007 Conflict Brewing

Holy crap, Roger Moore is 78 YEARS OLD! That must mean Connery is like 187. BTW, I dislike all the Bond movies featuring Moore, they were too over-to-top with the gadgets and Moore comes across as a dork. Moonraker was a real laugher, but Octopussy wasn't that bad. I also liked the early Bond films when the opposition was S.P.E.C.T.R.E., as opposed simply the Soviets, and the Bond girls were always better in the Connery films as well. Don't have an opinion on the newest Bond, but if it were me writing the story I'd do what they did with Batman in the newest movie and make him a little dark and flawed. They gotta go back to the roots with Bond, enough with the political correctness and the flashy gadgetry. Favorite Bond movie of all would have to be Thunderball.

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[Charlie Kemper]

Great post. But, I'm not sure Bond movies were ever made without flashy gadgetry. Desmond Llewelyn started playing 'Q' in From Russia With Love, the second Bond film, and handed out gadgets ever since. Looking back today those gadgets don't seem all that flashy, but put yourself in the shoes of a 1963 suburbanite...