Bond actors thoughts about each others performances?

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• Blood_Stone Posts: 184MI6 Agent

  January 2012

  Brosnan's favorite is Connery as well.
  
  Lazenby and Brosnan hated each other performances. )
• Jedi Master UKPosts: 1,093MI6 Agent

  January 2012

  Surely if you dislike Dalton's lack of humour you can't think Craig is any better?

  Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice and everyone dies.
• Blackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent

  January 2012

  Not so! It became clear fairly early on in Casino Royale that Craig's Bond was going to be gritty, no nonsense and basically devoid of humor. On the other hand, although Dalton, too, took a serious, straight-foward approach to the role, there were a few rather lame attempts at humor that fell flat (e.g. Jorgi being smothered in the bosom of the matronly border guard, Bond and Kara sledding downhill in the cello case). So although I enjoyed the Dalton Bond movies, I enjoyed Craig more in Casino Royale.

  Jedi Master wrote:

  Surely if you dislike Dalton's lack of humour you can't think Craig is any better?

  "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
• DanielCraig007 Posts: 588MI6 Agent

  January 2012

  Jedi Master wrote:

  Surely if you dislike Dalton's lack of humour you can't think Craig is any better?

  
  Read my original post again. These are Connerys views, not mine. I like both Dalton and Craig.
• Jedi Master UKPosts: 1,093MI6 Agent

  January 2012

  DanielCraig007 wrote:

  Read my original post again. These are Connerys views, not mine. I like both Dalton and Craig.

  
  I wasn't suggesting any differently, let me rephrase: Surely if he dislikes Dalton's lack of humour...
  
  And @blackleiter, I'd rather have failed attempts at humour than none whatsoever, how can you call something a Bond movie if it doesn't have any humour? That'd be like not having Q branch or... oh wait.

  Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice and everyone dies.
• oscar rubio Madrid (Spain)Posts: 286MI6 Agent

  January 2012

  I prefer the rogue humor, Connery or Dalton type, Moore's mood
• Blackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent

  January 2012

  Glad you caught yourself there, Jedi Master. Although a little sly humor, Connery-style, is always welcome, I actually would prefer the humorless Daniel Craig to the over-the-top silliness of the Moore films (Sheriff Pepper, Tarzan yells, double-taking animals.....well, you get the picture) As for Dalton's failed attempts at humor, while not horrible, his two Bond films would lose nothing if they were left out completely.

  Jedi Master wrote:

  DanielCraig007 wrote:

  Read my original post again. These are Connerys views, not mine. I like both Dalton and Craig.

  
  I wasn't suggesting any differently, let me rephrase: Surely if he dislikes Dalton's lack of humour...
  
  And @blackleiter, I'd rather have failed attempts at humour than none whatsoever, how can you call something a Bond movie if it doesn't have any humour? That'd be like not having Q branch or... oh wait.

  "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
• ics Posts: 1,413MI6 Agent

  January 2012

  Dalton loves DC but then again also Conney and (No)Moor...
  
  Copy/paste:
  
  I thought the first 25 minutes of Daniel’s first movie [Casino Royale] was the best 25 minutes I’ve seen in any Bond movie. I thought it was a fantastic opening.
  
  ..........
  
  Roger Moore was marvelous at what he did, and his films were successful, so you can’t say a word against him. But Connery was shocking. And his movies were shocking. You had never seen women in bikinis in films in those days, and heroes did not shoot unarmed people. But Connery did, and he was tough. The fight in the train with Robert Shaw [in From Russia With Love] was one of the great Bond sequences. Incidentally, those two sequences, the fight in the train and the shooting of the unarmed man, were reprised in the opening of Casino Royale. The fight in the toilet downstairs was vicious and mean and really tough, and of course, Daniel shoots a man who’s run out of bullets. But Connery was very tough. And I think Moore, when he first took it over was tough, as well, but then he moved into that area that he was probably most comfortable with, having done The Saint. We wanted to take it back to that earlier toughness. But, of course, it’s got to be funny. It should be funny. Out of great danger often comes great humor
  
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• DanielCraig007 Posts: 588MI6 Agent

  January 2012

  I know that all the Bond actors (except Lazenby) before Craig defended him when he got a lot of critisism when he landed the role. (blonde hair etc)
• DanielCraig007 Posts: 588MI6 Agent

  February 2016

  Why dident Lazenby defend Craig and what is Lazenbys opinion on Craigs portrayal of Bond?