The name's Bond. James Bond.

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

Skyfall, the 23rd James Bond movie is now it theaters.

So who do you like?

For me it has to be Sean Connery.

[Devlyn]

Seconded.

[Beth Andrea]

The new guy. Second choice, Roger Moore.

[Beverly]

Sean Connery was, in many ways, a very cruel Bond. Roger Moore got subsumed by the gadgets. Does anyone ever remember David Niven or George Lazenby as Bond? I really liked Timothy Dalton and I thought that Pierce Brosnan started well but Die Another Day had some ludicrous moments that put me off it. That brings me to Daniel Craig.....

Simply put, Daniel Craig is wonderful at it and carries the part so, so well. I like that he depends on little but his wits and his gun and that he is such an imperfect character full of flaws. I feel that he is a more rounded character and that many of the earlier bonds were "2 dimensional" in comparison.

Guess who I voted for?

[Holly P]

Connery built the role - It will always be his.  But damn girl!   That Daniel Craig is terrific...

[big kim]

Still Sean Connery,Pierce Brosnan was good too.Yet to see Daniel Craig so i don't know

[peky]

Oh, Danny Boy you make me so....

[tekla]

Personally I'd love to see Denzel Washington (or slightly less, Wesley Snipes) get a chance do it once. 

PB is kind of a small tragedy.  They wanted (and so did he) him to do Bond, but he was under contract to do Remington Steele and they would not let him out, or change the shooting schedule, so he missed about 6 years of doing Bond, it might have been interesting - we got TD in those Bond movies instead, and he just sucked, ie.  Licence to Kill and The Living Daylights.  PB did an awesome job however in The World Is Not Enough, which has a truly superior script.

Sure, Connery owns the role, and it's going to be hard to ever top the trilogy of Dr. No, From Russia With Love (the closest the movies ever got to the books), and the most iconic Bond film, Goldfinger (No Mister Bond, I expect you to die.).  Thunderball and Diamonds Are Forever are also top drawer.  But he also did You Only Live Twice (redeemable only by the Nancy Sinatra theme song), so you have to average that in too.

I think DC is much closer to what the books portray - so far, and that's really only based on Casino Royale because Quantum of Solace has about the worst plot ever (and that's compared with Moonraker - so pretty damn dismal).  But I'll see the new one this weekend, so I'll wait to judge that one.

Poor Rodger Moore never quite fit.  Simon Templar, he was perfect, but James Bond, not so much, and he had a huge handicap with the scripts, all of which sucked except for Live and Let Die.  Face it, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy (OK, Maude Adams naked was worth the admission), and A View to a Kill all pretty much sucked.


A more interesting argument among the Bond fanatics is this:  Are there different people playing James Bond, or is every 007, James Bond?  Does the name go with the number, and when one dies/retires, the next one steps up and takes over the cover?  So it's not the same James Bond, it's always really a different James Bond.

[Jamie D]

You left out Barry Nelson.  Who? you ask.  Just look. 

http://www.klast.net/bond/cr54.html

[Devlyn]

He's not getting any votes!

[tekla]

I skipped all the one-offs because it's hard to tell based on one one film.

That, and I only write on topics, I never vote on anything that does not have any power to change anything.

[Devlyn]

Aww, don't think of it as voting, think of it as manipulating the results!

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

I also did not include anyone who played Bond on the radio.

[tekla]

Aww, don't think of it as voting, think of it as manipulating the results

As long as I can keep some people's poor political choices out of elective office I'm happy.  And these days, I'm VERY HAPPY.

[Beth Andrea]

I don't know much (if anything LOL!) about plots, actors, etc.

I do know that I searched high and low for a 9mm PPK...I eventually found out the ATFE doesn't allow it to be imported into the US (but they do allow the .380 PPK).

[SandraJane]

I also did not include anyone who played Bond on the radio.

Sean Connery.

...did forget the first one...Barry Nelson, PlayHouse 90 did "Casino Royale" for TV in the 50's, rarely seen though. My next choice would have been George Lazenby, he actually did a very good job for an Actor's first movie, but alas the contract he had with his Manger's (2 of them) stipulated that both sign off on any contract...he had a contract for 20 yrs and also had taken a 50% advance for "Diamonds Are Forever", but his Manager's won't sign...rest is history.

...but Daniel Craig (drool )...

[Devlyn]

I don't know much (if anything LOL!) about plots, actors, etc.

I do know that I searched high and low for a 9mm PPK...I eventually found out the ATFE doesn't allow it to be imported into the US (but they do allow the .380 PPK).

I brought a Walther PP back from Germany.  It was a .32 auto, a great belt gun.

[SandraJane]

I don't know much (if anything LOL!) about plots, actors, etc.

I do know that I searched high and low for a 9mm PPK...I eventually found out the ATFE doesn't allow it to be imported into the US (but they do allow the .380 PPK).

It was the PPK's original length, 1/10 of an Inch too short.

[SandraJane]

  But he also did You Only Live Twice (redeeable redeemable only by the Nancy Sinatra theme song), so you have to average that in too.

Where do you think we got Ninja's from? Tiger Tanaka! Even JB didn't know what they were! What about the theme song for "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"? Guess who did that?  Sachmo...Louis Armstrong, its was the last song he recorded.

[tekla]

Where do you think we got Ninja's Ninjas from?

Same place the Bond plots got them from, Japanese History.  And Tiger's Ninjas?  Really?  You can see them right there in the movie, so they ain't really Ninjas.