He's beating his wife in heaven now. :'(

+1 SE Tradition. If no one else posts it, I will.

There was only one thing that could have been.

My god. I had no idea.

Don't re-watch the Bond films. They're kind of rape-y and it hasn't aged well. No one knows what consent is, not even the women who are occasionally the assailants.

Also, that scene in Brosnan's* Golden Eye where Xenia kills that guy is somehow longer and more graphic than you remember. Nornally showing a woman orgasming is an instant NC-17 but apparently it's ok if her turn-on is violence.

*edited because my phone doesn't like "Brosnan"

I think that is half our problem in expecting our "heroes" to be paragons of virtue. A good man ( in the good vs evil rather than the good vs bad sense) could never do the job because if requires leaving ones morals at the door. An amoral or evil man who is still loyal to a cause is the best man for that kind of work and the early Bond's did not shirk at that. Bond is a bad man getting a job done and it is our mistake if we expect him to be other than a raping, torturing, murderer for the cause. If he wasn't also handsome and suave it would be easier to remember this.

I would accept this argument if the films were self-aware, but Bond comes off as an ideal protagonist. We're led to believe the film-makers thought he was a man's man worthy of imitation and pop culture depictions of Bond show that we, as a society, did not and do not see him as a bad man.

This is America. Violence is a virtue.

Granted, but a self aware person now might still enjoy them as anti-hero cinema. Like Dexter, Hannibal, or Kirk.

To be clear, I really like your take. It's smart. Unfortunately I think it's too smart for the audience or film-makers to grasp. I would love to see a film that embraces that moral dichotomy, that a bad man can do bad things with good results AND this does not retroactively make that person or those things good. I think, like the first Mission Impossible, it would leave audiences moaning that thinking hurts and liberals have ruined everything with their moral relativity.

Then again, as the boomers die off, so does this desire to beat up the bad guys and go home. Gen X and below has always had to be edgy, and we're starting to see film adaptations of the subversive material they love. Maybe we could see a Bond who's more screwed up, and then the hope is that he's more than just screwed up. We only have room for one Garth Ennis.

I agree. The natural result of a person with morals acting like Bond would be a later life of self reproach. What we need is a depressed old suicidal Bond.

Somebody find Alan Moore and Frank Miller... and probably don't put them in a room together.

I like the way you think.

I can recommend this: Dr. No (1962) || From Rewatch with Love Ep01

I'll check it out. I still have the scene lazer etched in my mind where the woman unbutton his shirt, he says no, she keeps going, so they bone. I guess if we wanted to rationalize why Bond doesn't respect boundaries, it could be incidents like this when he was a young man.

Zardos also hasn’t aged well. The scene where he grabs one of the catatonic women and has his way with her, before realizing it was "no fun" made me say "that’s wrong" when I was a kid.

I think that's more of a "wasn't well from the beginning".

Although it's likely that given the times they thought it showed some sort of progressiveness to recognize rape is bad.

Pierce Brosnan as James Bond is surely the worse thing about watching Golden Eye.

I can't really think of anything I like him in. Maybe Highlander.

I see my cut has improved your voice.

Nasty little thug

Nothing better than a Spaniard with a Scottish accent.

He's not Spanish. He's Egyptian.

You said he was from Spain! You're a liar!

(said a Frenchman pretending to be Scottish)

You have the manners of a Frenchman and you smell like a Scott.

oh, wait. That's me.

BBC are reporting he was found sliced in half, possibly by some form of focused energy beam. It's what he would have wanted.

Zed's dead, baby.

There are some movies in which Connery is good. I'll name a few, and you can thank (or excoriate) me later, as you think best. Robin and Marian. The Great Train Robbery. The Wind and the Lion. And especially The Man Who Would Be King.

I thought he was already dead. He was already dead!

Everyone is already dead eventually.

Think about every day of the year.

One of those, will be the day you die.

So celebrate Today!!!

Probably not for the best, Connery's Bond was formative for me in early pubescence on how to treat women and best behavior to attract them

Only strike them with an open hand?

Thank you. I was trying to figure out the right way to articulate this joke.

He has shlapped his lasht shpoushe...

I too steal their clothes while they bathe. tee hee.

+1 Shad

I was a bit shaken, not stirred.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen made him leave Hollywood. His last work was voicing Bond in a videogame.

I thank Atheismo he turned down the part of Gandalf.

"You shall not pash!" would have been okay, but he might have bungled "It may be your tashk to find the Cracksh of Doom; but have your little Shting ready when Xenia's Onatopp."

"He was the first to bring the role to the big screen"
Nope.

"appeared in seven of the spy thrillers"
Only 6 were "official" Bond movies. Roger Moore appeared in 7 official ones, plus his name is an aptronym.

Which name are you considering aptronymic? And either way, why?

Bond is infamous for his making fun time with the ladies, and what name says that better than Roger Moore?