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The Spy Who Loved Me (Special Edition)

The Spy Who Loved Me (Special Edition)

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: He Makes Sean Connery look like an idiot!
Review: Bond's best movie yet has to be The Spy Who Loved Me.Roger Moore is the greatest stunt devil next to Peirce Brosnan. In this Bond film, there is great action and adventure in the story.The spiffy humor and acton is so awesome it might make you explode with excitement (although James gets out of everything).I hope you enjoy this Bond movie!!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: the spy who loved me , a review by xelah1234
Review: I personly think that this is one of the worst bond films amaginable. Along with goldfinger,thunderball, and for your eyes only this is a bond movie that has no plot. The final outcome of this movie is so bad.... if you are starting to make a james bond collection dont buy the movies listed above.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Really great, just like FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Review: THE SPY WHO LOVED ME with Roger Moore and made in 1977 was one of the greatest of its time. Set in many wonderful settings, including Egypt, made it really authentic. Another movie featuring SPECTRE agents and one who goes to Bond's side, which makes it one of those classics.

Besides the plot, the gadgets are cool and make it really entertaining. Richard Kiel as Jaws is also a great addition to the movie, which makes it a little bit "cooky". You just won't want to miss this one.

So, enjoy!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Who can do it better than James Bond? Nobody!
Review: The tenth James Bond film, "The Spy Who Loved Me" (starring Roger Moore in his third film portrayal as James Bond, British Secret Service Agent 007), finds the world renowned secret agent at odds with a megalomaniac intending to recreate the world in his own image.

Following the dissappeance of a Russian nuclear submarine, Bond is enlisted to discover whether someone has discovered a way to track nuclear submarines when they are underwater. Similarly, the Russian KGB assigns a female agent, Major Anya Amasova (Agent Triple-X, played by Barbara Bach), to determine the whereabouts of their missing submarine. Working with similar information, Bond and Amasova each go to Egypt in search of a man selling information about stolen underwater nuclear submarine tracking techonology. Two professional hit-men have also been assigned by the megalomaniac to kill anyone that comes into contact with the stolen technology. One of the hit-men, Jaws (played by Richard Kiel), is highly effective using his steel teeth as a lethal weapon.

Following several confrontations between all of them as their paths cross, Bond's superiors surprise him when he discovers that they have agreed to work with the Russians instead of against them. Together, Bond and Amasova defend themselves against various attacks at the behest of the megalomaniac Karl Stromberg, a powerful industrialist played by Curt Jurgens; but will they be strong enough to defeat him or will personal rivalries tear them apart?

Reappearing in the film with Roger Moore are the very familiar Bernard Lee as "M", Desmond Llewelyn as "Q" and Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny. This was the tenth appearance for both Lee and Maxwell since each played the same roles in all nine preceding Bond films that starred either Roger Moore, Sean Connery or George Lazenby as Bond. This was Llewelyn's ninth appearance in the role of "Q" as he did not appear in the first Bond film of "Dr. No" in 1962. Llewelyn portrayed the venerable "Q" role in almost every Bond film until his death in 1999. He is the only actor that has worked with all 5 Bond actors to date.

The theme song for "The Spy Who Loved Me" will be very familiar to many as the song "Nobody Does It Better", sung by Carly Simon and composed by the talented Marvin Hamlisch.

As with all Bond films, "The Spy Who Loved Me" is filled with action, many secret gagdets employed by both Bond and Amasova and a mix of British humor. One of the more memorable scenes in the film occurs when people sunbathing on a beach are disturbed by a white car emerging from the ocean. It is a white Lotus driven by Bond who opens a window to toss out an unwanted fish. As is Bond's trademark, his sexual prowess is satisfied on multiple occassions over the course of the film.

"The Spy Who Loved Me" is arguably one of better Bond films starring Roger Moore. Picture and sound quality of the film on this DVD are superb. I highly recommend ownership of this film to any fan of the Bond film series.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The 007 fan who loved this movie!
Review: Great Movie! I loved it. This guy is trying to destroy lots of ships and submarines. James Bond is on a mission to save people. On his mission he will meet Beatle girl(Bach)and see the best Bond villian, Jaws. The Spy Who Loved Me is the best James Bond film of all time. Get it. Jaws will return in Moonraker. The actor said he was going to die in this film until they liked him so much.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best stunt of all time !
Review: With TSWLM a new tradition for pre-title sequences with incredible stunts in Bond films was born. Even though some of them have been terrific, none of them completely measures up to the one in this film.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Nobody does it better than James Bond!
Review: This is the best James Bond film in the entire series! It really has it all. Roger Moore stars as his 3rd time as 007 and puts a fantasic portrayal of the world's most popular spy. To start things off- this film boasts to have a magnificent group of villians. Karl Stromberg is capturing submarines in his underwater Atlantis and initiating a WWIII to start a new era. The indestructable steel-toothed giant Jaws hunts 007 as a henchman in this film and Naomi is the lethal helicopter pilot that gives Bond a run for his gun. The Bond girl is Anya Amasova agent XXX and is truly James Bond's match in many ways. The first car since the Aston Martin DB5 is the Lotus Espirit Turbo, and it conceals an enormous amount of useful gadgets. this film also features the best pre-title sequence in the entire sequence-chased by KGB agents, 007 on skis flys right off a cliff, leaving only to reveal a parachute that leads right into Carly Simon's powerful, loving melody- Nobody does it Better. the best set designs by Ken Adam and the larger than life director Lewis Gilbert and you have the blueprints to the best 007 movie in the entire series!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Nobody Does It Better
Review: Roger Moore was once asked which of his Bond films was the best one. He said, "That's easy: THE SPY WHO LOVED ME."
Then he was asked which one was his least favorite.
He replied, "The other six."

It looks like there are plenty of other people who think that way. By the 1970's, the Bond films had drifted away from their Cold War roots and realism (it could be argued that the drift began with GOLDFINGER) and, with a new Bond who never seemed to take anything seriously himself, the series escalated into wild, overblown fantasies.
But somehow it all works in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME and I think it has to do with attitude: anything in a movie seems possible as long as the characters carry the convinction that their world is real. Even Moore tones down his shrugging Whatever acting method. As outlandish as Jaws is, he remains a lethal threat by killing people. The superb Marvin Hamlisch score keeps the action hopping, the intrigue sexy, and the menace dangerous (the deep horns playing as the oil supertanker opens its bows to swallow a submarine comes to mind).
Maybe it was because I was still a teenager when I first saw this that I loved it so much, but I also felt like the Bond films had run out of steam by then--and that was 1977!
Taking three years after the lukewarm response to MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN, there was definitely a sense that the producers pulled out all the stops to make the biggest Bond movie of all. And, for me, they did.
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME as realistic? No, but it pulls off a sense of style that would be missing for so many latter Bonds. Thrilling, fun and still a little dangerous.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: And that's just for the gadgets
Review: I can't believe there was a time when I loved all the Bond films without reservation. Now that they are being rereleased I started to purchase them...and now have stopped. Goldfinger is still briliant, but TSWLM is just vile. Barbara Bach as XXX is a babe, but one of the most vacuous performances on film. I used to slam on Denise ("I get to play a scientist") Richards in The World Is Not Enough, but compared to Bach she's Meryl Streep with a hot bod. Get a pulse. Roger Moore saunters through this venture in his classic English stoicism with just a bit too much of Al Gore's stiffness. Yes, the gadgets are good, but even they lent themselves to Austin Powers style farce. This flick is too campy for a good action film but not campy enough to be a camp classic. Sad to say, but the more recent Pierce Brosnan Bond flicks far surpass this '70's drivel.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of Bond's best
Review: I think The SPY Who Loves Me is the second best Bond film there is. I love the Lotus and Karl Stromberg, the perfect villian. JAWS is also cool to. This is the perfect movie to follow The Man With The Golden Gun. Bond is up with a shipping magnate and has a great adventure in this film. What also makes this movie neat, is also the movies that come before and after it. You must rent this one. Let alone buy it. This is a must have if your a real Bond fan. It's great


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