Who Is The Best James Bond ?

[Beach Hut]

Very surprised how many voted for Moore, he was good as in witty and funny but in later bond films I always thought he was just taking the piss out of the whole thing.

 

[Statto]

Connery. The trouble with Moore is he went on too long in the role. After his first 3 films, The rest were just bad or average at best. I dint like dalton personally, Brosnan was a bit up and down, And i think craig Hs the potential to be as good as connery, although he has been unlucky with the plot lines. Lazenby gets a lot of bad press for HMSS considering it was his first major acting role. If he had stayed on and done DAF then He may have been thought of in a different light.

 

[Gwylan]

I have read Fleming and I have to say Craig does give the closest interpretation of the literary character yet.

Have to agree with this - he's by far the closest to the book Bond... but Connery is still the best

 

[drew]

Yes, where is Davd Niven in that list?

As for Daniel Craig, he is just too trendy, too butch, too macho. The other JBs are suave, sophisitcated, handsome, smooth, Craig is all tight T Shirts, crew cuts and muscles, that is just not what james Bond is. This is with reference to the movies, I haven't read the books, but I understand the are a totally different style altogether.

The thing about Craig is that you have to remember that the others were portraying a Bond who was already an established agent whereas Craig is a novice at the job, ie he has only just achieved double O status. He looks like he can hurt people and more importantly looks like he gets hurt himself.

I have read Fleming and I have to say Craig does give the closest interpretation of the literary character yet.

However, he is still a clunking, ugly wooden plank of an actor so Moore it is for me too.

Should have been Clive Owen who got the role.

So, Roger 'only my eyebrows went to Rada' Moore is not a wooden actor!!!!



Craig
Connery
Dalton
Brosnan
Moore
Lazenby
(don't include Niven as fine an actor as he was, his Bond was a spoof).

That's my order of preference. Obviously Craig has the benefit of better effects etc than Connery so if they were both acting the role today then who knows. What let Connery down was the hairpiece in Never Say Never Again.

 

[vegster]

Craig is the only one since Connery who is actually BELIEVABLE as a bloke who could do some serious damage to someone The rest of them would have been too concerned with their hair.

Good point... Bond is meant to use every method at his disposal in order to to get who and what he wants. If that manifests itself as brutal, quick, and unexpected violence ,Craig is your man.

However, the ultimate Bond has to be Connery at the moment, if Daniel Craig makes six or seven Bonds and takes the character to a new level then so be it !

However, I must add an honorable attempt by Dalton.. the film where he tracked down the gang that nearly killed Felix and killed them was great acting and I, for one saw the burning revenge in his eyes...

 

[Spiros]

The one in the books, the films are crap in comparison.

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I've recently finished reading all of the Bond books in the order in which they were written (not the same as the order of the films) and they are all quality. If the films were truer to the books then (1) they'd be a lot better and (2) they'd mostly be cert 15 or 18.

Sean Connery was the best Bond for me, especially in Dr No. Daniel Craig is pretty good though. Although they weren't true at all to the books the Roger Moore films were just good entertainment in their own right. If you read 'The Spy Who Loved Me' as well as seeing the film you'd realise that the only thing they have in common is the title and the name of the main character.

 

[The Large One]

If ham was bacon, Roger Moore would have written Shakespeare's plays.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

If ham was bacon, Roger Moore would have written Shakespeare's plays.

Oh very droll.

 

[Stat Brother]

I do appriciate I'm mixing the real world with 'filmland', so it probably won't make sense, but nevertheless, here goes:-

The thing with Connery, for me, is as much as he was/is a product of the time, there are a few scenes which by modern day values are fairly unpleasant.

Re watching his 'turning' of Pussy Galore, would now have him banged to rights and doing 5-10 years in the nonce wing.

Obviously it's only a film, etc, but it certainly wouldn't be filmed like that today, and I can't really remember any of the books being so 'forceful'.

Values have changed, but for that I still mark him down to 3rd.

 

[Uncle Buck]

Dalton, simply as he was the closest to the Fleming character.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

The thing with Connery, for me, is as much as he was/is a product of the time, there are a few scenes which by modern day values are fairly unpleasant.

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There's a scene in Dr No where he tells the black dude to "fetch my shoes"

 

[NMH]

Connery by a mile.
He had the right combinations of surety, confidence, and then nerves and real reactions in the right places. Disheveled, shaken not stirred, wry, and still human.

Craig is a poof, and Moore was too slick and overbearing - he would stand out when a spy is supposed to stay incognito, and his film's effects and gadgets went a bit too far as well.

 

[Stat Brother]

I can't be arsed to start another Bond thread.

For me the best Bond opening sequence, always used to be the Union Jack parachute.
But my reason for loving Casino Royale and Craig, is the opening fight in the toilet.
Which instantly had me thinking 'blimey, I'm watching something here'.

Then to follow that with the free running scenes, had me open mouthed with popcorn tumbling out, I didn't move a muscle for the first 20mins of the film.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Roger Moore for me all the way.