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Is there a consensus on who the best Bond is? Is it Daniel Craig?
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I basically agree with this, and to me it makes Brosnan, Dalton and Connery competitive for the title of peak Bond, but Connery winning out due to his overall Bond career.
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It's always difficult to rank Brosnan, because I think his Goldeneye outing proved he could be an excellent Bond, but Goldeneye aside, the scripts were never there for him. Craig had at least two above average movies, both of Dalton's were above average, Connery had at least two above average movies; so there's the room to assess consistency. You can't really do that with Brosnan, you have to "What If" him into another hypothetical Bond movie.
Sir_Crocodile
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Goldeneye effect. Exceptionally good bond film, many people's first cinema bond because of that six year gap. Not that Brosnan wasn't good though.
Bedameister
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It's Connery>Moore>I don't care about the rest
theusedversion
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Craigs movies are the best but I like Brosnan best if that makes any sense.
The Dutch Slayer
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YES ! First post wins again awesome thanks first post gaf your the best TD is the best bond
Nicktendo86
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I'm honestly not sure, but I've changed from the 'no way' to 'needs to happen' train for Idris Elba to be the next Bond after watching Luther, I think he would be fantastic.
Boombloxer
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Why? He's superior in every way to Dalton.
crazy monkey
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fuck craig. His movie ruined bonds for me. so serious never fun. brosman from mdoern era and sean from the past. the best.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Not only was Dalton's short tenure of higher quality, his role in Hot Fuzz was better than Brosnan's in World's End (and Hot Fuzz was a way better movie too).
Red Liquorice
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Timothy Dalton is hottest. That's really the only barometer that matters.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I'd rather treat Everything or Nothing as a good Bond film that just happens to be a video game.
captainnapalm
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Even Connery - he has the highest highs and a couple of his films are close to perfect, but he also has some incredible lows.
80s Bad Guy
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First post truth
ThoseDeafMutes
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Say what you like about the other actors, but I don't think any Bond actor has had lower lowers during his tenure than Roger Moore.
Kananga Balloon vs Pigeon Doubletake.
Clown bond was a bit awful but it was in service of a fairly ok movie. He did star in some turds though.
-shadow-
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The best thing about this moment in the film is that someone didn't think it was dumb enough so they decided to optically zoom in onto the balloon in the editing room. It's a pretty good movie, but that ending is amazing for all the wrong reasons!
Icefire1424
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Wow, poll is a lot tighter than I would have expected.
bigbaldwolf86
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Brosnan was Bond when I watched my first Bond film Goldeneye. Was around the same time I was playing the N64 game as well and loved them both. Craig is a good Bond as well even if the cheesy campness is gone from the films now.
First post.
Dalton absorbed the books and played James Bond as he was written.
His Goldeneye would have been amazing.
old manatee
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Pierce Brosnan
Rhys Wilde
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We need to genetically engineer the next Bond to have the face of Brosnan, the personality of Connery and the body of Craig. That would be the perfect Bond.
bearythebear
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It's Craig > Lazenby > Connery > Moore > Brosnan.
Haven't seen Dalton yet.
Haven't seen Dalton yet.
Icefire1424
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For the love of Broccoli, someone with Photoshop skills needs to make this happen. I...need to see this.
Oh, and to clarify, needs to have Brosnan's Goldeneye hair.
That's really the thing. Most of Brosnan's films weren't that great outside of Goldeneye. That film is so damn good I think it buys a LOT of goodwill. It proved he could be Bond. However regardless of how the other films were his Bond and Judi Dench's M were still very good. That's what allows me to watch those films from time to time I think. Also helps there were some decent Bond games with him during his run.
MHWilliams
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I'm going to go with either Dalton or Brosnan. Dalton had the best films, Brosnan felt like the best version of the character, but had some of the worst films outside of Goldeneye.
King Gilga
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Quality aside, when I think James bond I see Pierce Brosnan in my head.
APZonerunner
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If Dalton had been given a few more films I feel like he'd be far and away the lead. Such a shame that rights issues ground the series to a halt for the better part of a decade and then he never came back.
I should finally watch The World's End. It's the only one from the trilogy I haven't seen. And I didn't knew Brosnan was in it.
Jason's Ultimatum
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Craig. He's the best looking and does a great job portraying someone that fits the persona as Bond.
torre_avenue
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Which poor soul saw "Casino Royale" and thought "Wow, David Niven REALLY went all in as Bond in this shitty comedy movie made to shit on Fleming's legacy!", and subsequently voted for him on this poll?
Yeah. I wonder how many have seen The Living Daylights? I feel it pretty underseen so people vote what they know and I'm thinking a lot of people here grew up with Brosnan as their Bond. I know I did.
xDUMPWEEDx
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Boombloxer
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Pretty much. Either him or Connery.
Except it wasn't. Both of them were 80s action movies that happened to have Bond in them. One was basically a Miami Vice episode, and the other had a dude who threw lethal milk bottles.
Bobby Roberts
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It was a really fucking good Miami Vice episode, though.
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yaaas glorious king brosnan starting to overtake filthy peasant craig
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Vulcano's assistant
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Not Roger Moore
darkwing-buck
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Hard choice for me, grew up with Bronson but as I got older I enjoyed Dalton's take on bond and how he made the character more human.
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