Favorite Bond Flick?

[A_Harman]

Connery I think was the best Bond. He portrayed the best combination of class and brutality. "You Only Live Twice" is my favorite Bond movie.

Roger Moore is my next favorite. He was Bond when I was old enough to choose my own movies. The first Bond movie I saw in a theater (drive-in actually) was Moonraker in 1979. My favorite of Moore's is "For Your Eyes Only".

Brosnan 3rd. I had very high hopes for remembering his similar role as Remington Steele. But his portrayal was a bit too naturalistic. "Tomorrow Never Dies" I think is his best.

George Lazenby in his one appearance made a really good movie in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". One of my favorites.

Timothy Dalton was too much of a marshmallow in his first, but came closer to the Bond ideal of a classy assassin in "License to Kill".

Daniel Craig I haven't liked at all. He's just a thug.

 

[Dave Sherman]

Liked Skyfall, that was one of the better ones. I still think Sean Connery is the best James Bond though. Favorite film? That's a tough one. Probably Dr. No, because he's got the right mix of roles, and he's got Ursula Andress. He's got the cold-blooded scene where Professor Dent tries to shoot, fires nothing, and Bond says "That's a Smith & Wesson .45, and you've had your six.".

 

[ArBee]

"On Her Majesty's Secret Service," which is also one of my favorite Bond novels. George Lazenby was a splendid Bond, but very difficult to work with. And of course, Diana Rigg was wonderful as Tracy Draco.

 

[Benzadmiral]

The first three Connery films, the first of the Timothy Daltons ("Living Daylights"), and "Skyfall." As someone pointed out above, "Skyfall" is a grand adventure in its own right. "Doctor No" was always my favorite Bond novel (recall that long claustrophobic sequence where he crawls through the ventilation tube of hazards and death traps!), and Connery's Bond really comes across as a well-trained British security officer. "Russia" is the closest and most believable adaptation of any of Fleming's books. "Goldfinger" set the template for the films to come.

Dalton made you believe, when he leveled that Walther, that he was going to use it and someone was going to get dead. His "LD" is a good spy story, featuring the kind of mind games that real intelligence services run on each other.

Moore never convinced me . . . except for a scene, I think it's in "For Your Eyes Only," where he has a minor villain in his car, teetering on the edge of a cliff. Bond gets the info he wants -- and then drives a boot into the side of the car, sending it and the villain over and down to a fiery death. Good stuff, that.

Oh, and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was also very well done and very solid. Lazenby as Bond did extremely well for a newcomer!

 

[DBMaster]

"Man with the Golden Gun"

Not because I think it is the best of the Bond films, though. It is because it was the first Bond movie I ever saw. I have since seen all of them, but this one holds a special place due to primacy. Interesting role for Christopher Lee, too. What a voice that guy has!

Each man playing Bond has put his own stamp on the character. I have liked each for different reasons, though, Lazenby and Dalton didn't do much for me. Sean Connery made Bond "buff" before that was even a commonly used term - due to being a former Mr. Universe. Moore was a more campy Bond. He could get a woman into bed just by looking at her - a very 70's thing. Brosnan was a classy Bond, to me. Craig does harken back to the Connery days and, though very fit, does not look as good in a suit as Connery.