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Best: Thunderball
Worst: Diamonds Are Forever
Roger Moore
Best: The Spy Who Loved Me
Worst: The Man With The Golden Gun
Timothy Dalton
Best: The Living Daylights
Worst (not fair to call this film that): Licence To Kill
Pierce Brosnan
Best: Tomorrow Never Dies
Worst: The World Is Not Enough
Daniel Craig
Best: Spectre
Worst: Skyfall
Just my two cents.
Thunderball
Roger Moore
For Your Eyes Only
Timothy Dalton
The Living Daylights
Pierce Brosnan
Goldeneye
Daniel Craig
Casino Royale
For me the most difficult part was to rate Craig´s films. I love Skyfall and Spectre is SO BLOODY GOOD. In the future it may well be Spectre but now I go with CR as it simply is a true masterpiece.
Sean Connery, FRWL ( My #4 Bond film)
George Lazenby, OHMSS ( my #1 Bond film)
Roger Moore, FYEO
Timothy Dalton, LTK ( my #3 Bond Film )
Pierce Brosnan, TND
Daniel Craig, CR ( my #2 Bond film )
Favorite: From Russia With Love
Least Favorite: You Only Live Twice
George Lazenby
Favorite: On Her Majesty Secret Service
Roger Moore
Favorite: The Spy Who Loved Me
Least Favorite: Moonraker
Timothy Dalton
Favorite: License To Kill
Least Favorite: The Living Daylights (I enjoy Dalton's two fairly equally)
Pierce Brosnan
Favorite: GoldenEye
Least Favorite: Die Another Day
Daniel Craig
Favorite: Casino Royale
Least Favorite: Quantum Of Solace
Best: From Russia With Love
Worst: Diamonds are Forever
Roger Moore
Best: For Your Eyes Only
Worst: The Man with the Golden Gun
Timothy Dalton
Best: Licence to Kill
Worst: none (both TLD and LTK are in my Top 5)
Pierce Brosnan
Best: GoldenEye
Worst: Die Another Day
Daniel Craig
Best: Quantum of Solace
Worst: Skyfall
SC Best: TB - Gripping story, great score, gorgeous female lead tolerable SC
SC Worst: DAF - I find watching this very challenging than any other Bond. Painful
GL Best: OHMSS - best of the lot and I can never tie of watching it. My No1 Blofeld, Bond girl, score oh yes, what a score
GL Worst: Haha - so he never made a bad Bond film!? Nope. We'll never know the what if's and the 'could have beens'
RM Best: TSWLM - my first Bond in the cinema. Love this story: the action, scale, score and RM is properly active - a truly epic Bond and in my top tier of Bond favourites
RM Worst: OP - this always felt weak and I was very underwhelmed by it at first but I've turned around the negativity and now like it more and more. Still my weakest RM Bond though
TD Best: TLD - amazing Bond interpretation by Dalton, glorious soundtrack, yes weak villains but a real Bond romp.
TD Worst: Well this leaves LTK - still a bloody good darker Bond and the action sequences are so well done
PB Best: GE - I can always get a buzz watching this and love how well it plays out throughout 'til the final fight scene with SB
PB Worst: TWINE - it's so forgettable and... for the life of me what am I trying to talk about? Not even DAD is this vanilla
DC Best: Tie between SP and CR : I like these both equally although I'm actually erring towards SP
DC Worst: SF - I just never 'got' this film and as nice as it is to look at it does absolutely nothing for me with action, plot, score and character motivations/actions
I find it far easier to rate and order films from the same actor than between different Bond actors.
SC
1: TB
2: DN
3: GF
4: FRWL
5: YOLT
6: DAF
GL
OHMSS
RM
1: TSWLM
2: AVTAK
3: FYEO
4: MR
5: LALD
6: TMWTGG
7: OP
TD
1: TLD
2: LTK
PB
1: GE
2: TND
3: DAD
4: TWINE
DC
1: SP
2: CR
3: QOS
4: SF
(BF Bond25 is eagerly awaited to be the next DC No1)
Can I just say, many of these could be equal ties and dependent on the mood be different this time tomorrow!!
Best: From Russia With Love
Worst: Diamonds are Forever
Roger Moore
Best: Live and Let Die (except for the racism)
Worst: Moonraker
Timothy Dalton
Best: The Living Daylights
Worst: License to Kill
Pierce Brosnan
Best: GoldenEye
Worst: Die Another Day
Daniel Craig
Best: Casino Royale
Worst: Quantum of Solace (though the more I watch it the better I like it)
From what I've heard, I don't think Spectre will change that. But you never know.
Best: - From Russia With Love
Worst: - Diamonds are Forever
Roger Moore:
Best: - For Your Eyes Only
Worst: The Man with the Golden Gun
Timothy Dalton - sorry I love both
Pierce Brosnan
Best: - GoldenEye
Worst: - Die Another Day
Daniel Craig:
Best: - SPECTRE
Worst: - Quantum of Solace
Best: Goldfinger
Worst: Thunderball
Sir Rog
Best: Live and let die
Worst: For Your Eyes Only
Timmy D
Best: The Living Daylights
Worst: License To Kill
Brozzer
Best: Tomorrow Never Dies
Worst: The World Is Not Enough
Danny Boy
Best: Skyfall
Worst: Casino Royale
Moore:FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
Dalton:LICENCE TO KILL
Brosnan:THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (bank scene was the only good scene in all of them.)
Craig:SKYFALL (Not seeing SPECTRE until tomorrow)
Worst
Connery:NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN
Moore:MOONRAKER
Brosnan:GOLDENEYE
Craig:QUANTUM OF SOLACE (still love it)
Duh!
TMWTGG. Yes, @chrisisall, another fan!
LTK
GE
SF
=D>
Connery
Best - FRWL - Quite possibly the best Bond film of all time.
Worst - YOLT - It's not awful but it's rather boring for long stretches of time.
Moore
Best - TSWLM - Outstanding. Moore's finest hour.
Worst - TMWTGG - Extremely underwhelming. A real missed opportunity.
Dalton
Best - TLD - A good to very good watch, depending on my mood.
Worst - LTK - Pretty terrible on the whole despite a few nice bits.
Brosnan
Best - GE - None of his other films come close for me.
Worst - DAD - The absolute worst of the worst.
Craig
Best - CR - Still amazing. Doubt SP can top it.
Worst - QoS - By far the "best" of the worst though.
Anyway -
Sean Connery -
Best - From Russia With Love
Least Best - Diamonds Are Forever
Roger Moore -
Best - The Spy Who Loved Me
Least Best - The Man With The Golden Gun
Timothy Dalton -
Best - Licence to Kill
2nd Best - The Living Daylights
Pierce Brosnan -
Best - The World Is Not Enough (yes, you read that right)
Worst - Die Another Day
Danny Craig
Best - Casino Royale
Least Best - Quantum of Solace
Best - From Russia With Love
Least Best - Diamonds Are Forever
Roger Moore -
Best - For Your Eyes Only
Least Best - Moonraker
Timothy Dalton -
Best - The Living Daylights
Least best - Licence to Kill
Pierce Brosnan -
Best - GoldenEye
Least best - Die Another Day
Danny Craig
Best - Casino Royale
Least Best - Quantum of Solace
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Living Daylights
The World is Not Enough
Not a Craig fan at all?
No I really hate the Craig era. :(
Sean Connery -
Best - From Russia With Love
Least Best - Diamonds Are Forever
Roger Moore -
Best - The Spy Who Loved Me
Least Best - For Your Eyes Only
Timothy Dalton -
Best - Licence To Kill
Least best - The Living Daylights
Pierce Brosnan -
Best - GoldenEye
Least best - Die Another Day
Danny Craig
Best - Casino Royale
Least Best - Quantum of Solace
Obviously subject to change when I next have a Bondathon.
Sean Connery
Best: From Russia With Love (best of the series - never to be beaten)
worst: DAF - Hamilton, enough said!
George Lazenby
Best: On Her Majesty's Secret Service - obviously
Roger Moore
Best: For Your Eyes Only
worst: Moonraker/A View To A Kill
Timothy Dalton
Best: The Living Daylights (closely followed by Licence To Kill - no worst)
Pierce Brosnan
Best: Tomorrow Never Dies
worst: Die Another Day - who would have guessed?!
Daniel Craig
Best: Casino Royale (still)
worst: Quantum of Solace
Top 2 Bond's are FRWL and OHMSS - two perfect Bond films.
Goldfigner
George Lazenby (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
Sir Roger Moore
The Spy Who Loved Me
Timothy Dalton
Licence to Kill
Pierce Brosnan
GoldenEye
Daniel Craig
Casino Royale (a masterful and flawless depiction of a modern 007 for me)
Lazenby only had one, so obviously it's OHMSS.
Roger's best is undoubtedly TSWLM, which I know people here think is overrated, but I personally think it's the best Bond film. It just has everything. His worst is TWMWTGG, which is the opposite - a massive spillage of potential, IMO. A couple of redeeming factors but more of a guilty pleasure than a genuine success.
Dalton's best is Licence to Kill, only because it doesn't drag and has access to far better villains than The Living Daylights, but I still reckon that's a great movie too.
Brosnan's best will always be GoldenEye for me. It was the first one I saw in cinema and it was huge for me, as well as just a great movie. TND was also good and fun, but DAD is his worst - a shockingly low point of the Bond series.
Craig's best is always going to be Casino Royale, in my opinion. Not only was it a masterpiece of cinema, but it was also the biggest Bond milestone since Dr No, in my opinion. It literally reinvented the franchise. His worst is the disappointing follow-up to that, QoS.
1. What was the best Bond flick from each EON Bond actor?
2. Which Bond flick had each respective Bond actor's best performance?
As he only made one EON film, Lazenby is obviously excluded. You can mention NSNA for Connery, but I doubt anybody will. Hopefully this thread will open up what we think is ideal for a Bond actor's performance and how much that ends up mattering towards the final quality of the film.
Sean Connery's best film: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Sean Connery's best performance: GOLDFINGER
Roger Moore's best film: THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
Roger Moore's best performance: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
Timothy Dalton's best film: LICENCE TO KILL
Timothy Dalton's best performance: LICENCE TO KILL
Pierce Brosnan's best film: GOLDENEYE
Pierce Brosnan's best performance: THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
Daniel Craig's best film: CASINO ROYALE
Daniel Craig's best performance: QUANTUM OF SOLACE
Best Film - FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Best Performance - FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
MOORE
Best Film - FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
Best Performance - THE SPY WHO LOVED ME / OCTOPUSSY
DALTON
Best Film - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
Best Performance - Equal
BROSNAN
Best Film - TOMORROW NEVER DIES
Best Performance - TOMORROW NEVER DIES
CRAIG
Best Film - CASINO ROYALE
Best Performance - CASINO ROYALE
Best Film - FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Best Performance - FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
MOORE
Best Film - THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
Best Performance - THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
DALTON
Best Film - LICENSE TO KILL
Best Performance - LICENSE TO KILL
BROSNAN
Best Film - GOLDENEYE
Best Performance - DIE ANOTHER DAY
CRAIG
Best Film - CASINO ROYALE
Best Performance - CASINO ROYALE
Best film: FRWL
Best performance: DN
Roger MOORE
Best film:TSWLM
Best performance: OP
Timothy DALTON:
Best film: TLD
Best performance: LTK
Pierce BROSNAN:
Best film: GE
Best performance: DAD
Daniel CRAIG:
Best film: CR
Best performance: QOS
Best film: FRWL
Best performance: FRWL
Roger MOORE
Best film:TSWLM
Best performance: OP
Timothy DALTON:
Best film: TLD
Best performance: LTK
Pierce BROSNAN:
Best film: TWINE
Best performance: DAD
Daniel CRAIG:
Best film: CR
Best performance: SP