Sir Sean Connery voted best Bond

[gashauskis9]

Pish.  

 

Roger Moore, followed by Daniel Craig every time. 

[The Real Maroonblood]

13 hours ago, IronJambo said:

Pierce is definitely my favourite Bond. Connery is awful in everything he's done. That guy would play a deaf mute with his own accent. 

[Pans Jambo]

14 hours ago, IronJambo said:

Pierce is definitely my favourite Bond. Connery is awful in everything he's done. That guy would play a deaf mute with his own accent. 

Pierce was good but the thing with Bonds is a few of the movies just went bat-shit mental which I think detracts from the actors as the films just get too fantastical. The disappearing car , the lasers from space and that numpty John Cleese as Q etc.

 

Older movies like Moonraker! Come on, is it really THAT easy to get onto a space shuttle and go to the space station with no training???

 

I did and do still love some of the stunts in the bond movies. My fav is the one in the deep south USA when the car jumps the river on the broken bridge and spins mid-air was brilliant...Boy!

 

I always wondered who built the baddies lair's inside mountains etc. Surely someone would have noticed a massive engineering project like hollowing out a mountain?

 

Danial Craig's Bond stories are far more realistic and I think his character is a bit more "Bond" than the rest (other than Dalton's).

 

All good movies but some of them are more "popcorn" than others.

 

I grew up watching Roger Moore as Bond but for me, Craig is the best. More of a ruthless Barsteward.

Edited August 17, 2020 by Pans Jambo

[Harry Potter]

15 hours ago, IronJambo said:

Pierce is definitely my favourite Bond. Connery is awful in everything he's done. That guy would play a deaf mute with his own accent. 

🤣.

[IronJambo]

11 hours ago, The White Cockade said:

That’s just bollocks

What's bollocks? Do all of Connery's characters not have the same accent?

[The Real Maroonblood]

9 minutes ago, IronJambo said:

What's bollocks? Do all of Connery's characters not have the same accent?

They’re mostly Irishy.

[Roxy Hearts]

6 hours ago, Georgecowie said:

Agree with this. Saw a film where Connery played Robin Hood with a Scottish accent. Little John was the same! Remember Colin Firth playing an American ex golf pro and he at least attempted an accent. 

Connery is a better actor than Firth and he's a global superstar. Most actors use their own accent but especially like it that Sean kept his. He's no Olivier but he put Scottish acting on the map and was unique. 

[muldoon74]

Connery best overall bond for me but as an individual performance and storyline, Craig in Casino Royale. 

 

Back to being gritty, hard drinking (but not a drunk), a bit angry with the world and of course, Eva Green as Vesper Lind... 

[I P Knightley]

21 hours ago, Placid Casual said:

 

I’ve been watching the films over last few weeks. I’d forgotten how poor the Roger Moore films were. Moore was a good guy by all accounts, but as Victorian says above, there was a major decline in style and production values.

They had a couple of Roger Moore Bond's on ITV at the weekend and I caught bits of them. God! they were awful. Mind you, they weren't the Spy Who Loved Me or Live & Let Die; two that he got away with.

 

There's an excellent anecdote about Roger Moore which I'll cut and paste for you. It comes from a writer:

 

"As a seven year old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and I saw Roger Moore sitting at the departue gate, reading a paper. I told my grandad I’d just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad has no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words “my grandson says you’re famous. Can you sign this?

 

As charming as you’d expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I’m ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It’s hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn’t say “James Bond”. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says “Roger Moore” – I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my heart sinks. I tell my grandad he’s signed it wrong, that he’s put someone else’s name – so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he’s only just signed.

 

‘I remember staying by our seats my grandad saying “he says you’ve signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond.” Roger Moore’s face crinkled with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me “I have to sign my name as ‘Roger Moore’ because otherwise… Blofeld might find out I was here.”

 

‘He asked me not to tell anyone I’d just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he’d signed “James Bond”. No, I said. I’d got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now.’

 

That was wonderful enough – but the story just got better.

 

‘Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said “Well, I don’t remember but I’m glad you got to meet James Bond.”

 

So that was lovely. ‘And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car – but as he got level, he paused, looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, “Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn’t say anything in there, because those cameramen – any one of them could be working for Blofeld.”

 

‘I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.’

 

 

 

[DETTY29]

Talking of accents Jodie Comer does her UK interviews in scouse, but in America, in upper class toff.

 

Her Russian accent in Killing Eve is by far the best of the 3 on the ear and to understand. 

[Maple Leaf]

On 16/08/2020 at 09:22, Tazio said:

The intelligent choice. Sadly the change to a grittier more realistic Bond came too soon after the silliness of the Moore era. 
 

Also I’m glad Shir Sean isn’t dead. 

 

A good piece of advice is to never let Sean Connery teach your dog to "Sit".

 

 

[Maple Leaf]

It's all about opinions ...

 

Best Bond is Daniel Craig, then Connery.  Worst was Lazenby then Moore.

 

Best movie was "Diamonds are Forever", mainly because of the delightful Jill St.John.

[John Findlay]

Daniel Craig and Sean Connery are the best Bonds imho. Why?

They both read Fleming's books and understood the ruthlessness of Bond.

Best fights. Connery against Robert Shaw on the train in From Russia with Love. Then the lift fight scene in Diamonds are forever in Tiffany's apartment block in Amsterdam.

Daniel Craig against the guy in the Public toilet in the opening of Casino Royale. The fight scene in Sienna in Quantum of Solace.

[Shanks said no]

Ian Fleming’s take on Connery always interested me, probably because I could wind up my dad by saying Sean was a wrong un. The grew up together.

 

”the man they have chosen for Bond, Sean Connery, is a real charmer- fairly unknown but a good actor and the right looks and physique “.

Remember Fleming gave a shortlist of 7 actors and Connery wasn’t one. Niven, Burton, Granger, Harrison, McGoohan, Mason and Cary Grant were on it.

 

The theory was that Connery was too working class to have attended Fettes.

 

 

[The Real Maroonblood]

35 minutes ago, The Frenchman Returns said:

Ian Fleming’s take on Connery always interested me, probably because I could wind up my dad by saying Sean was a wrong un. The grew up together.

 

”the man they have chosen for Bond, Sean Connery, is a real charmer- fairly unknown but a good actor and the right looks and physique “.

Remember Fleming gave a shortlist of 7 actors and Connery wasn’t one. Niven, Burton, Granger, Harrison, McGoohan, Mason and Cary Grant were on it.

 

The theory was that Connery was too working class to have attended Fettes.

 

 

Burton would’ve been a good choice.

[pointon]

Roger Moore all the way

[XXX]

1 hour ago, pointon said:

Roger Moore all the way

Edited August 17, 2020 by The Spy Who Loved Me

[Lovecraft]

Roger Moore the best Bond.

 

Ring Starr's wife as the best bond girl.

 

[ri Alban]

That scene with the weighted rope and Craig tied to a chair. I know it's just a film, but, FFS! 

 

😭

[Jambo, Goodbye]

On 17/08/2020 at 03:20, Roxy Hearts said:

Sean Connery is the greatest Bond IMO. He encapsulated all the requirements of the character and is a better actor than he's given credit for. Most American actors speak with an American accent in everything they do so nothing wrong with having a Scottish accent.

 

 

 

Bond spent four years at Fettes College in Edinburgh and his father was Scottish, wholly believable that he'd have a bit of a Scottish accent tbf. Then there's Skyfall too! 

[Pans Jambo]

2 hours ago, Jambo, Goodbye said:

 

Bond spent four years at Fettes College in Edinburgh and his father was Scottish, wholly believable that he'd have a bit of a Scottish accent tbf. Then there's Skyfall too! 

Best one liner in Skyfall is by Albert Finney’s character, the old estate caretaker who shot dead one of the ‘baddies’ in the old Skyfall house & then said “Welcome to Scotland” 😂

[¼½¾]

I like Connery as Bond, but Moore is my favourite. I haven't watched any Daniel Craig ones, as I was put off by the  Dalton rubbish, but will have to have a watch as he seems quite popular.

 

I guess it's a bit like Dr Who, where most folk seem to like the one they were brought up watching; with Dalton being Sylvester McCoy.

[Governor Tarkin]

On 17/08/2020 at 01:12, Weakened Offender said:

Sean Connery hits women. 

 

But only with an open hand.

[Samuel Camazzola]

11 hours ago, ri Alban said:

That scene with the weighted rope and Craig tied to a chair. I know it's just a film, but, FFS! 

 

😭

Casino Royale. 

 

"Too the right. Too the right!" 😂

[Darren]

20 hours ago, DETTY29 said:

Talking of accents Jodie Comer does her UK interviews in scouse, but in America, in upper class toff.

 

Her Russian accent in Killing Eve is by far the best of the 3 on the ear and to understand. 

 

Tones down the Scouse but "upper class toff" is a stretch

 

 

[Placid Casual]

On 17/08/2020 at 13:28, I P Knightley said:

They had a couple of Roger Moore Bond's on ITV at the weekend and I caught bits of them. God! they were awful. Mind you, they weren't the Spy Who Loved Me or Live & Let Die; two that he got away with.

 

There's an excellent anecdote about Roger Moore which I'll cut and paste for you. It comes from a writer:

 

"As a seven year old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and I saw Roger Moore sitting at the departue gate, reading a paper. I told my grandad I’d just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad has no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words “my grandson says you’re famous. Can you sign this?

 

As charming as you’d expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I’m ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It’s hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn’t say “James Bond”. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says “Roger Moore” – I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my heart sinks. I tell my grandad he’s signed it wrong, that he’s put someone else’s name – so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he’s only just signed.

 

‘I remember staying by our seats my grandad saying “he says you’ve signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond.” Roger Moore’s face crinkled with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me “I have to sign my name as ‘Roger Moore’ because otherwise… Blofeld might find out I was here.”

 

‘He asked me not to tell anyone I’d just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he’d signed “James Bond”. No, I said. I’d got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now.’

 

That was wonderful enough – but the story just got better.

 

‘Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said “Well, I don’t remember but I’m glad you got to meet James Bond.”

 

So that was lovely. ‘And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car – but as he got level, he paused, looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, “Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn’t say anything in there, because those cameramen – any one of them could be working for Blofeld.”

 

‘I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.’

 

😄 That’s brilliant from Roger Moore, and what a great memory for the guy. Thanks for posting.

[Victorian]

On 17/08/2020 at 14:38, Maple Leaf said:

It's all about opinions ...

 

Best Bond is Daniel Craig, then Connery.  Worst was Lazenby then Moore.

 

Best movie was "Diamonds are Forever", mainly because of the delightful Jill St.John.

 

Jill St.John was indeed delightful but that was a horrendous film.    

[Pans Jambo]

On 17/08/2020 at 13:28, I P Knightley said:

They had a couple of Roger Moore Bond's on ITV at the weekend and I caught bits of them. God! they were awful. Mind you, they weren't the Spy Who Loved Me or Live & Let Die; two that he got away with.

 

There's an excellent anecdote about Roger Moore which I'll cut and paste for you. It comes from a writer:

 

"As a seven year old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and I saw Roger Moore sitting at the departue gate, reading a paper. I told my grandad I’d just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad has no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words “my grandson says you’re famous. Can you sign this?

 

As charming as you’d expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I’m ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It’s hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn’t say “James Bond”. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says “Roger Moore” – I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my heart sinks. I tell my grandad he’s signed it wrong, that he’s put someone else’s name – so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he’s only just signed.

 

‘I remember staying by our seats my grandad saying “he says you’ve signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond.” Roger Moore’s face crinkled with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me “I have to sign my name as ‘Roger Moore’ because otherwise… Blofeld might find out I was here.”

 

‘He asked me not to tell anyone I’d just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he’d signed “James Bond”. No, I said. I’d got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now.’

 

That was wonderful enough – but the story just got better.

 

‘Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said “Well, I don’t remember but I’m glad you got to meet James Bond.”

 

So that was lovely. ‘And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car – but as he got level, he paused, looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, “Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn’t say anything in there, because those cameramen – any one of them could be working for Blofeld.”

 

‘I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.’

 

 

 

Brilliant story. Love reading stuff like that. Mrs PJ enjoyed it too 👍

[Tazio]

43 minutes ago, Victorian said:

 

Jill St.John was indeed delightful but that was a horrendous film.    

Possibly the only time in history most men would happily swap places with a cassette. 

[ri Alban]

Roger Moore was a Saint, but wasn't very Persuasive as Bond. 

[Harry Potter]

9 hours ago, ri Alban said:

Roger Moore was a Saint, but wasn't very Persuasive as Bond. 

very good, 🙂.

[ri Alban]

2 hours ago, Harry Potter said:

very good, 🙂.

 😁

[Maple Leaf]

14 hours ago, Victorian said:

 

Jill St.John was indeed delightful but that was a horrendous film.    

 

True!  My raging hormones clouded my judgement.

[Dirkdiggler77]

I have seen Becoming Bond and recommend it as well, i think it's on prime

 

It's funny because it's made up of GL telling his life story spliced with re enactments and considering Lazemby was supposed to be one of the most handsome men in the world the actor playing him is goofy looking-

 

also there are parts of it that seem a little far fetched- Him stealing a suit from the tailors made for Connory and then how he hustles his way into the audition room to meet the casting agent  then posing in the doorway saying ' I hear you're looking for Bond'  Did that really happen?

Good Doc though people assume he was fired for being crap but he wanted nothing to do with it he was very much his own man i kind of respect him for that 

 

Dalton/Craig are great actors and you have to give it them for tying to make a realistic Bond but Craig doesn't have the look he's short blond and ugly and Dalton gave off a slight whiff of a dorky vibe

 

Roger Moore is a class act in real life but just creepy in the films with the women almost disturbing at times

 

Brosnan was the best fit after Sean he had the natural ability to play him but bar Goldeneye was given the biggest pile of shit to work with it's not his fault- could have challenged Connery with better material 

 

I do always wonder what could have been had Connery made OHMSS it's top 2 best written of the whole franchise and if he would have done that one and dropped the last two it would have been a perfect series imo

Edited August 19, 2020 by Dirkdiggler77

[Marvin]

Sean Connery voted best Bond; goes without saying. Not a Connery fan but he did play the role very well.

[Victorian]

4 hours ago, Dirkdiggler77 said:

I have seen Becoming Bond and recommend it as well, i think it's on prime

 

It's funny because it's made up of GL telling his life story spliced with re enactments and considering Lazemby was supposed to be one of the most handsome men in the world the actor playing him is goofy looking-

 

also there are parts of it that seem a little far fetched- Him stealing a suit from the tailors made for Connory and then how he hustles his way into the audition room to meet the casting agent  then posing in the doorway saying ' I hear you're looking for Bond'  Did that really happen?

Good Doc though people assume he was fired for being crap but he wanted nothing to do with it he was very much his own man i kind of respect him for that 

 

Dalton/Craig are great actors and you have to give it them for tying to make a realistic Bond but Craig doesn't have the look he's short blond and ugly and Dalton gave off a slight whiff of a dorky vibe

 

Roger Moore is a class act in real life but just creepy in the films with the women almost disturbing at times

 

Brosnan was the best fit after Sean he had the natural ability to play him but bar Goldeneye was given the biggest pile of shit to work with it's not his fault- could have challenged Connery with better material 

 

I do always wonder what could have been had Connery made OHMSS it's top 2 best written of the whole franchise and if he would have done that one and dropped the last two it would have been a perfect series imo

 

Spot on.  OHMSS and From Russia With Love are the best two films by a long way.

[JFK-1]

Connery was the best Bond of the somewhat campy style they were making at the time. The Daniel Craig films are far superior to that dated style.  'The Bourne Identity' took secret agent films to another level the Bond franchise had to emulate.

[ri Alban]

7 hours ago, JFK-1 said:

Connery was the best Bond of the somewhat campy style they were making at the time. The Daniel Craig films are far superior to that dated style.  'The Bourne Identity' took secret agent films to another level the Bond franchise had to emulate.

Bond is Bond, no other imitation need apply.  Especially over exaggerating Americans. 

Bourne would be dead in the first 10 seconds of reality. Bond will live for ever! 

 

Edited August 20, 2020 by ri Alban

[JFK-1]

16 minutes ago, ri Alban said:

Bond is Bond, no other imitation need apply.  Especially over exaggerating Americans. 

Bourne would be dead in the first 10 seconds of reality. Bond will live for ever! 

 

 

And there was me thinking pre Craig Bond was so far detached from reality it was campy.

Diamonds are forever (1971)

 

Quote

Having impersonated reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte (Jimmy Dean), Blofeld uses his business empire and an illegal diamond-smuggling network to build and launch a diamond-powered super laser to blackmail the world into giving up its nuclear stockpiles (or handing over control of said nuclear stockpiles to whoever pays him the most money.

When Blofeld tries to escape his oil rig lair in a submersible, Bond takes control of the crane holding it and smashes Blofeld’s vehicle into the control room directing the satellite, ending the plot and the villain once and for all.

 

Bond was realistically unkillable.

[Marvin]

The books are better than the films. I've read Dr No, Goldfinger and Thunderball. Should really read more because Ian Fleming is a very good author. He also wrote the classic Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. 

[Dirkdiggler77]

17 hours ago, Victorian said:

 

Spot on.  OHMSS and From Russia With Love are the best two films by a long way.

 

From Russia With Love was the other i was thinking actually

[Jamhammer]

On 17/08/2020 at 07:09, gashauskis9 said:

Pish.  

 

Roger Moore, followed by Daniel Craig every time. 

This is where I am. Moore was my Bond growing up and the Daniel Craig films are top notch

[hueyview]

On 17/08/2020 at 14:32, Maple Leaf said:

 

A good piece of advice is to never let Sean Connery teach your dog to "Sit".

 

 

[JFK-1]

2 hours ago, Jamhammer said:

This is where I am. Moore was my Bond growing up and the Daniel Craig films are top notch

 

That's where I am with it. Moore was Bond when I was growing up so he was my Bond. It was hard to picture anyone else doing it. As an adult I recognise Connery was better in the role.

The Daniel Craig films are far superior to the old ones. Gritty realism with just a touch of the humour from time to time. Rather than the somewhat campy and often outright silly antics of the old ones.

I think that had to happen when the 'Bourne Identity' came along. It made the Bond franchise look too dated and silly in comparison. All of which isn't to denigrate the old Bond films. They were a product of their era.

[JFK-1]

Video primed to start at a point just before he's going to lead into a discussion about the man in question. And is highly complimentary.

 

 

Edited August 20, 2020 by JFK-1

[Armageddon]

Daniel Craig all the way for me.

[ri Alban]

7 hours ago, JFK-1 said:

Video primed to start at a point just before he's going to lead into a discussion about the man in question. And is highly complimentary.

 

 

Love Gene Hackman. Class! 

[The Brow]

Roger Moore? 

 

Jesus christ. Carry on Bonding. Hes an awful Bond, camper as **** and cant act. 

 

Roger Moore. ffs. Have a word. 

 

Got no time for Connery either,  wife beating ***** who is happy to tel;l us all how to vote from foreign shores. Get in the bin you old ***** 😄

 

[Cade]

Connery (The Scottish One), as being the first, was the archetype.

Cool and seductive but always with the threat of violence.

Doesn't mean he was the best Bond.

 

Moore (The English One) wasn't the best Bond at all, played it too pantomime for my tastes but arguably the best Bond films were released during his tenure.

He had some of the best stories, the best villains, the best set pieces and the best bursd.

 

Dalton (The Welsh One) was great and his films were solid.

Audiences didn't take to him as they were used to the camp, tongue-in-cheek elements that Moore had brought to the role.

 

Brosnan (The Irish One) was almost a perfect mix of all the previous Bonds but was let down by the serious decline in the quality of the films he was involved in. The first two were good, the last two were bloody awful.

 

Craig doesn't even play James Bond at all. He plays English Jason Bourne.

 

The James Bond franchise doesn't know what it wants to be any more.

Bourne made Bond look very silly and arguably killed off the franchise and certainly hastened the departure of Brosnan.

Mission: Impossible has taken up the gauntlet in recent years and feels more "Bond" than any of Craig's outings so far.

 

 

[Beni]

Shir Shean shelebratesh hish 90th today.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/25/sean-connery-at-90-appreciation-peter-bradshaw-james-bond