Now, a contoversial return to the topic...
I suppose my fave has to be Timothy Dalton. True, he didn't have Roger Moore's wit and was et down by some utterly appalling scripts. But as far as portraying Bond as I see him (more like in the books - a hard smoking hevy drinking man with several large chips on his shoulder), he was superb. If he'd have been given a script as good as the one for GoldenEye (which had tones of some of Bonds ****ed-uppedness in it, as well as the excellent Sean Bean) he would have rocked supremely.
I just think Dalton was too good an actor for the scripts he was given. Brosnan is quite good, but not as funny as Moore, but he has some of the "psyche" stuff that Dalton did so well. Connery was OK I thought, but I just didn't find him to feel like the "real" Bond.
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