hi everybody and welcome back to james
bond revisited this week we're going to
do something a little bit different
we're going to rank all of the actors
that have played james bond from the
worst to the best yes that's right it's
james bond revisited james bond actors
ranked and of course if we're starting
off on the worst side of the james bond
scale we have to start with none other
than the only actor to ever play james
bond only one time george lazenby an
australian model when he was plucked
from obscurity to star as james bond
george lasenby kind of sabotaged his
career a little bit by badmouthing the
film to the press and being incredibly
difficult to work with this ended up
being a one and done role for him he was
apparently offered diamonds are forever
and turned it down although ua president
david picker always said that lazenby
was actually not offered a second film
and that the idea was always to go back
to sean connery to reprise the role
whatever the case lazenby actually is
not disastrous in the lead and it's
funny because all of the actors that
played james bond in one way or another
are actually really good they're all
just kind of varying degrees of good i
would say good to great and lazenby at
times in the film is really good and it
has to be said honor majesty's secret
service is probably the best james bond
movie ever made just happens to star
arguably the worst james bond lazenby
looks really good in this movie he's
tall he looks good in his tuxedo
although some of his clothing such as
the little orange number that he wears
for a lot of the film is a touch garish
i think i heard rumors that the costume
designers of this film weren't big fans
of his and kind of made him look stupid
at times he's tall he's imposing he
fights extremely well and looks great in
all the fight scenes and that's actually
apparently what won him the part his
chemistry with diana rigg isn't great
and i think this is probably his biggest
liability in the performance because you
could tell that him and diana rigg
probably just didn't get along very well
off camera and they have no chemistry
which is kind of a problem because it's
james bond falling in love for the first
time with the women that he's gonna
marry still it kind of works although
you can also really tell that lazenby is
hampered by the fact that he's dubbed
for a good chunk of the film because
george baker loops his voice while
lazenby is masquerading as james bond
playing hillary bray i don't know why
they decided to do this i think it was a
really bad idea and i think it totally
[ __ ] with his performance but i digress
george lazenby isn't amazing as double
07 in this movie but he's fine he's
arguably just as good as sean connery
was in doctor no so who knows if lacey b
had been able to play the character for
five or six movies he might have ended
up as the greatest james bond of all
time but alas all we've got is one movie
and it's a pretty good film so lacenbee
is definitely the worst james bond in
that he's the one that's had the least
effect on the pop culture but you know
what he's still pretty good this never
happened to the other fella the second
worst james bond of all time has got to
be pierce brosden no no no
now hear me out i love piers brosnan i
think he's an amazing actor and i
actually think he's a great james bond
if you look at pierce brosnan in
goldeneye wow he's amazing i remember
seeing this movie and being so excited
for ron of pierce brosnan and james bond
movies physically he was perfect for the
role he looked great he was a handsome
bastard looked awesome in a tuxedo moved
really well in the fight scenes had
great chemistry with all of his leading
ladies and kind of had this perfect
amount of toughness and cold-bloodedness
as james bond mixed with the sly's sense
of humor he was like sean connery and
roger moore being put into a blender and
out comes pierce brosnan if all the
movies had been as good as goldeneye
again he's another one that might have
been the best james bond ever but man
the movies that followed goldeneye just
do not do him any favors tomorrow never
dies is fun but it's just a bunch of
non-stop action scenes the world is not
enough gives him better material but its
direction is very lackluster by michael
aptid and has one of the worst villains
in the franchise robert carlisle's
bernard of course i do love sophie
marco's electric king and she has really
good chemistry with brosnan but they
ruin it by bringing in denise richards
as dr christmas jones but the world's
greatest terrorists running around with
six kilos of weapons great plutonium
can't be good
i have to get it back or somebody's
gonna have my ass
it's a movie that could have been one of
the really good james bond films but
just ends up not being very good at all
and then of course there's die another
day which i think everybody agrees is
the worst james bond movie ever i feel
really bad for pierce brosnan because he
got totally screwed the material that he
was given just was no good after
goldeneye so that leaves him
unfortunately as the second worst james
bond of all time
backseat driver going up the list and
getting into middle territory is of
course roger moore roger moore played
james bond in seven films and i have to
say is my nostalgic and emotional
favorite really there is no competition
for me if you were to ask me who my
favorite james bond is it's definitely
roger moore i sure am boy i grew up
watching his movies as a kid and i love
him especially octopussy in a view to a
kill and going back a little bit further
for your eyes only here's the thing
though if i'm looking at it critically
and analytically i can't say that roger
moore is the best james bond and i can't
even say that the james bond movies that
i absolutely love him in are amazing
james bond films it's nostalgia and i'm
totally blinded by nostalgia i grew up
with him and i just think he's the best
but as james bond he's kind of in the
middle ground i think he looks really
good but man his first couple of james
bond movies are rough live and let die i
think is the most overrated james bond
movie ever i know a lot of people really
love this film i don't think it works at
all man with the golden gun is the
second worst james bond film of all time
after diet another day but i digress his
character is james bondness in this
movie is just awful i mean he plays him
like such an [ __ ] in fact i was
rooting for francisco scaramonga to kind
of win towards the end of the movie i
really hate when he's roughing up the
girls i i don't like him pushing the kid
in the water in thailand of course roger
moore himself also said it was probably
his worst james bond movie and that he
hated doing that scene in particular the
guy ended up becoming one of the people
that ran unicef years later so you can
tell why he probably didn't like that
film very much he really did start to
come into his own though when he did spy
who loved me adopting kind of a more
genial witty likable james bond persona
and i think it really plays well for him
and i especially like roger moore as he
started to mature in the roles around
the time he got to free rise only wasn't
so quick to jump into bed with girls was
a little bit more mature and world weary
he'd seen it all and he had almost the
paternal vibe at times and i think
that's probably why i liked him so much
you know i always looked at him as kind
of a pseudo-father figure in some ways
which is definitely not how i felt about
any other james bond except for roger
moore and i think that's probably why
he's my favorite that said he's in the
middle section of james bond's ranked if
again we're going scientifically q have
i ever let you down
frequently
now we're getting closer to the best
ever james bonds and i have to say the
third best james bond ever in my opinion
is definitely timothy dalton now a lot
of people would probably rank him at the
bottom of this list but they are totally
wrong timothy dalton's run of james bond
movies is better than anybody's he was
only in two of them but man they were
two great james bond movies there was
the living daylights and license to kill
and they are both just about perfect
james bond films license to kill of
course totally departs from the formula
and is kind of a rougher and tougher 80s
style action movie but he really does
feel like james bond throughout the
whole movie so it's kind of cool to plop
james bond in this kind of miami vice
style universe i really liked it and i
thought that again timothy dalton does a
really good job playing up kind of a
sadistic cruel streak in his james bond
but also still making him likeable and
palatable there's a great scene license
to kill where he uses a harpoon to kill
the guy that just killed frank mcrae's
sharky and apparently in the work print
of this movie there's a scene where
timothy dalton just cackles maniacally
after doing this which i think probably
would have been too much but dalton
really didn't care if you didn't like
him as james bond he wanted to play
james bond in an authentic ian
fleming-esque way and i think that he
really did succeed unfortunately
audiences in the 1980s just were not
ready or interested in this kind of
james bond they were accustomed to roger
moore they wanted somebody lighter and
they loved pierce brosnan even though
pierce brosn's movies weren't the best
he's probably still one of the highest
grossing james bond actors of all time
so timothy dalton got the short end of
the stick unfortunately and i think if
he had come along 20 years later the
appetite for him would have been much
better and in fact what daniel craig is
doing now was arguably pioneered by
timothy dalton well then i guess it's
a farewell swans
so we're getting the second best james
bond actor of all time and it's probably
daniel craig now daniel craig is hit and
misses james bond not all of his movies
are great it's weird because all of the
odd-numbered james bond movies that he's
in are really good casino royale is
maybe the best james bond movie ever
after honor matchy's secret service i
mean it's a wonderful film and his
physical performance and emotional
performance in the movie is great his
chemistry with eva green is amazing and
has great villains he's just the perfect
james bond and probably should have been
nominated for an academy award it's one
of the best ever performances as james
bond that we've ever gotten but quantum
of solace just doesn't live up to it
although i still think he's quite good
again he's amazing in skyfall because
he's got the material but then spectre
is a little bit more assembly line so
he's hit and miss but ma'am when he is
good he is the best so daniel craig is
my second favorite james bond actor of
all time which of course brings us to
number one and really who else could it
be but sean connery i used to always
tell people this other actors played
james bond sean connery was james bond
and i don't mean that he was a global
super spy that was running around
sleeping with women and saving the world
well okay maybe he was a global actor
that ran around sleeping with women but
i don't think he ever saved the world
now roger moore played bond arguably
more times in official movies but sean
connery's run as james bond was long six
official eon james bond films plus the
unofficial nevis never again which ties
him with roger moore seven films sean
connery really is just the one that
established the mold he was the first
actor to play james bond and all of the
james bond ticks that we identify with
the character now are things that
connery came up with he looks amazing
into tuxedo he's tough he can handle
himself well in the fight but he's also
suave and sophisticated and seductive
he's got this kind of menacing way of
talking to the villains but then almost
purring to the women you know he has
this cat-like grace also which i don't
think a lot of people remark on but he
moves so well you know he looks like
he's just this guy in his physical prime
who is running the world right i mean
his james bond could take over the world
he is just the most confident action
star of all time and in fact the
prototypical action star if you ask me
dr no is a bit of a hit and miss film
but sean connery comes right out of the
gate swinging from russia with love he's
perfected goldfinger is amazing but as
we start to get to his middle run sean
connery started to put on a little bit
of weight and started to get a little
bit tired of the roll he sleepwalks a
little bit in thunderball and you only
live twice and the less said about him
and diamonds are forever where he's
totally out of shape and obviously
doesn't give a [ __ ] anymore the best but
he comes back swinging and nervous never
again and when sean connery wanted to be
james bond he was the best james bond
ever and i really don't think anybody is
ever gonna beat him no matter who they
choose to play james bond after daniel
craig sips his last vodka martini shaken
nuts third and hangs up his tuxedo so
those are my rankings of all the james
bond actors of course i'm sure that
everybody's got their own order so
please let me know in the talkbacks what
you think
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