Best Bond?

[Meta not Meta]

Haha, yeah, that's funny; I can definitely relate to the above ...

Luciana Paluzzi as Fiona Volpe is wild, the first of the Bond-girl 'femmes fatales' so evil that (like Famke Janssen in Goldeneye) not even Bond can bang the bad out of her! Extra points for the hints at S/M and her one-upmanship of Bond in their sex scene together.

Great death scene, too:

https://youtu.be/N3DVMl2i0ik

 

[No_Church_InThe_Wild]

Time to cast my vote :smile:
Best Bond girl : Pussy Galore .For being such a Beautiful woman and for her ridiculous name of course.

And most recently: Eva Green: Breathtakingly beautiful. They gave her a real personality and the dialogue between her and Bond in Casino Royale was smart and interesting. .

 

[Bbw hunter]

Right again Meta. Bond's quip at the end of that death scene always makes me chuckle. Thanks for posting the link. Great to watch it again

 

[Carmine Falcone]

It's hard to pick a favorite Bond girl. But I'll probably go with Corrine Clery & Lois Chiles from Moonraker, plus Jane Seymour...and Gemma Arterton from Quantum Of Solace. I wouldn't even blink if Gemma Arterton asked me to huff her farts-- that's how yummy she is. I'm easily leaving so many out. It's hard to love women and not want to pick nearly every Bond girl that's not Grace Jones; only the Roger Moore Bond could handle her because that Bond slept with all the women on the planet!

Ok, now favorite Bond gadget and car.

Favorite gadget: Lotus that turns into submarine
Favorite car: Aston Martin DB5, followed by all the modern Aston Martins in the Craig movies.

 

[Stroker7]

There was talk of a Bond reunion a few years ago but nothing came of it. It would have been nice to see them together one last time. I've always wondered why they never brought back one of them in a film after they departed the role, maybe in a small cameo role or something. I always hoped that would happen down the line and who knows, maybe it will in the future.

 

[Meta not Meta]

Time to cast my vote :smile:
Best Bond girl : Pussy Galore .For being such a Beautiful woman and for her ridiculous name of course.

Haha, yeah, absolutely!

https://youtu.be/OkChbEu3hKE

 

[Lord Canarvon]

My favourite was Roger Moore. (the funny Bond) Daniel Craig is too dark.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Daniel Craig is one of the poorer Bonds in my opinion, just above Lazenby and Dalton. Some have argued his darker and more brooding portrayal is truer and more authentic to the Ian Fleming novels. I don’t agree with that reasoning. It was Connery who was once praised for bringing humor and originality to the role. Apart from that, I find Craig physically to be much better suited to tough guy or villain roles and find him substantially less convincing as a debonair and dashing intelligence operative than Connery, Moore, Brosnan, and even Lazenby and Dalton. In the last movie Craig also looked old during the fight scenes (pathetically so) and I really felt the producers needed to figure a way to buy him out of the contract and bring in some new blood, even if the movie did well at the box office. My feeling is the franchise itself and supporting cast carried Craig’s films, especially the last one, with unremarkable contributions from him.

At this point they should really consider Tom Hiddleston, based on his memorable performance in The Night Manager. The fact that Hiddleston has fucked Taylor Swift also gives him automatic street credibility with the audience as the dashing ladies man. Dude can also act and proved his ability to play this kind of role in Night Manager. Nobody has mentioned successors to Craig but I feel like he is the best candidate.

 

[EagerBeaver]

My colleague believes it should go to Idris Elba. She wants to see a “tougher, beefier” guy than Hiddleston. Female point of view.

 

[Meta not Meta]

I'd agree with much of the above. Hiddleston is, indeed, quite good as a quasi-Bond in The Night Manager; but Idris is too old now and would be near Craig's age by the time they got around to shooting his first one - nevertheless, the ladies do all seem to like him, don't they, haha.

It's true, Craig really can't do humour, but he has an interior, soulful quality that I admire, at least in his first three. A cultivated thug, really. I think that's what they were aiming at, "half hitman, half monk," in the parlance of Casino Royale. His Bond seems both convincingly damaged personally but also ruthlessly professional, and we haven't really had that before. But he did look a little disinterested in the last one.

 

[Meta not Meta]

It's true, not widely known is that it was Connery more than anyone else who introduced the idea of the Bondian quip, not really present in Fleming

But I find some of the criticism of Craig echos the early criticism of Connery as Bond, before he became synonymous with the role, that he was too much of a beefcake to play an "English gentleman."

Before he was won over by the "rough-hewn Scot," Fleming had envisioned someone like David Niven or Hoagy Carmichael (!) as Bond, which may seem a little nonsensical today.

 

[TheJames101]

Daniel Craig is one of the poorer Bonds in my opinion, just above Lazenby and Dalton. Some have argued his darker and more brooding portrayal is truer and more authentic to the Ian Fleming novels. I don’t agree with that reasoning.

Craig is probably closest to the books in terms of character, though so so much in terms of physical attributes. Dalton is probably second closest.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Before he was won over by the "rough-hewn Scot," Fleming had envisioned someone like David Niven or Hoagy Carmichael (!) as Bond, which may seem a little nonsensical today.

Connery won him over because he was a damn good actor and I would contend he is the most accomplished actor to have played Bond, even if he wasn’t at the time he was originally cast. The Bondian quip was borne of his quality as an actor. Is he not the only Bond actor to have won an Academy Award? I do believe that his Academy Award victory was in part homage to his perceived contributions to film history as the first and quintessential James Bond, but he was truly fantastic in the Untouchables and very deserving of his Oscar. The man has also won 3 Golden Globes.

I remember one of the actors who was cast with him in a movie around that time- Wesley Snipes in The Rising Sun- was asked about working with Connery and he said it was a no brainer to say yes to that movie because it afforded him the chance to work with the man who created James Bond.

 

[TheJames101]

In terms of Connery creating Bond and all that, yes... he played a big part, obviously, but the man who really molded him and essentially taught him how to play the role was Terrence Young.

 

[EagerBeaver]

The Savoy Suit,

Let’s put it this way, if no Bond movies were ever made and you could use a time machine to transport all of these guys in their respective primes into the same casting room - Connery, Moore, Lazenby, Dalton, Brosnan and Craig- and hold an impromptu casting call, Connery is going to win with most directors/casting directors. Now I am not saying I would put $100 on him winning like I bet on the Tampa Bay Lightning, but he is the odds on favorite to win.

What’s more interesting to me is who will be Bond going forward and what the new actor will add to role. In my opinion Daniel Craig didn’t add anything new, he just tried to play it straight up. It’s like playing man to man defense in basketball, it works but it’s nothing new strategically. What I would like to see is someone add something to the character, something we haven’t seen or read in the books. I happen to agree with Meta that Elba is too old now, but had he been hired back in 2002 when he was doing The Wire he might have added something new, apart from being the first black James Bond. Elba has since been great in Luther and The Wire and a number of other roles. If you ask me his character of Stringer Bell was the best on that show, who can forget this scene:

https://dubsmash.com/quote/the-wire-nigga-is-you-takin-notes-on-a-criminal-fucking-5NjNNJn0xihm

 

[TheJames101]

I really wonder what the reaction would be if Elba was cast. It would potentially be a big risk (even if he wasn't too old)

 

[protagoras]

My favourite was Roger Moore. (the funny Bond) Daniel Craig is too dark.

I agree with that. The characters in the Moore's James Bond movies were also very funny. Think for instance of the sheriff J. W. Pepper who appeared in two Bond movies: Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjG65N-jbqw

 

[EagerBeaver]

Here is an interesting article discussing the various potential successors to Daniel Craig as James Bond:

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/film/2019-04-15/next-james-bond-daniel-craig-replacement/

 

[GaryH]

Here is an interesting article discussing the various potential successors to Daniel Craig as James Bond:

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/film/2019-04-15/next-james-bond-daniel-craig-replacement/

Interesting. The last paragraph mentions Gillian Anderson as a possibility as the new James Bond. It's time for a woman to be the new James Bond! I'm sure that would be a hit.

Also no one has mentioned my favorite James Bond movie - Casino Royale (1967 version). Features David Niven as retired James Bond (and he had already won an academy award.)
Also features Ursula Andress in her second Bond movie as Vesper Lynd (also as James Bond, but that's another story.)
And it features two great songs - "The Look Of Love" and "Casino Royale".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW_kMtut25M

 

[Halloween Mike]

Goldeneye on N64 is the only reason I paid attention to any bond movies!

LOL yeah pretty much the same with me. It got me into the movies and i played the other games that released afterward because i always hoped to capture back the magic of Goldeneye. But it was never as good, even some of the games ended up pretty much. I enjoyed The World is not Enough on N64 and Nightfire on Xbox a fair share.

I own a bunch of them now on the 360 but i can't play them at the moment cause my 360 disc drive is broken. Due to liscensing sadly these games will never be on the Xbox as backward compatible titles.

Activision let the liscence expired in 2013 and there was nothing since then. Its sad.