Who was the best James Bond?

Sean Connery

make that 2 for Sean Connery.

Me three for the early James Bond movies. I much prefer old fashioned action and stunts and I like seeing the older cars and buildings and the hot Bond girls. No CGI.

Make it another for Sean Connery. Daniel Craig looks like Vladimir Putin.

Connery was great. I like Timothy Dalton too because he had more of a mean, nasty killer vibe. Bond is “licensed to kill.”

George Lazenby by far. On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the single most underrated Bond film.

Sean Connery created the "Cool" Bond, "Shaken, not stirred." Daniel Craig brought it back to a more "serious" Bond. George Lazenby brought in sophistication. "Casino Royale" - the Woody Allen one - was stupid even as a spoof. Roger Moore was just silly.

Best name in ANY James Bond movie: Pussy Galore.

^Moore became Bond because Lazenby turned them down when they asked him to do future films.

Daniel Craig. Dalton and Brosnan were perfectly fine. Moore served too long to have not defined the role. Connery creates the character and embodied the gentleman spy. Craig gave new life to an old character in a way noone saw coming. Casino Royale and Skyfall were both flawless.

My two favorites are Sean Connery and Daniel Craig in what amounts to a dead heat. Both played the role with relatively minimal gadgetry. Craig played a slightly more emotionally complex Bond.

Third for me was Timothy Dalton, who played a very hard-edged Bond but was a bit hampered by weaker scripts.

Fourth, Pierce Brosnan. He played Bond competently but again was constrained by his scripts

Fifth, Roger Moore. Great as Simon Templar, mediocre as a serious Bond. I think he might have excelled with writing that was less tongue-in-cheek.

Last, George Lazenby, for the stiffest most wooden portrayal of all the Bonds. Sorry, skibum...🫤

Sean Connery had the best material to work with, IMO. Many of the later movies had plots and gadgets that got silly, straying from what the character is about. Dalton's gritty portrayal was good though I've never been too high on him. I love Brosnan but after his first movie the scripts weren't very good.

I don't disagree that Daniel Craig's portrayal was more "emotionally complex". But that's not really what James Bond is about for me, which drops him a notch.

Sean Connery👌🏻

Sean Connery for me. The early ones are clearly the best.

Sean Connery. Earliest 1st impression usually the strongest and several subsequent ones kept me coming back for more.

Connery was good but the best Bond was the Bond of the novels. In the sixties being campy was a common occurrence and many movies and television shows then exhibited elements of that. For example, a lot of my fellow Boomers liked the Batman television series back then but it was too campy for me. The Bond series became increasingly campy through the sixties and seventies until the campiness became so bad it ruined some of the Roger Moore Bond movies.

Sean Connery is my favorite Bond. I prefer Daniel Craig to Moore, Dalton, and Brosnan. I’m more than happy that Lazenby did not continue.

Connery. I do enjoy the movies Moore was in, but he was basically a cartoon.

When I think of the “look”, Brosnan did it best IMO. Daniel Craig was my favorite, I felt like he was the first one to play a role that wasn’t constrained with what “gadgets” he was using.

Best overall actor? Tough one, either Craig or Connery.

I think Idris Elba should be the next Bond but he’s probably too old now. I’ve heard that Aaron Taylor-Johnson is in the running too, he’s 35. Probably a better fit.

Connery by a hair, Craig that very close second. Both of them were the gentleman-tough guy.

Brosnan and Dalton tied for third. Moore was pretty good, as long as you didn't take him too seriously in the role.

Lazenby didn't even make the top five for me.

Taylor-Johnson could be interesting; I'd just have trouble trying to keep his Bond separate from Kick Ass and Kraven.

In the UK Sean Connery is widely regarded as the best ever Bond, and Roger 'plank of timber' Moore the worst.

Connery is the man that set the standard and remains the standard.

Watching PBS right now - Sean Connery vs James Bond

^Documentary

Sean Connery—the OG Pierce Brosnan—potential, but too few movies Daniel Craig—best one not named Sean Connery.

See how I mentioned Sean Connery twice, no thrice 😂

Documentary “Sean Connery vs. James Bond” was basically about how he didn’t want to be type-casted or known as James Bond. Connery was great in a lot of other movies. I thought he was excellent in The Great Train Robbery, The Man Who Would Be King, The Rock and The Untouchables. I think he won an Oscar for Untouchables. In all his roles he always played tough, ballsy guys.

Don't forget "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen."

Connery is most people's favorite and he was very strong. Timonthy Dalton was interesting because I felt his interpretation was nuanced and you felt the character was masking his feelings. Daniel Craig's work really gave Bond a rich inner life and you saw a man carrying around all that he had done on his shoulders and questioning these actions in quiet moments. Fascinating approach.