Grand Admiral Thrawn, on 28 July 2018 - 02:35 AM, said:
To each their own, but I don't agree with this at all, I would still take Connery, Moore, and Brosnan over Craig, I find Craig to be a dull and boring Bond he feels more like Jason Bourne than James Bond.
Guess my problem is that I'm too much of a Bond fan.
If you read the books and you have a concept about how Bond should behave you won't be as forgiving to some portrayals. To me:
- Moore is too funny: you can't even take that character seriously most of the time, I think the Roger Moore movies - and the Roger Moore Bond - made a great disservice to the franchise.
- Brosnan's character is a posh: he's too preoccupied with his looks, he looks flawless in every single shot and other than that he doesn't have much of a character. He's the "looks the part" version of Bond without anything else.
- Lazenby was overly Scottish and boring: sure, Bond is Scottish (ever since Fleming saw Connery in Dr. No: he really liked his portrayal of Bond and Connery was a Scot so Fleming decided that the Bond in the books will be Scottish too
) but not that much.
- I think Dalton was pretty good, hell, I think Licence to Kill is one of the best Bond movies but somehow he didn't work well.
Daniel Craig? That guy's playing James motherfuckin' Bond again just like Connery did. He has a dry sense of humor without coming off as a comedian, he's methodical and tough like Bond is in the books and the "charming superspy" is mostly an act for him, a means to an end while in the case of Brosnan that was most of the character. Look, I know, most of us grew up with Brosnan being Bond but if you look into it he was a pretty bad one (though Moore was the worst without question).