Never is there a more divided argument than asking who is better: Sean Connery or Roger Moore. For me the answer is way too easy. While Sean Connery tried to do a more faithful rendition of the James Bond character from the novels, Roger Moore's portrayal was always a little more cheeky and comedic. Towards the end, they ran out of Ian Fleming novels to make into movies and they started to create original stories for the movies. In the late 1970s, the sci-fi genre had really taken off with popular movies like Alien, various Godzilla movies, Planet of the Apes, Flash Gordon, Star Trek, and of course Star Wars.
With sci-fi movies so popular and old Cold War fears on the decline, James Bond had to change with the times as well. That's why we got movies like Moonraker.
Roger Moore wanted to do a more comedic take on James Bond and more emphasis was put on the Bond Girl names and cheesy one-liners. Which of course explains the all so subtly named Octopussy.
Moore was James Bond for 13 years and 7 movies. That's a longer tenure than any other actor. Of those movie he did, the only one I like personally is The Man With the Golden Gun. The rest seem to be a mix of campyness and horribly put together fight scenes.
Roger Moore the best Bond? Not by a long shot.
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