let Die. It's Jamaica, which represented the fictional San Monique that substituted the Caribbean country of Haiti for politically correct reasons. Blaxploitation's heyday was actually in 1975, three years after LALD was released. One could argue Bond was ahead of the curve, as Tom Mankiewicz had the idea of a Black Power cast in 1971 when LALD was publicly announced as the next Bond to be shot in 1972.
darn thanks for the correction though! And interesting that this was just before the blacksploitation craze, thanks fr the info!
@@JimTheMovieGeek Yes, it was also the first big budget Hollywood production to cast a large ensemble of black actors in major key roles. I share your enthusiasm for this movie and place it at the top of the Moore list. I understand what you mean by Moore finding his footing in TSWLM, but also happen to think it was the moment Moore stopped trying to stretch himself as an actor and decided to play the role closer to his own off-screen personality. In other words, a bit of a rake with a dash of schoolboy charm whilst sending himself up. TMWTGG was a rushed production, which is sadly evident, to meet its Xmas release date.
@@SmartCookie2022 I also think Moore used a lot of the same mannerisms he used when he played The Saint.
@@JimTheMovieGeek Yes, I totally agree. Moore was always The Saint to me, even when playing Bond. Sadly, Moore stopped playing him as a ruthless spy after TMWTGG. For Your Eyes Only was originally written with a new actor in mind as 007, hence why his persona is slightly different and seems a throwback to his earlier Bond, though sadly ruined by the comical goofiness of Blofeld, Thatcher and the parrot.
Thank you for the time and passion you put into this. I’m going through all of the Bond books and movies. I like the serious, heavy side of things so I appreciate you perspective to help me decide what I’ll like and what to avoid. Cheers!
thanks so much for the kind comment! Im putting up a video shortly where I determine my ultimate favourite :)
@@JimTheMovieGeek I just finished The Spy Who Loved Me. Compared to Goldfinger, Casino Royale, and Goldeneye it seemed slow in the beginning. But when it got to the Lotus scene the whole movie became awesome. Cheers!
@@leftyzappa its such a classic, jaws is iconic!
Truly masterful as Bond, may he rest in peace
Great list, be interesting to see how you rank the more recent films - have a feeling where one or two might end up XD
3) For Your Eyes Only
2) Live and Let Die
1) The Spy Who Loved Me
awesome top 3!
@@JimTheMovieGeek Thank you.
Roger Moore, the first Bond that I ever watched (followed closely by Brosnan), and one that still has a place in my heart. I just feel his charm and natural charisma really left an impression. My ranking of his movies:
1) For Your Eyes Only
2) A View to a Kill
3) Moonraker
4) Octopussy
5) The Spy Who Loved Me
6) Live and Let Die
7) The Man With the Golden Gun
I must admit, people are gonna pick the torches up, but I personally feel For Your Eyes Only and A View to a Kill are Roger's best performances. I loved how intense his performance got in some of the more suspenseful and action-packed moments. Also, View to a Kill has one of my favorite Bond girls in Stacey Sutton and one of my favorite theme songs. Plus, I honestly like having an older Bond, so I love Roger's last time in the role. I think it's both underrated and overhated. Plus, Patrick Macnee is great.
Moonraker I like mainly for nostalgia. I love Drax and Dr. Goodhead, but once things go into space, it all becomes way too slow paced for me.
Octopussy I feel is a very outlandish and fun movie, yet there are some really dark moments (009 being killed and Bond actually uttering a badass "This is for 009" once he kills the remaining twin). I also love Louis Jourdan, Kabir Bedi and Steven Berkoff in their roles, and Maud Adams gets a much better role in this.
The Spy Who Loved Me is alright. I do feel Barbara Bach does tend to be a bit flat at times as Agent XXX, but she isn't that bad. Stromberg is a run-of-the-mill villain, but one with an excellent performance from Curd Jurgens. I also love Jaws. I love Richard Kiel in the role. There is menace yet a whimsical charm and humor to him.
Live and Let Die... BlaxBondation. I like this movie, but not as much as the others. It actually has my favorite of the official Felix actors in David Hedison, I love Yaphet Kotto as Kananga, Julius Harris is so badass as Tee Hee and Jane Seymour... so beautiful.
The Man With the Golden Gun... I don't really hate the movie, but there is stuff that really doesn't work. Hip and Goodnight are just completely moronic that they feel like a hindrance rather than an asset. Bond is also handled really oddly in this movie. However, I do love Scaramanga, Nick Nack and Sheriff Pepper. However, I feel like they don't know what direction to take, because despite the corny stuff being there, this feels a bit too mean-spirited.
I would agree about For Your Eyes Only, it was great to see him finally get a bit more serious and I think he pulled it off. I enjoy A View To A Kill too. I do see what you mean about man with the golden gun, thers this odd mean spitrit throughout and Bond is a bit of a jerk haha. Scaramanga was one of the greatest Bond villains though with the iconic Christopher Lee.
@@JimTheMovieGeek Yup. I think For Your Eyes Only really managed to mix the humor with the hard-edge rather well.
And yeah, with The Man With the Golden Gun, there does seem to be a very mean-spirited sense. You can really tell in the M scenes, where he actually chews everyone up (even Q isn't safe from his wrath). You can also tell from the way Maud Adams' character is treated (she just gets beaten pretty badly and she gets killed pretty unceremoniously).
But yeah, Scaramanga is great. Christopher Lee is always great to watch. It's just unfortunate that his defeat doesn't really feel well deserved. There were a few shots in the trailer where there is an implication that Scaramanga was cheating during the duel thanks to the dialogue, but that was cut from the film and it makes Bond look a bit too underhanded, because without those scenes, Scaramanga actually appears to be doing everything fair and square. But other than that, a great villain.
My list
1: Live and let die
2: For your eyes only
3: Moonraker
4: Octopussy
5: A view to a kill
6: The spy who loved me
7: The man with the golden gun
I am glad someone else puts FYEO at number 1!
Here's my list:
7) The Man With The Golden Gun
6) Live And Let Die
5) A View To A Kill
4) Moonraker
3) The Spy Who Loved Me
2) Octopussy
1) For Your Eyes Only
The top three on my list are very tight.
Nice list, here’s mine
7. A View To A Kill
6. Moonraker
5. For Your Eyes Only
4. The Man With The Golden Gun
3. Octopussy
2. Live And Let Die
1. The Spy Who Loved Me
Interesting, a big Octopussy fan, I may need to rewatch it!
My Movie Obsession I like slower movies a lot of the time, and the first half of Octopussy is quite slow. It’s not number one because the climax with all the women is horrible, everything else is brilliant though
7: A View to a Kill - Tired, gross. The series NEEDED a Re-vamp.
6: The Man with the Golden Gun - The first truly terrible bond film. It’s a lousy picture. Good villain tho.
5: Octopussy - It’s too much camp fore me. It feels tired. Moore looks weird.
4: Live and Let Die - Has the great gadgets and quirky villains, but it’s not necessarily one of the best.
3: For Your Eyes Only - It is very functional. Some great little scenes in it. A gem of a movie.
2: Moonraker - Happily formulaic. It’s a guilty pleasure. Has lots of energy.
1: The Spy Who Loved Me - If I want to go outlandish, this is the ONE. Third times a charm!
How would I rank them...
7) Octopussy
6) Moonraker
5) The Man with the Golden Gun
4) A View to a Kill
3) For Your Eyes Only
2) The Spy Who Loved Me
1) Live and Let Die
For Your Eyes Only is a pretty underrated one, though.
Niceee, not greatly different than mine!
You seriously deserve more views and subscribers
thank you buddy, that means a lot :)
great analysis! going to watch Live and Let Die tomorrow night!
thats awesome, be sure to let me know what you think, it is definitely one of the classics!
Hi Jim you might think I'm insane and I can't quite believe I'm saying this but I think moonraker is the best James bond film. I rewatched it over the weekend and it blew me away. Hadn't seen it for decades. I know it has a lot of problems but I didn't care it was just a lot of fun to watch. It has everything you could possibly want in a bond film. Roger Moore was bond when I was a child I believe the first bond film I watched repeatedly as a child was octopussy.
I have a soft spot for moonraker so your not mad gary "where's drax?" "He had to fly" 🤣🤣 I hope you are well in these crazy times
@@JimTheMovieGeek yeah I'm OK Jim. Fed up of it now but at least we can stick on a bond film to cheer us up for a couple of hours
@@garyrobinson8665 keep positive gary, it has been so hard but there has to be an end in sight
@@JimTheMovieGeek by the way great choice I also love for your eyes only its my second favourite Moore film.
7. AVTAK
6. MR
5. LALD
4. FYEO
3. TMWTGG
2. OP
1. TSWLM
Not my favorite Bond but better than Brosnan and Lazenby.
7 Moonraker
6 Octopussy
5 A View To A Kill
4 The Man With The Golden Gun
3 Live And Let Die
2 The Spy Who Loved Me
1 For Your Eyes Only
P S Moore kicking the car to kill Locke is my favorite scene in a Bond movie, aside from Dalton's first appearance as he turns when another agent is killed in The Living Daylights.
I love that scene too, and Moore pulled it off, showing you could also buy him as a killer.
6. The man with the poopy gun
5. Octopussy
4. A view to kill
3. Live and let die
2. The spy who loved me
1. For your eyes only
Bond doesn't even go to space in the book Moonraker, they just did that in the movie to cash in on Star Wars. XD
Good list, here’s mine.
7. A view to a Kill - Moore is just way too old here
6 Octopussy - gets better as the action mired to Germany and the train fight is good.
5. Moonraker - I used to hate this movie, it watched it again recently and it has really gone up in my estimation.
4 The Man with the Golden Gun - Scaramanga is a great villian and I love the Hong Kong scenes and the waitress is the bottom’s up club gets my motor running.
3 The Spy Who Loved me - loved the Ken Adam’s sets and the plot, yet we still never find out what had pissed off Stromberg
2 For your Eyes Only - a great espionage thriller reminding us that James Bond was actually a spy in the service of the Queen.
1 Live and Let Die - ‘names is for tombstones baby’. Worth it for that line alone.
awesome list dude!
My pick is 1. Octopussy 2. For Your Eyes Only 3. The Spy Who Loved Me 4. Moonraker 5. A View To A Kill 6. Live And Let Die 7. The Man With The Golden Gun
7) Moonraker
6) Man with the golden gun
5) Octopussy
4) View to a kill
3) For your eyes only
2) Live and let die
1) Spy who loved me
That's just my personal opinion lol
Love to see View To A Kill getting some love, its definitely nowhere near as bad as people say!
@@JimTheMovieGeek It's just a lot of fun lol, only two bad ones I would say is Moonraker and Man with the golden gun, Octopussy is actually pretty good!
@@StormyWeatherUK Octopussy I have always struggled to get into, has its moments though, man with the golden gun is one people seem to hate that i love!
@@JimTheMovieGeek Like I used to enjoy Golden gun, but I like it less and less over time, the ending and beginning are really creative and fun! But the actual bulk of the film I don't really like sorry xD.
Octopussy has done the opposite and grown on me, Louis Jourdan and Roger Moore's conversations are fantastic and has some great scenes! Theme tune is a bit naff but you can't have everything
I fell asleep watching Octopussy. The Spy Who Loved Me is Moore's best and Moonraker is fun. Live and Let Die is the strangest Bond film.
7 Moonraker
6 Octopussy
5 A View To A Kill
4 The Man With The Golden Gun
3 Live And Let Die
2 The Spy Who Loved Me
1 For Your Eyes Only
Sean Connery
7 Diamonds Are Forever
6 Never Say Never Again
5 Thunderball
4 Goldfinger
3 Dr. No
2 You Only Live Twice
1 From Russia With Love
Timothy Dalton
2 License To Kill
1 The Living Daylights
Didn't like the Pierce Brosnan films.
George Lazenby wasn't good, but the movie was good.
P S Roger Moore tanked himself at #4 after Sean and Daniel. I don't remember who #3 was.
Daniel Craig
4 Quantum Of Solace
3 Skyfall
2 Spectre
1 Casino Royale
Thanks for your rankings man, and very interesting orders here, great to see The Living Daylights getting some love, and From Russia With Love!
-am older tha all Bond films, and I found Connery boring, Dalton uninteresting, Brosnan average and Craig uninteresteing, Sir Roger was the best. Live and Let Die was the best, Moonraker the worst
Sorry I can't take you seriously as a RM Bond fan if in moonraker you like everything but "The space part". The whole point of RM Bond is that he was campy. This is established in his very first movie, where he fights the god of voodoo, who rises from the dead. How can you swallow that but not outer space.
I see your point of view, I guess I was just critiquing it because its very low on the list compared to other Moore films for me.
@@JimTheMovieGeek my only gripe is 007 doesn't get to use a laser gun. I would rank it 4th or 5th