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Any real Bond fan knows that Connery is the best and all others are cheap immitations. (Daniel Craig does teh best immitation thus far).

George Lazenby (In her majesties secret service) was HORRIBLE! He is surrounded by hot women that want him and he justs walks around wearing a skirt. THat movie is painful to get through.

It is however, the only time 007 gets married.

Best Bond movie? "Dr. No"

Hands down Live and let die , seen it on the big screen back in the day

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I like T-Dalt. Maybe because he's the first bond I remember. Too young for Moore or Connery.

Connery was the BEST Bond, Moore lacked machismo and substituted it with "wit and charm" - it didn't work for me, Lazenby sucked as did the entire movie, Dalton and Brosnan had potential but were thwarted by scripts and over-the-top SFX's, haven't seen the Craig offerings because the Bond phenomenon has lost too much of its' patina.

Connery just had the right amount of grit, deliberation, ruthlessness and charm to surpass all the others - imho, of course.

ZOO wrote: The worst James Bond ever? And how much did AMC pay for the product placement? Bangkok policemen driving Matadors? Seriously?

It's close, Never say Never again is pretty bad, every Brosnan after Goldeneye is bad and they get progressively worse until finally we get invisible cars, Nork space mirror/lasers, and a bad guy with a face full of diamonds.

Craig actually is the closest to Ian Flemming's Bond in that he is mean, cold, cocky, SOB who doesn't think highly of women.

Connery was macho, calm under pressure, would berkeley a snake if someone held its head; but reading his attitude on women and how he treated them, meh, not so much. Good Bond, bad date.

Moore was a 70's guy, bell bottoms and all; had some cool toys but that was the era.

Dalton has the emotional spectrum of a carp, plus he's kinda Pedo creepy.

I liked Brosnan until Daniel Craig came along. The new guy seems to have a personality and shows the foibles of life as a hired thug. Maybe it was the nutsmash with a big knot ....

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I thought the franchise was getting stoopid until the new ones.

Anything with Connery in it is good, including cheesy JB movies. However, I think the new guy, Craig, does a very good job, and I think the new movies with him in them are the best renditions of the books. I am waiting for him to use a 25 Auto PPK though, and shoot people in the knees with it (cause that's the only place you can hit someone with a 25 and get them to slow down).

Nerd moment* the 25acp bond used was a Beretta, MI6 made him switch to the Walther PPK which comes in 380acp (weak by today's standards) and isn't that great a gun imo (wonky manual of arms and it will cut you) however that did not stop Craig/Bond from owning a bunch of people in the latest movie.

Connery, Moore... the rest I haven't seen enough of to form an opinion.

Humm, been a few decades since I read Flemming, but if I recall, it was a Walther PPK in 25. The movie Bond was a PPK in 32. Don't think he ever had a 380. Of course, today he wouldn't be able to find any 380 ammo for it anyway.

The novels and short stories weren't great literature, but I enjoyed them. They were grittier and a bit more realistic than the movies, even when Fleming's mistakes are taken into account. If you like anything about Bond, read some of the novels.

Oh, yeah. Here's Ian Fleming with his Studebaker:

Roger Moore was one suave motherberkeleyer. I'm a Moore guy, but most likely because those were the Bond flicks I gravitated toward as a kid.

Live and Let Die is probably my favorite.

That said, The Connery flicks had the hottest women, IMHO. 60's bombshells FTMFW

moonraker was the worst one I remember seeing.

Random tidbit but the Bond producers have said that moonraker was just done to cash in on the Star Wars craze.

Timothy Dalton has always been my favorite Bond. He only did two flicks but they are both quality to me. I think he would've been good in Goldeneye if the long legal fiasco from 90-94 didn't come into play. He was offered Goldeneye and passed on it and Pierce came into the picture. Another random useless fact but Mr. Llewyn who played Q himself said that Mr. Dalton had the closest portrayal to the Bond portrayed in the novels. Daniel Craig rocks too but I am leary of what is going to happen to him since MGM just went bankrupt and the next flick is going to be a few years away.

JFX001 wrote: Agreed. My personal pecking order is Connery>Moore>Brosnan...then every one else...well Lazenby comes last.

Connery rules. There is no second. Third may be Daniel Craig, actually. 4th is a tie between Moore Light and Moore Dark (Brosnan). I didn't like Dalton. Lazenby wasn't even that bad but I heard he went bat E36 M3 and demanded like 10x the money to do another movie, at which point they laughed in his face.

aircooled wrote:

Who invited Mike into this conversation?

92dxman said: Timothy Dalton has always been my favorite Bond. He only did two flicks but they are both quality to me. I think he would've been good in Goldeneye if the long legal fiasco from 90-94 didn't come into play. He was offered Goldeneye and passed on it and Pierce came into the picture.

IIRC, MGM wanted Brosnan in the 80's, but he was unavailable due to his contract for Remington Steele

Connery-Craig-Brosnan-Dalton-Lazenby-Moore.

Moore was WAY too campy, and the only redeaming aspect of it was the self parody in Cannonball Run

Dr. Hess wrote: I am waiting for him to use a 25 Auto PPK though, and shoot people in the knees with it (cause that's the only place you can hit someone with a 25 and get them to slow down).

I bet a nostril shot would bring tears to your eyes, though...

The best way to describe Brosnan, great Bond, so-so movies, aside from Goldeneye

"MwtGG" was good compared to Octopus*y. The best part of MwtGG was when 007 did "Boot to the Head" in the Kung Fu school...

I like Craig second best to Connery. Brosnan didn't have the same menacing quality or physical presence--too debonair. Dalton's movies just weren't interesting--he always seemed on edge, never comfortable or "cool". Moore's tongue was planted so far in his cheek he looked like was giving head. Lazenby just flat wasn't a good enough actor.

What is Denise Richards' job as Bond Girl Christmas Jones?

Aerospace Engineer

Nuclear Physicist

Marine Biologist

Of all the Bond cars, which did not have rockets?

Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger

Lotus Espirit in The Spy Who Loved Me

Rolls Royce Silver Shadow in License to Kill

What do the letters in the criminal organization "SPECTRE" stand for?

I'm not typing all the options.....

Bond can speak fluently without an accent in all these languages except one. Which is it"

Italian

German

Spanish

Which beloved children's bood did Ian Fleming write?

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

The Five Chinese Brothers

Everybody Poops

Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs

Who was rumored to be considered to play Bond in Diamonds are Forever?

Michael Caine

James Brolin

Mel Gibson

Malcolm McDowell

Brut Reynolds

Bea Arthur

There ya have it, another hour at work doinking around here.

And may I say that if I worked out for a few months, got my aerobics together, could pump out a few hundred pushups at one sitting; I'd love to take a run at May Day, aka Grace Jones.

Connery is Bond, the rest are cheap imitations. Craig has potential but the movies need SOME gadgets. Q was always my favorite character.

Brosnan is automatically and irreversibly at the bottom of the list because he can't drive a stick. Because he can't drive a stick they had to take the engine and trans out of a Vanquish and substitute a v-8/slushbox for any scene where he actually drives. Sacrilege!