# Which was the best Roger Moore Bond film? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-roger-moore-bond-film/638723 "2012-10-24T13:16:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-roger-moore-bond-film/638723/41 "2012-10-26T11:48:08Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > While **ffolkes** \* was an interesting flick, it wasn’t Bond, especially Fleming’s Bond, by several light years. A bearded hero who likes cats, knitting, and _hates women_!!! Not even close. > > \*The movie title and poster both feature a small letter “f” at the front, and the letter is doubled. Iconoclastic and eccentric all around, like ffolkes himself, and unlike Bond. Well I meant in his approach to operations, which was almost exactly what Fleming’s Bond had, no nonsense, methodical and at times amoral. Bond, BTW DID have quite a few eccentriaties, quirks and was most certainly an iconoclast. Wrt to women, he enjoyed having sex with them, he was however misogynistic to an extreme degree even by the standards of the 1960’s. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-roger-moore-bond-film/638723/42 "2012-10-28T01:04:53Z")
The 70s Bond movies are really curious artifacts of their era - You’ve got the blaxploitation Bond of Live and Let Die; the undersea adventure Bond of Spy Who Loved Me, complete with disco version of the theme; and the shameless attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Star Wars Bond, Moonraker. Anyway, Spy Who Loved Me is my favorite of the Moore years: Some kick ass stunts, a smoking Bond girl and that great intro, but not _too_ over-the-top. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-roger-moore-bond-film/638723/43 "2012-10-28T01:16:56Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > … > > Still, stupid henchmen are par for the course in Bond movies. Love and Let Die always bothered me because of the scene in which Tee Hee had Bond at gunpoint…and used that not to shoot him, but to force him onto an island to which he then attracted crocodiles??? IF YOU WANT HIM DEAD, AND YOU HAVE A GUN, SHOOT HIM! “Scott, you just don’t get it do you?” ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-roger-moore-bond-film/638723/44 "2012-10-28T01:24:35Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [Octopussy is the Best Bond Film](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=173797) > > Mind you, that was written years before Casino Royale(the new one), which I think is now the best Bond film. THIS!!! I will forever maintain that Octopussy stands as the best example of the suave yet cheesy nature of Bond ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-roger-moore-bond-film/638723/45 "2012-10-28T18:42:10Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Still, stupid henchmen are par for the course in Bond movies. Love and Let Die always bothered me because of the scene in which Tee Hee had Bond at gunpoint…and used that not to shoot him, but to force him onto an island to which he then attracted crocodiles??? IF YOU WANT HIM DEAD, AND YOU HAVE A GUN, SHOOT HIM! To be fair, they tried the ‘take him into a back alley and shoot him’ trick earlier in the film. It didn’t work out too well for them. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-roger-moore-bond-film/638723/46 "2012-11-15T16:40:28Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > The Roger Moore films, IMO, as a whole were not very good, but I’m going with _The Spy Who Loved Me_, for two reasons: the Lotus Esprit submarine, and Jaws. I’ll amend my selection with a 3rd reason: [disco 007 theme](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LumwvWt2Z4)! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-roger-moore-bond-film/638723.md?page=2)