FabSwingers.com forum: My name is Bond, James Bond.. but who was the best?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

For me, best to worse are...

Sean Connery

Pierce Brosnan

Roger Moore

George Lazenby

Timothy Dalton

David Niven

Bob Holness

Daniel Craig

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Roger Moore

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By *exine xCouple
over a year ago

Leicester

I liked Roger Moore. He was great at delivering the cheesy one liners.

The new Bond films are too serious and dark.

However, still very watchable

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Best was Pierce Bronsnan

Then Timothy Dalton

Then probably Sean Connery

Roger Moore was just far too cheesy

Haven't seen any of Daniel Craig's films - through choice. He just doesn't 'look' like James Bond to me - more like a Bond Villain - so can't really comment on him

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

heard the next one starts filming in December

Had a pub discussion about new vs old bond films and the old ones with the cheesy one liners and gadgets won hands down

Minister of Defence: My God, what's Bond doing?

Q: I think he's attempting re-entry, sir

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Best was Pierce Bronsnan

Then Timothy Dalton

Then probably Sean Connery

Roger Moore was just far too cheesy

Haven't seen any of Daniel Craig's films - through choice. He just doesn't 'look' like James Bond to me - more like a Bond Villain - so can't really comment on him "

I only wish I hadn't seen the Daniel Craig films. He is awful, and as you say does not look like Bond. Casino Royale is easily one of the worst films ever. 2 hours of watching someone play cards

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Connery

Dalton

Moore

Brosnan

Craig

Lazenby

Although interestingly I thought lazenbys film ohmss was by far the best film

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By *MP3Man
over a year ago

Between Scylla and Charybdis

Roger Moore is the best Bond in my opinion and Live and Let Die, although dated now, is still a great movie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Although the spy who loved me is probably the greatest opening scene on any film.

Shagging fit Russian spy, downhill ski chase through Austrian woods kills a baddie , skis over roof of building, pumping music, jumps off cliff, music quits, free falls in silence for 5 seconds, union jack parachute, cue title track... Nobody does it better...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Connery all the way Mish Moneypenny

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Although the spy who loved me is probably the greatest opening scene on any film.

Great opening scene

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Daniel Craig

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Daniel Craig"

you are, of course, wrong

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Connery. Anyone who picks an Aston is OK in my book.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Daniel Craig is probably the nearest to the Bond in the original books. He was, after all, an assassin first and foremost. The film Bonds have just been entertaining spies until now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Craig

connery

bronsan

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

connery for me too but i liked all the bonds apart from danial craig.the last film was atrocious

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Daniel Craig is probably the nearest to the Bond in the original books. He was, after all, an assassin first and foremost. The film Bonds have just been entertaining spies until now."

I am pretty sure Fleming never described Bond as an ugly blonde bloke with zero charisma or personality

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"For me, best to worse are...

Sean Connery

Pierce Brosnan

Roger Moore

George Lazenby

Timothy Dalton

David Niven

Bob Holness

Daniel Craig

Ooooh me n you will fall out in a min!!! How dare you treat my Daniel this way!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sean but I think Brosnan is a sexy man....x

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

For me, the Daniel Craig ones are the only films that capture the mood and spirit of the books.

All the others are just family feelgood cheese and I find them tedious to watch

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By *CoastFunMan
over a year ago

Southampron

"For me, the Daniel Craig ones are the only films that capture the mood and spirit of the books.

All the others are just family feelgood cheese and I find them tedious to watch"

Same for me. I like the way Daniel Craig portrays Bond most out of all of them. I have read Carte Blanche though and Daniel Craig doesn't match the description of Bond in that at all so it'll be interesting to see what they do if they turn it into a film.

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By *orthLincsIronCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

Can't stand Connery as Bond, so overrated. Prefer Moore but I think Craig just edges him

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By *entaur_UKMan
over a year ago

Cannock

Roger Moore for me was the best. Loved the eyebrow raises

and the great funny one liners he came out with. He also always used to drive a Lotus which was my fave Bond car, and he got the sexiest Bond girls aswel.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sean Connery def gets my vote!! Looked sooooo darned sexy and dirty when younger - mmmmmmmmm!! Xxx

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By *uby0000Woman
over a year ago

hertfordshire

connery

brosnan was good too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Connery IS the only Bond for me....I can just about handle Brosnan but Craig is a definite failure

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Roger Moore.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Basildon Bond..

Proper letter writing stationery

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I like Daniel Craig the best. I particularly like his trademark 'looking around' after he's killed someone. Appears to be closest in actions to the books although Sean Connery, I think was closer in looks.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pierce Brosnan does it for me followed by Daniel Craig.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Connery is the best Bond, Daniel Craig however isn't far away for me based purely on the tone of the modern films.

I hate Roger Moore.

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Connery is, to my mind, far closer to Fleming's description of Bond than any of the others.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't think any of them were actually close to Fleming's version.

Wasn't his disguise as a mild mannered salesman in the books.

And I'm not sure he was ever a cold ruthless assassin.

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By *each_PittWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

My favourite is Timothy Dalton by a mile. He should have been in many more films. Even Ian Fleming said he played Bond the best and nearest to how he'd imagined him.

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By *nnyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Maybe not close but closer than the others. Fleming said he wanted Bond to be "..........an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department"

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

"My favourite is Timothy Dalton by a mile. He should have been in many more films. Even Ian Fleming said he played Bond the best and nearest to how he'd imagined him."

I think you might be mistaken there....

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

"I don't think any of them were actually close to Fleming's version.

Wasn't his disguise as a mild mannered salesman in the books.

And I'm not sure he was ever a cold ruthless assassin."

Bond was described in the books and was supposed to look a little bit like a guy called Hoagy Carmichael with a lock of hair falling over his temple. I don't recall him being a salesman.

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By *each_PittWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

"My favourite is Timothy Dalton by a mile. He should have been in many more films. Even Ian Fleming said he played Bond the best and nearest to how he'd imagined him.

I think you might be mistaken there...."

Not Ian Fleming ... I used the wrong name

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How the fuck does Timothy Dalton make anyone's list? He was an abomination

He only got the gig because Pierce Brosnan was tied into a contract to do a Remington Steele series that never happened.

Dreadful dreadful dreadful

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By *oddyWoman
over a year ago

between havant and chichester

Roger moore love watching moonraker

and they filmed part of a bond film at amberley museum when the car shoots threw the cliff

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"How the fuck does Timothy Dalton make anyone's list? He was an abomination

He only got the gig because Pierce Brosnan was tied into a contract to do a Remington Steele series that never happened.

Dreadful dreadful dreadful"

He is still better than Daniel Craig. The only reason he got the job is Barbara Broccoli found him sexy... but then she did date James Martin for years, so no accounting for taste.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love Daniel Craig. After that dalton.

I hated Moore (it was like my grandad being bond) and George L wasn't a bad bond... It was just a badly directed film.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Roger moore and christopher lee were brilliant together. Best serious bond, was licence to kill. I enjoy craig. Ruthless.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sean Connery every time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Craig is up there with Connery and Brosnan. Brosnan was hampered by dreadful scripts (due to a writers strike) and too many gadgets

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By *igSuki81Man
over a year ago

Retirement Village

Personally i like the newer Daniel Craig ones. The darker grittier films are more watchable for me.

If i was to pick someone else it'd be either Roger Moore or Pierce Brosnan but definitely not Connery!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lazenby or brosnan

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