Day ten of the Bond Film Marathon, film 10:The Spy Who Loved Me. Regarded as Moore's absolute best and one of the best period, I can agree with that for the most part. Once again, straying away from the original source material, for the most part, this is a really fun, enjoyable, film. It is a bit long and can drag, but It's quite entertaining.

SLBMs from Britain and the Soviet Union have disappeared and Bond has been dispatched to answer the call and a great ski chase ensures. Upon hearing of a highly advanced submarine part being on the market and headed to Egypt, Bond is bound to head there as is Agent XXX, Anya Amasova. Upon arriving, the…

The Spy Who Loved Me was the first James Bond film that really caught my imagination as a kid - and my first viewing of it in over a decade shows most of the reasons why.

This was Roger Moore's third Bond outing and by now he was completely comfortable and identifiable as 007 - but in a strange twist, this film sees the series moving back into slightly more serious territory and does away with much of the knockabout comedy of The Man With The Golden Gun, and is an improvement over that still underrated instalment in many different ways.

Its main improvement is regarding its main Bond girl. After poor Britt Eklund was royally crapped on for the…

One word to sum up this movie: creativity.

While this film does absolutely nothing new with the Bond formula, it's still entertaining from beginning to end because everything is creative. After viewing some of the Brosnan films and coming away relatively disappointed, it was extremely refreshing to see great care in set design, location scouting, henchmen, action set pieces, vehicles, stunts (the ski jump is fantastic), and in pretty much everything else.

The villain is essentially Dr. No all over again, but it doesn't matter. His lair is unique and bad-ass. His muscle is unique and bad-ass. The action scenes are unique and bad-ass. It's great to see these elements stray from the norm without going into the wacky goofball…

After the lukewarm reception given to The Man With The Golden gun by the audience and the critics, Cubby Broccoli was determined to prove that the 007 franchise was not on life-support. And what a way to do it.
The Spy Who Loved Me is, for me at least, a success on almost every level. The humour is more controlled and mature (no girls called Pussy, Plenty O'Toole or Chu-Mi here) and there are sequences featuring genuine suspense, something long absent from the series.
This film also features two memorable components which rank among the most iconic images from the series: the introduction of the man-mountain Jaws, and the Lotus Espirit which while not being quite the vision of beauty…

There hadn't been a James Bond movie like The Spy Who Loved Me for almost a decade, the previous three had veered far too into Americanisation to suit the period and lost that epic sense of scope that characterised the franchise in the 1960's. A master stroke getting director Lewis Gilbert back behind the helm then, who brings that grandeur and gravitas he displayed in You Only Live Twice back to the series, to greater effect. It's the first (perhaps only) great Roger Moore 007 film and easily one of the series' best outings to this day.

Where Guy Hamilton was more interested in sleek style and greater loyalty to Fleming's tomes in his previous movies, Gilbert veers closer to…

Part of:
Dr. No-vember or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bond Films

Which bullet has my name on it? The first or the last?
-James Bond

Cubby Broccoli deserves some recognition for having guts. Now the sole producer of the franchise he would receive all the blame if the next film failed. Even though The Man with the Golden Gun underperformed at the box office, Broccoli still doubles the budget for The Spy Who Loved Me making it the most expensive Bond Film up to date making it an even bigger risk rather then just keeping the budget at a modest level.

Even though it had twice the money, the film was fighting an up hill…

Day ten of the Bond Film Marathon, film 10:The Spy Who Loved Me. Regarded as Moore's absolute best and one of the best period, I can agree with that for the most part. Once again, straying away from the original source material, for the most part, this is a really fun, enjoyable, film. It is a bit long and can drag, but It's quite entertaining.

SLBMs from Britain and the Soviet Union have disappeared and Bond has been dispatched to answer the call and a great ski chase ensures. Upon hearing of a highly advanced submarine part being on the market and headed to Egypt, Bond is bound to head there as is Agent XXX, Anya Amasova. Upon arriving, the…

Roger Moore, in fine form with his crafted puns and ultra-smooth 007 style returns for the big budget and visually stunning 'The Spy Who Loved Me', now running from just one producer, the legendary Albert R "Cubby" Broccoli, taking full control after the departure of Harry Saltzman.

This is the 'Goldfinger' for Moore's run and of the most exciting and memorable James Bond movies for a number of reasons:

1) The famous ski-parachute jump in the pre-title sequence
2) The introduction of steel toothed killer Jaws (Richard Kiel)
3) The Lotus Esprit sports car turning into a submarine
4) The showcase of thel argest sound stage ever: 007 Studios at Pinewood for the final confrontation inside the Liparus oil tanker.…