Dalton, Craig + Connery are the best Bonds
I said it.
Because it seems to be impossible to like both DC & TD.
LTK is intensely underrated.
I said it.
I like Batman Begins AND TDK! Anyone else?
I said it.
Because it seems to be impossible to like both DC & TD.
LTK is intensely underrated.
I said it.
I like Batman Begins AND TDK! Anyone else?
"Because it seems to be impossible to like both DC & TD."
Cant say I do. I love Dalton but I dont like Craig.
"LTK is intensely underrated."
Agreed. LTK is my favorite Bond film.
Robert Davi is one of the best villains of the series and I've always considered LTK to be the most realistic Bondfilm.
I like Batman Begins AND TDK! Anyone else?
Robert Davi played the best Bond villain. He was the perfect choice.
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Come one people I can't be the only one with this opinion!
The best Bonds are Connery, Craig & Dalton.
In my alternate history Dalton made a third film in 91, followed by a fourth in 93 and finally finished the series off with a much better version of Tomorrow Never Dies. Dalton will always be my favorite actor to play Bond.
shareI actually have come to LOVE George Lazenby's one-off performance as Bond. He COULD act. Most definitely looked the part, too.
shareI agree, that Dalton, Craig and Connery are the best Bonds. Although the way I see it, Connery is the best, followed swiftly by Craig and THEN Dalton.
The interesting thing is that I've always felt these three actors featured Bond in different eras of his life/career. Craig plays Bond as a rookie 007; a capable agent, albeit one prone to recklessness and over-confidence but who is steadily learning the ropes of the dubious world he's in and forging himself slowly but surely into a legend. Connery on the other hand, plays Bond at his peak-well-established as an agent, Her Majesties perfect weapon, calm and collected, the coldly efficient killing machine. Dalton finally, plays Bond as an older more world weary man, a jaded agent who has grown a wee bit disillusioned with the world of espionage and his job and questions his orders and the authority he's unwaveringly followed for so long.
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Having read all the novels, including the offshoots, Dalton WAS James Bond. Dalton will always be the best in my eyes, with Connery 2nd and Daniel Craig tied with Roger Moore for third.
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Geez... these threads are so stupid! Each actor brought their personality to the role, other than that they did what the script and director asked them to do. So this whole, "x was the best Bond", "no, y was the better Bond" is total bs. And I have read most of the books.
shareGeez... these threads are so stupid! Each actor brought their personality to the role, other than that they did what the script and director asked them to do. So this whole, "x was the best Bond", "no, y was the better Bond" is total bs. And I have read most of the books.
Craig is the best Frankenstein's monster since Robert De Niro...
As Bond, he's crap.
1. Roger Mooore - the best Bond!
2. PB
3. DC
4. GL
5. SC
6. TD - His Bond had zero personality and no sense of humor. Not Bondesque.
A Bond movie should be funny, with a lot of action, scantily clad sexy women and megalomaniacal super villains. It's a genre of it's own. There's no point in doing it as a generic action film.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..." - Roy Batty, Blade Runner
"TD - His Bond had zero personality and no sense of humor. Not Bondesque"
Actually, Dalton's Bond WAS very Bondesque. He played the role the way Fleming wrote him, and the subsequent authors wrote him. I love all the Bond films, but if I want to see Ian Fleming's James Bond, I watch the Dalton's. Craig is my number three favorite, but Dalton most closely matches the physical look of Bond, except for the eye color.
I love to love my Lisa.
A Bond movie should be...
^You lost me right there. There's no one way a Bond movie has to be. Everybody has their own ideas. Some people don't like too much humor in a Bond film.
As for Dalton not being Bondesque, that depends on one's definition of the word. Dalton was, in many people's opinions, the most authentic to the original literary character. In that sense he's actually the MOST Bondesque.
Not saying he's my personal favorite Bond or anything, just that he's the most faithful to the books.
The book is not always better.
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You're not alone, OP. I like both Craig and Dalton
share"If you've read the novels, your favourite Bond is probably one of the 'darker' versions -- Dalton, Craig, Connery.
If you've never read the novels your favourite is probably the one you were first exposed to at the cinema."
100 percent true. I first was exposed to Bond through the endless holiday TBS marathons, and they played the Hell out of Connery's and Moore's and Brosnan's. Dalton's weren't on very frequently, and Lazenby's almost never. Connery and Moore became my favorites, because I had the most exposure to them.
When I finally saw Dalton for the first time (In TLD) I thought he was good, nothing more, nothing less. By chance, a friend of mine got the entire Fleming collection and gave it to me. Went through them all, and the started getting the DVD collections and completely changed my outlook. Dalton took over my number one spot, with Connery 2nd and Moore and Brosnan. Then Daniel Craig bumped Moore into 4th place, but Dalton and Connery remained my top two (Though Crait totally overshadows connery in the last two official outings, YOLT and DAF. I like them both, but you could see Connery wasn't trying anymore.
Brosnan and Lazenby are my bottom two. I liked Brosnan a lot in "Goldeneye", but that was mainly due to the fact it was written with Dalton in mind, and viewing them all in sequence, it became apparent he was trying to play half Connery and half Moore. He definitely offered the least-original take on the character. Lazenby isn't terrible either, but he is a bit stiff.
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I agree. Craig is my favorite followed by Connery and then Dalton. LTK is very underrated.
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