Tomorrow Never Dies was the first Eon Productions Bond film to be produced without Albert Broccoli, who passed away after the release of GoldenEye. Broccoli left behind a legacy that continues to this day and he helped to create a film genre that has become Hollywood’s most lucrative, and he created a tent pole franchise …
Category: Bond Blogs
GoldenEye: The Franchise Moves On
After a six-year hiatus that saw the Bond franchise get entangled in legal issues, script issues and casting issues, Bond finally returned in 1995’s GoldenEye. Producers originally wanted Pierce Brosnan to replace Roger Moore ten years earlier, however Brosnan was unavailable due to his contract with the television show Remington Steele. But with the long …
Licence To Kill: The Franchise Misses an Opportunity
Licence To Kill to me represents a missed opportunity for the Bond franchise. It’s not a bad film. I would rate it somewhere in the middle of the pack, but after going darker and edgier in The Living Daylights, they regressed somewhat more to the silly and absurd in Licence To Kill. The film starts …
The Living Daylights: The Franchise Starts Over
I remember when I was a teenager and Timothy Dalton replaced Roger Moore as James Bond. I think I must have viewed it at the time with the same consternation that original Bond fans viewed Moore replacing Sean Connery 15 years earlier. I grew up with Moore as Bond. The Spy Who Loved Me and …
A View to a Kill: Roger Moore Goes Out With a Whimper
My first reaction when A View to a Kill ended: meh. This to me is the weakest Bond film with Roger Moore mainly because it almost looks like they weren’t even trying. Aside from Roger Moore probably being too old to pull off the role at that point in his career, there’s just some really …
Octopussy: The Franchise Gets Real
It’s easy to look at the Roger Moore Bond films and sell them short. He was in a total of seven Bond films and four of them would rate near the bottom of most Bond film lists. However, the three that were good were very good. Two of them (The Spy Who Loved Me and …
For Your Eyes Only: Action Speaks Louder Than Words
For Your Eyes Only is generally regarded as one of the better Bond films and certainly Roger Moore’s best Bond film outside of The Spy Who Loved Me. However to me it still feels like this film doesn’t get enough credit and should be higher rated on most lists. This is a very entertaining film …
Moonraker: Bond Chases Trends
While Star Wars was an iconic film that did more to change the movie industry than any film in a half century, it momentarily ruined James Bond. With The Spy Who Loved Me having been a smash success in 1977, the next film was supposed to be For Your Eyes Only, which is almost as …
The Spy Who Loved Me: Nobody Does it Better
The Spy Who Loved Me has always been my favorite Roger Moore Bond film, and I’m not alone. When you look at almost any ranking of Bond films, this is always his highest ranking film. It’s the highest rated Roger Moore Bond film on Rotten Tomatoes, and my own very unofficial survey found that to …
The Man With the Golden Gun: The Franchise Goes Through the Motions
It’s hard to find The Man With the Golden Gun very high on any list of Bond films. And it’s easy to see why. This was actually the only film with Roger Moore as Bond that I hadn’t previously seen, and while it isn’t his best film, it isn’t his worst either. It’s one of …