Favorite Bond - BESIDES Sean!

[Texasmame]

I figured Connery would run away with it, & what fun would that be? 

Anyhow, pick one.

[Grasshopper]

I voted for Daniel Craig. He was excellent in Casino Royale and if he grows into the part and is given decent material to work with (that's a big if) then I think he has the potential to be the best bond Ever. However at the moment I'd still say that Connery has the edge.

[GadgetGeek]

Why is David Niven not on that list?  (Casino Royale - 1967)
:-)

[AtomSmasher]

I thought Pierce Brosnan was a great bond, even though all but one of his movies were crap.

Daniel Craig did do a great job in the latest movie, but he's completely missing Bond's "look".  Maybe if he comes out with another great Bond movie I'll no longer care.

[Texasmame]

I thought Pierce Brosnan was a great bond, even though all but one of his movies were crap.

Daniel Craig did do a great job in the latest movie, but he's completely missing Bond's "look".  Maybe if he comes out with another great Bond movie I'll no longer care.

Whaaat?  You didn't buy Denise Richards as a Nuclear Scientist?   

[pointdablame]

I don't care if he's not on your list.

I vote for Connery

[danny_galaga]

i should vote lazenby because hes an aussie, but craigs performance really hit the mark i think...

[Texasmame]

i should vote lazenby because hes an aussie, but craigs performance really hit the mark i think...

He did do an awesome job, but I think it's still too early to give him the nod as the "best."  Another performance in a good film like CR, and he may be it, tho.

[Texasmame]

FWIW, I'd like to see Craig's next Bond flick be another "remake" - "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."

They really need to have a "real" Bond in that one.

That bobsled scene is one of the best scenes in a Bond flick!

[shardian]

I vote Roger Moore for two reasons:

1.I was a little kid when his movies came out, so I dug the cheese factor, along with Jaws.
2. I haven't seen the new bond.

[danny_galaga]

i grew up with moore as well. you still cant beat the gadgets from his era. like that lotus esprit (",)

[Ed_McCarron]

I don't get it.

I didn't see Gorilla Glue on the list anywhere.

[shmokes]

I dislike Roger Moore as Bond, and I don't think he has "the Bond look" either.  He's too big and oafish looking and has goofy hair.  He doesn't look like he'd be athletic at all, except as a linebacker.  Of particular importance to the Bond look is being attractive, and on that note Moore fails miserably.  At any rate, though, he looks more like a wealthy investment broker or an architect than a superspy.

edit: I should note, though, that (like Shardian) when I was a kid I thought the Bond movies were great and Jaws was always my favorite Bond villain.  But when I watch them today I realize that they were generally mediocre to bad.

[Dexter]

Daniel Craig is a breath of fresh air right when the series needed it. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Brosnan in he role, but Craig has a gritty, 'believable' factor in a day and age when we question o.t.t. charachters and plotlines.

Anyone else miss Q and all the gadgets in Casino Royale? 

[MYX]

I vote Roger Moore for two reasons:

1.I was a little kid when his movies came out, so I dug the cheese factor, along with Jaws.
2. I haven't seen the new bond.

Ditto. When someone talks about James Bond, Moore is what comes to mind first for me. Man with the golden Gun was my first bond movie. Not that it was a good movie, but when you are a kid and everything is James Bond and that is the fist movie you saw, it sort of becomes the baddest thing you ever saw (until star wars came out).
I have heard that the new bond movie has some amazing stuff though.

[Glaine]

I really wish they would make Connery a Bond villain.

It's a better setup than when 007 has to fight with his former colleage in Goldeneye.

And you can already see the line that would be in all the commercials: "I used to have your job, Bond"

The problem would be everyone would secretly want Connery to win and get rid of the current goody 007, and the typcial American movie goer doesn't care for endings that don't let the good guy win. It would conflict the audience.

I have a friend who will watch a whole series of a show and like it just fine, but if the ending isn't formulaic with the hero winning and everything returning to "just fine status", he calls the whole series crap.

[danny_galaga]

And you can already see the line that would be in all the commercials: "I used to have your job, Bond"

oh yeah! that would be awesome (",)

[M3talhead]

Favorite Bond - BESIDES Sean!

[shmokes]

Some stuff I read on Wikipedia about Roger Moore that I found entertaining (and pretty accurate, IMO):

. . . fans of his from outside the UK have often been surprised and disappointed to find that, in Britain, he is not critically respected (in the way that Anthony Hopkins and indeed, Sean Connery are), and has sometimes been viewed as a joke figure, in the way Americans regard David Hasselhoff or William Shatner.

In The Good Film And Video Guide (published 1986), David Shipman wrote of A View To A Kill that Moore as James Bond was 'not so much like a piece of plastic, as something embalmed but moving'.

The satire show Spitting Image once had a sketch in which their latex likeness of Moore, when asked to display emotions by an offscreen director, does nothing but raise an eyebrow. . . That series later featured a Bond movie spoof, The Man With The Wooden Delivery, with Moore's puppet receiving orders from Margaret Thatcher to kill Mikhail Gorbachev, and many other comedy shows of that time ridiculed Moore's acting . . .

[(+_+)]

I'm taking a different approach to the question.

I've liked every Bond except Timothy Dalton. He just wasn't James Bondy.

[shmokes]

I remember loving The Living Daylights, but not thinking License to Kill (Timothy Dalton's movies) was anything special.  Of course, this was when I was like 12 years old and I haven't seen them recently so my assessment is virtually meaningless.

[Texasmame]

Some stuff I read on Wikipedia about Roger Moore that I found entertaining (and pretty accurate, IMO):

. . . fans of his from outside the UK have often been surprised and disappointed to find that, in Britain, he is not critically respected (in the way that Anthony Hopkins and indeed, Sean Connery are), and has sometimes been viewed as a joke figure, in the way Americans regard David Hasselhoff or William Shatner.

In The Good Film And Video Guide (published 1986), David Shipman wrote of A View To A Kill that Moore as James Bond was 'not so much like a piece of plastic, as something embalmed but moving'.

The satire show Spitting Image once had a sketch in which their latex likeness of Moore, when asked to display emotions by an offscreen director, does nothing but raise an eyebrow. . . That series later featured a Bond movie spoof, The Man With The Wooden Delivery, with Moore's puppet receiving orders from Margaret Thatcher to kill Mikhail Gorbachev, and many other comedy shows of that time ridiculed Moore's acting . . .

Those were the damn weird looking puppets in Genesis' "Land of Confusion" video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jmqiOvgBAew

[Texasmame]

I remember loving The Living Daylights, but not thinking License to Kill (Timothy Dalton's movies) was anything special.  Of course, this was when I was like 12 years old and I haven't seen them recently so my assessment is virtually meaningless.

Damn, I'm the only one with manlove for Dalton?  I thought the rougher edge he brought to the character was good.  Plus, I thought Carey Lowell was hotter 'n hell (yes, wall-eye and all!).

http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/girls/lowell.php3

I guess I'm not really supposed to count that, tho. 

[patrickl]

The satire show Spitting Image once had a sketch in which their latex likeness of Moore, when asked to display emotions by an offscreen director, does nothing but raise an eyebrow. . . That series later featured a Bond movie spoof, The Man With The Wooden Delivery, with Moore's puppet receiving orders from Margaret Thatcher to kill Mikhail Gorbachev, and many other comedy shows of that time ridiculed Moore's acting . . .

Those were the damn weird looking puppets in Genesis' "Land of Confusion" video.

The Spitting Image puppets appeared in the video clip yes. They did some commercials too.

That sketch with Roger Moore was really cool yes. Actually, I think he could raise both eyebrows. So he could really act!

[Grasshopper]

Damn, I'm the only one with manlove for Dalton?  I thought the rougher edge he brought to the character was good.  Plus, I thought Carey Lowell was hotter 'n hell (yes, wall-eye and all!).

Dalton's stated aim at the time was to make the character grittier and I think he had the right idea. But in my opinion he couldn't quite pull it off. So we ended up with a Bond that lacked Connery's (and now Craig's) "rougher edge" but who also lacked Moore's charm and humour. Basically the worst of both worlds.

However despite that, I think the Dalton era films are generally better than the Brosnan era ones.

Also, I agree about Carey Lowell. Perhaps we should start a thread to see which is the most popular Bond girl.....