https://screenrant.com/roger-moore-worst-james-bond-movies-rotten-tomatoes/
On Rotten Tomatoes, the top 3 worst scored James Bond films all star Roger Moore as 007, but are they truly terrible altogether and is he a bad Bond?
Fuck 'Rotten Tomatoes'...Roger Moore's farts were better than anything Daniel Craig's entire output.
Whilst OHMSS is my favourite of the franchise...Moore is the best Bond.
I think Sean Connery summed up Moore's Bond well. He said Moore played the character as a parody, which given that the films had by then become a parody themselves was the only approach that would have worked.
shareUmmm other than Moonraker Roger Moore didn’t have any bad Bond movies.
shareIt may only be the nostalgia factor but Moonraker is one of my favorites.
shareIt’s Rodge’s best and one of the best Bond films.
It became trendy to hate on Moonraker but anyone who sits down to watch it and pays attention discovers that it starts with the greatest pre-credits sequence of them all, and then it’s one incredible and memorable sequence after another, featuring Moore on top form, a great Bond girl and a fantastic villain whose dialogue is endlessly quotable, and it ends with the greatest final gag - ‘attempting reentry’ *chef’s kiss*
Moonraker is a masterpiece of popcorn fun.
Great post! Someone who gets it. And you're not wrong - it's relentless action scene after action scene once it gets going.
Only thing is, I think it's only one of the best pre credits scenes. Obvious one would be Spy Who Loved Me but I love Octopussy as well...
Spy Who Loved Me one is great but only really at the end when Bond plummets off a mountain and his parachute opens. In Mooraker he plummets from an aeroplane with no parachute and has to do mid-air battle with Jaws. It’s ten times better!
shareThat's true I guess, overall maybe but the Union Jack parachute is still iconic.
I do love Moonraker with Jaws crashing on top of the circus tent and the transition to the song.
But I think my favourite of the three is probably Octopussy - "Fill her up please!". Classic Rogertainment!
The worst three Bond films are probably both of Dalton's and Quantum of Solace.
Although maybe TLD would have some contenders - Skyfall for example. TWINE would also be worth a shout.
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The Living Daylights is the best Bond film. Dalton is incredible.
It's a good film for sure, though perhaps not the best. He was one of the best Bonds though, second only to Connery (I go back and forth on this). Dalton was unlucky with the scripts he got.
I would say SPECTRE is the worse Bond film. It has zero entertainment value and never seems to end.
Actually to be fair to Dalton, I did rewatch these since the post above and revised my order as per this link:-
https://moviechat.org/tt0381061/Casino-Royale/5d5467e772553248e9120d47/All-the-Bond-films-ranked-is-Casino-Royale-the-best-ever?reply=66074ff66d529f1ab8c36f22
So I've got them both clear of the bottom three now. I wouldn't have them as the best but still, definitely real Bond films...
I like both Dalton entries, especially Living Daylights.
Dalton moved the Bond movies away from the the campy self parodies they'd turned into. He was actually going to be in For Your Eyes Only, but had to drop out, I believe. At least according to a You Tube video I watched. That's why FYEO plays it straigtht, unlike most of the other Moore Bond movies.
As I was saying in the reply directly above yours, I re-watched these not so long ago and they were definitely better than I remembered.
For a long time I'd have pegged LTK as the worst Bond but even that had shades of classic Bond. To be fair, I think starting with FYEO they suffer from really looking like cheap 80s films. Something about the cinematography just seems off. I don't know how but Octopussy doesn't seem quite as bad in that regard for some reason. FYRO and LTK are probably the worst looking.
But funny you saying that about Dalton and FYEO. I'm sure I've said elsewhere on here that TLD is clearly really a Moore film and would have been better with a young version of him in it and yes, the same applies that FYEO would have been better with Dalton.
Roger Moore's Bond films are atrocious. They're cartoonish and aimed at kids in my opinion. He wasn't a good enough actor and the films were also shit.
shareWhatever people think of the movies, Moore was great as Bond. Rating the movies low isn't necessarily an indictment of Moore as Bond. He wasn't the problem.
He was getting up there in age, by the end. A lot of people don't realize it, but he was about the same age as Connery. People tend to assume he was younger since he was taking over and he did look a little younger. I think he was in his late fifties by the time he did his last Bond, and it was really starting to show.
MOONRAKER, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, OCTOPUSSY All Beg to differ. Your Taste and Generation suck
shareI tried to read the article and report back with the three movies so y'all wouldnt have to .
However it was to rambly and all I could work out was that "A View To A Kill" was one of them