In November 2006, Entertainment Weekly ranked Moonraker fourteenth among the Bond films, describing it as "by far the campiest of all 007 movies" with "one of the worst theme songs." IGN listed it eleventh, calling it outlandish and saying that despite the actors "trying what they can to ground the film in reality, the ...
Not only a disastrous film but also a huge missed opportunity, 1967's spy parody Casino Royale is by far the lowest-rated James Bond film with a woeful score of just 26%.
Poor George Lazenby: forever fated to grace the bottom of every (proper) 007 ranking. The Australian actor donned the tuxedo for one solitary outing, 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and his Bond is certainly a lot less polished than many of the others.
Playing off the popularity of the 1977 release of "Star Wars," Roger Moore's fourth time as Bond had him kicking butt in space. It worked: "Moonraker" was the highest-grossing movie in the franchise for a while — it was dethroned by "GoldenEye" in 1995.
Moonraker is mercifully much better than recent Bondage, with fantastic special effects, some excellent buffery (cracks at Star Wars, Close Encounters, Clint Eastwood, to name but a few), and the usual location-hopping style that makes Versailles feel like Disneyland.
In Moonraker he gains a girlfriend, Dolly, who is never seen to speak aloud and who is the primary reason for his reformation. Jaws also has an uncanny ability to survive any misfortune seemingly unscathed and come back to challenge Bond again.
Sean Connery turning down The Matrix has become the stuff of legend. The former James Bond was offered a chance to appear in the franchise and ended up passing because he didn't understand the script.
The oldest actor to play James Bond was Roger Moore, who played 007 from ages 45 to 57. That's a little older than Bond's creator Ian Fleming would have liked, as the age of James Bond in the novels put him somewhere in his mid-to-late thirties, with Moonraker specifically placing his age at 37.
Pierce Brosnan's version of James Bond in GoldenEye has the highest kill count with 47 kills. Overall, Brosnan's Bond has the highest kill count of 135 throughout his four films, thanks to the timing and darker tone of the movies.
And it turns out that Timothy Dalton is the most aesthetically pleasing of all six official Bond actors. The 1980s 007 only played the spy twice in The Living Daylights and Licence To Kill.
Through a chance meeting with a talent agent, he eventually auditioned for the Bond role, during which he lied to Eon Productions executives about his acting résumé, saying that he had acted internationally in China and Russia, “all countries I could think of they wouldn't be able to check on,” Lazenby recalled in the ...
Arguably the darkest Bond film of all is Licence to Kill. It's the only Bond movie to be rated 15 in the UK, and it proved to be so controversial that it cost Timothy Dalton the role of 007.
The actress who played Dolly, Blanche Ravalec, has stated that she didn't wear braces during filming which is correct. The braces were edited in during post-production and if you saw Moonraker at the cinema then yes, Dolly was wearing braces to make the comedy scene with Jaws.
In terms of timespan, Daniel Craig is the longest-serving Bond of all time, with 15 years passing between his debut in Casino Royale (2006) and his swan song in No Time To Die (2021). But both Sean Connery and Roger Moore actually played the character in more films than Craig.
Ultimately, he turned down the project because the story didn't resonate with him. Years after the critical and financial success of the series, Connery said he decided not to play the wizard because he "just didn't get it," even after reading both the book and the script.
Retirement. When Connery received the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award on 8 June 2006, he confirmed his retirement from acting. Connery's disillusionment with the "idiots now making films in Hollywood" was cited as a reason for his decision to retire.
“I truly and to this day regret the decimation of the shark population,” Spielberg told BBC, “because of the book and the film.” (Benchley, who wrote the “Jaws” novel, said in 2000 that he also feels somewhat responsible for the suffering of great white sharks.)
In a recent interview with W Magazine, Spielberg reveals that he actually thought the shark's appearance in Jaws was rather lackluster. The director recalls being very surprised that the movie was such a hit and that the shark ended up having the effect that it did on audiences.
