"My name is Bond, James Bond."

[BikeWriter]

Who is The Ultimate James Bond? Inquiring minds want to know! :shrug:

[BikeWriter]

1. To me, Sir Sean Connery will always be James Bond.

Here's the time periods for the various actors:

1962-71 - Sean Connery
1969 - George Lazenby
1973-85 - Roger Moore
1987-89 - Timothy Dalton
1995-2002 - Pierce Brosnan

[samplegirl]

9. I only like the old ones

the new ones no matter who Bond is seem cheesy.

[BikeWriter]

10. Have you read the books? I consider them a different art entirely.

[samplegirl]

30. No I've never read the books

might have to try that.

[LionInWinter]

12. If you want cheese ...

look no further than Roger Moore. My Gawd, those last couple of Bond flicks he did were awful.

[kick-ass-bob]

2. Connery first, by a long shot

then Brosnan.

Moore didn't really do it for me, but he is third.

There are no other Bond's besides those 3.

[BikeWriter]

4. I'll have to agree. To me, Roger Moore was lacking in savoir-faire.

He did not come across to me as having the same degree of sophistication as Connery or Brosnan.

[dogday]

3. I always think of SNL when I see Sean Connery's name

They do a spoof on him playing the game Jeopardy on SNL and it is funny as hell..... I think of that every time!

[BikeWriter]

5. I don't recall it, but SNL did create some classics!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

6. "No, I'm sorry. We would have accepted 'bow-wow' or 'ruff'."

"Ah, rough. Just the way your mother likes it, Trebek!"

Those sketches were hilarious!

"I'll take The Rapists for $1,000."

"I believe that's Therapists, Mr. Connery."

[dogday]

8. The Rapist

I laughed my ass off on that one. You have it down exactly like it was done on SNL....:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Initech]

17. Anal Bum Cover

"That's An Album Cover".

[dogday]

19. BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

It just cracks me up.......

[pokerfan]

24. Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice!

Alex Trebek: That's Foreign Flicks, Mr. Connery. Foreign Flicks.

Celebrity_Jeopardy is great!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Jeopardy!_(Saturday_Night_Live)

[BikeWriter]

26. Ha ha ha ha ha!

[Orsino]

7. Moore, Brosnan and Dalton look more the part...

...but Connery is Bond. Duh.

[Heidi]

11. My mother-in-law's cat is named Bünz.

He's stealthy and spy like, and when he comes around to pee in our garden, Call Me Wesley says, "It's Bünz. James Bünz." :eyes:

[BikeWriter]

18. That's hilarious, Sweety. Kudos to Wesley!

[Radical Activist]

13. None of my favorite Bond films have Connery in them.

That isn't all about the actor but my favorites came after Connery. Regardless of what people say about Moore, The Spy Who Loved Me is my favorite Bond film and he did a good job of it. I like Brosnan as Bond better than Connery.

[pokerfan]

27. It's hard to seperate the actor from the film at times

TSWLM is one of my favorites as well and so is FYEO, which is actually one of the more down to earth Bond films following the silly Moonraker.

TSWLM has the single greatest opening sequence/stunt where Bond skis off that cliff, falls a long time, only to open a Union Jack parachute to the brassy Bond theme. Even more impressive was the fact that it was actually done by a stunt man. I sincerely hope that Eon goes back to more real stunt work and less CGI crap.

Timothy Dalton (a fine actor and very Bondesque, IMO) was simply saddled with some of the more grim and serious scripts as the pendulum swung arguably too far away from the Roger Moore era. No sex and no humor makes a bad Bond, but it wasn't his fault.

FRWL and GF are the reasons Connery remains my favorite Bond. By the time DAF came around, it was pretty clear he had lost interest, though he did seem to have a lot of fun with the unofficial NSNA.

Lazenby was surprisingly good for someone with little acting training and could have (maybe even surpassed) Connery had he not left the series after just one film! Remember that none of the actors were stellar in their first rolls. Connery was stiff in DN and Moore took two movies to finally get comfortable.

I have the utmost confidence that Daniel Craig will be fine. My concerns are everything else: Writing, directing, other cast, and Sfx/stuntwork.

And no more horrible Christmas jokes either! The real James Bond would never say anything so vulgar. Ian Flemming must have been spinning at 7200 RPM when he heard that.

[Initech]

14. Ha ha! No votes for Roger Moore!

And for good reason! Quite a few of his Bond films were major :puke: fests.

[Ivan Sputnik]

15. I think Brosnan and maybe Dalton were physically closer

to what Ian Fleming had in mind, but Connery IS Bond to me and most people, I think -- partly because he was first, mostly because he had the exactly right attitude for these types of movies.

[BikeWriter]

20. "Fleming's choise was the sophisticated David Niven,"

Fleming's choise was the sophisticated David Niven, but after From Russia with Love he said that the actor was much as he had imagined Bond.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ifleming.htm

[Squatch]

16. I'm looking forward to Daniel Craig's performance(s)

[Rob H.]

22. Same here

He was excellent in Layer Cake.

[BikeWriter]

23. I will be sure to see them, if only to rate them.

[grimble_grumble]

21. Pierce is good...

...but Connery is by far the best of the bunch.

[BikeWriter]

25. I agree, and the poll backs us up. To me, Connery...

exudes an aura I recognize after years of living around dangerous men. He was convincing in the role of a killer.

[TheBaldyMan]

28. Woody Allen

as James Bond in 'Casino Royale' , especially when he explains to his uncle (David Niven) his fiendish plot to kill every man on earth over the height of 5'4" .

[Deja Q]

35. Casino Royale was a riot. If it only had more Woody in it...

:D

[Borgnine]

29. Brosnan.

I love Connery, don't get me wrong, but I felt that Brosnan took James Bond and made him work in modern times. Connery was perfect for the Cold War-era, but Brosnan WAS Bond for the '90s. It's just a shame that after GoldenEye, he never got a really good script to work with.

[Liberalynn]

33. I was upset that they'd replaced Pierce.

Yes, he is getting a bit older but he still looked in damn good shape to me. I also think he played the part very very well. I always thought he was extremely charismatic and destined for more when I watched him in Remington Steele and Manions of America, the mini-series he did.

I was never really that much of a Bond fan before but he got me into the theatre. Now that it is Craig, I know I will not be back.

I did like Connery but not Moore or Dalton.

[Bucky]

31. Vladimir Putin would be the perfect James Bond

Altho his bio reads suspiciously like Jack Ryans....

[Fox Mulder]

32. Pierce was the best.

I didn't care much for Sean, to be honest.

[Deja Q]

34. Dalton, by far.

Moore, solely for his performance in "The Spy Who Loved Me" and especially "For Your Eyes Only" is #2.

Connery is #3, but he's typically too wooden for my liking.

Lazenby is #4. He's no actor, but at least he tries to play it straight.

Brosnan is #5; he's a cheap derivative of (the lighter side of) Connery + (the lighter side of) Moore. :puke:

[LSdemocrat]

36. Dalton's the only believable bond

The rest are either too comic (Moore), too glib and laid back (Connery, Brosnan), and well Lazenby was just terrible.