# Which was the best George Lazenby Bond film? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731 "2012-10-24T14:42:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/1 "2012-10-24T14:42:02Z")
By popular demand 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/2 "2012-10-24T14:43:42Z")
Quite a good movie, actually. And it has Diana Rigg to boot. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/3 "2012-10-24T14:43:51Z")
I LOLed ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/4 "2012-10-24T14:44:02Z")
Oops. Poll heading should be _Which was the best **George Lazenby** Bond film?_ :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/5 "2012-10-24T14:48:57Z")
You gonna do a David Niven poll next? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/6 "2012-10-24T14:51:32Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Oops. Poll heading should be _Which was the best **George Lazenby** Bond film?_ :smack: Fixed. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/7 "2012-10-24T14:55:08Z")
To be sure, Lazenby was a better Agent than Lazenby’s agent. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/8 "2012-10-24T16:03:55Z")
I thought he was find in the role. And it was a better movie than it’s predecessor, Diamonds Are Forever, which was awful. ---
**Author:** ![Mllz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Mllz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mllz)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/9 "2012-10-24T16:47:28Z")
Well, this just opens you up for the inevitable: Lazenby gets a poll, but not Timothy Dalton?!? Outrage! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/10 "2012-10-24T16:50:58Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > You gonna do a David Niven poll next? Please do! Only Bond film worth watching. And the LAST Bond film which _can_ be watched, without asking the viewer to suspend disbelief past the point of crippling cognitive dissonance. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/11 "2012-10-24T16:56:34Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > And it has Diana Rigg to boot. Indeed. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/12 "2012-10-24T17:30:36Z")
I will agree that Diana Rigg was nice, but Lazenby was just too _pretty_ and couldn’t act for crap. My least favorite Bond movie - though I wasn’t too happy with Roger Moore or Timothy Dalton as Bond either. I do like Daniel Craig and Sean Connery as Bond. [I will add a comment - I prefer the books to the movies, the whole Broccolization with all the stupid high tech unrealistic crap detracts from perfectly good spy on spy cold war action. How they got from a tiny off season holiday multicabin style adirondack motel to submarines in the tropics for The Spy Who Loved Me is totally beyond me…] ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/13 "2012-10-24T17:55:51Z")
So do we get a poll for the best David Niven/Peter Sellers film? ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/14 "2012-10-24T18:03:35Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > I thought he was find in the role. And it was a better movie than it’s predecessor, Diamonds Are Forever, which was awful. Did you mean predecessor, “You Only Live Twice”, or successor “Diamonds Are Forever”? Or both, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/15 "2012-10-24T18:16:10Z")
One thing strange about those two films was using Charles Gray as separate characters; a back stabbed Mr. Henderson in YOLT and then returning as Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/16 "2012-10-24T18:37:47Z")
I’ve never understood the hate for this film. It has great action sequences, great locations, and Diana Rigg. It’s one of the most faithful to Fleming’s original novel. Lazenby even does some actual acting. If Connery had been in it, it would’ve been acclaimed as one of the best. It’s also arguably the best film Lazenby was in, especially if you only count the parts that Lazenby was actually in. He doesn’t have any lines in _Saint Jack_, his part is teribly small in _Kentucky Fried Movie_, and you really shouldn’t count \*The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. \* (where he played Bond in all but name, even driving an Aston Martin) ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/17 "2012-10-24T20:33:48Z")
I agree with **CalMeacham**. Poor Lazenby’s only fault in this movie was that he wasn’t Sean Connery. As he said in movie, “This never happened to the other fellow.” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/18 "2012-10-24T22:29:51Z")
is that movie the only time we’ve seen Bond cry? “She’s just sleeping officer, we have all the time in the world.” ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/19 "2012-10-24T23:04:30Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I’ve never understood the hate for this film. I’ve actually never heard any hate for this film. In my experience, it’s usually judged as one of the better Bond films. It’s no Moonraker, that’s for sure. Out of curiosity, I googled “best bond films ranking” and this film usually ranked in the top 5 or 6 (lowest I could find is #8), with E!s ranking at #2. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731/20 "2012-10-24T23:08:18Z")
> [@SirRay](#): > > Did you mean predecessor, “You Only Live Twice”, or successor “Diamonds Are Forever”? Or both, maybe? I was under the impression that the predecessor to “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” was Diamonds Are Forever. However, I see I was wrong. YOLT is okay. Oh, and I liked Never Say Never [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-was-the-best-george-lazenby-bond-film/638731.md?page=2)