![]() ![]() The marriage between the Bond franchise and Walken was a match made in heaven. His character is Max Zorin, a microchip manufacturer looking to increase his market share by destroying Silicon Valley with a cataclysmic earthquake. Moore’s age doesn’t diminish the movie’s greatest strength: namely its deranged villain, played with typically delightful lunacy by Christopher Walken. But if the Moore of 1973 had starred in it? It might have been one of his very best. Then I actually watched the movie and a very strange thing happened: I liked it. With a hero this decrepit, “A View to a Kill” could never rise to the status of a great Bond movie. So when I rented the film just prior to writing that “Worst Bond Movies” piece, I planned to refresh my memory, confirm my opinion, and find some material for a few old guy jokes (“Moore was so old he had to take Viagra an hour before shooting the action scenes just in case he wanted to fire his gun.”). When I saw “A View to a Kill” as a teenager, I thought it was laughable. Until recently, I agreed with the consensus. You don’t want to be the old man at the club. But he’s still there in his bellbottoms every Tuesday for 70s Night. ![]() Everyone else of his generation has moved on, gotten married, had kids, gotten a desk job. To paraphrase the classic Chris Rock routine, “A View to a Kill” Roger Moore is like the old man at the club. It’s beyond the point where it’s creepy for him to sleep with younger women it’s just kind of sad (his main female co-star, Tanya Roberts, just turned 57 – in 2012). On this fact, there’s very little argument - including from Moore himself, who later joked he was “only about 400 years too old for that part” in 1985. ![]() Most of their disapproval is reserved for Moore himself, who was 57 by the time he made “A View to a Kill,” and clearly too old to play a physically vigorous secret agent. Hating “A View to a Kill” is as close to a consensus as they get. They could spend eternity debating who was the best villain or the best Bond girl. Fifteen odd years later not much has changed a few weeks ago, USA Today gave it the same dubious honor. I was an impressionable teen at the time, and I took the list as gospel watching all the Bond movies (many for the first time) in the order they were ranked by EW. In conjunction with one of his films (I forget which), Entertainment Weekly did their own ranking of the entire franchise from best to worst. My own Bond nostalgia dates to the mid-’90s, when Pierce Brosnan took over the role. “A View to a Kill” is routinely ranked around or at the absolute bottom of every other list of the worst Bond films. The most disagreement off my list - the movie that the most readers argued should have been included - was 1985’s “A View to a Kill,” the seventh and final Bond adventure featuring Roger Moore as 007. I'd sell everything and live in a tent before I give up.Jacob Elordi Joins Richard Gere in Paul Schrader’s ‘Oh, Canada’ So Zorin sent along his gorillas to help you make up your mind. Well, that's what the $5 million were for, your shares? And I've just managed to hold on to this house and-and my shares. It's taken everything I had: all the cash, all the furniture, everything. He took over Sutton Oil on a rigged proxy fight. ![]() He left Sutton Oil to Dad, who expected me, as the only child, to take it over someday. Now, you were telling me about your grandfather. ![]()
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