Best Bond... James Bond (2 Viewers)
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Sean Connery
Timothy Dalton
Pierce Brosnan
George Lazenby
Roger Moore
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Best Bond: Daniel Craig. Tough, gritty. An assassin. He is the blunt tool that gets things done, but is remarkably intelligent - he just doesn't always use that intelligence. I can relate to that.
Close second: Sean Connery. Simply cool, throughout all of time and space. If a malevolent alien race were to monitor our tv signals and decide to destroy the vapid earth, they would stop and turn around once they discovered we had Connery.
Turnaround Bond: I grew up with Roger Moore. He was my first bond, and for a long time could not accept the older Connery or the newer Bonds. As I matured, I realized that Moore was Leisure Suit Larry as a spy. Just terrible.
Best movie: I still think On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the best of all movies, but could easily be convinced that it's Casino Royale. Both make the Bond character multidimensional. OHMSS however, does a better job of portraying Bond as imperfect. The electro-shock trying to default the door locking system felt like a real mistake. I like my heros to also be human. Unfortunately, Lazenby didn't seem very tough. He might not balk at a gun, but if you smeared his make-up, he'd surrender in a heartbeat.
Bond Woman,
: Elektra King. I mean, come on.
Bond Woman, Memorable Name: Pussy Galore. 1964, you would never survive in today's world.
Best Kill: Bond vs King. Cold. Real. Brutal. Sad.
Best Bond Villain: This is tough. Doctor No was the automaton you expected from the books. Jaws was memorable. Le Chiffre was as cold and calculating as you would expect him to be, and was brilliantly acted. Goldfinger... well he's on par with a certain American president. But I'm gonna say (for today) that the best villain was Raoul Silvia. Badass. Psychotic. Motivated. Intelligent. Probably gay (not that it matters, but to include it as a main character trait, pretty awesome and forward thinking).
...and as for my credentials, I have read all the Ian Fleming books, own all the movies, and have recently discovered we have worn out Thunderball. 2 days later, we had a new copy. We're watching it tonight.
While drinking vodka martinis.
...shaken, not stirred.
Close second: Sean Connery. Simply cool, throughout all of time and space. If a malevolent alien race were to monitor our tv signals and decide to destroy the vapid earth, they would stop and turn around once they discovered we had Connery.
Turnaround Bond: I grew up with Roger Moore. He was my first bond, and for a long time could not accept the older Connery or the newer Bonds. As I matured, I realized that Moore was Leisure Suit Larry as a spy. Just terrible.
Best movie: I still think On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the best of all movies, but could easily be convinced that it's Casino Royale. Both make the Bond character multidimensional. OHMSS however, does a better job of portraying Bond as imperfect. The electro-shock trying to default the door locking system felt like a real mistake. I like my heros to also be human. Unfortunately, Lazenby didn't seem very tough. He might not balk at a gun, but if you smeared his make-up, he'd surrender in a heartbeat.
Bond Woman,
: Elektra King. I mean, come on.Bond Woman, Memorable Name: Pussy Galore. 1964, you would never survive in today's world.
Best Kill: Bond vs King. Cold. Real. Brutal. Sad.
Best Bond Villain: This is tough. Doctor No was the automaton you expected from the books. Jaws was memorable. Le Chiffre was as cold and calculating as you would expect him to be, and was brilliantly acted. Goldfinger... well he's on par with a certain American president. But I'm gonna say (for today) that the best villain was Raoul Silvia. Badass. Psychotic. Motivated. Intelligent. Probably gay (not that it matters, but to include it as a main character trait, pretty awesome and forward thinking).
...and as for my credentials, I have read all the Ian Fleming books, own all the movies, and have recently discovered we have worn out Thunderball. 2 days later, we had a new copy. We're watching it tonight.
While drinking vodka martinis.
...shaken, not stirred.
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I was so sure that you were going to vote Telly Savalas as the best villain after you said OHMSS was the best movie.Best Bond: Daniel Craig. Tough, gritty. An assassin. He is the blunt tool that gets things done, but is remarkably intelligent - he just doesn't always use that intelligence. I can relate to that.
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Close second: Sean Connery. Simply cool, throughout all of time and space. If a malevolent alien race were to monitor our tv signals and decide to destroy the vapid earth, they would stop and turn around once they discovered we had Connery.
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Turnaround Bond: I grew up with Roger Moore. He was my first bond, and for a long time could not accept the older Connery or the newer Bonds. As I matured, I realized that Moore was Leisure Suit Larry as a spy. Just terrible.
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Best movie: I still think On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the best of all movies, but could easily be convinced that it's Casino Royale. Both make the Bond character multidimensional. OHMSS however, does a better job of portraying Bond as imperfect. The electro-shock trying to default the door locking system felt like a real mistake. I like my heros to also be human. Unfortunately, Lazenby didn't seem very tough. He might not balk at a gun, but if you smeared his make-up, he'd surrender in a heartbeat.
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Bond Woman, Memorable Name: Pussy Galore. 1964, you would never survive in today's world.
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Best Kill: Bond vs King. Cold. Real. Brutal. Sad.
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Best Bond Villain: This is tough. Doctor No was the automaton you expected from the books. Jaws was memorable. Le Chiffre was as cold and calculating as you would expect him to be, and was brilliantly acted. Goldfinger... well he's on par with a certain American president. But I'm gonna say (for today) that the best villain was Raoul Silvia. Badass. Psychotic. Motivated. Intelligent. Probably gay (not that it matters, but to include it as a main character trait, pretty awesome and forward thinking).
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I grew up with Roger Moore as well and resisted my parents telling me that he wasn’t the real Bond. Then I saw From Russia With Love and I knew what they meant.
Best Bond fight / kill - the train vs Red Grant in From Russia With Love.
Worst kill - Mr Big in Live and Let Die. I mean come on!!
MacGrad
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Not a lot of times I disagree with Poker Zombie, but Silva is just Zorin 2.0
Badass and psychotic: check. Slaughtering the mine full of workers with a flood and shooting them, laughing all the time... finishes up, looks at his watch, and cooly retorts: "Right on schedule."
Motivated and intelligent: check. Let's be honest -- quick thinking, able to improvise... traps Bond in an elevator shaft and remembers to throw a molotov cocktail on top to burn the inside of the elevator shaft. Then sets the hallway outside the elevator on fire as well. His plot to flood Silicon Valley actually had some semblance in reality.
His biggest flaw is that he was the main villain in what a lot of people deem to be one of the worst Bond movies.
When the wife is at work, it was 2 degrees this morning and you are avoiding spending money before holiday, what else do you do but sit under a blanket and watch James bond all day.
And yes @detroitdad im finally watching the connery movies. Its Goldfinger time right now
And yes @detroitdad im finally watching the connery movies. Its Goldfinger time right now
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Leave it to an Aussie to put winter right in the middle of summertime.
Oh come on, you guys -- everyone knows the best Bond ever would be Tom Cruise.
Have any of you ever done a Bond film marathon, all in order? Even if you don't particularly care for certain characters, or certain plot elements, or whatever, the franchise serves as a great example on the technical evolution of film-making. From 1962 until now, you get to see everything, from how they choreograph stunts and vehicle chases, to use of soundtracks in movie sequences, visual and title effects, camera technique, literally everything. Not to mention the changes in fashion, music, and all those lovely women through the decades. I highly recommend this exercise if you have an interest in technical aspects of film production.
detroitdad
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Yes. About 10 years ago my son and I started with the first flick. We would watch one or two every SAT morning. We did this on consecutive SAT mornings until we had watched them all.
Could someone please go check on @pltrgyst ? It seems he's hit his head, because he's muttering nonsense.
Hey, tens of millions of stupid Americans go to see him play 6'5", 250 pound Jack Reacher, so I figure Bond would be a cakewalk...
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MacGrad
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If he does this to an Irish accent, I don't want to imagine what he'd do to an English one.
Tom Cruise's Irish Accent
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Just catching up on this. Tom Cruise would be hilarious. It would be worth seeing 
Especially if he tried to copy Sean Connery’s accent.
Especially if he tried to copy Sean Connery’s accent.
I do love quantum of solace (novel).
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I’m reading for your eyes only just now. Quite cool having lots of short stories...
Well novels are much different than movies plus for no English are quite uneasy to read. I do have Casino Royale but to be frank read only parts where Bond plays baccarat.
If you like books with cards playing importand role try Amber by Roger Zelezny.
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Craig is definitely my favorite Bond...hands down. Just seems to be the most “real life”.
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I’m biased but it’s Big Sean all day long.
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New trailer has landed. I'm very excited. Nothing beats a Bond movie.
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But i just started watching GoldenEye and my god, some of these Bond movies are so bad. 1995 ? wtf. Is that the best they could do?
Thats it. Carry on.
edit: on a positive note,,, some of the newer Bond movies are pretty good.
But i just started watching GoldenEye and my god, some of these Bond movies are so bad. 1995 ? wtf. Is that the best they could do?
Thats it. Carry on.
edit: on a positive note,,, some of the newer Bond movies are pretty good.
Who are you.
Maybe don't watch the rest of the Brosnan movies. They get progressively shitter.
The first Daniel Craig movie, Casino Royale is great though. And so it's Skyfall. The other two of his aren't so good though.
I can't watch any of the Roger Moore ones. It's like watching a nerdy grandad attempting to be cool. That guy couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag. He seriously looks like he never played sport in his life with how ungainly he is.
ive seen almost all the Bond movies. And think Daniel Craig is a great Bond. I think Roger Moore was the Bond when i was really enjoying them in my yoot. Some great villains in those.
Peter Sellers was the best Bond. Well, not really. Casino Royale, the original, just terrible. Story was he really wanted to take the part seriously, and Orson Wells and director kept making it stupid gags and so he quit before finishing filming. So he dies in some freaky montage.
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Can't wait for the final installment. I have really enjoyed the arc the Casino Royale-Spectre story has taken, from Double-O promotion to retirement.
Also interested in the next series. Will it continue the arc with a different actor? Will it cast a new, younger Bond in a new promotion to retirement arc? Will they return to the books or cut a whole new storyline?
At any rate, I have really enjoyed the Craig Bond. He will be the only Bond that was "my age" (Daniel Craig and I were born 22 days apart). All the others were "older men". Now, they are going to be casting Millennials as Bond.
...and I won't accept a Bond that plays a sport without points or "winning" a participation trophy.
Also interested in the next series. Will it continue the arc with a different actor? Will it cast a new, younger Bond in a new promotion to retirement arc? Will they return to the books or cut a whole new storyline?
At any rate, I have really enjoyed the Craig Bond. He will be the only Bond that was "my age" (Daniel Craig and I were born 22 days apart). All the others were "older men". Now, they are going to be casting Millennials as Bond.
...and I won't accept a Bond that plays a sport without points or "winning" a participation trophy.
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Dalton, Connery and Lazenby are great. Brosnan is okay and I can tolerate Moore but Craig is just an utterly bland charmless thug who isn't even close to Bond. It could be any straight to DVD character.
Zero interest in this, even if there wasn't a pandemic. Craig is terrible. They might as well have cast Chuck Norris
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