Live And Let Die Review

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TruckOSaurus said:

amp316 said:

TruckOSaurus said:
2 out of 5! That's pretty harsh!

I personally loved this movie. The New Orleans setting really appeals to me and I thought the opening scenes really started the movie with a bang (especially the New Orleans funeral).

I never found that much to criticize with Moore's interpretation of Bond. It does differ from Connery's but it still feels right.

The movie features one of the worst Bond girls ever in Rosie Carver, who's a bumbling idiot but luckily she doesn't have much screen time and is compensated with Solitaire who's a wonderful Bond girl: pretty, mysterious and naive.

I have heard from a lot of people that this is one of their favorites and you yourself seem to like quite a bit.

Where is it exactly that you think that we don't see eye to eye?

I'm not sure exactly, for one I didn't think the boat chase was too long, I also thought J.W. Pepper was funny. Also, I never get too hung up on the plot of Bond movies (unless they go too far like Moonraker).

Didn't Ian Fleming say that Moore's Bond was closer to what he had in mind for his character or am I making things up?

J.W. Pepper is funny.  I was just explaining him the best that I could and he is a stereotype.  :p 

I think that maybe the reason that the plot bothered me is because I read the book which is one of Fleming's better ones.  The movie doesn't follow the story hardly at all and maybe that's what upset me. 

Ian Fleming died before Moore became Bond, but when he was asked who he thought should play Bond, he said David Niven (this was back in the 50's).  He also wasn't pleased with the choice of Connery, but changed his mind after viewing Dr. No.