# I can't be the only one who thinks Pierce is the best Bond, can I? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-be-the-only-one-who-thinks-pierce-is-the-best-bond-can-i/282442 "2004-12-31T16:46:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-be-the-only-one-who-thinks-pierce-is-the-best-bond-can-i/282442/41 "2005-01-06T16:46:02Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > I’m sorry. I really am. Pierce is one of the coolest, suavest, most stylish men ever, there’s no doubt. > > But Sean Connery _is_ Bond. There’s no other way it can be. > > Pierce comes in close second. 🙂 I agree. Furthermore, these are the only two \*true \* Bonds. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-be-the-only-one-who-thinks-pierce-is-the-best-bond-can-i/282442/42 "2005-01-06T17:41:57Z")
> [@Pochacco](#): > > (Seriously though … Sean Connery. He’s the only actor who’s captured the BRUTISHNESS of the role. Bond isn’t just suave sophistication. He needs to be a THUG at heart. What makes the character interesting is this constant tension between civilization and wildness. Connery is the only one who got it right.) I disagree. IMHO Brosnan also managed to mix the suave with the baddass. But Connery had to do it without the high-tech effects. Dalton was more a thug in a nice tux and Moore was basically a fopish dork. ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-be-the-only-one-who-thinks-pierce-is-the-best-bond-can-i/282442/43 "2005-01-06T18:55:35Z")
A good James Bond needs to look not merely comfortable, but completely at home and even gleeful in certain disparate environments: 1: Gambling at Monte Carlo 2: Seducing a countessa 3: Driving a car at ridiculously high speed for the road/terrain, preferably while being chased 4: Getting into a no-holds-barred fistfight 5: Shooting everyone and everything in sight 6: Performing some incredibly contrived and idiotic but dangerous and cool looking stunt to either infiltrate or escape So let’s compare the men against the situations. Sean Connery: 1,2,3,4,5 George Lazenby: 3,4 Roger Moore: 1,2,3 Timothy Dalton: 3,4,5,6 Pierce Brosnan: 1,2,3,4,5,6 So to my mind, while for most of the picture, Connery and Brosnan are equals, Brosnan’s ability to many of his own stunts gives him a slight edge. Very slight, in that the most outrageous ones were done by stuntmen for both of these actors. Beyond that, it’s just a matter of taste. That taste is, I suspect, strongly influenced by whether you saw Connery as Bond first. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-be-the-only-one-who-thinks-pierce-is-the-best-bond-can-i/282442/44 "2005-01-06T19:23:02Z")
I think Brosnan is great, but he’s been saddled with some pretty bad movies. I just watched The World is Not Enough last night, and DAMN but that’s a silly silly movie. Apart from the fact that it features Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist (and you could argue that that’s plenty right there), I can remember at least three times off the top of my head where Bond outran an explosion that went off right behind him. I think if Brosnan had done some of the earlier movies, he’d have a better reputation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-be-the-only-one-who-thinks-pierce-is-the-best-bond-can-i/282442.md?page=2)