Your Favorite James Bond

Your Favorite James Bond

  • Sean Connery

  • George Lazenby

  • Roger Moore

  • Timothy Dalton

  • Pierce Brosnan

  • Daniel Craig


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Newell Steamer

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Pick one and then rank the rest.

1 - Sean Connery
2 - Daniel Craig (immediate 2nd)
3 - Timothy Dalton
4 - Pierce Brosnan (he frankly petered out after Golden Eye)
5 - Roger Moore (great villains during his run, but he sucked)
6 - George Lazenby
 
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Jeeebus

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Connery by a big margin.
Pierce (thanks in large part to N64 Goldeneye)
Roger

No real reason to discuss the rest.
 

irishScott

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I'm going to cheat and put Connery and Craig at tied for number 1. I think Craig creates a more intense, complex and believable character than Connery; he's IMO the best constructed Bond to date, but Connery's charisma and just pure, fun over-the-top alpha-ness ties him for the position.

After that I'm going Dalton, Brosnan, Lazenby, Moore. I think Lazenby would have been great if he'd stayed on for more movies, he's certainly a superior actor to Moore IMO. But unfortunately On Her Majesty's Secret Service had some mediocre writing and pacing that didn't really let him shine IMO.
 

SKORPI0

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Connery..... :awe:
 

JulesMaximus

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Sean Connery is #1
Daniel Craig is #2 just for his first roll as Bond (it was that good)
George Lazenby #3 (he was actually really good... not sure why he only made 1 movie)
Pierce Brosnan #4
Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton are tied for dead last IMO.
 

Paratus

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  • Connery ish number one.
  • Craig. So awesome in Casino Royal
  • Early Brosnan
  • Dalton
  • Late Brosnan
  • Moore
  • Lazenby whom I never saw.
 

MixMasterTang

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As much as I like Craig, Connery is the first person that comes to mind and the franchise would not be what it is today.
 

Captante

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(1) Sean Connery (The original and by far the best IMO)
(2) Roger Moore (Apparently I'm in the minority here)
(3) Daniel Craig (Perhaps the closest to Ian Fleming's Bond )


(4) Pierce Brosnan (These two are roughly equal IMO)
(5) Timothy Dalton



(6) George Lazenby (Just awful!)


Edit: Where's the "raging moron" poll option? :awe:
 

GagHalfrunt

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George Lazenby #3 (he was actually really good... not sure why he only made 1 movie)

He was a major jerk. Outrageous salary demands and wanted the role to be changed to suit his tastes rather than staying true to the familiar Connery/Fleming Bond.

Connery #1
Everyone else #2

I actually thought that both Brosnan and Dalton were decent Bonds, just that the scripts were kind of lacking in that era.
 

MongGrel

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Sean Connery.

I think I actually like Daniel Craig more than Rodger Moore.

Rodger Moore at 3.

The rest beside those three just seemed lame to me.

The whole Bond thing just got pretty stale for me over time, Craig seemed to make it more watchable again IMHO.

The writing probably did gimp a few people at one point.
 
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DigDog

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oh dear ...

Roger Moore
because he was my first; Moonraker, and i was just about 7 years old.

until A View To A Kill, which got weird, and all 1980s pop culture crappy.

the next Bond films were so bad i never saw them in the theaters, with Duran Duran and other stuff like that which i hated.

but i did rent some films (in VHS) and saw the Connery ones, which were good, maybe in hindsight even better, but for me it will always be Moore first.
 

_Rick_

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I must say, I appreciated the cheesy Brosnan Bond, because he fit the "not-to-be-taken-too-seriously-spy" stereotype so well.
Craig's too dry, and the films he got are just horrible (as Bond films).
Connery and Moore are to me hard to judge, simply because they're "classics" - though I'd give Connery the edge. I'd appreciate both more than Craig.
Dalton and Lazenby didn't leave an impression.
 
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Connery is obviously number 1. Craig's been great, but I have Brosnan just a hair above him. Brosnan only got one good movie (Goldeneye), but he was a better Bond in my eyes; Craig's gotten some great movies (Casino Royale especially), but he's not quite the suave, debonair type I want from a Bond. Dalton's below that; probably the best actor to play Bond, but not right for the role. Moore was campy and ridiculous, but he also ended up with some great movies (like The Spy Who Loved Me). Lazenby gets an incomplete from me; I think he had potential, but one role sandwiched between Connery performances? It almost feels like a rival studio tried making a competing Bond (not unlike David Niven, but less campy).
 

LTC8K6

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service with Lazenby is the best Bond movie, and he was the best Bond, imo.

It was his first film, and he really couldn't deal with the fame.
 

NuclearNed

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Sean Connery is #1
Daniel Craig is #2 just for his first roll as Bond (it was that good)
George Lazenby #3 (he was actually really good... not sure why he only made 1 movie)
Pierce Brosnan #4
Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton are tied for dead last IMO.

I endorse this list, except for the glaring omission of David Niven.
 

mmntech

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Sean Connery is certainly the most iconic Bond. I like Pierce Brosnan too. It's just too bad he got shoved in a lot of bad ones, GoldenEye not withstanding.

I agree that George Lazenby is criminally underrated. That movie sort of got made when the series was transitioning to a campy tone, and I think it soured off a lot of the die hard fans at the time. Moore embraced that era to the fullest though. He made those movies fun.

Timothy Dalton is definitely the worst Bond.

And yes, David Niven is Bond. That's who Flemming modelled him after. In the books, all the illustrations are based on his likeness.
 
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dank69

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Pierce Brosnan looked and played the part the way I think the part should be played. Craig is good. I love Connery and all but those films were always too campy IMO. Grew up on Moore, love him too but again, just too campy. I didn't mind Dalton but he was no Brosnan. I'll have to watch Lazenby again because it has been a long time and I barely remember it.