Great news for James Bond fans - November 2012!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

I thought Dalton was underrated. He was more like how Bond the character should be.

I agree. Problem is the movies were poorly written and boring, and that wasn't his fault. Kind of like the George Clooney Batman.

Can't stand Connery but that is as an actor, I like the movies he was in, but don't rate him as best Bond. Daniel Craig is the one for me.

As I said, Connery's movies were closest to the books they were based on, and it was still within the actual time-frame. Fleming was still writing the books when the first movies were made. Ian Fleming said he like Sean Connery in the role.

I thought Roger Moore was good as he clicked that it had got a bit absurd and played to that.

Connery and Moore were friends, and it was Sean who suggested that Roger replace him. I thought Moore was great as a spy, but too smooth for the role. James Bond can fit into polite society as part of his cover, but at heart he's little more than a cold-blooded killer.

Again, it's all in the writing. The Moore movies were to 'gadgety' for my taste.

Moonraker is fun.

Silly fun, yes, but a real perversion of what Bond was supposed to be. That said, Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me were far and away the worst of the books, and as much as I hate the movies, they were actually better than the books.