It's such a damn shame that this guy has already been in all 4 Pierce Brosnan Bond films, because otherwise he'd be such a BADASS Bond. Colin Salmon:
See, I've heard a few people mention this and I'll give you that he's got the suave bit down. But he's terrible in the films (mainly the Bonds) I've seen him in. Maybe he's been hamming it up.
1) Connery 2) Brosnan 3) Dalton 4) Moore 5) Lazenby 1) Goldfinger (Honor Blackman clinches it) 2) Diamonds Are Forever 3) Goldeneye (Joe Don Baker clinches it) I would've liked On Her Majesty's Secret Service more if it didn't completely waste Diana Rigg, both figuratively and literally. Some of Moore's movies were fun but he himself was a massive drain. I don't think Dalton got a fair shake at it, but oh well; the movies he was in probably couldn't've been improved much by the presence of another as the lead. The only Bond film I fell asleep watching was Thunderball.
1) Connery 2) Brosnan 3) Lazenby 4) Moore/Dalton 5) Niven For the 1 1/2 months leading up to the 1995 release of Goldeneye, a friend and I had rented and watched (on the weekends) all the James Bond films to that point, from Dr. No to License to Kill (as well as the two "unofficial" James Bond films, Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again), and have seen each James Bond film since as they hit theaters. From what I gathered from the James Bond marathon and subsequent theatrical viewings: Connery's was the best Bond, able to perfectly balance both the espionage aspect and the charisma needed to charm the ladies. Brosnan's Bond is a very close second. Moore's Bond practically became a caricature, too much of a "ladies' man" and not enough of a spy, though he improved somewhat after Moonraker. Dalton's Bond was almost the opposite, a competent spy and killing-machine but apparently angry at almost every lady he met. Lazenby did a fairly decent job in his one shot as Bond in one of the franchise's better films. Niven did as good a job as he could in an attrocious film, but even considering that, he just didn't seem to fit the part. -G
Woody Allen plays Jimmy Bond, James' nephew IIRC in Casino... Anyway, I grew up Roger, so he gets my nod. Duran Duran was also my favorite band and they also loved Bond flicks and got their name from a Bond character. A View to a Kill brought it all together for me. Not the best flick, but Walken was cast well. Just think of the bad guys and the Bond girls, why stop at the best Bond or best Bond movie. I have them all on DVD, 8x10's of all the Bonds, several Movie posters in my "movie theater" I built in my basement. I can't get enough. You have to have a theme, right? 1. Moore 2. Dalton 3. Brosnan 4. Connery 5. Lazenby I'll have to watch them all again to pick the best, but the "technolgy" does get dated. That is why I like Dalton. He played the role more like the books. That dude has issues. I read somewhere that they guy from Friends was being considered. Matthew Perry.
Re: The best Bonds....NAME EM! Eh. Owen denies interest in taking the Bond role, as does Hugh Jackman. The next logical choice of course is Rhys Ifans.
Connery was the best, though he should have quit earlier (after Thunderball). Films: 1. Goldfinger 2. From Russia With Love 3. Dr No They must have run out of books by now. Based on this list, they have: http://www.ianflemingcentre.com/index.cfm?page=bond
If you were to ask a hardcore James Bond fan for the best Bond, he would most likely answer either Sean Connery or (drum roll) ................. Timothy Dalton. And more than a couple would rate Dalton ahead of Connery. They see Dalton as the most like the book as well as the most serious-minded of the Bonds, a particular relief after a decade plus of Roger Moore mugging his way through kookier and kookier plots. Thery also think that he's the one who gets the lethal and somewhat wild edge that the Bond of the book has. I had heard Daniel Craig was in the running, and that would be a cool choice, although not necessarily the right one. Cillian Murphy would rock, too, but I'm not sure he's ready for the part yet.
Daniel Craig http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4410000/newsid_4416100/4416169.stm Ewan McGregor http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4000000/newsid_4008800/4008875.stm Cillian Murphy
Brosnan 'gutted' not to be Bond Pierce Brosnan has revealed he's not going to appear in the next James Bond film, and he's pretty upset about it. He had signed up to do four films, and agreed to do a fifth. But when the producers changed their minds and dropped him, he said he was "gutted". "When they told me, I was angry and the conversation was pretty short and sweet," he told Jonathan Ross' TV show. Lots of actors have been lined up for the role, but Brosnan has said he thinks Colin Farrell would be best. http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_3980000/newsid_3988400/3988483.stm Colin Farrell - as Sonny Crocket Jude Law and Eric Bana have also been linked to the role. Jude Law Eric Bana The next movie was to come out in November 2005? Guess not!
This was also the case with me prior to the aforementioned James Bond movie marathon. Up to that point, I'd seen only a handful of James Bond films either in full or in part, but had only had the previous few still fresh in my mind (A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights and License to Kill). Once I actually got to see the various actors in the Bond role back-to-back with each other, though, I came up with the list in my previous post here. On a slightly different note: The first time there's ever been more than a 2-3 year gap between James Bond films was between 1989's License to Kill and 1995's Goldeneye. The second time will be between 2002's Die Another Day and 2006's upcoming Casino Royale. -G
I don't know who Daniel Craig is, but other than Clive Owen he's the only guy who looks like he could be a convincing Bond out of this lot. I'll also throw out Marton Csokas, who's in that rockin fight scene with Matt Damon in the Bourne Supremacy. He also plays that kind of doughy lookin elf commander in the LOTR films. Don't know much about him otherwise.
I thought he was fantastic in Road to Perdition. Not so much in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. I just watched 28 Days Later on DVD. I think Murphy would be great in 10-15 years. He can switch between cold blooded and charming like that.
So has anyone actually seen the 1955 TV version of Casino Royale? I asked this a while back on a different thread, and I can't remember whether anyone had.
Christian Bale's been mentioned before and I always thought he was a bit too young looking. There's a bit in Batman Begins where he's teaching a secretary golf that's pure Bond cheese though. Not sure he'd want to do two big-time genre characters. Particularly at the same time. Can't see Farrell, too much of a smartarse. Jeremy Northam's got the public school bit down, not sure about the rest of it. I'm hoping for a relative unknown to be honest.
Thanks for that info. Now I have to rent a DVD of that version of Casino Royale (if one exists) to complete my James Bond marathon, albeit ten years after the fact. -G
Roger Moore did not start the cheese era. "Diamonds are Forever" was really bad. There is no way a guy that is supposed to have the style of Bond would dress like Bond did in that movie. I personally really like "Live and Let Die". The story is kind of thin, but it has some absolutly fantastic stunts, the kind that are actually more impressive the more you learn about them It really does not matter any more. For example, here are the complete list of similarities between the book and movie versions of "Moonraker": 1) There is a character named James Bond, a British spy. 2) There is a character named Hugo Drax, a bad guy. 3) The title is "Moonraker".