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This movie should be have been one of Craig's reboots

posted 6 years ago by LordBAElish (2015)
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As much as I love Roger Moore's take on Bond, the tone of this film doesn't fit in with the world's most highest paid, dangerous assassin wanted to kill 007. Bond never feels like he is any danger in this or any other Moore film.

In Craig's world of serious, gritty Bond, I feel like this could have worked better. The assassin wouldn't have a golden gun of course, but the story-line could be simple, there is no mission, its just Bond going against the worlds highest paid free lance assassin.

I wish the man with the golden gun had been saved for Dalton, but what can you do. I made another thread with five or so bullet points on things that would have made this a decent movie with Moore as Bond in it.

[–] seanwhelan2310 (576) 3 years ago

TMWTGG would have been Moore suited for Connery had been made during his time, Lazenby, (had he stayed and the dojo scene would suited him) or Dalton (had it been made in the 80s), maybe as part of the Craig saga had it gone in a different direction, but it’s too late. Personally I thing TMWTGG is the worst of Moore’s tenure, not AVTAK, I liked Moore as Bond, but this movie did not suit his style, but at least Christopher Lee was the best thing out of this movie. They didn’t need to bring back Sherrif JW Pepper back at all, LALD was enough and they should have just replaced him with David Hedison’s Felix