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Unfounded speculation about Bond 21
2004-01-30, 5:40 PM #41
There have been 5 bonds.

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2004-01-30, 5:56 PM #42
Connery
Niven
Moore
Lazenby
Dalton
Brosnan

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For those wondering, David Niven played James Bond in the 1967 spoof Casino Royale.

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2004-01-30, 5:58 PM #43
All right, to get technical:

Barry Nelson (1954 TV Version of Casino Royale)
Sean Connery
David Niven
George Lazenby
Roger Moore
Timothy Dalton
Pierce Brosnan

That makes for 7, actually, but I personally don't think either Nelson or Niven count towards the total. There have been 5 Bonds.
2004-01-31, 2:11 AM #44
Lazenby shouldn't count towards the total either, heh.

Timothy Dalton the most like Bond in the novels, but I really enjoyed Roger Moore. He was a lot more light-hearted and made for the comedy-spy, which I thought was great. There's more than enough totally macho serious action films about, so comedy-action is a welcome break for me!

In other news, the I thought the Bond-parody 'Johnny English' was a total dissapointment. :-(
It had so much potential, with scenes like where he's explaining how 'this is the most secure institution in the world' and then there's a huge explosion in the background (it was in the trailer) - Rowan Atkinson's face was just perfect there. but from then on, it was awful.
it hit an all-time low when he was climbing up the sewage shoot.. and then when he shoots his gun...ugh.
Something more along the lines of Austin Powers would have been fantastic.

But anyway, Bond films have their own format, a set layout that works great. 'Bond' is a genre in itself. It's when they try to expand that, as they have with Brosnan, that it totally implodes.
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2004-01-31, 2:27 AM #45
I'm also a fan of the Roger Moore-movies. Moonraker was crap, but all the other Moore movies have been extremely entertaining and I've liked them all (even though there has been weak and good ones... I personally like Live and Let Die and A View to A Kill most). Connery is also good (my 2nd favourite), but I've seen no movie of Timothy Dalton yet.

For Pierce Brosnan, I don't know do I think him as a good Bond or not. Sometimes he seems, but then he isn't... And I personally have liked 'Tomorrow Never Dies' most of the Brosnan-movies.

And for the Lazenby-movie... the actor wasn't so Jamesbondish, and the whole film had a strange athmosphere. Probably because I already knew that his wife was going to die, there was floating a strange "romance is the main theme of this movie"-athmosphere, or something like that.

I'd better quit the crapping and just say that I like Roger Moore's and Connery's Bond-films the most. Meh.

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2004-01-31, 2:34 AM #46
Dalton is alright, Lazenby is horrid, as is moore, Connery is the only true bond, and brosnan is alright, but i dont really care for bond films anymore, you watch them once, see the same thing you saw last time, then forget all about them.

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