I’m at the point where I can only stomach the Sean Connery ones.
Connery was great and the one everyone is compared to and he did a great job, I even liked George Lanzeby in the only one he did. He could have had a good run if he had not gotten greedy and taken bad advice on the role.
I still say Craig has done very well and has come across well and close to what I think Flemming wrote about.
Now Desmond Llewellyn who played Q in 17 films said in an interview that Timmothy Dalton was the closest to what Flemming intended as Bond and felt he might have been the best. Of course he did not live to see Craig.
Dalton was fully prepared to play Bond in more films but there had been a huge lawsuit on who owned the rights to Bond and there was a long gap between “License to Kill” and “Goldeneye”, when Pierce Brosnan took over. So Dalton opted out to playing Bond again.
I just watched “License to Kill” again last night and loved it. Only film where Q was in the field and had a nice large part.