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1. Sir Roger Moore KBE
2. Pierce Brosnan OBE
3. Sir Sean Connery Kt (Knight Bachelor)
4. Daniel Craig (has some baronet somewhere in his family).
5. Timothy Dalton (was once a member of the Air Training Corps)
6. George Lazenby ,couldn't find anything noteworthy.
2. Daniel Craig
3/4. Roger Moore/Pierce Brosnan (tied)
5. Timothy Dalton
6. George Lazenby
Love all of them. As of yet, the Bond role has never been miscast.
2. Daniel Craig
3. Sean Connery
4. George Lazenby
5. Roger Moore (Love all these 5, but have to put Rog here!)
6.( reluctantly ) Pierce Brosnan!
Ohh alright thanks for explaining a little more or i was probably too focused on realism but i can see now your point.
Now i do think with timd Daniel Craig has gotten better in the sophistication department. In Casino Royale he was too brutish when you first watch the film but i after i watched Spectre I thought hey he has his sophisticated side.
Sometimes i feel like Criag Combined three different spies into one.
He has Jason Bourne's humanity, Like Xanader Cage manly man good looks and yet has that sophisticated look for Bond.
When i first watched Criag i hatted him as Bond but partly it's because my only reference at that time to the character was Pierce Brosnan and for some reason i assumed Bond was always like him.
Latter reading i learned that I wasn't that right, yes since the beginning he was cool, attractive and a great seducer but there have always been some variations of the character depending on the actors and reading a bitt about Fleming Craig's Portrayal makes sense to me.
But really sometimes I think the one with the strangest taste here its me.
Since i defend Both Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig as Bond. I do love both and its strongest rivalry between fans.
We all do it respectfully but it's obvious that most Criag fans hate Brosnan as Bond and viceversa. It's really rare someone who did love both portrayals.
Maybe the rivalry its because they are the two more recent Bonds so its like i prefer when Bond was cooler only refering to Pierce and some say ohh no i prefer the much more realistic Bond only refering to Daniel Craig.
I have the feeling there are three main rivalries between the Bond fans :
one is Sean Connery VS Roger Moore the two most remembered Classic era Bond and the two actors who had the most Bond flicks.
2nd Pierce Brosnan VS Daniel Craig for being the most two most recent Bonds
3rth Timothy Dalton Vs Daniel Craig for being the two more realistic Bonds.
But in the Moore VS Connery and Dalton VS Craig situations we can often see cases where the fans of one loves the other but with Brosnan Vs Craig i feel like im one of the very few who loves Both Portrayals of Bond.
There is another scenario however, which is where I fall I think. I don't love either Craig or Brosnan.
I definitely prefer Craig, but I don't espouse his portrayal the way I do Connery's or to a lesser extent Moore's. I think he's decent enough and overall better than Brosnan and Dalton. Having said that, I do prefer Brosnan slightly in DAD (and perhaps even in GE) to Craig in SP.
well maybe because you aren't a huge fan of either (Pierce Brosnan or Daniel Craig) you don't have such strong feelings against or in favor for any of those two.
I bet if you were a Craig fan you wouldn't stand Pierce as Bond.
Based on your logic, those who 'love' Craig may not like his eventual successor all that much, and some of the comments here discussing his possible departure seem to portend and foreshadow that.
Yeah like it could definitely happen at least at the beginning and would resent the change a bitt more of its a success, their fans feeling like ugh how easy the media Forgot he once was second best to Sean Connery.
I love Daniel but once in a while i do have these resentments like ughhh Pierce used be that beloved but now I understand that's showbuisness. So no more hard feelings and now enjoy both for what they gave us to the franchise.
But i do think that the real Craig fans won't accept his successor.
That's what they always say and it actually angers me.
When Dalton came he was the best since Connery and Moore was shit.
When Brosnan came he was the best since Connery and Dalton was shit.
When Craig came he was the best since Connery and Brosnan was shit.
The media have a way of copying each other. Unless someone who knows the subject is working on it, they'll just recycle the general consensus whether that consensus was right or not is irrelevant.
Also, in 1971 Connery was the best since Connery.
Anyone? :-).
I feel that way as well. It's like it's been completely forgotten that during the Brosnan era, Pierce was immensely popular. Many people I knew certainly ranked him right below Sean. The reasoning being he wasn't quite as comedic or flip as Roger, and unlike the Dalton era he was bringing back the cinematic interpretation of Bond. Giving the audience what they expect from 007. During his era as more Bond film coffee table books, encyclopedias, etc came out- they all seemed to agree he was the best next to Sean. Dalton was seen as a misfire. A pair of 007 adventures that forgot what the Bond movies were all about. Dalton's would be compared to the likes of Steven Seagal, or Charles Bronson. Pierce was like the savior who reminded us of Bond's glory days. Then there's his looks- tall, trim with dark hair and blue eyes- a matinee idol of the 90s. There aren't many of those these days.
I wonder what will be said about Craig when someone takes over from him?
The problem is that most of the Bonds were really good for their times. Especially Moore and Brosnan. But times they are a changin' and so they're looked at as misfits where they actually were good fits. I noticed that a friend of mine, who hasn't been much of a fan, didn't like Brosnan but liked Craig a lot. He'd never seen Dalton. For him LTK was Dalton's best and he thought he was as good as Craig. Says a lot about the darkness in that film. If the world once again will be a happy hopefull place, we'll get a lightwaight Bond and we'll love him for it.
2) Craig--raw, physical, ruthless, direct, with a good sense of wry and dark humor
3) Moore--style, a mentally sharp and prescient Bond, good with the gun, good at action
4) Dalton--manly...deserved better scripts
5) Brosnan--polished, suave, capable, good with a quip, and ready for action
6) Lazenby--very able on all Bond fronts but less range as an actor
I think they were all good with the ladies--probably some more than others--maybe there's another poll on that somewhere or should be.
1. Connery - the ultimate Bond. Quintessential and definitive
2. Moore - cool as a cucumber but could do serious too. Supremely confident, like the original. A yang to Connery's yin
The above two define the filmic Bond experience for me. All the others are a combination (or an attempted combination) of these two
3. Craig - has declined considerably in my estimation based on his last performance, but the strength of his first two (and even third) keep him here. Doesn't do irony well but nails all the serious stuff like no other.
4/5. Dalton - intensity personified but weak in other areas. A bit self conscious in lighter scenes.
5/4. Lazenby - great natural confidence and swagger (up there with Connery and Moore in this respect) combined with vulnerability. Should have done more.
6. Brosnan - didn't quite find his way sadly. A bit schizophrenic and tends to overplay it. An amalgam Bond. When he was firing on all cylinders though, he was very good.
2. Early Connery
3. Lazenby
4. Later Connery
6. Craig
7. Brosnan except Twine where he was appallingly directed. Apted clearly wanted to make this one personal and really get to Bond emotionally but it fails badly.
7. Moore.
8. Brosnan Twine.
Agreed.
Each Bond was more than Perfect for their times and that's why our generation influences our preference for a certain Bond actor. Each Bond speaks to a certain generation because their style was perfect for the times they played bond.
Ofcourse this is not a rule a preference for a specific genre, sense of Humor or style also has a lot to do on why prefer a specific Bond but at the end all were great and this malicious trend of the predecessor was shit and new one is the best since Connery comes from that change of trends and times.
Maybe when cinema gets lighter again Pierce Brosnan and Roger Moore will be seen in a good light again.
2012
Daniel Craig
Sean Connery
Pierce Brosnan
Timothy Dalton
Roger Moore
George Lazenby
2016
Roger Moore
Timothy Dalton
Daniel Craig
Sean Connery
Pierce Brosnan
George Lazenby
3. Timothy Dalton (in fact, TLD is my favourite Bond performance)
4. Pierce Brosnan / Daniel Craig
6. George Lazenby
DALTON RULEZ™
Roger Moore/Pierce Brosnan tie
Sean Connery
George Lazenby
Daniel Craig
Interesting. And I thought you really like Daniel Craig....
1.Daniel Craig
2.Roger Moore
3.Sean Connery
4.Pierce Brosnan
5.Timothy Dalton
6.George Lazenby.
1. Sean Connery
2. Daniel Craig
3. Timothy Dalton
4.Roger Moore
5. George Lazenby - Although his film is first class and his performance commendable.
6.Pierce Brosnan - Poor scripts and the low point of the franchise (creatively) being the reason for last place.
I do.
I was tempted to put all on No 1 as a tie. But that would have been no ranking :P
AS BOND NON-BOND ACTING
1. Daniel Craig 1. Daniel Craig (Flashbacks of a Fool; Layer Cake)
2. Sean Connery 2. Pierce Brosnan (Long Way Down; The Ghost)
3. Roger Moore 3. Sean Connery (Oscar - The Untouchables; IJ & Last Crusade)
4. Timothy Dalton 4. Timothy Dalton (Hawks; Penny Dreadful)
5. Pierce Brosnan 5. Roger Moore (North Sea Hijack; Sherlock Holmes)
6. George Lazenby* 6. George Lazenby - (sorry have not seen anything non-Bond)
*I should add that I rank OHMSS in my top five Bond films but if SC had done it, it would be #1 with bells hanging off it!
1. Seannery
2. Daniel Craig
3. Brozza
4. Moore
5. Dalton
6. Laz
That said, I love all of them, and each actor who took the role brought something undeniably fresh to the mix.
Dan
George
Tim
Pierce
Lastly, the clownish abomination known as The Moore, who gave it his best to make the Bond franchise a series of campy comedies.