Poll: Who is the best Bond in your opinion?

[Bobbity]

Sean Connery, far and away.

Pierce Brosnan was good, admittedly, but the films that he was in were somewhat ridiculous, and he was too much of a pretty boy. Bond is a womaniser true, but he's also ruthless and deadly, and I just didn't buy that in Brosnan.

Daniel Craig is good too, but he's gone for the other extreme; he's a hardened killer, but he's too cold, too distanced. His Bond has no sense of humour, and his womanising is semi-believable, at best.

I like the both of them, but Sean Connery was the perfect balance of hardened killer and almost obsessive womaniser. Besides, every single Bond film that he was in was just plain awesome.

 

[AkaDad]

Having seen every Bond movie, I have to say Sean Connery is the best Bond. Pierce Brosnan is my second favorite. While I like Daniel Craig as an actor, he shouldn't have been cast as 007. James Bond doesn't have blonde hair. Clive Owen would have been a better choice.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

People will usually go with the Bond they grew up with. But all were quite different characters:

- Connery was much cooler, more suave and sophisticated, back when Bond smoked and had to contend with Blofeld full time.
- Lazenby was alright but not spectacular. Ironically, despite his short lived stint as Bond, OHMSS was one of the most important Bond stories with many character shaping things happening.
- Moore, my favourite was the master of the quip and the eyebrow. His Bond was more casual and comedy but always got the job done. The movies were just fun and AVtaK is my fav film of the lot.
- Dalton I think was brilliant also. I thoroughly enjoyed both his films but LtK may have been a little too different for most, with Bond going rogue and out for revenge. His two summed up the 80s brilliantly.
- Brosnan was also very good. He had the intelligence, charm and great gadgets but I didn't buy his relationships with the various Bond women. The films were the beginning of the modern era with mad SFX and Judi Dench as M, who, in TWiNE was a central part of story, unlike any other film.
- Craig I'm a little ambivalent about. I don't like the new Felix, the lack of Q branch or the generic action-movie feel to both his films (I maintain you could replace Bond in the films with any action hero ever and it would have been precisely the same film). Saying that, it's hard to dislike him as his performances are very good.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

He's simply not.
Having read the novels I just don't see him being Bond. He's fucking horrible and if I could change any (minor) thing in history it would be his role in the franchise.

Agreed. He doesn't have the 007 vibe and the films are so generic. He's a good actor but not Bond.

According to the man who played Q right up until Brosnan's stint, Dalton was the "closest" to the real Bond, as in Ian Fleming's Bond. In the novels he's a tired agent and assassin who drinks, smokes and womanises to help him forget, but still has just enough in him for 'one more mission'. And Dalton nailed that in Living Daylights when he outright says "Stuff my orders. Tell M he can fire me".

 

[xXGeckoXx]

Sean and Pierce. Sounds wierd to say Pierce but he was in modern bond movies that retained the essence of bond unlike the daniel craig shiet.