Yes, as a matter of fact, I’ve liked all Bond actors so far, even George Lazenby. If I happen to dislike a certain Bond movie, it’s always been about movies themselves and the way they’re executed or scripted rather than actors performing the role.
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Very close to my own feelings except The Spy Who Loved Me would join the YES, ROG! list and Man With the Golden Gun the OKAY, ROG! one.
Moonraker still ranks not only as my least favourite Moore Bond but my least favourite Bond of all.
Die Another Day is second worst but on the whole I would rank the Brosnan films quite highly.
I can definitely feel another Bondathon coming on. watched all of them with the family a few years back and thoroughly enjoyed the whole nonsensical geeky endeavour.
Speaking of which…Spagvemberfest cannot come round quick enough.
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I think I’m going to spend my Spagvember this year hoovering up a bunch of those cheapo box-set crappers that, after all these years, I still haven’t gotten around to looking at: Holy Water Joe, Sundance Cassidy and Butch the Kid, that sort of thing. In fact if I’m going to theme my Spagvember as a cheapo box set, I might even deliberately throw in at least one American western and one movie which isn’t really a western at all, in honour of Apache Blood and The Manhunt respectively on Mill Creek’s legendary 44-movie set. I might also watch at least one spag entirely in Italian with no subtitles so I don’t have a clue what’s going on, in honour of Millennium’s presentation of Execution on their 25-film, ONE-disc blu-ray Westerns Unchained. I’m still mulling it over because 30 consecutive days of spag dregs will be bloody brutal but I thought about it last year and balked, so maybe it’s time.
I fancy another Bondathon too. I’m not sure though whether to go all the way from Dr. No to Spectre over a few weeks or whether to do a select all-nighter: Either a bunch of my favourites or, more likely, a bunch of those lesser lights due a re-watch.
I feel the same way. I liked every Bond actor. I think they all did a fine job making the character their own. Lazenby didn’t get much of a chance since he only made one film and I have always felt that he tried to be too much like Connery at times, which is understandable considering he was the first to replace an established Bond actor and he probably didn’t want to alter the character too much in order to avoid offending audiences. I think he would have grown on people more if he’d have made a few more. Roger Moore was just finding his feet a bit in his first two Bond films but by the time he made The Spy Who Loved Me, he owned the role. Dalton will always be my favourite though.
Lazenby was boring but it equally fault of the movie that was not too Bond like. He was a similar type as Connery. The comparsion between the two was inevitable and Lazenby was not in the same class as Connery. Plus they gave him a really stupid “homo” outfit that was later much parodied in Austin Powers to a great success. 
Moore was a quite different type, rather bad at action scenes but amazing with comedy lines. They never repeated the same formula with a new actor again. Dalton was serious, athletic and tough and Brosnan was a perfect combo of the two predeccesors. Craig ehmm, reminds me of a turtle. One thing you never do to a Bond is touching his golden gun. All were scared when the laser was advancing closer and closer to Connery’s legs. The nightmare came true with Craig. x)
That sounds like a tough month to be honest.
I’m thinking of doing the opposite and work my way through all the Koch and WE discs I have but haven’t watched for a while.
I’m also thinking of doing something similar for October this year and watch all the British horror films I have which have been sitting around unwatched for years. Hammer, Amicus, Pete Walker and the like. I’m in the mood for a project.
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I’ve been working through my #100FavouriteMovies (alas, no Bond films); two films per day through most of August and all the way through September. I mean it’s all fairly arbitrary past the top 20 or so - indeed, I’ve moved a good few movies about on the fly if a particular movie suited a Saturday more than a Sunday, say, or if a movie worked better for me later at night rather than earlier in the evening - but, well, I likes me a moviethon. Gives my inability to choose a film a bit of structure.
I have just purchased Lazenby’s autograph, I have been trying to get the Bond actors for quite some time now. Lazenby I felt was the trendy, rebel Bond who gave the franchise a youthful shot in the arm, its a shame it didn’t last. I do agree he doesn’t make the character completely his own, he never got the chance.
I never found Lazenby boring. But you’re right he certainly wasn’t in the same class as connery. Given more time he could have grown into the part.
Moore wasn’t that bad at the action scenes. He beat up Lee Marvin for REAL!
Timothy should have been the Bond of the 80s. He was better than he is often given credit for.
I don’t know if I’ve ever weighed in on this topic but I LOVE Bond films. Especially Sean Connery. I was just watching Dr. No on my new TV a couple nights ago. They had so many great talents working on those films. Before HMV closed here they had a sale $5 each Bond blu-rays and I bought a bunch of them. I don’t go for the box sets because I don’t exactly like every Bond film, especially some of the Brosnan and Craig ones.
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Connery is my favourite, controversially I even like Never Say Never Again. I am not a Daniel Craig fan. I enjoyed Casino Royale and Skyfall but the Quantum of solace is terrible and Spectre is a mess.
Brosnan was better than the material he was given. Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies were really enjoyable but it went down hill. I blame writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. How they kept their jobs after Die Another Day is beyond me.
He he, Quantum of Solace is the great masterpiece of the series, far better than any other Bond film. I never expected that one day a Bond film would reach such level of artistry, cause actually a Bond film usually had rarely any cinematic ambitions.
Being English I choose to take that with a large dose of Sarcasm Stanton! 
Oh you really shouldn’t.
Stanton genuinely means what he says. I’ve yet to meet anyone else who agrees with him but don’t doubt his sincerity. We’ve discussed this together before on many occasions.
There isn’t a single Bond actor that I don’t like. Dalton is currently my favourite.
Never Say Never Again is, without a doubt, the worst Bond film I had ever watched until I saw Die Another Day. The song, “never, never, never say never again” still haunts me and I can only say never, never again!!!
Anyway I am genuinely interested by what you have said because I have never met anyone who likes it. Can you tell me why think so highly of it please?
Sorry if my first comment seemed rude, it wasn’t intended to be.
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The song is bad I agree, apparently Connery had a lot of influence on the production right down to the composer (unfortunately). I NSNA to Thunderball that I find the most tedious of the Connery films. Barbara Carrera is a brilliant villain too.
I know that many Bond fans really hated QoS, but actually I know by coincidence a lot of Bond fans, and I have recognized that many of them view QoS meanwhile much more positive after a 2nd or 3rd watch. And there were always some Bond fans who loved that movie from the beginning on (not much, yes). Actually I think it will grow on them just like the Lazenby one and License to Kill have grown.
I love nearly everything in the film, beginning with the virtuosic action, which belong to the best action scenes ever put on film. Every single mini shot of these action scenes is perfectly composed and edited, and this incredible feel for a visual story telling goes through the whole movie. And the film is pretty intelligent, there is a lot to discover in its narrative construction.
I gave it immediately a 8/10 in the theatre, thinking already then it was the best Bond ever, meanwhile after 4 or 5 re-watches I give it a 10 and think it belongs to the best films of the new millennium, together with stuff like Mulholland Drive, The Tree of Life, Inglorious Basterds. No Country for Old Men, to name only some of the more widely known films amongst my favourites. All cinematic wonders.
Dalton should have taken the role earlier, say in Octopussy or A View to a Kill. Licence to kill would have been his Swansong if it was his final film. It would not have stopped the legal trouble that followed though.
I truly believe that if LTK had been given a decent advertising campaign and released in the Autumn as opposed to the Summer it would have been more successful. The competition was to strong that season.
This artwork (not mine by the way) represents Licence To kill better than the original poster art.