Rate Live and Let Die

[jimmy]

I give it a 4, only because Bond blows up Mr. Big.

 

[A.J.Rimmer(BSC)]

I just got finished watching Live And Let Die. It still holds up really well. And the way Kananga gets it in is quite funny.
And also, I now think Seymour is the hottest Bond girl.

My thoughts exactly, she was innocent and niaeve, ripe for the plucking!

For me this is easily Moore's best outing a Bond, it has all the ingredients for a typical Bond film in spades, and the villian is really creepy.

 

[Cyrusbales]

2/5, it always seemed very silly to me, although I've not seen it for a while, it also reminds me of indy 2 for some reason....

 

[SpyderDan]

It also reminds me of indy 2 for some reason....

Probably the voodoo elements. I'd much rather watch Temple of Doom than this.

 

[Orko Is King]

I'm reading LaLD now and I'm enjoying it more than the movie.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Live and Let Die has such a great score that it elevates everything onscreen. Really, really exciting music.

However, most of the action is completely gratuitous. The bus chase is just stunts for the sake of stunts. The fight scenes are very weak - they got much better in the next film, The Man with the Golden Gun.

 

[The Joker]

No Q in this movie was a bit of a let down for me. Plus, the whole sequence of both M and Moneypenny going to Bond's house in the middle of the night was ridiculous.

That said, this movie was alot of fun, many memorable villains, some good action and fight scenes, and Sheriff J.W. Pepper actually made me laugh

 

[Golgo-13]

First Bond film i ever saw. I was 7 years old. Brings back fond memories. Great film. Classic ending with Voodo man on back of train..i actaully remember that scene giving me nightmares as a kid.LOL!

 

[Riven]

It's okay, but terribly uneven. I really like the atmosphere it has of New York, New Orleans and the Caribbean in the Seventies. It almost works as a more low-key Bond movie with a realistic plot, but a lot of it is quite annoying (mainly all the stuff surrounding Sheriff Pepper... Jeebus!) and some of the elements just seemed unnecessary (Solitaire's "Tarot powers"). But I like it, cause it has style and a b!tchin' soundtrack, even though it's far from perfect and rather woefully anticlimactic.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

It's okay, but terribly uneven. I really like the atmosphere it has of New York, New Orleans and the Caribbean in the Seventies. It almost works as a more low-key Bond movie with a realistic plot, but a lot of it is quite annoying (mainly all the stuff surrounding Sheriff Pepper... Jeebus!) and some of the elements just seemed unnecessary (Solitaire's "Tarot powers"). But I like it, cause it has style and a b!tchin' soundtrack, even though it's far from perfect and rather woefully anticlimactic.

Very.

 

[Catman]

People tend to forget that Roger Moore was a cherry-popper in this movie. He sleeps with 20-year-old Jane Seymour whose character is a virgin and thus she loses her powers to read the future. Is this what passed as entertainment in 1973? This movie is so politically incorrect it's hilarious. The Black villains are ridiculously stereotypical. There's even a fat lazy henchman whose too lazy to even speak loudly. And that cab driver stole the movie. When Bond offers him like 20 bucks to chase a car he says, "for that money I'll take you to a KKK cookout." WTF? And rednecks get the same stereotypical treatment. Who can forget Sgt. JW Pepper...although he was horrible and un-needed in The Man With the Golden Gun.

 

[Hunter Rider]

A 3 year old thread bumped, what you up to Catsy?

 

[Catman]

A 3 year old thread bumped, what you up to Catsy?

I was looking for Kevin's awesome For Your Eyes Only thread, only to discover that it was deleted in 2007 during the giant clean-up.