I liked Dalton a lot, I put him on par or almost on par with early Connery. I rue that a contract dispute prevented him from making “Goldeneye”.
Moore got lousy comedy scripts, not his fault. He was very good in harder moments, like slapping around Maude Adams and kicking that car off a cliff.
Supposedly, Dalton was in line to take over for Connery when he left the role. That would have been interesting; we could have had a ~25 year run with Dalton as Bond.
Completely agree. Dalton could have been the best 007 ever.
And Moore did have mostly crap/mediocre scripts to work with. Connery had the cream of the crop. Like I’ve written on here many times, given what he had to work with, overall, Sir Roger did well.
LALD: Personally, I found the story to be ehh.
TMWTGG: One of Moore’s best. Him & Christopher Lee, combined with Maud Adams and Britt Ekland? Hell, yeah!
TSWLM: One of the Best Bond’s ever.
M: Garbage story. “007 goes Star Wars”.
FYEO: One of the Best Bond’s ever.
O: Garbage story.
AVTAK: Gets panned, but one of my favorites. Story would be better and more applicable today, especially with the rise of mobile devices.