Who is your favorite Bond?

[undertaker]

Bond??

I think Ward Bond is my favorite Bond, followed by the popular savings bond.lol lol

Regards,
J.S.

 

[221b]

I also think that Craig brings alot of ruggedness to Bond that Brosnan was missing. I don't dislike Brosnan, but I like Craig alot more!

 

[221b]

Thanks Harp!:eusa_clap

 

[Hawkcigar]

I think Sean Connery was the best. Everyone else pales in comparison, IMHO.

 

[Solid Citizen]

MR.CRAIG

Thought Craig was pretty good & really liked the movie. :eusa_clap

Never been a big Brosnan fan. [huh]

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[Girl Friday]

Daniel Craig

Yep, he'd be my favorite now, just went to see it last night. I thought it was excellent.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

That's Bond..

Jimmy Bond. Woody Allen. Casino Royale (1967)

dixon cannon

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Roger Moore was far to much of a Ponce for me--I cringe everytime I see him doing anything action-oriented. Honestly, the Moore films are more Austin Powers then they are James Bond. "Judo CHOP!" CheersCraig

Roger Moore will always be Simon Templar "The Saint", to me!

-dixon cannon

 

[Dixon Cannon]

The 'real' bond..

Spy Extraordinaire

http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/sydney_reilly/index.html

http://www.bondmovies.com/reilly.shtml

Here is the 'real' Bond. Ian Fleming used Sidney Reilly as his model, but always admitted that James Bond was a figment of imagination - Reilly was the real deal.

-dixon cannon

 

[scotrace]

Rest well, Roger Moore.

 

[Mister Cairo]

Daniel Craig.
George Lazenby (he and the film were unfairly criticized. Had he continued - and he quit, he was not fired - he would be high in the pecking order).
Sean Connery (an icon, From Russia With Love his best film and one of the best overall, but otherwise he didn't play Bond, he played Connery. He mailed it in for Thunderball and Never Say Never Again, and frankly, the material he was given was mostly ludicrous.)
Roger Moore (sentimental reasons - Bond of my childhood and teens - and not as bad as many say or he wouldn't have lasted seven films).
Timothy Dalton.
Pierce Brosnan (he was an idea, not a Bond).

 

[Frunobulax]

Daniel Craig.
George Lazenby (he and the film were unfairly criticized. Had he continued - and he quit, he was not fired - he would be high in the pecking order).
Sean Connery (an icon, From Russia With Love his best film and one of the best overall, but otherwise he didn't play Bond, he played Connery. He mailed it in for Thunderball and Never Say Never Again, and frankly, the material he was given was mostly ludicrous.)
Roger Moore (sentimental reasons - Bond of my childhood and teens - and not as bad as many say or he wouldn't have lasted seven films).
Timothy Dalton.
Pierce Brosnan (he was an idea, not a Bond).

I sort of disagree about Connery. I grew up with him and the early Bond movies, and also devoured most of the books prior to seeing the movies. For me, Connery "created" Bond for the screen. It's been a long time since I read the books, so I don't think my assessment of the literary character would be fair. IMHO, the movies/stories told in the early Bond films were the best ones. Solid spy stories that were interesting.

Moore was a great Bond, and I loved him at the time, but my love for those movies waned over the years because they didn't wear well. All Bond movies are a product of their time, but these seem more dated than most. Toss in the campiness (which I loved at the time, but hey, I was an adolescent!) and elevating the gadgetry to a main character, and those movies don't stand up as well.

I agree about Lazenby, and Dalton is a great actor, and was a fine Bond. But Dalton's movies weren't as well written. I must confess, though, to have missed most of the Brosnan editions, and for some reason, I've never gone back to catch up.

I really like Craig's take, though. Even though his movies are resplendent with "action," at least some of the spy stuff has worked its way back into the plot. His seems to be a good character study in Bond, his background, and motivations. I hope we get a couple more with him - I enjoy them.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Connery, and then Dalton tied with Craig.

Lazenby? I haven't seen OHMSS in a long time, and he may have played it a little too light, though that was the trend in the films then. But I agree, had he not quit, he could have developed quite a bit. He had the luxury of appearing in one of the best adaptations of a Fleming book, too.

Moore is too much Simon Templar for me. There are moments in the Moore movies that work well. In For Your Eyes Only, I think it is, his Bond questions a killer who is in a car teetering on the edge of a cliff, and when Bond has the info he needs, he kicks the car and sends the thug down to a fiery death.

I've never seen most of the Pierce Brosnan films, so I can't say about him.

Best movies as movies: Skyfall, From Russia With Love, Doctor No, Goldfinger, the Craig Casino Royale, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Best adaptations of Fleming's original work: the same, leaving out Skyfall (though the writers of that classic did indeed hearken back to the Fleming text at more than one point: e.g., naming Bond's parents and featuring his Scots background).

 

[navetsea]

Henry Cavill could make a great Bond

 

[Seb Lucas]

Connery. But the films were better and, for their time, original. The whole Bond concept is now pretty tired and dull no matter how it's rebooted. Craig does what he can but for me the films are bombastic and overly preoccupied by a self-conscious retelling of the Bond legend,with poorly constructed scripts.

 

[Michael R.]

 

[Frunobulax]

Somewhat of a threadjack, but I was pointed in the direction of this site a couple of days ago.

 

[Benzadmiral]

The 'real' bond..

Spy Extraordinaire

http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/sydney_reilly/index.html

http://www.bondmovies.com/reilly.shtml

Here is the 'real' Bond. Ian Fleming used Sidney Reilly as his model, but always admitted that James Bond was a figment of imagination - Reilly was the real deal.

-dixon cannon

There was a miniseries on PBS, I think, in the mid-Eighties, dramatizing his life and adventures -- with Sam (Jurassic Park) Neill as Sidney Reilly. (I'm tellin' you, if Neill had been a bit taller, he could have played Bond himself.)

 

[Fading Fast]

Connery. But the films were better and, for their time, original. The whole Bond concept is now pretty tired and dull no matter how it's rebooted. Craig does what he can but for me the films are bombastic and overly preoccupied by a self-conscious retelling of the Bond legend,with poorly constructed scripts.

I basically agree. The first three Connery ones in particular were a fresh jump forward in spy / action adventure movies; whereas, today, they are, IMHO, just another modern spy / action adventure movie but in a Bond not Jason Bourne or Mission Impossible, etc. wrapper.

Not really their fault as those original Connery ones were copied and expanded on by the Bond producers and everyone else, but leaves me kinda cold to all of them. Even, lately, the Bond films which I still watch, but with much, much less enthusiasm - other than a brief blip up for Craig's "Casino Royale" (which, IMHO, echoed back to the original Connery ones).

 

[PeterGunnLives]

I enjoy all of the Bonds on different levels, depending on my mood.

But to me, the first three Connery movies are definitive Bond. If all copies everywhere of every Bond movie after Goldfinger were suddenly mysteriously vaporized and gone forever, I think I would be OK with that.