Have not seen any of his Bond movies. I tend to watch the Connery ones...my favorites.
Thunderball was the best Bond movie...
Watch Casino Royal, his first and for me, his best. It's as good as any of the Connery Bond movies.
Connery's first 4 were the best for a variety of reasons. One was that Connery was great. Another is that the first Bond film appeared about 10 years after the first novel. The Connery films were made while the original novels were best-sellers. Also, the first 4 films actually followed the novels fairly closely. It was also the height of the cold war, and the Bond films kicked off a spy movie craze. There were 007 toys and action figures and cigarette lighters.
There have been some good Bond films since Connery, but that period of the early to mid 60s will always be the golden age of spy films.
I have a question. Was James Bond his real name or was it a generic spy name? I have never been able to find out. BTW, if the answer is in the novels, I wouldn’t know because I haven’t read any of them.