{"id":32147,"date":"2013-01-12T23:09:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T06:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/12\/film-review-live-and-let-die-1973.html"},"modified":"2013-01-12T23:09:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T06:09:01","slug":"film-review-live-and-let-die-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/12\/film-review-live-and-let-die-1973.html","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: &quot;Live and Let Die&quot; (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moore &#8212; at least when he started off\u00a0&#8212; was a worthy Bond.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/psycho.cf1.letterboxd.com\/assets\/resized\/sm\/upload\/qc\/od\/3v\/6c\/xUS2KSLK5tqxgCZsGgfyuXTRzUz-0-150-0-222-crop.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/live-and-let-die\/'>Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Live and Let Die (1973) on Letterboxd.com<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAs Roger Moore&#8217;s first outing in the role of James Bond, he does a fine job &#8212; if intentionally (per directorial decision) avoiding much of what we think of as classic Bond schtick &#8212; no martinis (bou&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/hH2yUrCqPUN' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moore &#8212; at least when he started off\u00a0&#8212; was a worthy Bond. Embedded Link Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Live and Let Die (1973) on Letterboxd.com As Roger Moore&#8217;s first outing in the role of James Bond, he does a fine job &#8212; if intentionally (per directorial decision) avoiding much of what we think of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/12\/film-review-live-and-let-die-1973.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Film Review: &quot;Live and Let Die&quot; (1973)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37617,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/06\/movie-review-goldeneye-1995.html","url_meta":{"origin":32147,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Goldeneye&quot; (1995)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Jun-13 10:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my favorite Bond films, which status is reconfirmed on a rewatch. 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