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No, he wasn't as good a Bond as Connery. But I still liked him.
1 posted on 05/23/2017 6:41:54 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
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2 posted on 05/23/2017 6:43:23 AM PDT by rdl6989
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Britain can use a 007 about now.


3 posted on 05/23/2017 6:46:09 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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He was one of my favorite Bonds and had some other good roles.


5 posted on 05/23/2017 6:47:51 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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If he had died a day or two earlier...wall to wall media coverage. With the Manchester Jihad...back page mentions.


6 posted on 05/23/2017 6:47:57 AM PDT by montag813
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Aw, no. I really liked Roger Moore; he was the second best James Bond.

Rest in Peace.


7 posted on 05/23/2017 6:48:58 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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An interview he gave did point out something..

Those bond films were successes. All of them. And his Bond (as well as Connery) weren’t fighting heros and action stars. It had a formula that wouldn’t work today.


10 posted on 05/23/2017 6:50:04 AM PDT by Celerity
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No, he wasn't as good a Bond as Connery. But I still liked him.

Moore was in "The Man With The Golden Gun", wasn't he? I mostly remember Britt Eklund in a bikini in that one. As you say, Moore was no Connery or Craig, but he did seem the epitome of what I thought an English gentleman should look like when I was a kid. RIP.
11 posted on 05/23/2017 6:50:28 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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No, he wasn't as good a Bond as Connery. But I still liked him.

I always thought he lacked the dangerous quality required of a good Bond. Moore was more fitted for Simon Templar than 007. One thing I really like him in was a one-season show he did with Tony Curtis called The Persuaders!, in which the two play wealthy adventurers in 1970's Europe with exotic locales and fast expensive cars.

12 posted on 05/23/2017 6:51:37 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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Roger Moore in ffolkes . He likes cats!
13 posted on 05/23/2017 6:52:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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There was no Bond but Connery!!!!


14 posted on 05/23/2017 6:52:36 AM PDT by Bitsy
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I am shaken and stirred
RIP Mr Moore


15 posted on 05/23/2017 6:52:46 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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RIP.


16 posted on 05/23/2017 6:52:50 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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There was no Bond but Connery!!!!


17 posted on 05/23/2017 6:53:03 AM PDT by Bitsy
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But first, he was “The Saint.”


18 posted on 05/23/2017 6:53:29 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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The best Bond by far.

RIP


21 posted on 05/23/2017 7:00:15 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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Moore was a good James Bond. It wasn’t his fault that the directors/script sometimes let him down. JW Pepper character is a blemish on the series.


23 posted on 05/23/2017 7:08:01 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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Oddly enough, actor Clifton James (Pepper) died last month.


24 posted on 05/23/2017 7:11:03 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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“For Your Eyes Only” was the best of the series under his watch. Saved his Bond reputation after the “Moonraker” silliness.


25 posted on 05/23/2017 7:29:47 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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Sad news. Moore was not the best Bond, however his For Your Eyes Only was my favorite Bond film. Good basic Cold War plot, minimal use of gadgets like too many Moore Bond films. Overall a well executed film.

It included very funny turn by Lynn-Holly Johnson in a supporting role. Which, unlike some of the forced humor in other Moore Bond films, added to the plot instead of taking away from it.

ffolkes was another enjoyable turn for Moore, who played very much against type.

RIP...

28 posted on 05/23/2017 7:52:29 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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Is he the first Bond to pass away?


30 posted on 05/23/2017 8:07:18 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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