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Summary: Great movie
Review: Even though live and Let Die may not be in traditional Bond sense, it has things that keep it alive. One is acting. Moore's performance is fairly impressive, Jane Seymour is good as Solitaire, Yaphet Kotto does a good job of acting yet is not a memorable viilain, but Julius harris and Geoffrey holder are excellent and very memorable in their roles of Tee-Hee and Baron samedi. Two is action. The action includes a car chase through the countryside roads of San Monique, an excellent boat chase through the bayous of Louisiana and a chase through NYC. Three is music. Paul McCartney's title song is quite possibly the best ever, and George martin produces a fine score. Overall, my fifth favorite OO7 film, beaten by For Your Eyes Only, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Goldfinger, and the all time best, From Russia With Love.
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Summary: When Bond Meets Voodoo, The Results Can Be Scary!
Review: If there is one thing that this one can claim over all the other Bond films is that it introduced us to Roger Moore, thus beginning an era that lasted for seven films over twelve years. Correction, two things: Paul McCartney's title track is simply killer! After that, "Live And Let Die" is a pretty forgetable Bond film, if for no reason, because it just doesn't feel like one. Gone is the sense of international intrigue and espionage that is such a staple of the series. Instead we have a plot revolving around heroin smuggling and the black mafia. For "The French Connection" that would've been fine. For James Bond?...it leaves us wanting more. The film does include a few highlights, particularly Geoffrey Holder's Baron Samedi. Like Jaws in the later films, he's just one of those characters that's hard to forget and always draws your attention. Equally memorable is the speed boat chase through the Louisiana bayous, which holds up well even to this day. The rest however, doesn't merit much praise. And the film's one unforgivable oversight is the exlusion of a "Q" scene (the only time it's happened since 1963)! Like the other DVD editions though, it is very well made and has some interesting documentaries.
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Summary: 007 in Live and Let Die?
Review: What a bad way for Roger Moore to start as James Bond (007). This movie has it's good sence but still fails to give that James Bond impresion that other James Bond movies do. The first two sence start really confusing and stupid. Then the movie starts to climb back but fails again. Due to its great special effects, Live and Let Die gets three stars but if I were you, I suggest that you record it on a VHS because its not worth buying it on DVD, specialy the big price tag it carries. Also for the big price tag, it's a rip off that the movie wasn't made in Dolby Digital 5.1, instead it was record in the horrible two channel audio which sounds horrible in a Dobly Digital 5.1 receiver. When you watch the movie it feels like your in a cave.
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Summary: Ewwwwwww
Review: What a way to start this movie. We first see Bond in bed with some unknown woman, yay. Quite a turn off. And Moore is quite a let down after Sean Connery (unargueably the best Bond, by the way). Bond is sent to the deep south of the U.S. after drug dealers. The only good part about this whole escapade is the black guy with only one arm, he's pretty cool. Anyway, when they put him in those crocodile infested waters and tried to drown him, I was going for the bad guys, really. After what seemed like 10 hours of nothing but Roger Moore's "Bond" I was sick of it, totally. The only good thing about this movie is the theme song, which is pretty cool. Come to tink of it, the theme songs are the only good things that have ever come out of the 7 Bond films Roger Moore did, quite interesting. No wait, I take that back, Mayday in A View to Kill was cool.
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Summary: What was 007 thinking?
Review: Live and Let Die, I think it should have been "This movie should Die". I don't know why Roger Moore made this movie, he should have waited for Moonraker. I tell you there's only one title for this movie "Toiletpaper."
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Summary: I Prefer Moore
Review: I prefer Moore instead of Connery in Bond's role. H~e's much more like Fleming's character is described in his books. BUt the history is totally changed from the book in this movie. There is not one crocodile in the entire book, and there are a lot of them in this movie!
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Summary: Debut of Roger Moore as 007
Review: After Sean Connery decided to definately call it a day, the producers were left with a big problem in trying to find a suitable replacement for the role of James Bond . They decided to go with Roger Moore, a English born actor who was famous for his role as Simon Templer in the series The Saint. Moore brought his own style to the role of 007, more suave and formal than his predecessor Connery, who gave a rough edge to the role. Released in 1973, the film has Bond taking on the leader of an internatinal drug dealer who is also a Caribbean dignitary (Yaphet Kotto). The story takes Bond from the streets of Harlem to the voodoo crazed Jamacia. Along his way Bond meets up with the beautiful tarot -reader Solitare (Jane Seymour). Live and Let Die is an action packed James Bond adventure that will keep you entertained time and time again.
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Summary: Moore, Roger Moore
Review: LIVE AND LET DIE traded Sean Connery, SPECTRE agents, nuclear missles, and plans for world destruction for Roger Moore, drug dealers, voodoo, and fortune telling. Throw in some crocodiles and snakes and you have LIVE AND LET DIE. I do believe that for the most part we the audience got the fuzzy end of the lollipop in this very average Bond outing. In his 8th adventure, Bond (now Moore) is to investigate the powerful diplomat Kananga (Yaphet Kotto) who has a devious plan to corner the drug market by putting 2 tons of free heroin on the open market. After putting other dealers out of business and increasing the number of addicts, he will make billions with his supply. Kananga at the same time depends on the tarot card reading power of the lovely Solitaire (Jane Seymour) to do his business and gets worried when she cannot perform her duties. This movie moves with the feeling of a comic book adventure and has only a few true fast and fun spots before the movie gets going, which by then is halfway through, and at the same point we are given (thankfully only for a brief stay) the spitt'in and swear'in Sheriff Pepper who gives the movie a very un-Bond feel. Moore's attitude as Bond is much more playful but he loses Connery's more rough and tumble nature, and Kotto does make a charismatic and decent villian for Bond to tackle. The few highlights to this film are the very flashy opening credit sequence which is fitted with Paul McCartney's hit song LIVE AND LET DIE, and Kananga's thugs which include Teehee a hitman who is constantly smiling and has a killer metal arm and claw, Whisper, a rotund goon who seems to have terminal larengytis and Baron Samedi, who is a true enigma. There are plenty of better Bond movies out there, but I'm afraid that this isn't one of the better ones, it is above average at best. DR. NO, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, and THE SPY WHO LOVED ME among others are all much better fare. If you need a Bond fix, this one will surely satisfy, but you will be hungry for a better adventure with 007.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: A tour de force by Roger Moore, in my opinion his 2nd best performance (after The Spy Who Loved Me) and 3rd best movie (after The Spy Who Loved Me and For Your Eyes Only). The plot isn't great, but it has excellent villains, girl, henchmen, and locations. The absolute low point of the film is its racism.
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Summary: A largely unsatisfactory Bond explained
Review: If, like me, you were always kind of baffled how Roger Moore managaed to retain the role of James Bond after such a dismal first picture, this Special Edition DVD will likely go a long way towards enlightenment. The number of additional features is impressive, and you will likely need them all to untangle the, let's face it, racist mess that is _Live and Let Die_. It tells you where the producers were trying to go with all the African-American stereotyping and gives you a better appreciation for the time in which the film was shot. Also, there's much discussion given to the Louisiana boat chase sequence, which still, I believe, holds the Guinness Record for the longest boat jump.
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