Best Bond Ever

Martini.

Craig. 

Connery.

Everyone else. 

In that order. 

Daniel Craig is tough and raw.

Sean Connery had the swagger.

I've yet to see Lazenby's portrayal.

Lazenby was like a less-serious Daniel Craig. 

Rent "On Her Majesty's Secret Service."

It's his only movie.

I did hear it was supposed to be an under-estimated good film.

*heh, I said film - so old time*

If you've read the books, Daniel Craig most fits the description of who James Bond is supposed to be...

Parents killed in a climbing accident.
Sent to live in a boarding school.
Got kicked out of the boarding school for sleeping with a chamber maid.
Joined the Royal Navy.
Despite rising in rank to Commander, was disciplined multiple times in the Navy.
Was targeted by MI-6 because his personality profile and test results showed a certain degree of immorality and cruelty.

I would say in order:

Daniel Craig
Sean Connery
Timothy Dalton
Pierce Brosnan
George Lazenby
Roger Moore

Agreed.

Being born in the late 70s, and owning a Lotus, I have an appreciation for Moore - and he stared in the two with the best theme songs - BUT as Bond, he was the worst.

If you hadn't I would have

Also, Daniel Craig showed us for almost the first time in 50 years that James Bond can actually get bruised and bleed. i.e.  he's human.

The bullet-proof, bruise-proof, "I can't get hurt no matter what you hit me with" of the earlier Bonds (especially Roger Moore) was downright silly.

Damm straight!  I still wince thinking about the Casino Royale chair torture bit. *wince*

I wondered about that.  So the guy is hitting him in the Gnuts with a knot at the end of a rope over and over, and he blacks-out and wakes-up days later in a gurney looking at the lake. 

I know getting hit there hurts, but isn't that a bit dramatic???

Or was he drugged?  Maybe Bond's Gnuts are more sensitive than ours because they're the source of the awesomeness...

I think they wanted to stay close the book, but not so graphic.  In the book LeChiffre uses a carpet kicker on him for almost an hour and the damage and blood loss is so intense, he needs to be hospitalized.  (Also, in the book, the assasin who kills LeChiffre and 'saves' him, then carves ????? (shpion), Russian for "spy" into the back of Bond's hand with a knife to 'mark him'.  I guess in the movie, they thought that was a bit too extreme, so they switched it to a rope with a "monkey ball" at the end.

Oh and for the record, this is a carpet kicker:

DAY-HAM!!!!  And yes, those are spikes on the bottom.  The "business end".

Oh yeah, you HOPE to wake up days later in a gurney looking at the lake!

I believe Gorilla Glue is the best bond.

1) how'd he get the mark removed?

2) how'd he ever have "conquests" if that thing was used on his gnuts?

3) Gearboy, you're absolutely right.  Convalescence is definitely in-order for a guy who has his heart stopped, restarted, wins a poker game, makes up a drink, flips his car 17 times, and then gets hit in the gnuts with a monkeyknot...

No, not really, I guess.  But you might as well hand over your man card now.