Roger Moore vs Sean Connery vs Pierce Brosnan vs Daniel Craig vs Timothy Dalton vs George Lazenby?

Question

SECONDS OUT... ROUND 1

So, lets settle this dispute once and for all! WHO IS THE GREATEST BOND OF ALL TIME?

I have my favourite but my best answer will go to best argument - lets not go on and on though - keep it brief.

(and I know its all about personal preference but I want to hear good valid answers for their cases.)

Answer 1

Loved Sean and Pierce but have to say Daniel is more real and relevant for today, he actually looks like he could kill for a living and is charming rather than sleezy.

Answer 2

Daniel Craig Vs Sean Connery

Answer 3

5. Roger Moore - turned Bond into a clown with little to offer beyond double entendres
4. Timothy Dalton - he wasn't bad, he just wasn't as good as...
3. Pierce Brosnan - he was the Bond for a new generation, linking the Cold War and the age of int'l terror
2. Daniel Craig - the toughest Bond, many argue the one Ian Fleming wrote about.
1. Sean Connery - the original is still the best

(George Lazenby gets an incomplete.)

Answer 4

Here is my preference list, starting with my favourite.

Daniel Craig - Tough, sensitive, closest to the book
Sean Connery - Handsome, solid
Pierce Brosnan - Charming, yet slightly smarmy
Timothy Dalton - Joyless
Roger Moore - A posh twit, not in keeping with Bond's life story
George Lazenby - Yeeeaaahh, not so good.

Answer 5

Sean Connery and Roger Moore ARE James Bond
I mean, those 2 names (especially Sean Connery I think) are really connected with 007

I don't like Pierce Brosnan, he's just a good looking guy who can press a button but honestly I don't believe he's a secret agent who must kill people.

Daniel Craig was James Bond only once, but I thought he's great in that part. Very classy, very strong, a real man (not like Brosnan). When I see him, I can believe he's James Bond.
Let's see if in a few decades people will associate his name to 007 like people associate now the names of Sean Connery and Roger Moore... But I believe it could be true.

So my vote is for Daniel Craig

(I hope my answer's not too long ;o) )

Answer 6

For me it's still Sean Connery. Why? He made a great Bond as he had the swagger and attitude, but I think it's not just his screen presence and the mix of suavity and sadism that wins out, it's also the because of the atmosphere he operated in. The great 1960s films like Goldfinger and From Russia with Love capture a romantic world lost to us now. Our relationship to International travel and technology has changed drastically, and I think good ol' Sean remains very popluar because he is a personification of that lost world. Ah, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

Answer 7

Sean Connery, grow to be the first one and he fairly equipped into the function of ' My call is Bond James Bond' personality created by using the excellent Ian Flemming. Later Roger Moore did attempt to slot in a useless ringer for the 007, to three volume. relax all seem as if a set of "also ran(s)" in the race.

Answer 8

For me i didn't like Roger Moore as he didn't seem tough enough and had too many cheesy lines after he killed someone

Sean Connery was good but in his time and as im only 36 i look at them now and they seem a bit dated but he was still good.

Pierce Brosnan i didn't like at first as he just seemed a bit to smarmy but after a few films i found him pretty good.

I wasn't a big fan of Timothy Dalton or George Lazenby as they just didn't seem that convincing as a James bond character... but that might be just my opinion.

As for Daniel Craig... i thought he was great in casino royal and the whole film seem better as the James bond character seemed a bit rougher round the edges and not to many cheesy lines... so i vote for Daniel Craig

Answer 9

Having read the books, I prefer my Bond the way Fleming portrayed him in - gritty, dark and a good improviser. He was a man's man who took in all of today's pleasures knowing that he may never see tomorrow. In most of the stories Bond was always in over his head and barely escapeddeath - often rescued by someone else.

That being said, I thought Timothy Dalton came the closest to capturing the spirit of the trained professional who's a pawn in the machine, constantly being thrown to the wolves. (Granted the movie scripts sucked - but that wasn't his fault.)

Daniel Craig so far is showing this portrayal as well. And the latest Casino Royale (brocolli production) was by far one of the best scripts to capture the Fleming spirit. A couple more like CR and Craig would top my list.

Connery was good but a little too confident and good looking.
(He comes in third.)

Moore was too flippant about the dangers he walks into, too
reliant on the gadgets. Good as the Saint, not a great Bond.

Brosnan was too cocky, unreal. Too much unbelievable action.

Lazenby - another male model - too stiff and unbelievable.

Answer 10

I'm impressed that you know every actor that has played James Bond. I don't think that there is One Great Bond. I think that all did a good job. However I didn't like what they did with the most recent James Bond movie. Here is a small list of it's flaws.

1. No "Q"
2. No cool gadgets
3. Nothing cool was done to his car (No a high tech. glove box doesn't count)
4. Not enough action.
5. They made the building look like the demo, was planned. That made it look nowhere near as cool.
6. They didn't destroy his car in an interesting enough fastion. I could do something like that if I really wanted.

Other than that I haven't got any other complaints about any James Bond, other than the one that got married, & that was in the movie "In Her Majesties Secret Service"

That is what I think.

Answer 11

Personally my favourite is Daniel Craig but I haven't seen many of the Bond films, since I have brought the Ultimate Collection of all 20 films. I will be going and watching all of them to then see who I think is the best out of them all.

It all goes with personal preference but Craig is how I imagined Bond was, a sharp strong tough persona of a man.