Well, here’s my vote for Brosnan. I thought he was the quintessential Bond: Dapper, elegant, sophisticated. Connery was very good and a very close second.
I didn’t really like Casino Royale much, and Craig was definitely too gritty. I did like him in his teeny-tiny shorts, though.
lol…amazing post. If this guy thinks that Sean Connery is a wooden actor and that his comic lines werent perfectly executed..then what is there to say? By what standard of measurement could this guy possibly be using? Connery was the gold standard of the action quip and no one has done it better since.
And, in the second quoted paragraph, he seems to indicate he has a problem with the premise of a Brit (or presumably an American) saving the world.
I think Moore’s Bond depended on which Moore showed up during filming. In The Man with the Golden Gun and For Your Eyes Only, Moore played it seriously and it showed. While Moonraker and Live and Let die…
For Moore actually playing 007 as in the books, see Ffolkes
What, no Bob Holness or Barry Nelson? I’m disappointed.
My quandary is that I liked Brosnan’s Bond but hated the films he was in, which is to say he was the right actor but the scripts were shit.
I have not actually seen any of his Bond movies, but I have to say that Daniel Craig looks the part far more than anybody, including Connery, who is my Bond (i.e., the actor I first saw as Bond).
All the others were just pretty boys, really.
According to the Wiki page, Fleming pictured Bond like this. Who’s a pretty boy then?
I dunno… that guy looks like an average [looking] guy dressed in a shirt and tie with his hair neatly combed.
Connery at the beginning was James Bond. But he did far too may and was way too old for the role by the time he finished. Pierce Brosnan was similarly afflicted in this regard. In his last fim, where Halle Berre comes out of the sea a la Ursula Andress, Brosnan’s old man chicken neck was really disturbing to me. He looked like a right dirty old man, watching the beautiful young woman in her bikini.
Daniel Craig is absolutely spot on now, so I hope he doesn’t go the same way and keep on playing Bond beyond the age where it’s in any way reasonable for a man of his age to be the number one man in the field of international action man.
I do see the folly of looking for “reasonable” in a James Bond fim, of course. 
Yes, I’m sure your opinion is the only valid one. Next time I’ll consult you first before forming my own opinions.
Yes, I have a problem with the idea that a secret agent in a suit saves the world. It’s a 60s fictional concept that is now out of date. What exactly would a secret agent be doing these days? Engaging the Iranian government in a game of golf to uncover their evil plans? Austin Powers was the natural successor to Bond.
I voted for Craig, but he is almost a “re-imagining” of the classic Bond. Of the earlier ones, I’m in the minority and like the steely gaze of Dalton. Connery’s fine too though.
I don’t think I’ve seen the Lazenby/Niven portrayals.
This is not a matter about which I care deeply, but it is a travesty for Sean Connery to get less than 50% of the vote.
He is Bond on film. Roger Moore should be a very pale and distant second.
I wish to explore that:
How much is it Moore’s fault?
If he’s handed corny scripts, there’s only so much that Shakesperian level acting can do with it. (Moore was limited, but so was Connery, back in the sixties.)
Yeah. I doubt he had that much say in how the character was written for a specific movie. He was getting old also, he could have been a much better Bond if he started years earlier. That must have had some affect on the scripts and theme of the movies. He had to do more and more (groan) of his action wearing suits. In addition, it was the 70s, not the 60s. Movie making had changed.
Age… I agree that when Moore left the scene and Timothy Dalton began The Living Daylights with an energetic action scene on Gibraltar, I was surprised (and pleased) to see an actor who could put more energy into his stunt work, and how much difference it could make.
I yield the floor.
Thanks!
I’m not a fan of the genre and perhaps I never saw a bond film to the end because they are never entertaining to me, but if I keep watching a few minutes more while zapping on the TV it is always because of the irresistible tounge in cheekness and obvious ad libbing by Sean Connery; so he gets my vote, that’s the epitome of James Bond to me. Others, they’re just some bloke in an action movie.
Or Woody Allen (Jimmy Bond)?
I voted, like most people did, for Sean Connery.
Agreed, Brosnan is the best Bond, but only in the best Bond movie, Goldeneye.
Cast my vote for Daniel Craig, I’m warming up to him and I hope he plays one or two more installments. Pierce Brosnan was my first Bond as a child in the nineties. “Golden Eye” was the best of the Brosnan era and he was a good Bond actor, but Craig is superior and gets the vote. Daniel Craig followed by Pierce Brosnan.
Quoted for truth.
I likewise voted for Timothy Dalton, becoming the 12th person to do so. (He still trails Connery by a substantial margin in the poll, however). The Living Daylights is my favorite Bond film.
