Who played the best James Bond?

[al2n]

My best friend and I were enjoying a little too much Eagle Rare last night and got into a rather heated debate over who was the best James Bond.

He thinks Daniel Craig is the best Bond ever, while I lean toward Sean Connery.

We both agreed that Timothy Dalton was the worst.

Who do you think the best of the Bonds is/was?

[N2NH]

Best Bond

1) Pierce Brosnan
2) Sean Connery
3) Timothy Dalton

Worst Bond?

George Lazenby.

Good actor, just not a Bond.

[W3WN]

Best: Sean Connery
Worst: Rodger Moore

[N7RJD]

Who played the best James Bond?

You mean the best of the worst?
I have never liked any of the Bond movies and out of those who
have played Bond only one (Connery) has ever done anything
worth watching.

[KC2UGV]

Best: Connery.
Runner Up: Brosnan.

Worse: Roger Moore.

[K7SGJ]

Sean Connery IS James Bond, the others are just actors. Nothing better than a James Bond at a drive in movie, on a hot night, in a hot car, with a hot chick. Now I'd just settle for the hot car, I think I can still handle one of those.

[N1LAF]

Daniel Craig version is more gritty, and more like a cold blooded killer of a Bond character, followed by Dalton and Connery. Also, the newer versions are more realistic, believable by the lack of fancy gadgets and weapons, as well as the villains, made the last two films more enjoyable.

As far as favorite actors for the role, both Craig and Connery.

[VE7DCW]

The best Bond??? ...i've got to to go with Connery as well ....the iconic Bond

....and Roger Moore as the worst!!! ...no matter how he played it, he just could'nt "sell" the Bond coolness. :nono:

[NQ6U]

Daniel Craig version is more gritty, and more like a cold blooded killer of a Bond character, followed by Dalton and Connery. Also, the newer versions are more realistic, believable by the lack of fancy gadgets and weapons, as well as the villains, made the last two films more enjoyable.

As far as favorite actors for the role, both Craig and Connery.

I'd agree with that completely. Sean Connery defined the movie Bond but Craig is really more like the Bond of Ian Fleming's books.

[al2n]

I do enjoy the little stabs the Craig movies take at the earlier Bond films. One of my favorites is in Casino Royale right after Bond took a bad beat in the poker game. He walks up to the bar...

Bond: I will take a vodka martini.

Bartender: Would you like that shaken or stirred?

Bond: Do I look like I give a damn?

[NQ6U]

I do enjoy the little stabs the Craig movies take at the earlier Bond films. One of my favorites is in Casino Royale right after Bond took a bad beat in the poker game. He walks up to the bar...

Bond: I will take a vodka martini.

Bartender: Would you like that shaken or stirred?

Bond: Do I look like I give a damn?

Yeah, I laughed out loud at that one!

[kb2vxa]

It all depends on who can best deliver those famous quips. It's hard for me to say but the most unforgettable was the chagrined, drawn out Pooooo-seeey from Connery in Goldfinger. In first run the audience gasped, then chuckled. Cubby Broccoli was ahead of his time with that one!

[W3WN]

Daniel Craig version is more gritty, and more like a cold blooded killer of a Bond character, followed by Dalton and Connery. Also, the newer versions are more realistic, believable by the lack of fancy gadgets and weapons, as well as the villains, made the last two films more enjoyable.

As far as favorite actors for the role, both Craig and Connery.
The over-use of the gadgetry and the wisecracks, starting with the Rodger Moore films, spoils most of the rest for me. It was nice to see them revert back to what Ian Fleming had in mind.

[N5RLR]

IIRC, Pierce Brosnan said that he hung up the Bond role because of the wisecracks. :-|

[W3MPS]

Craig has become my new runner up to Sean Connery.

Although I am still confused as to how one could "bruise the gin" by shaking a martini rather than stirring it.... maybe the island bartender could weigh in on this conundrum. I have had numerous martinis both shaken and stirred and have yet to tell the difference.

[kb2crk]

craig is a good bond. i loved it when being tortued in casino royale he started laughing and when asked why he said i cant wait to tell evryone i got you to scratch my balls.

[kb2vxa]

"Although I am still confused as to how one could "bruise the gin" by shaking a martini rather than stirring it.... maybe the island bartender could weigh in on this conundrum."
If the bartender is a Bond fan he knows you can't bruise what doesn't exist. James drank vodka Martinis, vodka and vermouth, no gin.

[KC2UGV]

"Although I am still confused as to how one could "bruise the gin" by shaking a martini rather than stirring it.... maybe the island bartender could weigh in on this conundrum."
If the bartender is a Bond fan he knows you can't bruise what doesn't exist. James drank vodka Martinis, vodka and vermouth, no gin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaken,_not_stirred#Why_shaken.2C_not_stirred.3F

And, Bond took his martinis with Vodka and Gin :) He just added Vodka to the martini, not exchanging the gin for vodka :)

[W1GUH]

Sean Connery. The others are all posers. Great actors in good roles...but they're not Bond. Maybe a cousin in the same type of work?

I've never seen a bartender make a stirred Martini. It always gets shaken. Pity -- makes saying "shaken, not stirred" pretty useless. According to Jim Beam, Bond also drank bourbon. From an ad in Playboy in the late sixties..."The man is James Bond. The bourbon is Jim Beam."

The most memorable quip from Bond was in Thunderball -- "She's just dead."

[WØTKX]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbJ3eLNjSfw

[W3WN]

Nice!