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1) Dalton
2) Connery
3) Moore
4) Craig
5) Lazenby
6) Brosnan
As they rank as Bond
1. Sean Connery
2. Daniel Craig
3. Timothy Dalton
4. Roger Moore
5. George Lazenby
6. Pierce Brosnan
Personal preference
1. Roger Moore
2. Sean Connery
3. George Lazenby
4. Timothy Dalton
5. Daniel Craig
6. Pierce Brosnan
I should say, that I have often said I love all the actors who have played Bond, and feel each of them has brought something to the role. The likes of Lazenby and Dalton, who had a short tenure as OO7 in my opinion could've easily gone on to make the role their own, and given us some great films. I feel both of them were short changed. Pierce often gets the blunt end of the stick, however he steered the ship during a difficult decade and proved himself to be a more than worthy Bond. Given some slightly better scripts and co stars, then I believe he wouldn't receive half the flack he seems to get.
Best Bonds - Fleming Faithfulness
1. Craig
2. Dalton
3. Lazenby
4. Connery
5. Moore
6. Brosnan
Best Bonds - Silver Screen Swagger
1. Connery
2. Moore
3. Craig
4. Brosnan
5. Dalton
6. Lazenby
Best Bonds - Splitting the Difference
1. Craig
2. Connery
3. Moore
4. Dalton
5. Lazenby
6. Brosnan
So this is how things shake up for me. I've probably made it more complicated than necessary....
Craig is the most faithful and he doesn't even look like bond?
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So how come Craig is rock bottom then ? just curious .
Fair enough...
If an actor is one note, I sincerely don't think the film, nor the performance, would stand for high praise. Yet both DC and CR, to this day, are highly celebrated.
(and to your point re: DAF: I recently watched it and was floored at Connery's brilliance in delivering his one liners, my favorite being: I'm afraid you caught me with more than my hands up)
Listen, in the end, good on MrKissKiss for having a very clear feeling for something, and articulate the dislike for the film and it's writing (although I can't agree), but, even then, calling Craig one-note, it's a bit of a stretch, no?
Wow..now THAT list is interesting and brave.
So I find DC's performance in SP coming dead last a very interesting take. I found he elevated the script he was given (minus his shouting scenes, which I found bizarre for Craig). Loved him in the pre-title sequence (his performance behind the mask was electric), I did like his confrontation with M, and all of his scenes with Monica, especially taking out the henchmen and then seducing the "grieving widow".... on and on... I certainly found him more present than Waltz...
If I was to rate the worst Bond performance... and I am ready to be tarred and feathered for this... RM... in... L&LD... Quite frankly I found Rog to be stiff, unlikeable, lacking in proper charm, and someone who I would never be intimidated of... Plus he had quite the set of Moobs... Rosie Carter could have kicked his ass...!
I may have spoken too soon about Brosnan in TND. He was great up to the end of Hamburg, but I'm now in the Asian section and he's beginning to show his acting tics. The bike chase, which I'm at now, is still a bloody impressive sequence even all these years later.
I'm good friends with Mic Rodgers, who can break these action sequences down better than me, but that's a highlight of the second unit stunt team, and not Brozzer... They brought to life 007, not the actor...
Yes, @bondjames... there SHOULD be something discomforting, VERY discomforting, about the DC and Monica scene... it should not be, in any way, shape, or form, be comfortable to the viewer... It's the modern equivalent of SC and PG in the haystack.
The SP seduction scene is wrong, BUT, ADULT, on so many levels...
:)) Truly a low moment for the series; there had to be other ways for Brosnan to sink his teeth into the role....
Height, looks, arrogance, fighting ability, good in the emotional scenes.
Ha ha ha!
Lazenby did very well and could have done more imo....