Who is the best James Bond ?

But it's not nice picturing James Bond as a romantic guy 😛 "I'll never fibd another girl like you?" 🙄 That sounds very unlike Bond! ✅

I liked Dalton too, but I think Pierce and Connery suited better for the role.

Well, from what I remember from the Connery movies, he was rather emotional involved with the girls he had (that girl he plays Chemin du Fer with in Dr No returns later on). If only they got Lazenby's wife a decent dead (saving his life or something) ...

But Lazenby doesn't act like Connery, say, most people don't read the books so they don't know ho the "real" bond is.
In example, when he knocks out that "gatecrusher" in the hotel, he has kaviar in the suite, he just takes the biscuit, puts kaviar on the knife and almost throws it to his biscuit, that's something Connery would never have done. details, I know, but it's what I notice.

I absolutely dislike Moore-movies cause of how he acts and making it too humour

than up to Dalton, he had the difficult task to get Bond back to a decent movie standard and got kicked out for that

and than Pierce made his entry in my fav Goldeneye, playing the stiff-assed Brit again.

I just want a guy playing a cool, not too humorous (don't forget the puns) brit who doesn't fall in love

^ I think that what you expect out of the "Bond" movies is exactly the right thing-that seems to be the most successful formula. Of course, from the female point of view, Bond isn't really interesting if he isn't somewhat romantic. 😄

I'm sure girls can have fun with the cars too 😉

He is interesting as long as he looks like Pierce, he can be as romantic/crazy/rude/whatever he wants, I wouldn't mind 😉

I think that the best James Bond is both Connery and Brosnan - each for their own era they fit the role best. I don't know about the whole Roger Moore timeframe because I was too young. Watching the Roger Moore Bond movies now I find he's too corny - not the "stiff-assed Brit" someone mentioned before. I loved the Connery movies but find he has become more handsome as he has aged. Brosnan adds his own "flavour" to the Bond persona - and I think he has done well also. I must admit - I would like to see him to be a little more "human" in showing the slightest bit of tender emotion.

Overal, I think that although the books have Bond being a certain way - the movie audience decides what they like according to their own frame of reference or what's acceptable in society (like the difference in Dalton's version of Bond) even if they've read the books. Everyone comes away from reading the same book with something slightly unique to their own point of reference. That's just human nature.

Connery and Brosnan = tie on this one. Would love to see them work together on a Bond film (ah, those rumours).

I'm happy to see Pierce Brosnan in almost any movie. Anyone seen his movie "Evelyn" - that's another string altogether..... 😉

I SO agree about Roger Moore, however I think Brosnan is emotional... kind of 😖

I saw Evelyn, found it a little bit boring actually, but Pierce looked cute as ever 😊

Brosnan emotional? where did you pick up that idea? 😖

Sean Connery is the serious one
George Lazenby is the laid-back one
Roger Moore is the humorous one
Timothy Dalton is the unemotional one
Pierce Brosnan is the combination of all four.

IMO.

But...SC is my fav.

Reborn Again, you wrote it quite succintly. Well done. I agree totally -

Except I still have to give SC and PB a tie because I adore both of them - each for their interpretation of Bond - and each for their own brand of sex appeal!

😄 🤣

Lazenby did look very laid-back... as in "I don't care, I get payed"

Originally posted by yerssot
Lazenby did look very laid-back... as in "I don't care, I get payed"

Percisely. And that's why he didn't return. The only reason that OHMSS did well and stands out today is because it's the only Bond that pits Blofeld and Bond together in a one-on-one situation. YOLT introduced the face of Blofeld, but OHMSS brought Blofeld's character out more in depth. And Terry Salavas protrayed Blofeld so that is an added bonus. Well, at least in 1969 when he was extremely popular.

and he got married, that's something a bond fan would definitly go and see... and it was a rather pretty girl too 😊

but I thought it didn't do well? 😖

looked it up:

OHMSS: $22,774,493
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: $54,812,802
THUNDERBALL: $63,595,658
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE: $43,084,787

so, I don't think it did that well 😖

In OHMSS Bond is Austrilian, a severe no-no! Bond is English. And before the credits, Lazenby makes a mistake referring to Sean Connery's Bond: "This never happened to the other fellow!" What were they thinking?!

guess he was joking around, cause in other situations he says about himself he's the least bond of them all

And getting back to that different Bond theory: Bond gets marries in OHMSS and then there are too referrals to his short marriage in FYEO and TSWLM. So, perhaps the theory doesn't hold up after all.

that's the problem with theories, they're not necessarily the truth 🙂

Originally posted by yerssot
looked it up:

OHMSS: $22,774,493
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: $54,812,802
THUNDERBALL: $63,595,658
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE: $43,084,787

so, I don't think it did that well 😖

It didn't do well at all 😖 No surprise Thunderball is the higher ✅

though I think it's without the inflation of course ... so I don't know how it really stands