In order I vote Connery, then Craig, next Moore and then Brosnan. My buddy and I were talking Bond last night. He's about 15 years older than me so he got to see all the Moore films in the theatre. His view is that Connery is a better Bond but the Moore movies are the best Bond films. I find most of the Moore movies pretty cheesy and campy but they are entertaining. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
My vote is for Roger Moore. Always has been since I was a kid watching them. Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk
Moore was too clownish (his films more than himself). Then he was just too old for the role. I never could buy him as Bond. Couldn't buy Brosnan either. His films, while technically slick, struck me as even more cartoonish than Moore's and that affected how I perceived him as Bond. Probably not a fair assessment but there it is. Craig is in tune with what the films have become. Hit and miss (especially SPECTRE...a big miss, what a note to go out on). Connery is Bond. GOLDFINGER is the perfect Bond film, imo. But I always liked Dalton's smoldering, dangerous edge. Understated, not in your face, roid jacked and needlessly acrobatic like Craig's. I always thought he was a good fit...the lethal, intelligent thug that Fleming described. Not his fault his films weren't particularly good; the whole thing was out of gas by that point. Dalton was the right Bond at the wrong time, imo.
Sean Connery in the early movies was the best, but that was partly because the writers stayed a bit truer to the novels. I really liked Ian Fleming's character. Daniel Craig could be good with better writing, but I get tired of the long chase scenes.
I actually enjoyed him in the role (the actor, not your brother ), although most Bond fans speak unfavorably of Dalton as Bond. Roger Moore too campy in the role (like him in the show 'The Saint,' however); Never bought Pierce Brosnan as Bond— always Remington Steele. I do like Craig in the role but I'm in the Sean Connery camp as far as picking the ideal Bond.
Daniel Craig is my current favorite, then Sean Connery, Rodger Moore, Pierce Brosnen, Thimothy Dalton, then the rest I have no opinion of.
But my "Favorites" in the bond films have always been the "Bond Girls". They were the main reason to watch the Bond films, as a teenager.
Sean Connery ... the bond that all have to measure up to. Daniel Craig ... getting better every time. Roger Moore ... I grew up with this Bond. Not best, but nostalgia. Pierce Brosnan ... Die Another Day George Lazenby ... only did one but it was better than Dalton Timothy Dalton ... sorry just bad Remember this is only my opinion.
I never put down my favorite Bond movies. Not surprisingly they are: Dr. No, Goldfinger and From Russia With Love. As others have indicated the early movies were the best efforts.
I was watching the chase scene (Nassau street) in Thunderball, and laughed when I see a dog standing in the middle of the street taking a leak. Adds authenticity.
Sean was Bond....Brosnan and Craig did/do a great job of portraying Bond.... Connery I think was the only one that was truely believable in the role...I mean he really looked capable of brutally murdering someone and then making a smart crack about it as he mixed a drink and smiled at a chick...not an easy combination of actions to meld into less than a minute of film....He could pull that off and still have you like him...
