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I tend to agree; we'll be buying the DVD, too.

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In Reply to: Re: "Casino Royale:" posted by townsend on November 20, 2006 at 20:48:47:

My wife and I both liked Craig's performance better than every other Bond except Connery's interpretation. In fact, Daniel Craig probably comes closest to the Bond character as envisioned by Ian Fleming in the novels (basically a killing machine; tough as nails and not especially romantic except in service to the task at hand). In a sense, Sean Connery's Bond was the perfect film Bond because he conveyed both the strength and physicality, as now re-envisioned in Craig's Bond, but Connery had a suave sophistication that never seemed brutish until pushed to extremes. Maybe it's just me, but Craig seemed edgier, more detached than Connery and therefor dangerously unpredictable (sort of like a Rottweiler, trained to kill without giving it a second thought & borderline psychotic).
If ranked, I'd list them this way:
1. Connery
2. Craig
3. Brosnan
4. Dalton
5. Lazenby
6. Moore
7. Sellars (hee, hee; had to throw that one in for grins based the first Casino Royale)
Cheers,
AuPh

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Re: I tend to agree; we'll be buying the DVD, too. - TomD 13:02:00 11/24/06 (0)
After watching OHMSS yesterday, I may have to move Lazenby to the bottom.
Re: I tend to agree; we'll be buying the DVD, too. - TomD 08:45:54 11/22/06 (0)
Wow, we agree on something. I totally agree with your asessment of Craig and your rankings. IMO Moore was by far the worst Bond. Connery is and will always be Bond in my eyes. Craig brings a new and interesting twist to the role, but doesn't have the Connery polish.
Re: I tend to agree; we'll be buying the DVD, too. - jamesgarvin 07:09:11 11/21/06 (0)
Having seen all the other films save the current one, I completely agree with your ranking. Moore has not aged well for me. I remember when I was in high school, I loved Moore. But the more I watched the films, and watched Connery, the less I liked Moore, and now his Bond films do not interest me.
I feel a little sorry for Brosnan, in that he was slated to be Bond before Dalton, but the producers of Remington Steele would not let him out of his contract. I always wondered what a younger Brosnan would have brought to the role.

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