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Best James Bond?

it's just me said:
A long time ago I read one of the James Bond novels on the mid watch but haven't picked up another one until recently. I have seen a fair amount of the movies but not all of them. In search of something different to read I started reading the Ian Fleming James Bond books. You may have heard that any resemblance between the books and the movies is purely coincidental (Goldfinger being one of the exceptions) but having been caught up fairly well with both books and movies I have decided on a best James Bond characterization list.

1. Daniel Craig, period. This is not even close. The Sean Connery movies were really what started it all but Daniel Craig has taken the Bond character to the next level.

2. Sean Connery. As I said, the man who started it all, who was in some of the more faithful portrayals of the books.

3. Timothy Dalton. Although some of the Dalton Bond movies were silly, you'd have to go a ways to be sillier than the Roger Moore Bond movies.

4. Roger Moore/Pierce Brosnan. The bottom of the barrel Bond portrayals. Although I have enjoyed Roger Moores other performances in TV shows he was just a little too flip in the Bond movies, like he didn't take them seriously. I didn't even think Pierce Brosnan was that good of an actor in the Bond movies.

Honorable mention: George Lazenby, although the movie I saw him in wasn't that good of a movie. Barry Nelson, for his performance in a fairly decent version of Casino Royale. I missed the David Niven Bond movie.
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1. Timothy Dalton.
Loved both of his Bond movies

2. Roger Moore.
He was Bond when I was a young moviegoer and I thought he was excellent

3. Sean Connery
good Bond, but more my mother's generation's Bond than mine

4. Daniel Craig
Not bad by any means but the Bond movies of this day and age do not have that Bond feeling anymore. It could be any super sleuth/spy movie, it doesn't ooze Bond style anymore. But as movies they are not bad, just also not wildly exiting as a Bond fan.

5. George Lazenby
Could have been OK but he was just a one hit wonder

6. Pierce Brosnan
Craig's movies might not be oozing Bondism, Brosnan's movies lacked that all together and was not very good as a spy movie either.
 
Peter King said:
1. Timothy Dalton.
Loved both of his Bond movies

2. Roger Moore.
He was Bond when I was a young moviegoer and I thought he was excellent

3. Sean Connery
good Bond, but more my mother's generation's Bond than mine

4. Daniel Craig
Not bad by any means but the Bond movies of this day and age do not have that Bond feeling anymore. It could be any super sleuth/spy movie, it doesn't ooze Bond style anymore. But as movies they are not bad, just also not wildly exiting as a Bond fan.

5. George Lazenby
Could have been OK but he was just a one hit wonder

6. Pierce Brosnan
Craig's movies might not be oozing Bondism, Brosnan's movies lacked that all together and was not very good as a spy movie either.
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I didn't think Pierce Brosnan had the acting chops for JB. I kept thinking "Remington Steele" watching his movies. I liked Judi Dench as M but I like Judi Dench in anything.
 
Roadvirus said:
From best to worst:
1. Sean Connery
2. ROger Moore
3. Pierce Brosnan
4. Daniel Craig
5. Timothy Dalton
6. George Lazenby
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You forgot David Niven

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Court Jester said:
You forgot David Niven
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Fun facts: David Niven was one of the original choices to play 007 in the first movie Dr. No. The studio had wanted Cary Grant, but he wouldnt commit to more than one movie if it was a hit. There are two conflicting sources as to who Ian Fleming wanted, it was either Richard Todd or George Baker. Cubby Broccoli the producer ultimately chose Sean Connery, who was still rough around the edges. It was the movie's director Terence Young who turned Connery into Bond- he took him around town, taught him how to wear a suit, proper fine dinning etiquette, gambling, etc.
 
When I think of Bond, Roger Moore is the first person that comes to mind. He may not be the best, but he's the first Bond I saw in the movies, and I wasn't aware of any actor portraying Bond before then, until much later.
 
beancounter said:
When I think of Bond, Roger Moore is the first person that comes to mind. He may not be the best, but he's the first Bond I saw in the movies, and I wasn't aware of any actor portraying Bond before then, until much later.
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Don't get us wrong, Roger Moore was fine and he did the best he could with what he had, it was just that some of the scripts he had to work with were just plain stupid. You should check out some of the old "Saint" TV shows.
 
Does anybody who read the books remember JBs original car? As I recall it was a hot rodded Bentley, not an Aston Martin. I thought one of the books said something about the wheelbase having been shortened.
 
PoS said:
Fun facts: David Niven was one of the original choices to play 007 in the first movie Dr. No. The studio had wanted Cary Grant, but he wouldnt commit to more than one movie if it was a hit. There are two conflicting sources as to who Ian Fleming wanted, it was either Richard Todd or George Baker. Cubby Broccoli the producer ultimately chose Sean Connery, who was still rough around the edges. It was the movie's director Terence Young who turned Connery into Bond- he took him around town, taught him how to wear a suit, proper fine dinning etiquette, gambling, etc.
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To be honest I think David Niven (even though I think he is a great actor) would not have been a great James Bond and Cary Grant would have been equally disastrous, I do not see James Bond in him.
 
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