also Timothy Dalton is the closest Bond to the books, which is just objectively correct (he’s not my favorite screen Bond but he was done dirty)
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Timothy Dalton is one of my favorite actors.
sep 1, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
(Also, there are a lot of screen-Bond fans who have never read the books and have no idea the extent to which screen-Bond is actually less... uh... problematic than book-Bond.)
sep 1, 2025, 2:02 am • 1 0 • view
You ever think about how impossibly handsome young Timothy Dalton was? Fucking wild stuff.
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The best bond was Austin Powers
sep 1, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
Almost. This is the correct order of fidelity of Bond actors: Lazenby Dalton Connery Craig Brosnan Connery Moore
sep 1, 2025, 2:16 am • 0 0 • view
the living daylights whips ass
sep 1, 2025, 2:12 am • 2 0 • view
I wish they'd found a way to let Dalton be a Bond *villain*. He's perfect for it
sep 1, 2025, 1:58 am • 9 0 • view
Like in Hot Fuzz!! He was so fucking sinister and hilarious.
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A really good Bond villain needs to be a grandiose scenery-chewing sociopath and a little bit scary. James Spader would also qualify.
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That's the thing with Dalton: he doesn't quite nail playing heroes, but he is utterly brilliant at playing extremely charismatic bastards. Which is what made him a good Bond.
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did you watch him in Chuck? he was the best villain in that show by far and having a wonderful time chewing the scenery he’d have been incredible
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Oh Chuck. That show aged like it chose the wrong Grail. But I do remember Dalton being superb, like always
sep 1, 2025, 2:07 am • 2 0 • view
God that show is such cheesy dumb fun
sep 1, 2025, 2:12 am • 2 0 • view
Daniel Craig is forever my favorite Bond because they actually killed him.
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He was my favorite Bond, personally. Outside of Bond, he's been in a lot of bad *movies* but I'm not sure he's ever turned in a bad performance. Growing up, I remember his Bond getting a lot of flak. It's interesting watching consensus opinion on him slowly start to come around over the years.
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Agree on Dalton. Should've let Brosnan play it more straight too. There's moments in all of his when he's closer to Dalton than any of the others and really good but then bits in the script that were at Moore levels of corny. Really jarring shifts in tone which I think let him down as a performer.
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IIRC, Fleming had pictured Bond on a young Roger Moore, but when it came to making the first movie he was signed on to a new TV spy series: The Saint. Old Roger as Bond was a huge mistake, he was barely tolerable in 'The Persuaders' with Curtis.
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License to kill was one of the better bond movies imo
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