February 5 movie: On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Between this and the early Connery movies, I finally get the Bond thing. It's not just the presence of Diana Rigg, although that helped a lot. In the good ones the plots and supervillains and sex-crazed girls are still silly, but the right star can pull it off. Roger Moore just wasn't "rico suave" like Sean Connery and George Lazenby, and Moore's movies were way too campy. (Can I interject how hard it is for me to type "George" with an e? I drop the e every single time.)
It's too bad Lazenby never did anything after this movie. Well according to IMDB he did a lot, but all crap. Some Hong Kong movies, a bunch of Emmanuelle movies, even a stint on General Hospital in 1982. That was around the time I started watching GH, but I don't remember his character. He must have been on very briefly, because there's another character now with the same first name. And they never reuse first names of characters with any import. That's one of the reasons so many soap characters have stupid names: they used all the normal names decades ago. But then again, lots of real kids are being given stupid names these days so maybe they're just following the trend.
Anyway. Lisa pointed out, and I wholeheartedly agree, that Clive Owen strongly resembles Lazenby. Both of them have cleft chins so deep they look like butts. I've only seen a couple of Owen's movies -- Croupier and Gosford Park -- but he seems like he'll be a good choice for Bond. I read that the next Bond movie will be another go at Casino Royale. Coincidentally, Lisa and I decided we should watch the original Casino Royale next. The Clive Owen version isn't even listed on IMDB yet so I guess it will be awhile before it comes out.
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