Sunday afternoon thread: Who played the best James Bond and what is your favorite 007 movie?

Me | 8/14/11 | GeorgiaDawg32

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Sittin here waitin for the race to start, (doesn't look good) and started thinking about all the different actors who played 007.

Question, who, in your opinion, played the best Bond and what was his best movie?

[Perdogg]

If you read the novel OHMSS, the way that Fleming describes Blofeld read exactly he was describing Max von Sydow. I think he actually played Blofeld in "Never Say Never Again".

[GOPsterinMA]

Carrie Fisher DOES INDEED look (and sound) like Jabba.

Booze, butts and dope does the body (and mind) good, eh???

Her mother, Debbie Reynolds, looks infinity better than her daughter, hands down.

Midge Pinciotti, OTOH, still looks fabulous!!!

[Perdogg]

I wonder why Senta Berger was never a Bond girl. She would have been great in FRWL as Taitiana Romanova.

[GOPsterinMA]

I was joking about Perry as Bond!

Josn Brolin does resemble Perry - good call!

[GOPsterinMA]

Nice call!

[MinuteGal]

The life of Carrie Fisher, singer Eddy Fisher's and Debbie Reynold's daughter, has been one of booze, drugs, multiple sexual liasons and failed marriages. She's now battling obesity at age 54. She's a self-proclaimed agnostic.

She was 19 when she appeared in Star Wars. She has a daughter by a husband who left her for another man. The daughter has had two "long-term relations" by age 18 ( ! ).

With two famous, talented, successful parents, Carrie had everything going for her...or maybe with them as parents she had little to nothing going for her. Both Debbie and Eddy made bad choices also, although in those days most of it was covered up.

Leni

[yarddog]

I remember the first time I saw Carrie Fisher in “Star Wars”. I immediately thought that she was not that pretty yet still had an attractiveness about her. She really did have a good figure tho.

[Oztrich Boy]

That's funny. You know who auditioned for Octopussy when Moore was thinking of quitting? James Brolin

OK now I need mind bleach to get rid of the image of Barbra Streisand as a Bond girl.

[BillyBoy]

Heh. Perry LOOKS like James Bond, but would never be cast with his squeaky GWB-like texas twang.

I'm surprised how many votes Daniel Craig is getting here. Casino Royale was great, but that's because the script and direction were excellent, NOT because Craig was playing the part. He's been in two Bond films. They need to rewatch Craig's second film, "Quantum of Solace", and see what happens when you give the guy an average script. Craig had NO charisma in the role and script required that the Bond girl fall head over heals for Bond in "Quantum" but it was completely unbelievable with Craig as the character.

Apparently if you cast someone who looks and acts NOTHING like the characther from the source material, you'll get a lot of fan boys applauding Hollywood for "reinventing the character" and they'll claim the miscast actor is "closer to the ORIGINAL book version". If they announced tomorrow that Danny DeVito was being cast as Harry Potter for a remake of "Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone", a bunch of people on the internet would would probably love it. They'd post stuff like "wow, DeVito blows Radcliffe out of the water. This guy IS Harry Potter". "Radcliffe was OK, but Devito's portrayal is the now the standard on which ALL other Potter's will be measured". and "Hey guys, if you look at the illustration on page 563 of Chamber of Secrets, in the scene where Harry Potter is cursed by a swelling spell and tearing his hair out, you can see DeVITO's look in his eyes. The resemblance is UNCANNY!!! With Radcliffe they had to use a costume to make him into Potter but DeVito naturally matches the literary version"

;-)

As for me....

BEST BONDS (BEST TO WORST)
1) Connery (looked, sounded, AND acted the way Bond should be)
2) Dalton (see above. one notch below Connery. Wish he had done more films)
3) Lazenby (fit the part perfectly, but badly needed to work on his acting skills)
4) Brosnan (meh.)
5) Moore (way too campy, but those were the scripts he had to work with)
6) Craig (good no-nonscense government agent that can kill a man with his bare hands. BAD James Bond.)

BEST BOND MOVIE
Goldfinger

BEST BOND GIRL
Kim Basinger as Domino Petachi in "Never Say Never Again" :-p

[Impy]

Babs could play Rosa Klebb’s less attractive sister.

[Impy]

Devito as Harry Potter, I can see it.

"Get over here Nardo er Hermione". ;p

I'd go

1)Early Connery

2)Dalton

3)Older Connery

4)Blank space to show drop off

5a)Laz (hard to rate with only 1 film)

5b)Brosnan

7)Moore when being serious (I think he could have been very good with a more serious portrayal)

8)Craig (not bad by any means but not Bond, I'm not surprised a lot of people really like him coming after Brosnan because he's so different)

9)Moore when being campy

Picking a fav film is hard. I'll go with the original, Dr. No.

Picking a favorite girl is impossible. I'll say Honey Ryder for a good girl and Rosamund Pike's Maranda Frost for a bad girl. If you go just by looks and not character (or plot importance or screen time) then there are countless choices.

I wonder why there was never one named BJ. A little too obvious? ;p Plenty O'Toole was the best name ever.

[GOPsterinMA]

Nice breakdown!

Love the “Bond Girl” choices.

Let’s not forget the only femme to be “Bond Girl” twice: Maud Adams. HOTTIE!!!

[ReformationFan]

“2) Dalton (see above. one notch below Connery. Wish he had done more films)
3) Lazenby (fit the part perfectly, but badly needed to work on his acting skills)”

You may enjoy this tribute to Dalton and Lazenby-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj9YdV_6nCg&feature=player_embedded

“Casino Royale was great, but that’s because the script and direction were excellent, NOT because Craig was playing the part. He’s been in two Bond films. They need to rewatch Craig’s second film, “Quantum of Solace”, and see what happens when you give the guy an average script.”

I agree that CR is vastly superior to the dismal QOS but even Connery himself couldn’t have saved that film from its awful script and its pretentiously slipshod direction and editing.

[QualityMan]

I like that movie, too.

Also like “Golden Gun”

“only live twice”
Diamonds are forever...pretty good, too

HAve not seen any of the craig movies yet...

[Armedanddangerous]

I concur

[Armedanddangerous]

Halle is definately not guilty.

[ramy bond]

i like pierce brosnan, he’s very stylish, mixes all the aspects of bond, would have been the greatest if his last 3 films had better plots and not so much action, too over the top, no character development..

[ramy bond]

roger Moore was cool and funny all the way, and a romantic also,the spy who loved me and for your eyes only for his best films, i rank Sean Connery and pierce brosnan high up, brosnan is stylish and mix all the aspects of bond, i love golden-eye .sean connery probably iconic figure of bond. Daniel Craig is good enough for a modern standard bond comes in third.