Your favourite James Bond
Who's your favourite Bond actor?
Your favourite James Bond 281 votes
Sean Connery
27%
77 votes
David Niven
0%
2 votes
George Lazenby
3%
10 votes
Roger Moore
24%
69 votes
Timothy Dalton
12%
36 votes
Pierce Brosnan
14%
41 votes
Daniel Craig
16%
46 votes
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It's Connery, without question, the fact that Moore is currently level in the vote is making me question my faith in humanity.
btw - legend has it that when ole' Rog got the role after The Saint he sent his old agent a telegram. Still can't act, it said, but not doing too badly.
How could you not love that?
That was the point, the studio hired the Bourne second unit after the success of the series and the dismal failure of Brosnan's last couple of Bonds.
With the exception of the finger sucking I would say Craig's Bond is very faithful to Fleming's vision (obviously not visually, but surely appearance is the least important trait of a character in a book) and a damn sight grittier that what I remember of Dalton.
Obviously great, just not who I was used to as Bond.
The Spy Who Loved Me
Moonraker
Roger Moore, his Bond movies also had my favourite soundtracks.
James Bourne just does nothing for me; I know they say it's faithful to the books but I don't care - as a child Bond was about one-liners, gadgets, beautiful women and excitement i.e: Bond on the big screen!
The public’s perception of Bond has always primarily been judged by the films – all you hipster 'James Bond of the books' brigade don't seem to understand that.
1: Roger Moore (classic)
2: Sean Connery (classic)
3: Pierce Brosnan (decent enough but by the end the films just weren't good enough)
4: Timothy Dalton (not bad but not much screen presence)
5: Daniel Craig (not my cup of tea - mumbly, boring and not my idea of Bond)
6: George Lazenby (awful, I know nowadays its hip to reclaim OHMSS as a lost classic but I just think its crap tbh)
7: David Niven (never was a Bond imho)
I don't think it's hip to claim that OHMSS is a classic, i just think that it is.
If you look beyond the Lazenby issue, it's a really good action thriller. There's no doubt in my mind that if Connery had done it, it would be seen as one of his best.
I didn't like it at all, Lazenby was poor, the action as poor, the car chase has the worst back projection ever and the Traci relationship just doesn't seem 'James Bond' if you know what I mean.
And as for the end were Bond cries :yawn: I don't want to see a crying James Bond
James Bond doesn’t cry; he is in the words of M “a sexist, misogynist dinosaur”.
Lazenby is my 3rd favourite Bond after Roger Moore and Sean Connery.
Personally i love back projection, i love it in Bond and old Hitchcock films.
If that's how things were filmed at the time then to me it represents that.