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We’ve had six Bonds in 50 years, and while everyone has their favourite, which Bond was the most badass? Which Bond got his leg over the most, and who’s the one with the highest blood alcohol level? Who is the best Bond?
The Economist had a look at what the collective Bonds got up to and discovered that Pierce Brosnan’s Bond was by far the most lethal, where as it was George Lazenby was the biggest player of them all. It’s funny, looking at it now, to see that Daniel Craig’s Bond is the biggest boozer — no wonder he flipped that Aston. Let’s hope he’s a little more sober for the remaining two films he’s just signed on for. [The Economist via Gizmodo Australia]
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Has anyone tried a vesper? (Think it was triple Gordon’s, measure of vodka and a kina lillet shaken over ice), sounds good.
Also, I’ve never actually sat through On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, but was it really a total shagfest?
I tried a Vespa once, was quite oily and not nearly as glamorous
Sticks in the throat, I’d imagine.
I tried a Vespa once but it was crunchy and managed to sting me first.
Vesper*
Yeah, basically a massive romp from beginning to end.
He’s locked in a mountain retreat with a bunch of girls at one point, wearing a kilt. The rest is inevitable.
Wearing a kilt eh? Does he drink the drinks cabinet dry and then pass out hanging upside down from a chair lift?
If it were not for the fact that I am aware of your Scottish ancestry I would accuse you of peddling racial stereotypes. Accurate racial stereotypes as it happens, but stereotypes all the same.
You mean national stereotypes, not racial?
No, the Scots are a different race, entirely separate from our human race.
OHMSS is not a bad bond actually. Lazenby is quite poor but the story’s decent, the final set piece is enjoyable and it has a really cracking main theme. All in, not a bad bond – much better than the latter Moore efforts.
Craig is 44 and they’ve signed him on for two more?
I know Moore was 58 when he filmed A View to a Kill, but if they take much longer to turn out the new films than they have with the last two, then Craig will be claiming his bus pass before he films his last Bond.
Brosnan was 49 when filming Die Another Day, and his age was no problem (the rest of the film was, of course..!)
Roger Moore is actually older than Sean Connery. WHen Live & Let DIe was filmed in 1973 Connery was 43 and Moore was already 45. I’ve never understood why they chose him when Connery said no
Agreed Die another day was F***ing awful invisible cars power rangers suits which shot electricity, Madonna urrrrrrghhhhhhh utter S*** !!!!
Roger Moore however was brilliant, the spy who loved me best bond movie ever ! imo That eyebrow single handedly held up the bond franchise, he made sure we laughed with bond instead of bond becoming a cliché and everyone laughing at him, bond wouldn’t be around today if it wasn’t for Moore.
I don’t like Moore’s Bond. When ranking he and Lazenby prop up the list.
I grew up with Moore as bond he had the humour the charm and a ruthless streak so I wont hear anything said against him
and I stand by my assertion that if it wasn’t for Moores injection of humour and raising that eyebrow to all the ludicrous situations, bond wouldn’t have made it into the 80′s
I thought that Moore was the original first choice but was contracted to something else so they went with Connery. When Connery said no and Moore was available they went back to him – much in the same way Brosnan was preferred to Dalton but stuck with contract so Dalton got it but when Goldeneye went into production and Dalton passed, they went back to Brosnan.
Like or loathe him, I think Moore’s Bond is closer to Fleming’s original vision of the ‘gentleman spy’, and perhaps that’s why a 58 year old version of that Bond actually works.
However, Craig is not that Bond. He was deliberately chosen because the producers wanted a younger, harder, rough-around-the-edges version of Bond. I’m not so sure that a middle-aged version of that Bond would work.
But the plan for this one and the previous one was for them to be out quicker but they struggled with studio and writer problems. Assuming that the studios etc don’t go bust again, he should end before he’s 50.
True, I suppose I’m just cynical and lacking in confidence there
I though for a surprised moment that Hugh Laurie had got the job.