I'm betting Ian Fleming would disagree with you. Ever see what he wanted Bond to look like?
Posted on 08/14/2011 12:56:24 PM PDT by 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?
You Only Live Twice. The first movie to show Blofeld’s face.
Bless you!!! (g)
A quibble; Goldfinger was the villain in "Goldfinger:" Oddjob was the heavy. That said, he was a splendid heavy.
I'm betting Ian Fleming would disagree with you. Ever see what he wanted Bond to look like?
But to be more serious, I guess Sean Connery is the only answer. Ian Fleming wanted a refine Englishman and didn't originally cotton to the Scotsman, but Connery made the role his own.
Roger Moore was kind of a joke. He obviously didn't take Bond with even a minimal amount of seriousness. Pierce Brosnan is an arrogant jerk, and you don't have to be Mel Gibson to hate Timothy Dalton.
The new guy, Clive Owen Daniel Craig actually wants to subvert the franchise. If any part of you is a Bond-hater you'll have a soft spot for him, but if you're a true fan, you won't.
Yeah they did, in the barn during the Winter Festival, hiding out from Blofeld’s goons.
What a silly question.
Sir Sean, of course.
“That’s not MY penis enlarger” so says Austin.
Sean Connery (the ONLY James Bond IMHO).....Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever...:)
Sean Connery
Daniel Craig
Roger Moore
Timothy Dalton
Pierce Brosnan
George Lazenby
FRWL and Goldfinger among the best, but Casino Real is as good as any.
On the plus side: Beautiful location filming.
Connery: Goldfinger.
Personal favorite ? On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. I liked Lazenby.
Ranked in order:
#1 Connery
#2 Lazenby
#3 Dalton
#4 Moore
#5 Pirs Bonbons
#6 Red Grant Craig
My vote as the best looking Bond girl ever. Maybe I'm biased because she's from Texas.
I’ll have to watch it again; it’s been a long time.
Count me as superficial but I also like the appeal to male fantasy about 007 having the proper equipment to turn a lesbian Ms Galore straight.
Finally a move from the suave and de boner, effeminate Bond boys (Sean Connery was real good tho)to a serious, hard core Bond who kicks butt.
Pierce Brosnan was a total waste as was Roger Moore........
Beautiful, yes. But in the acting department, she, Tanya Roberts and Denise Richards are the bottom of the barrel as Bond girls.
Not in "For Your Eyes Only."
Be still my heart!! Hope I can make it to the fainting couch......(of course I’m kiddin’...I’ve had my own James Bond for the last 45 years). Though my favorite theme song is from You Only Live Twice, my favorite theme song for my James Bond is The Spy Who Loved Me (Nobody Does It Better)..:)
The best “realistic” Bond was Connery in From Russia With Love, though it still had many fantasy elements. They were not so far fetched as to be ridiculous. In fact, criminal smugglers have tried to duplicate the scene of him dumping gasoline on water and igniting it; which of course doesn’t work.
The early James Bond films actually created a “reaction” in spy movies in both the US and Britain, trying to restore a sense of realism. But in Italy, just the reverse was true, in which they tried to create even more ridiculous spy and action movies.
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