Best Bond?

[EagerBeaver]

Craig is locked into a Knives Out sequel and will properly be paid big money for same:

Knives Out sequel will have an entirely new cast except for Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc

"I'm starting with a blank page," says Rian Johnson

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His Benoit Blanc character is classic. Only a British guy can make a Kentucky accent sound like Foghorn Leghorn on steroids, yet somehow make the character work and become the glue character of that movie. He was almost like Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther.

 

[bamjay]

I like Daniel Craig a lot, he's a great modern Bond, also a good actor in general.

But in terms of "best Bond", well...:

 

[The Nature Boy]

RIP double Oh seven....

 

[TheJames101]

Craig is certainly closer to the literary version, but Sean is almost unbeatable as the screen Bond. Ultimately there are no bad Bonds (some say Lazenby - it's subjective)... each brought their own flavour... but Sean's is the standard, and will always be no matter what happens going forward.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Some say that Lazenby's fight scene execution was the best of any Bond, but he was a weaker actor than the others. Fight scene execution was his strength. He was an athletic dude.

 

[jeff teliska]

I will always remember him as Henry Jones Sr.

 

[TheJames101]

Some say that Lazenby's fight scene execution was the best of any Bond, but he was a weaker actor than the others. Fight scene execution was his strength. He was an athletic dude.

I guess he had a certain intensity, but the speed-ramping in his fight scenes take me out of it a bit (and a few of the early Bond's for that matter). He also had a bit of a "flailing arms" technique in his fights, which I found off, and unrealistic.

 

[Like_It_Hot]

I did appreciate all Bond's movies. I have all of them home and watch them regularly. I like them for different reasons but I should admit the ones prior to Daniel Craig are more cartoonesque. The Craig's ones seem more in accordance with the spirit of the Ian Fleming's books. Anyway Sean was a great actor and we will miss him.

 

[Bbw hunter]

Tanya Roberts just passed away. She played Stacey Sutton in A VIEW TO A KILL and was super hot.
RIP.

 

[Bbw hunter]

Wow, this is weird. Looks like Tanya bounced back in a big way.
She is alive!
News reports now say she was very close to death and her boyfriend mistakenly thought she died and alerted the media.

 

[David Letterman]

Best Bond = Roger Moore

Worse Bond = George Lazenby

 

[TheJames101]

Wow, this is weird. Looks like Tanya bounced back in a big way.
She is alive!
News reports now say she was very close to death and her boyfriend mistakenly thought she died and alerted the media.

And now she's actually dead. RIP.

 

[Bbw hunter]

Best Bond = Roger Moore

Worse Bond = George Lazenby

Close but no cigar, Letterman.
Moore was indeed great but was 2nd best. Third best was Lazenby.
Worst was Dalton.
Connery #1.

 

[Pinkjordan]

Agree with Hunter

 

[STAEDTLER]

Best Bond movie: Casino royale.
Best Bond actor : Connery followed by Craig not far behind.

 

[Blacko]

Connery popularity has the 60s gadget wow factor. What gadgets can you have today?

 

[EagerBeaver]

Connery popularity has the 60s gadget wow factor. What gadgets can you have today?

Q came up with some cool gadgets for Bond, but my favorite 60s gadget was Oddjob's razor-rimmed hat:

I would like to have a hat like that.

 

[CLOUD 500]

Best Bond actor was Sean Connery and Roger Moore. They had the charisma and classic British suave and cool collected type. I cannot say I have a favorite bond movie but I like A View to A Kill, GoldenEye, Dr.No, Goldfinger, etc.. The Living Daylights, etc. I did not like any of the newer movies with Craig. I stopped watching all Bond movies since Craig. I watch just the classic ones. I do not like the way they are making the movies now. I remember playing GoldenEye on N64 and that is when I got into the Bond films. The first Bond movie I ever watched was A View to a Kill.

 

[EagerBeaver]

I cannot say I have a favorite bond movie but I like A View to A Kill.......The first Bond movie I ever watched was A View to a Kill.

It should be noted that critics excoriated Roger Moore for the perceived impact of his age on his performance in this film, far moreso than they did Craig for his last film. It also should be noted that the only Bond Theme Song to ever hit #1 on the Billboard charts was Duran Duran's A View To a Kill:

 

[EagerBeaver]

For what it is worth, and I think I may have said this earlier in the thread, but the 2 all time best Bond theme songs - with apologies to Sir Paul McCartney for "Live and Let Die" (which I rank #3) are both by female artists: "Nobody Does It Better" by Carly Simon, and "You Only Live Twice" By Nancy Sinatra: