Roger Moore is dead

[Sea Star]

yes you should, they can't sue

they can come back and haunt me in my dreams though

 

[Pickman's model]

they can come back and haunt me in my dreams though

 

[CrabbedOne]

Remember him this way:

Is that a cashmere knit?

 

[DotCommunist]

a ledge, but I won't hear this 'best bond'. That is sean connery

 

[Idris2002]

Is that a cashmere knit?

 

[Vintage Paw]

My childhood best friend's grandma apparently lived next door to his villa in Spain, and I remember one summer full of plans to go and stay with her. I have no idea what we thought we'd achieve, but the idea of going and living next door to Roger Moore was really exciting for 2 young teenagers in the early 90s for some bizarre reason.

RIP Roger.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

I don't know if he did his own twitter, but if not whoever did captured his "voice" perfectly.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Awww how sad. he always came across as rather a charming person and though not my favourite Bond I did like his films. And as someone said earlier in the thread "North Sea Hijack" is a fantastic film!

 

[hash tag]

A Saint amongst actors, also liked for his part in The Persuaders, which is currently being repeated.
I seem to remember he was gate crashed recently, by Car SOS I think it was. He took it all in good stead.

 

[a_chap]

I'm of an age where I remember watching Ivanhoe on TV, then The Saint, The Persuaders, James Bond.

And now Roger Moore is dead.

But I'm still more upset by the senseless killing of an 8 year old girl, who I never knew, at the Manchester Arena last night.

Sometimes everything is just shit.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Moore was the longest-serving member of BECTU.

Proposition 17/08 Long service That this annual conference considers that any member having served a period of fifty years membership should receive a certificate in recognition of his/her service presented by the President. The Membership Department was asked to identify members of BECTU who have been in membership for fifty years or more. The number was greater than anticipated, and an appropriate means of devising and awarding such a certificate is being considered. BECTU’s longest-serving surviving member is Sir Roger Moore, who was invited to attend the 2009 annual conference as a guest of the NEC. Unfortunately he could not attend because of overseas commitments, but he has conveyed his best wishes to conference. ________________________________________________________________________

from the 2009 conference notes https://www.bectu.org.uk/info/docs/download/conf/necreport2009-appendix-a.pdf

 

[billy_bob]

Moore's Bond films had the distinction of not trying to deny just how naff the whole concept of Bond is. The others, especially now, are still naff but take themselves extremely seriously. Both approaches can be entertaining enough, but on an ethical level I think the self-satirising version is more tolerable.

RIP.

 

[Orang Utan]

Moore's Bond films had the distinction of not trying to deny just how naff the whole concept of Bond is. The others, especially now, are still naff but take themselves extremely seriously. Both approaches can be entertaining enough, but on an ethical level I think the self-satirising version is more tolerable.

RIP.

 

[DotCommunist]

Moore's Bond films had the distinction of not trying to deny just how naff the whole concept of Bond is. The others, especially now, are still naff but take themselves extremely seriously. Both approaches can be entertaining enough, but on an ethical level I think the self-satirising version is more tolerable.

RIP.

thats not entirely right imho bob. for sure Casino Royale took a dark tone (the first kill, a brutal fight in the toilet, baddie drowned in a sink. Not your flash neck snapping quips of yore. Also a really intense bollock torture bit. Oh and the poisoning bit was played grim). But the later ones were not quite as intense and jason bourneish, he takes M out for a spin in the classic Aston ffs.

New Q is not feeling that vibe much at all, thats a marked difference, its the intense young man with simple tools rather than a sort of willy wonka factory of espionage toys played for lols

 

[Santino]

a ledge, but I won't hear this 'best bond'. That is sean connery

'Wife-beating tax avoider Sean Connery', please.

 

[Poot]

I'm of an age where I remember watching Ivanhoe on TV, then The Saint, The Persuaders, James Bond.

And now Roger Moore is dead.

But I'm still more upset by the senseless killing of an 8 year old girl, who I never knew, at the Manchester Arena last night.

Sometimes everything is just shit.

Indeed. Feels like everything's just a bit shitter than it was yesterday.

 

[Tankus]

Gold was a pretty good film too

 

[The39thStep]

Best in The Saint

 

[sleaterkinney]

He was Bond for me.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

It was only later in life that I realised how terribly handsome he was.

RIP dear Roger.

 

[fishfinger]

The pope should canonise him, then he could become Saint Saint.

 

[discokermit]

i liked him, especially in the persuaders.
my dad just told me i'm related through my mothers side to dorothy squires, who was married to him!

 

[Riklet]

What a legend. RIP

Some good watching and reading on this thread, thanks!

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Loved The Saint..and the Persuaders.
He always struck me as a "tongue in cheek" Bond...which I liked...

 

[Sea Star]

'Wife-beating tax avoider Sean Connery', please.

Looks like Roger Moore was a tax avoider too - the lesser of those two evils.

 

[billy_bob]

thats not entirely right imho bob. for sure Casino Royale took a dark tone (the first kill, a brutal fight in the toilet, baddie drowned in a sink. Not your flash neck snapping quips of yore. Also a really intense bollock torture bit. Oh and the poisoning bit was played grim). But the later ones were not quite as intense and jason bourneish, he takes M out for a spin in the classic Aston ffs.

New Q is not feeling that vibe much at all, thats a marked difference, its the intense young man with simple tools rather than a sort of willy wonka factory of espionage toys played for lols

OK, there's a spectrum, and most of the films raise a metaphorical Moore-brow at some point. But the Moore ones do it more. The Craig films are well-made action thrillers if that's what you want, but the 'look at the size of our budget' set pieces and the tight-suited machismo of them I find more distasteful somehow than Roger Moore putting Goodnight in the cupboard so he can shag someone else.

 

[EastEnder]

OK, there's a spectrum, and most of the films raise a metaphorical Moore-brow at some point. But the Moore ones do it more. The Craig films are well-made action thrillers if that's what you want, but the 'look at the size of our budget' set pieces and the tight-suited machismo of them I find more distasteful somehow than Roger Moore putting Goodnight in the cupboard so he can shag someone else.

Yeah, for me the Craig era Bond films are good, but not really classic Bond. Craig is too serious, too uptight, too po-faced. I liked Moore's portrayal of Bond as a smooth cad, a whimsically absurd cartoon caricature of a secret agent. The idea of classic Bond going to the gym & loading up on protein shakes is anathema, yet that's what Craig's turned the role into. And I know which of the two Bonds I'd rather have had a pint with, and it's not angry man Craig, it'd have been debonair Moore.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

'Wife-beating tax avoider Sean Connery', please.

Wife-beating, tax avoider, "Scotland Forever" tattooed (until I can afford to fuck off to LA), Sean Connery.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Looks like Roger Moore was a tax avoider too - the lesser of those two evils.

tbf to Moore, I used to see him a lot in Crans Montana and he was a part of the community there, so yeah, lower tax rates, but he did love skiing and made a proper life in Switzerland.

 

[skyscraper101]

And UNICEF work, so props again.