Octopussy was 1983 also. And I'd say the whole tricking NATO into unilaterally disarming its own nuclear arsenal is more of an 80s type of deal.
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Personally there's just something wrong about Never Say Never Again. I mean, Roger Moore looked too old in most of his Bond movies but he at least had the talk and lanky thing goin for him which helped him not look too dopey, and he always looked too old so he just looked a bit older by the end of things.
Right now it's the scene in NSNA where Connery is fighting the really strong dude in the health club, and he's just got a pot belly and looks way too old. He unfortunately is at the disadvantage of not playing Bond for 12 years before doing it again.
Still you look at Live and Let Die, then View To a Kill, which are 12 years apart, and Moore in View To A Kill ain't lookin so bad off compared to himself in Live and Let Die, whereas Connery in Never Say Never Again looks a lot worse off than he did in Diamonds Are Forever.