But there has been none like George Lazenby.
Uh, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Hey, he got to marry Mrs. Peel.
After seeing Red-Eye last night - Cillian Murphy! He is magnetic.
I thought Christian Bale was in the running as well. Is he tied in for a series of Batman movies now?
Orlando Bloom? Disasterous.
James Bond is the quintessential brute – a thug on the inside, a polished veneer of sophistication on the outside. This is what made Connery so fascinating: the flickering glimpses of the wildness within. He could be utterly charming and yet at any moment you could imagine those strong fingers closing around someone’s neck … .
Russell Crowe would be perfect.
As with many mentioned here, Clooney just doesn’t have the physicality or authenticity. No matter what he does, he gives off this awful impression of being, well, “George Clooney Acting!”
Well, the impression I get from Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, and George Lazenby, and Pierce Brosnan is of a guy not acting at all.
Don’t get me wrong, Connery’s fun to watch and I consider Brosnan to be a damn fine actor. But in their James Bond roles, they didn’t do any acting at all.
And with Roger Moore, it was often much worse. I just caught some bits of Moonraker. My god, the acting is so bad in that movie. Lois Chiles was just so goddamn awful. Doesn’t Albert “Cubby” Broccoli have any sense of pride in his work at all?