Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
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Man Who Haunted Himself is a little gem of a movie. Without question its Moore's best acting role. Plot is Moore is a successful businessman who suddenly realises he has a doppelgänger trying to live his life for him.
It has a great early 70's nostalgic feel to it, it is indeed very creepy and has a great score.
He also played someone else playing Roger Moore in "Curse of the Pink Panther". It was made after Peter Sellers died, so the plot had Clouseau going into hiding by having radical plastic surgery and choosing to look like James Bond. I think I read somewhere that Moore only had a couple days to film his parts because he was also working on a Bond movie at the time, which makes his Sellers/Clouseau imitation all the more impressive.
To be honest though, he was one of my least favorite Bonds. This will probably set my wife off on one of her Bond movie marathons - she has them all on DVD/Blu-ray and Moore was one of her favorites.
Live And Let Die was my first foray into the Bond world in the movies. It left quite an impression on this 13 year old. Of course the music didn't hurt.
Part of Moore's charm was that he knew he was not as rugged as Connery. Some of the athletic scenes were beyond his scope as a 50 year old regal gentleman, but he somehow pulled you in and made it believable if not slightly humorous.
Time to pick up the latest Bond on Blu ray collection..RIP.
More or less sums it up for me too. It was the first Bond I saw in the cinema, and back then the older Bond movies were not really shown on TV.
I can remember just watching it in sheet joy with two other friends, and looking at each other like 'Did you see that?!'. Think I was around 13 years old.
I still say that no matter how (endearingly) silly it is, there is just something so cool about Bond in Harlem. And the boat chase is probably still my fave of all the movies. The famous still shot of the boat jumping over the police car is my screensaver, and that is such a cool and iconic image.
I liked Yaphet Kotto as a villain...he was not moustache twirling or out for world domination, and he is a terrific and powerful actor. Lot's of other familiar faces from Blaxploitation movies in there as well.
There was something kind of adult about it at the time as well...for a young child watching without my parents it seemed very grown up, quite a lot of death and violence, plus risqué dialogue. I vividly remember being quite shocked when Bond goes to leave Solitaire's bedroom and she begs him to stay, and he says 'Well, there's no sense in going off half-cocked'.
Like a lot of others, it will always be the one I have the fondest memories of as it was the first one I saw.
I only clicked on it because I thought it was going to be something more interesting...
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