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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] I never liked Roger Moore much, especially when he started getting fat and wearing that safari suit to cover his pauch. A lot of his movies were too cartoony with that Jaws character. But I do like The Spy Who Loved Me (since it has Shane Rimmer in it). Connery has never been surpassed for humor, coolness, and ruthlessness. He also has a great accent. His movies had the best villains (Goldfinger, Dr. No, Donald Pleasance as Blofeld, Red Grant, Rosa Klebb) and a lot of great Bond Girls (Ursula Andress, Honor Blackman). They also had the Cold War, SPECTRE, and SMERSH. Timothy Dalton was physically pretty good but got let down by bland villains and bland Bond Girls and generally flabby movies. I think Pierce Brosnan is a bit feeble. He doesn't seem dangerous enough. He's much better playing the fake spy in Tailor of Panama. George Lazenby was rather stiff, but he did have the best Bond Girl (Diana Rigg). My favorite movie by far is Goldfinger. It's got so much great stuff: Goldfinger cheating at cards, Jill Masters getting covered with gold, the golf game, judo with Pussy Galore, the insane plot to blow up Fort Knox, Bond strapped to the laser table ("I expect you to die"), fake nerve-gassing of thousands of soldiers, the fight with Oddjob in Fort Knox, and Bond trying to stop the bomb. My next favorites are Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, Dr. No, and From Russia with Love. Here's a bit about Casino Royale from imdb: Casino Royale was Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel. It was the only one not sold to Eon Productions. As a result, CBS TV first adapted it for an episode of Climax! in 1954, starring Barry Nelson as CIA agent Jimmy Bond. When plans began to adapt the novel as a motion picture, the original thought was to do a straight film of the novel. But with the success of Sean Connery's Bond, it was decided the only way a rival Bond film could survive would be as a parody. The Peter Sellers sequence is the only part of Ian Fleming's novel to make it into the film. The confrontation with Le Chiffre in the casino, the plan to discredit Le Chiffre with SMERSH and the villain's execution by enemy agents are all in the novel. So is the notion of Bond writing a book on baccarat, and the element of Vesper being an enemy spy. Reportedly, Eon Productions has been trying to buy back the rights to Casino Royale for years, in hopes of someday making a serious Bond film out of the novel. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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