Is it true that the first James Bond you see is your favourite?

mooreisbest

The first Bond I ever saw was Roger Moore and he always stayed my favourite. Anybody else keep with the first Bond they saw?

Moore is best

TonyDP

To the best of my recollection, Diamonds Are Forever was the first Bond film I ever saw. To this day, it does remain one of my favorites (although The Spy Who Loved Me ranks #1 for me).

Make of that what you will, but I do think that for fans of the series, your first Bond film is a little like your first girlfriend, if you know what I mean.

Brosnan_fan

I saw TSWLM when I was either 3 or 4 but Brosnan is my favourite Bond, not Moore (if you didn't already guess) .

walther p99

First Bond I ever saw was Pierce in GE i think it was, and he has since been my favorite JB so maybe its true but i am warming up to DC as 007

Lonelyrider

No. It's certainly no

My favourite is the only option who can play the REAL KIND OF BOND (Ian Fleming's Bond) and it's Timothy Dalton. Moore was the first whom I saw I think. Second was...hmm...maybe it was Dalton and then Connery, then Brosnan and then Lazenby.

I think that Connery is so popular because he was the first one. If he never had played Bond, people wouldn't remember him or discuss about him as 007...Cary Grant was planned to be first real James Bond but he said he will make only one...

mooreisbest

The first Bond film I saw was The Spy Who Loved Me on television, and after seeing Jaws come out of the closet (as it were!) and attack Barbara Bach, it made me watch my own closet as a child with a worried eyebrow arched, the kind of eyebrow Roger Moore would have been proud of. I was always convinced that Richard Kiel was in there...sometimes I still check

Mark Hazard

Well it's true with me, Goldfinger was my first Bond film (in 1964) and Sean is still my favourite 007

cooey

The first Bond I ever saw was Roger Moore, but when I got to see the films properly, Connery is by far my favourite

Strangeways

An interesting post MIB!

The first Bond movie I saw was TSWLM in 1977 and this remained my fave all through my childhood.

I do love DC, but I think that TSWLM is just a classic Bond. These days I don't have a favourite (rather like parents with their children?). My favourites are per actor as follows:

Connery - Goldfinger
Moore - TSWLM
Dalton - LTK
Brosnan - TND

I don't think CR will be Craig's best, I feel sure we have that treat to come.

darenhat

My first exposure to James Bond came when I was a small child. MR was wheeled out to capitalize on the Star Wars craze, and it worked. Probably no different than some of the younger people on this board who were first introduced to Bond through N64's GoldenEye. Anyway, Roger Moore was well established as Bond at that time, and when movies were shown on television, I oftentimes sneered in disgust when I discovered it was a Connery-Bond (or as I would say 'the old guy!') In my teenage years I began to appreciate Connery over Moore, though. I did not actually see a Bond film in the theater until TLD came out. Dalton has been my favorite since then, as I felt he captured the literary character in a cinematic story - in essence, delivering the best of both worlds.

ohmss1969

I was always convinced that Richard Kiel was in there...sometimes I still check

"Michael Myers checks his closet for Richard Kiel"

Pendragon

Dalton's my favorite, and Connery's the first one I saw, in YOLT....

*wants to find her copy of LTK...*

~Pen -{

Sir_Miles_Messervy

No way! The first Bond movie I saw was GE. The movie didn't hook me at all. In '97, I saw TND in the theaters. Again, I wasn't very impressed.

It wasn't until I resolved to watch all the Bond movies I could on a TV marathon a few years later that I became a true Bond fan. Initially, Connery was my favorite Bond. This changed as I became more enthralled in the series, and I learned to appreciate Dalton's darker style.

Macrossmaster

Wow, quite a few younger fans here, I'm surprised. My first was certainly Roger Moore in something. I liked Connery for his deadpan delivery of those fantastically awful lines, but Moore was represented in my record-and-book-sets.

Then, my first cinema experience with Bond was probably...Licence to Kill? Whichever came out in the later 80s.

Favorite Bond? Daniel Craig by far – and thats with ONE movie under his belt. I'd say he's doing a bang up job.

chrisno1

I agree in the principal, though i think as you get older your views do change.
For me my first 007 experience was watching snippets of YOLT on TV and it is still one of my favourites. Connery is for me the best Bond.
The next few films I saw were TB, OHMSS and G and all are favourites of mine. MR was my first cinema experience and as a 10 yo it blew me away. Although I recognise faults in many of these movies, they all hold precious memories for me and when I watch them I always enjoy them much more than other Bond flims.

BestBondSean

Not true in my case, first Film i saw was FYEO in the Cinema when i was 11, loved the film at the time (still have a soft spot for it now), however a couple weeks later I watched FRWL and Goldfinger and knew instantly that Connery will be my favourite Bond and probably will never be surpassed.
Now it might well have something to do with age but it seems that the fondness for the Moore Bonds was much higher in my case when i was in my Teenager years right up to 18 or so, however Connery was always my favourite Bond Actor.

bailorg

Probably something to that. I don't believe I saw Licence to Kill in the theaters when it came out. I would have been 8 at the time, which was a bit young for a PG-13 movie anyway. So I essentially grew up with Bond during the dark period of 1989-95 with Bond on VHS and TV. The four Bond movies we owned on VHS were FRWL, YOLT, TLD, and LTK.

Turns out today my top 3 Bond movies are, in order, TLD, FRWL, and LTK, with Timothy Dalton as my favorite Bond.

The first Bond I saw in the theaters was GE. To this day I think of Brosnan as a pretty average, if unexceptional Bond, who is an acceptable medium for fans of the other, arguably more distinctive, Bond actors.

Smoke_13

In my case no. I don't know why I remember this so well but...

Moore was first with The Spy Who Loved Me. I was 11 and saw it on TV.

Next was For Your Eyes Only in theaters, same age.

Next was You Only Live Twice. Same age -TV of course.

For a while Moore was my favorite and I could not stand Connery. However, that was youth talking.

Now, ugh-28 years later Connery -early Connery is my favorite by far. Moore holds a special memory as the first Bond I saw. I can't stand Dalton's Bond -sorry folks. Brosnan's was okay, but too gadget and style oriented -after awhile it all wore thin on me. I enjoy Craig's Bond very much, but we'll see how I feel after he's logged in a few movies.

DEFIANT 74205

Not in my case. The first Bond film I remember seeing was The Man With The Golden Gun, on TV when I was a kid. I then started watching older Bond films on VHS, and I've grown to love Sean Connery - he is the best Bond, by some margin.

The first Bond film I saw at the cinemas is GoldenEye, but I hated it. It was too different from the original Connery Bonds, and I didn't like the way they "modernised" the classic James Bond theme. Pierce Brosnan badly needed a haircut then, too. It's my second least favourite Bond film so far, only Die Another Day ranks lower.

Later on, I started to appreciate Timothy Dalton and George Lazenby. I never really like Brosnan or Moore. Dalton is easily my second favourite Bond, because he portrayed the character closest to how Fleming had written him.

Dominic Greene

I first saw LALD, it's definatly one of my favourite's
The Music, the action sequences, (too young to enjoy the womeon) But i really enjoyed it, it made be become a Bond fan.

Golrush007

My first Bond experience was MR (on video, I must add!!) and it really hooked me completely. For several years it remained my favourite film, and Moore my favourite Bond. However, over time as I gained a broader knowledge of Bond my opinions changed. However, I still love MR everytime I watch it but it certainly isn't my favourite any more.

It will be different for everyone. To quote LALD, "No formula, can or will ever cover each case". (I can't remember the exact quote though!)

Higgins

My first bond was TSWLM and I still love the movie. It is still one of my favourites. What speak against your theory is, that my second 007 has been DAF, I hated it then and I still don't like it today.

But the firstgirlfriend theory is very appealing to me