Posted on 12/03/2012 5:29:23 AM PST by Perdogg
So here we are at last, three years after I began reviewing the James Bond series, and it’s time to announce my choices for the best elements of the entire series. You have to hand it to the Broccoli family and all involved. Bond has endured over 24 films across 50 years, six actors, the bankruptcy of its home studio, battles over rights, changes in technology and culture, and the very nature of the action film.
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The Sean Connery Bond made an anglophile of every American male teenager.
Brosnan made a decent Bond, and Judy Dench was the best "M" ever - the uncertainty of her trustfulness in the movie is interesting. The scenes in Iceland are the most spectacular in any Bond film, and please - an invisible car? How cool is that?
Best Bond - George Lazenby closest to Fleming Novel character
Worst Bond - Daniel Craig - terribly miscasted. Does not appears to have the on screen comfort to make love to a woman or the ability to explain the Manichaean concept of Bond like Connery, Moore, or Lazenby.
Best Bond Girl - It is really hard to compare women across 50 years, I still think at her age at the time, Eunice Gayson was probably one of the most beautiful in a Bond film.
Best Bond Movie - On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Worst Bond Movie - Die Another Day (QoS and Skyfall not really Bond movies).
Best Score - John Barry’s OHMSS
Worst Score - Dave Arnold’s Die Another Day
Sean Connery was the only “Bond”...All the others were imitators....
Sean Connery was the perfect visual image of the Bond book readers BEFORE the movies.....He was exactly what I saw in my mind’s image of Bond reading as a youngster.
Sean Connery was the only “Bond”...All the others were imitators....
Sean Connery was the perfect visual image of the Bond book readers BEFORE the movies.....He was exactly what I saw in my mind’s image of Bond reading as a youngster.
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Not as cool as an invisible airplane with Linda Carter in it scantily clad!
I agree with the author that Carole Bouquet was (and is) a stunningly beautiful woman. As for the most sex appeal though, I’m not seeing Honor Blackman at the top of the list. That goes to Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder (I think that was her character name). Yowza!
Mehhh. Daniel Craig is one of favorite Bonds. Roger Moore is the worst for me.
Connery #1
Craig #2
everybody else
Moore dead last, except for the parody Bonds.
Roger Moore has been good in a lot of roles. He was great as the Saint which was a much more light-hearted, David Niven kind of character. He just never had the grit to play a "licensed killer".
#1 connery #2 roger moore. They both had a sense of class and humour. The rest of the bond actors were shallow or forgettable. Craig has completely ruined the series. The last several movies are crap. The latest one has a good score which is desperately needed to compensate for a horribly written but well done movie. Best bond movie IMO was goldfinger.
Thunderball.
Oh PUHLEEEEZ! Are you kidding me? There is a reason that Lazenby only did one bond film and even Timothy Dalton did two: Lazenby was awful. A cardboard cutout of Daniel Craig can emote better than Lazenby.
Having read a few of the Fleming novels and short stories, I would say that Dalton was much closer to the Fleming character than Lazenby, while Daniel Craig flat nails it.
Connery set the standard for Bond actors; none of the other Bond actors met that standard until Craig surpassed it.
I thought I was the only OHMSS fan. The movie doesn’t appear dated even now. Great musical themes.
Diana Rigg had a lot to do with it, too.
Pierce Brosnan looked like what you would expect of a James Bond.
Live and Let Die was transitional. It took us from Connery to Moore. And it was Moore’s best effort.
Barbara Carerra was good as a Bond girl as was Maude Adams.
Favorite film? Diamonds are Forever.
Best novel and best movie: From Russia with Love.
By the way, if you haven’t read the original novels and you are a fan, you should. Nothing like the movies, for the most part, but very good reads. The movies are basically parodies. Sean Connery was the only Bond. Daniel Craig is a far second.
Yes that one is outstanding. Diamonds are forever definitely gets some points for charaters like Mr Wint and Mr Kidd. :-).
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