A request came in for my rankings of the Bond actors. This is exactly the kind of thing I like to do, so here we go (but sticking to the "official" Bond actors, so excluding someone like David Niven who was Bond in the 60's Casino Royale):
1. Sean Connery – without Connery, we wouldn’t have the Bond franchise
2. Daniel Craig – I remember the controversy surrounding the choice of Craig, but has proven to be a perfect Bond for the start of the new millennium
3. Roger Moore – corny and way too old at the end, but had the perfect raised eyebrow and was the Bond I grew up watching the most and thus developing my love for the franchise
4. Timothy Dalton – actually considered ranking him higher, I liked his more serious take
5. George Lazenby – kind of wooden, but his sole entry is one of the best in the franchise
6. Pierce Brosnan – I can’t really put a finger on it, maybe the increasingly poor Bond films during his tenure, but I have grown to dislike Brosnan’s take
I’ve decided that I’m going to watch all 25 films in the franchise next year (one every 2 weeks), so that I can then provide my definitive rankings of the films as well. That might also necessitate a re-ranking of the actors.
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