A former James Bond star, Roger Moore, said he has seen the new Bond flick “Casino Royale” but he has not yet seen the new one “Quantum of Solace”. Moore says he isn’t impressed with them at all. He said he hated how the films has turned violent and graphic, he explains how that is NOT James Bond.
He says positive things about the new James Bond actor, that man is Daniel Craig. He says Daniel IS Bond. Moore just doesn’t want the new films to be so violent. The earlier James Bond flicks were violent sure but they weren’t as graphic as “Casino Royale” and “Quantum” was. The earlier Bond flicks were family friendly, the newer Bond flicks with Daniel Craig are aiming more toward the adult audience.
Roger Moore played James Bond pretty much throughout the 70’s and most of the 80’s, Moore starred in the 007 films such as “The Man With the Golden Gun”, “A View To Kill”, “The Spy Who Loved Me”, “Moonraker”, etc.
More on it here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE4AA63P20081111
“Quantum of Solace” comes out this Friday night, don’t know if I’ll see it in theater or not. I’ll probably wait for DVD on this one, not sure. I’m more interested in seeing “Twilight” than this one though.
But as far as Roger Moore’s comments on the new films goes, I don’t agree with him. I’ve seen “Casino Royale” and the violence in that film is not as bad and graphic as he claims. Maybe he is just old and not used to today’s violent films just yet. In “Casino Royale” there is only one scene that is very graphic when James Bond is captured by badguys and he is getting violently tortured by them. That’s the only graphic scene out of the whole movie but other than that, the rest of the film isn’t that bad. The violence in the rest of “Casino Royale” is similar to the older flicks.
Kev
K'Brocking 
I don’t think the new Bonds are overly violent by my own standards, but if I had children myself I probably would not want them to see Casino Royale until they were old enough. I think what Roger means by this is that the older films had more implied violence in them instead of actually showing anything that could be considered really graphic. In essence, the whole family could watch a Bond together – the kids would be wowed by the gadgets and cool stunt sequences, and the adults could have a chuckle at the double entendres that would go over the kids’ heads (sometimes).
What’s kind of funny about this is that the tendency towards more violent material actually started in the last Moore film, A View to a Kill. There’s a slightly graphic scene where Christopher Walken’s character is shown gleefully laughing and having a good old time while gunning down a whole bunch of innocent mine workers. I seem to remember Roger being a bit upset that the scene was included in the final cut of the film.
I don’t think the new Bonds are overly violent by my own standards, but if I had children myself I probably would not want them to see Casino Royale until they were old enough. I think what Roger means by this is that the older films had more implied violence in them instead of actually showing anything that could be considered really graphic. In essence, the whole family could watch a Bond together – the kids would be wowed by the gadgets and cool stunt sequences, and the adults could have a chuckle at the double entendres that would go over the kids’ heads (sometimes).
What’s kind of funny about this is that the tendency towards more violent material actually started in the last Moore film, A View to a Kill. There’s a slightly graphic scene where Christopher Walken’s character is shown gleefully laughing and having a good old time while gunning down a whole bunch of innocent mine workers. I seem to remember Roger being a bit upset that the scene was included in the final cut of the film.
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