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Algren
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 For Your Eyes Only  Quote: For Your Eyes Only (1981) is the twelfth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fifth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
The screenplay takes its characters from and combines the plots of two short stories from Ian Fleming's collection For Your Eyes Only; the title story and "Risico". It also includes elements inspired by the novels Live and Let Die (the keelhauling sequence), Goldfinger (the identigraph sequence) and On Her Majesty's Secret Service (the opening at the graveyard).
In the film, Bond and Melina Havelock become tangled in a web of deception spun by rival Greek businessmen against the backdrop of Cold War spy games. Bond is after a missile command system known as the ATAC (a MacGuffin introduced to tie together the original stories' plots), whilst Melina is out to avenge the murder of her parents. As well as seeing a conscious return to the style of the early Bond films and the works of 007 creator Fleming, and therefore a more gritty, realistic approach (following the science-fiction Bond film Moonraker), the film is perhaps unusual for the Bond series in having a strong narrative theme: revenge and its personal consequences. For Your Eyes Only was also the first James Bond film to be directed by Bond editor/second unit director John Glen (the film also marks his feature film directorial debut), who would then direct the following four Bond films over a span of eight years (he directed every Bond movie that was released in the 1980s).
The film was released on 24 June 1981; despite its mixed critical reception, the film was a monetary success, generating $195.3 million worldwide, which helped save United Artists from bankruptcy after their 1980 box-office disaster Heaven's Gate by Michael Cimino. For Your Eyes Only was the last James Bond movie to be distributed solely by United Artists; they merged with MGM soon after and began focusing on blockbusters rather than personal films. _________________STOP UIGHUR GENOCIDE IN XINJIANG
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Maverikk
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One of the best Bond films. Roger Moore was more serious than in any other film, and showed range, especially the look on his face when he coldly kicked the bad guys car off the side of the cliff and watched him fall to his death.
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jb007
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Great movie. The action scenes are quite good.
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zennier
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Again, one of the more average Bonds. Very solid but unremarkable.
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Jmart
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[font=century gothic]This was the perfect Bond to follow Moonraker. Down to earth, gritty and emotional. Everything that the prior film wasn't. I get the feeling Casino Royale will be the For Your Eyes Only for today. That's a good thing.
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Johnny Dollar
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One of the very best Bond movies.
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xiayun
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Loved it. Probably has the best action choreography of any Bonds film. B+.
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andaroo1
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Agree with those here, this is one of the better outings and the most serious of the Moore films. Bond is a little mismatched with the girl (who isn't the best actress either, but that's what you get for hiring models).
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trixster
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Re: For Your Eyes Only I don't remember it well, but I do remember that it was probably the best Moore Bond (not hard, but y'know).
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Jmart
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Re: It's a solid if unremarkable entry into the Bond canon. The action is well done and it's certainly more down to Earth than Moonraker. But if there is one sacrifice and mistake the series made with sidelining the grandiose nature of the previous film, it's that they forgot that the villain still needs to be interesting even if he is toned down (see License to Kill). Julian Glover has got to be one of the most bland Bond villains in the series. He leaves no impression. The script gives him absolutely nothing to do. And his henchman...(Blondie?) might as well have just been a cutout of Robert Shaw from From Russia with Love. I do like the guy with the glasses, and the scene where Moore kicks him over the cliff while he's in his car is one of the series most iconic yet simple moments. I mentioned this before in what I wrote for The Spy Who Loved Me, but Moore's Bond, despite being criticized for being a little too humorous and little too campy (I'm guessing mostly faults assigned to him because of his last two films), can be really cold-blooded at times, and they're quite memorable.
For Your Eyes Only has its flaws, but it's good, and coming off Moonraker, that's all anyone could ask for.
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1. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) - ***** (A+)
2. Goldfinger (1964) - ***** (A+)
3. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) - ***** (A+)
4. From Russia with Love (1963) - ****½ (A)
5. Live and Let Die (1973) - ***½ (B+)
6. You Only Live Twice (1967) - *** (B)
7. For Your Eyes Only (1981) - *** (B)
8. Thunderball (1965) - *** (B)
9. Dr. No (1962) - *** (B)
10. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) - **½ (C+)
11. Diamonds are Forever (1971) - **½ (C+)
12. Moonraker (1979) - ** (C)
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Thegun
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Re: For Your Eyes Only My greatest complaint for Moore is not necessary the humor, it's his extreme lack of physical prowness. Even his best outing (Spy Who Loved Me) just is filled with obvious stunt doubles and Moore only appearing for the closeups in front of blue screens. Just ruins it for me time and time again. Connery even in Never Say Never again did most of his stunts in the fights scenes, in fact most of them had. I just don't understand considering he's and other action icons even have done more into there mid to late 60s.
The action is subdued here and Moore is given more to do, and I think that helps, along with the darker tone. This is probably my favorite of Moore's as well, but SWLM is a better film in general.
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Spy Who Loved Me- A
Moonraker- C-
For Your Eyes Only- B
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Jmart
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Re: For Your Eyes Only Yeah, as Moore got older it became more and more apparent that he wasn't doing his own stunts. You can tell because the stuntmen's wigs kept getting worse and worse. However, after rewatching these films I don't think Connery did much more stunt work than Moore, He just had the better fight scenes like the one on the train in FRWL and the one on the elevator in DAF. There are many points during the Connery films where you can tell its not him if you look closely enough. They just a did a better job of hiding it because Bob Simmons (Connery's stunt double) looked very similar to him. But if you look closely you can see the differences.
Connery probably did slightly more work than Moore, but Moore had the benefit of better green/blue screen/rear projection at the time, now it of course looks dated) so it looked like he did less.
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David
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Re: For Your Eyes Only I'll buy you a delicatessen.
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