Which Bond was Best?

I liked Sean as Bond…

And I liked him in Darby O’Gill and the Little People too :laughing:

But, Casino Royale was Ian Flemmings first book and his character name was James Bond, so I count him in…but I agree, it was a spoof… or if not it turned out to be!

I remember that film sucking (I was like 7 years old when I saw though). Me and my friend were so excited about seeing another Bond film. Sean has always been my favorite. I always thought Roger sucked, until I got a little older and realized he’s a pretty smooth pimpin’ cat too. I can’t remember the other bonds well enough to comment.

I think Peirce does a pretty good job, haven’t seen the newest one yet, but memory tells me the first 2 were pretty good.

Maybe Samuel L. could be the new bond. :smiley: Or maybe Matt Damaen. I don’t know many actors so I’d suck at picking a new bond.

[quote=“tigerman”]I liked Sean as Bond…

And I liked him in Darby O’Gill and the Little People too :laughing:[/quote]

wow, he looked pretty young there as Michael McBride (but only a few years before Dr. No)

I recall in an interview with Jay Leno, he mentioned he was a boy milkman and all the men had gone to war. So, in the course, he became a man milkman delivering more than just cow milk.

i dunno how to post a pic.
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i also remember seeing him on TV in a bad movie, The Wind and the Lion where he plays Mulay Achmed Mohammed el-Raisuli the Magnificent (who apparently studied English in Scotland. jk. i don’t remember. as did Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez, his character from Highlander)

[quote=“Kenny McCormick”]I recall in an interview with Jay Leno, he mentioned he was a boy milkman and all the men had gone to war. So, in the course, he became a man milkman delivering more than just cow milk.
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He delivered milk to my old place in Edinburgh (Tollcross). Long time before I lived there though.

Hugh Grant, as you’ll note from that other thread, would make me puke if you had somehow forced me to watch it in the first place. That would be an abortion…on celluloid…it is gonna take me far too long to clear that image from my head…Thanks! :imp:

I would put Chow Yun Fat in the role of Bond…I liked the Sam Jackson idea…but he is already too long in the tooth…but how about that guy that played the bomber in the new Ocean’s 11? Don’t know his name, but he has a certain quality…

Also, let’s get Zhang Ziyi in a Bond film…I hereby offer to help her with her English and her acting…free… :smiling_imp:

And I want Lee An Dao Yen to direct…

As they have run out of books to draw from, I suggest that the screenwriting take on an almost mock-umentary style…grittier, ripped from the headlines plot-lines…reality TV meets Bond in our modern age…The update is complete…New Q, M, Bond and a post 9/11 world where Bond fights real terrorism…some paridigm of the old style with this brave new place we call now…I really liked the idea that Bond was captured and being tortured on 9/11/01. It blurred the lines…a little…

The invisible car blurred the lines alot…

It wasn’t so much invisible as it was refractive…but the real question should be: is there where the lines of reality left the film for all you pragmaticos out there? Jaws flapping his arms and landing in a circus tent didn’t do it for ya? How bout Little Nelly taking on 4 attack choppers? The Beamer Pierce drove with his cellphone? I could go on, but I would belabour the point…it is fantasy boys and girls…so the ring had sonic (not, oooooo ,magic?? :shock: ) powers…sure came in handy…good ol Q…always one step ahead…

  1. Connery – classic bond
  2. Brosnan – flashy bond
  3. Moore – funny bond

I watched my first Bond movie when I was a kid.
We had a betamax.
Most of them were Moore.

I bought the DVD collection (19) of them from Costco.

:slight_smile:

Hugh Grant, as you’ll note from that other thread, would make me puke if you had somehow forced me to watch it in the first place. That would be an abortion…on celluloid…it is gonna take me far too long to clear that image from my head…Thanks! :imp:

I would put Chow Yun Fat in the role of Bond…I liked the Sam Jackson idea…but he is already too long in the tooth…but how about that guy that played the bomber in the new Ocean’s 11? Don’t know his name, but he has a certain quality…

Also, let’s get Zhang Ziyi in a Bond film…I hereby offer to help her with her English and her acting…free… :smiling_imp:

And I want Lee An Dao Yen to direct…

As they have run out of books to draw from, I suggest that the screenwriting take on an almost mock-umentary style…grittier, ripped from the headlines plot-lines…reality TV meets Bond in our modern age…The update is complete…New Q, M, Bond and a post 9/11 world where Bond fights real terrorism…some paridigm of the old style with this brave new place we call now…I really liked the idea that Bond was captured and being tortured on 9/11/01. It blurred the lines…a little…

The invisible car blurred the lines alot…

It wasn’t so much invisible as it was refractive…but the real question should be: is there where the lines of reality left the film for all you pragmaticos out there? Jaws flapping his arms and landing in a circus tent didn’t do it for ya? How bout Little Nelly taking on 4 attack choppers? The Beamer Pierce drove with his cellphone? I could go on, but I would belabour the point…it is fantasy boys and girls…so the ring had sonic (not, oooooo ,magic?? :shock: ) powers…sure came in handy…good ol Q…always one step ahead…[/quote]

how about that new irish actor on the block (plays Bulleye from DD and the PhoneBooth and SWAT) as bond? although he doesn’t have (as far as his roles go) that flair that Connery exuded.
I think Ed Norton would make an interesting Bond. haha. he could be cruel and cold (like American History X) or be neurotic (Fight Club) or just plain funny (Blind Faith movie he did with Stiller and Elfman).
how about arnold as Bond?
maybe Val Kilmer but then again, his batman was so-so.
Denzel Washington?

I pity the fool!

Well, look at the gadgets he used to have in the early movies - they all were somewhat futuristic and unbelievable at the time.
Today a lot of them do exist - in a more or less similar way. Not all, but a lot.
And, no surprise, the military is actually very keen on an invisible coating being developed:
cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/ … 6865.shtml
news.nationalgeographic.com/news … pons1.html

It might not make you completely invisible like in the movies but they may get pretty close once flexible displays are readily available.

Back to the topic: never read any of the books and I think I grew out of Bond movies. As a kid/teen I loved them, Roger Moore was the Bond at the time and I even liked Timothy Dalton (watched both of his movie at the cinema).
Only later I saw Sean Connery as Bond and initially thought Moore to be much better but now I feel Connery was at least as good.
Brosnan made a good Remington Steele, but as Bond - nah. Though I see the films rather appeal less due to the story instead of him.
I am not sure who would be the best, Connery, Moore and Dalton had all their pros and cons but each added his own personality and as such they were very different Bonds.

[quote=“8lemel8”]I watched my first Bond movie when I was a kid.
We had a betamax.
Most of them were Moore.

I bought the DVD collection (19) of them from Costco.

:slight_smile:[/quote]

I watched my first Bond at a drive-in theater from the back of a 1963 Valiant convertible. It was Goldfinger. I remember my eyes bulging when Bond was introduced to Miss “Pussy” Galore. :laughing:

Me of course:

The name’s

Not too far from me. I stayed just up the hill from Fountainbridge for a while, and down at Gorgie. What’s the name of that club they had at Tollcross? I saw U2 there and INXS and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Good times.

[quote=“blueface666”][quote=“8lemel8”]I watched my first Bond movie when I was a kid.
We had a betamax.
Most of them were Moore.

I bought the DVD collection (19) of them from Costco.

:slight_smile:[/quote]

I watched my first Bond at a drive-in theater from the back of a 1963 Valiant convertible. It was Goldfinger. I remember my eyes bulging when Bond was introduced to Miss “Pussy” Galore. :laughing:

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How come Pussy looks like Mary Tyler Moore in that picture?
I need to give Dr. Goodhead a call. umm. need some pills.

Me, I remember seeing Ursular first. and then A view to a kill in the theatre with that French Bond Girl (the one who does the Cosmetics and modeling stuff)

Not too far from me. I stayed just up the hill from Fountainbridge for a while, and down at Gorgie. What’s the name of that club they had at Tollcross? I saw U2 there and INXS and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Good times.[/quote]

Wow maybe you guys are direct descendants of young Shir Shaun

Bond. George Bond. Son of Bond. James Bond.

Your eyes huh?

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I watched my first Bond at a drive-in theater from the back of a 1963 Valiant convertible. It was Goldfinger. I remember my eyes bulging when Bond was introduced to Miss “Pussy” Galore. icon_lol.gif[/quote]

Pussy Galore, ah yes the beautiful Honor Blackman. Can I make you all jealous? I met her once while working in a cocktail bar as a young whippersnapper, even served her a drink. Long time ago now, long enough for the story to grow. Yeah, bought her a drink. Had a drink with her. Spent the evening in a bar with Honor Blackman. The night with Pussy Galore. :sunglasses:

Moore: Wanker
Lazenby: “He’s branched off”, I liked that movie!
Dalton: For some reason I could never bring myself to watch his movies.
Brosnan: For sheer style there’s not much beats the way he drove that tank through St Petersburg, and the expression on his face while driving the BMW with his phone almost clinches it. Brosnan is the man, except…
Can’t see Brosnan singing the banana boat song (or whatever it was) to Ursula Andress. Sean is still Bond.

Sean Connery is and always will be the real Bond. Brosnan (not his fault, I know but…) is just a character in a non-interactive video game, which is all the Bond franchise has become.
He does some good stuff though – anyone remember one of his earliest bit parts in The Long Good Friday? Damn, but that was a good film.

Sean Connery was the first and the best … a real tough guy.
Pierce Brosnan comes second, I’d like him to continue for a couple of more … unless he starts looking too old.
Roger Moore was borderline funny but he took the Bond character in too soft a direction.
Lazenby and Dalton didn’t leave much of an impression on me.
Did anybody notice how most of those actors who played Bond - staunch defender of the British Empire and of her Royal Highness - seem to come from minor parts of that empire:
Sean the Scottish nationalist, Dalton from Wales, Pierce from Ireland, Lazenby from downunder, only Moore I think was a true blue Englishman.

As to the next Bond, I guess Irishman Colin Farrell one of you mentioned, would be a right fit, or Scotland’s Dougray Scott - the bad guy in Mission Impossible 2 - though I read somewhere that Jude Law is under consideration. I don’t know if Law isn’t maybe a bit too bland. Haven’t seen him in an action role.
I certainly wouldn’t want to see a US actor as Bond … unless he had a credible English accent … Brad Pitt? Doesn’t look aristocratic enough.
Hugh Grant is a Brit but he would be a disaster as Bond, he would out-Roger Moore Roger Moore, if you know what I mean.

Just give us another Brosnan movie and a couple of years to think out that one.

I went to high school with a guy named James Bond. I ended up running against him for president of Student’s Council. He did zero campaigning…all he did was put up posters all over the school that said “Vote Bond, James Bond.” He kicked my a$$. I ran into him a few years ago in Vancouver. He’s now a civil libertarian laywer. Huh.