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Advance poster for Moonraker, 1979. Artwork by Dan Goozee.
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Re-watched this recently, much better than I remember.
The key is to understand how utterly tongue-in-cheek the Roger Moore Bond movies are.
I'm only surprised he doesn't look at the camera and wink sometimes.
Much of Moore stuff holds up so well because of that. feels almost refreshing after dour Craig movies
George Lazenby making a joke at the camera immediately put me off him. I think they learned their lesson. I don't know if there's been polling but I'd put my money on Lazenby being the least loved Bond.
It was Lazenby who turned down further Bond movies. The producers wanted him back.
Yea, that's a bit too on-the-nose.
Also, OHMSS is Bond's back story for why he doesn't get involved with women.
He got married and his enemies targeted (and murdered) his wife. He decided he'd never let that happen again.
So Lazenby gets the heat of a dark story too.
60's audiences weren't interested in something like that - they wanted a fun, over-the-top hero like Bond - they had enough seriousness from Post-WWII and now the Cold War from which Bond was a fun escape.
The pigeon double-take is a bit much.