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The best of James Bond 007

The best of Bond?

  • Barry Nelson (Casino Royale 1954)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Sean Connery

    Votes: 33 62.3%
  • George Lazenby

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • David Niven (Casino Royale 1967)

    Votes: 2 3.8%
  • Roger Moore

    Votes: 3 5.7%
  • Timothy Dalton

    Votes: 3 5.7%
  • Pierce Brosnan

    Votes: 4 7.5%
  • Daniel Craig

    Votes: 17 32.1%

  • Total voters
    53

AmateisGal

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I just listened to Adele's song for Skyfall and as much as I love her voice and her music, I have to say, this song just didn't do it for me.
 

C44Antelope

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I loved the opening sequence for "The Living Daylights". Prefer Connery as Bond. Favorite flick is "Goldfinger". Thought Moore was good in "Live and Let Die". That's about it for the 007 critique.
 

Stearmen

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Blown Bentley

Maybe the others are better, but David Niven drove the coolest Bond car of them all!
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Shangas

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In no particular order...

Connery,
Brosnan,
Moore,
Dalton.

Favourite Bond MOVIE...I don't think I could name just ONE...The two "Gold" movies were good. Goldfinger & Man with the Golden Gun.
 
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Favorite Bond films:

Sean Connery: Goldfinger, Thunderball
Roger Moore: Octopussy

Favorite Bond Themes:

Rita Coolidge -- All Time High (Octopussy)
Tom Jones -- Thunderball
Shirley Bassey -- Goldfinger
Lulu -- The Man With The Golden Gun

Favorite Bond Girls

Maud Adams (Octopussy)
Maryam D'Abo (The Living Daylights)
Jane Seymour (Live and Let Die)

Favorite Bond Villains

Ernst Stavros Blofeld (Donald Pleasance) -- You Only Live Twice
Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) -- Goldfinger
Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) -- From Russia With Love
General Orloff (Steven Berkoff) -- Octopussy
Baron Samedi (Geoffrey Holder) -- Live and Let Die

[video=youtube;gX3wGWHRlXQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX3wGWHRlXQ[/video]
 
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C44Antelope

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V.C. - I think I preferred Telly Sevalas (spelling?) as Blofeld.

And also from OHMS, Bond actually marries the girl, so it would appear that 007's favorite Bond Girl was Teresa (Diana Rigg).

BTW, When I worked at a local factory, we used to send parts out for Zinc plating. Whenever our most active plating vendor would call on the phone, normally to speak to someone else, I would break into my own version of "They call him Zinc-Finger. He's the man, who's born with the rust-proof touch. He's too much. Zinc-Finger. He can make those parts look just like gold, but not so costly to hold..." I was normally cut off by this point. I never got to the big finish of "He loves ZINC!" That was probably best for all concerned. Shirley Bassey would not have been impressed.
 

Stearmen

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A little trivia I just heard. The distinctive guitar rift you hear in the Bond theme song was originally played by Vic Flick. He was paid the whooping one time fee of 6 Ponds Sterling!
 

The Good

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I voted for Sean Connery, but I like all of them. All the Bond actors were suited for whatever style they were supposed to represent onscreen. In order, here's best to "worst":

1. Sean Connery
2. Roger Moore
3. Daniel Craig
4. Pierce Brosnan
5. George Lazenby
6. Timothy Dalton

I haven't seen the other two actors' works yet, and I don't qualify them as traditional Bond actors.
 

davidraphael

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A little trivia I just heard. The distinctive guitar rift you hear in the Bond theme song was originally played by Vic Flick. He was paid the whooping one time fee of 6 Ponds Sterling!
Vic also played guitar on the soundtrack for The Beatles' movie, A Hard Day's Night
 

Dixon Cannon

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davidraphael - I believe the Vic Flick bit you're referring to is this intro to the LP version of 'HELP!' - it is very distinctive of the James Bond genre. [video=youtube;aNMZwrjN9E0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNMZwrjN9E0&playnext=1&list=PL37A37D2DF933B42C&feature=results_video[/video] -dixon cannon

[video=youtube;aNMZwrjN9E0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNMZwrjN9E0 [/video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNMZwrjN9E0
 
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davidraphael

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and on the subject of spoofs, let's not forget the Brooke Bond Tea ads of the 1970s and 80s
[video=youtube;fydqdFAc2uw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fydqdFAc2uw&feature=relmfu[/video]
 

bulldog1935

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it's funny how your perceptions change with age.
When I was a kid, I love Saint movies with Roger Moore, and I thought Man from Uncle was the coolest show ever.
Seeing them now, Man from Uncle is arrogant and disjointed, and Roger Moore really did play the same kook that Val Kilmer bombed so thoroughly.
I guess I did like seeing Octopussy, where Roger Moore as Bond was driving my car.
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