Poll Comp: "Don't make me choose!" or "No contest"

[MoeFOH]

Simple comp: Two questions (sometimes about cigars but mostly not). 

First question will ask you for your choice between two things. 

Second will be to ask you if that was a "don't make me choose!" or "No contest" question for you. 

Vote in the poll, discuss below if you wish . 

All participants go into the random draw for a 5-pack of MOFOH Robusto Trinity . 

(drawn Tuesday mornings AEST)

[Chibearsv]

I said don’t make me choose because there are plenty of moments from some of the others that are excellent but it’s hard to beat Sean Connery.

[Nevrknow]

23 minutes ago, Chibearsv said:

I said don’t make me choose because there are plenty of moments from some of the others that are excellent but it’s hard to beat Sean Connery.

We’re showing our age 😂

[riderpride]

Well, this isn't an easy one lol.

The first one to eliminate is Moore - I know fondue was a thing back then, but that's too much cheese.

Second to go is Lazenby - he wasn't in a proper Bond film and the directing was questionable, so he didn't get a fair chance.

Connery brought class, Craig brought edge, Dalton was pretty good in TLD (LTK wasn't really a Bond film either), and Brosnan was fantastic in Goldeneye but then quickly dropped into Moore-style Bond.

I'll need to marinate on this one.

Edit - Craig is 1a, Connery 1b. Sean was the OG and set the bar, but Never Say Never (debatable as a Bond pic), and Diamonds were both bad. You could feel Craig's conflict and pain, but that could also be attributed to writing and directing. 

Does Niven not qualify?

Cheers!

Edited March 17 by riderpride
Update

[Mr. DD]

Connery followed by Craig and then the rest in any order. Some hits and misses with almost all of the Bond iterations.

[loose_axle]

Daniel Craig and an easy choice at that. 

[Lucas Buck]

I’m old and Sean Connery will always be Bond to me. No contest. I will say I loved all the Craig films and they are my favorites after the original Connery films. 

[Ken Gargett]

always very hard to go past your first (which technically for me was Lazenby but i went to Bond super screenings of all the films to date immediately after and so Connery is sort of number one for me). he set the standard. so marginally connery ahead of craig. very close. 

craig was superb but he was very badly let down by the directing in quantum and by absolutely everything in no time to die, which did the unthinkable and was actually the worst bond film ever, even up against octopussy. who could have ever imagined? spectre has one of the all time dullest bond girls (so some dimwit thought it a good idea to bring her back for No Time????). casino royale the best Bond film made and Skyfall right up there.

as for the others, largely agree. dalton underrated but plastic sharks and so on did not help. brosnan was getting better each film i thought, but as james bond, he made a great remington steele. lazenby (possibly because i did see him first) has always got unfair criticism. definitely not as bad as suggested. remember that he was then offered a seven picture deal and turned it down. what would we think of Bond had he accepted?

live and let die by far moore's best but after that, they became more and more cartoonish. dressing bond as a clown and in a gorilla suit. shame, scriptwriters, shame. 

[Li Bai]

Sean Connery, no contest. With Craig and Brosnan tied as close seconds👍

[JohnS]

Sean Connery is the best Bond, but that's not to say that the others did not have their moments. They certainly did. I even forgive him (Connery that is) for dissing the Beatles in 1964's Goldfinger (still the best Bond film for me) and suggesting that a 1953 Dom Perignon bottle of Champagne is best served at 38°F (or 3.3°C). We all know that it's 46°F (or around 8°C), don't we?

[Li Bai]

43 minutes ago, JohnS said:

We all know that it's 46°F (or around 8°C), don't we?

Of course, we're not Philistines 🧐

[Ruggerpgh99]

It's Connery, but I have loved Craig's iteration, and there is a soft spot in my heart for Brosnan, especially Goldeneye, so this is a don't make me choose for sure. 

[Puros Y Vino]

As a 70s kid, Roger Moore was the Bond I saw the most. Definitely on corny/cheesy side. Entertaining but probably the furthest from the Bond Fleming envisioned. Thankfully, lots of TV stations would play Connery's Bond movies. Craig's been great. I like a grittier Bond, which Pierces' last Bond film really shone at.

[carsncigarsuk]

I went Connery but I did have to think about it as Craig was very good. 

[joeypots]

Craig #1 for no other reason than I like those movies best. Connery #2 because he was too cool. 

Talk about a picture being worth a thousand words.

[Mike Mecklenburg]

My vote is for Sean Connery, he set the stage.

[Boxer31]

It was always Connery until first 2 Craig movies. Now can we rank the Bond girls?

[BrightonCorgi]

I voted for Daniel Craig. His movies were the least campy. Casino Royale is the single best 007 movie. The Pierce Brosnan era movies had the best soundtracks (up for debate) and were generally great movies.

Connery of course great, but cliche go to vote. I have a 24/7 James Bond channel, so we watch a lot of 007 at this house. I really like all of them.

[Gubbins]

Connery for me. The swagger, class and comic timing. Also a fan of Brosnan as Bond despite some of his later scripts not giving him much to work with. I don’t mind Moore either, nothing wrong with a bit of cheese in a franchise where there’s a guy with metal teeth biting through cable car lines and a 4 foot bodyguard who throws a razor brimmed hat. 

I'm not a fan of the Craig stuff really, but more because of the direction it all took. It seems to take from the gritty ‘dark knight’ Nolan style playbook. Where as I think Bond should be more of a fun brain-off escapade. Craig is a great actor no doubt, and Casino Royale was fantastic, but I miss the humour element.

Connery/Brosnan for me. Don’t make me choose.

[REesq]

Being more of that era, Sean is the gold standard Bond for me. I will always remember sneaking into a weekend matinee to watch a double feature of Thunderball and You Only Live Twice in the early 70s when I was 11 or 12. Mind blowing at the time. I always thought Pierce, particularly the early films, brought a nice flair to Bond. I thought the Daniel Craig run started off slow, but got better with each film and ended very strong. For comic relief, the crazy eyes Roger Moore would sometimes flash in his later films would always bring great comic relief. Of course I have every Bond film on DVD and cycle through them regularly, even the David Niven Casino Royal spoof, which is always a fun watch.  

[AshMe Nothing]

Sean Connery. No contest. 

[TheFez]

Im going with Roger Moore, but it was a tough call. My wife and I just finished binging all 26 movies 🤣. Picking Moore cause I love all the corny jokes. My wife definitely would not agree, there was a lot of eye rolling on her part during that phase of the binge. Tough call between Connery and Craig for next, they both brought completely different yet important feel to the franchise. @MoeFOH another vote for Bond Girl next...

[zeedubbya]

Sean Connery, no doubt. For some strange reason when I imagine a lot of these type of characters in other books, I imagine them to look like Sean Connery. One which comes to mind immediately is John D. McDonald’s Travis McGee. This kind of cements him as the legend as Bond, at least in my minds eye.  

[Goldeneye]

Despite Brosnan being Bond for the coolest name of a Bond movie "Goldeneye", Craig got my vote.

[Habanoschris]

On Her Majesty's Secret Service might be my favorite Bond film as it had a more serious tone. BUT that's not to say that I'd vote Lazenby. I voted Connery for his overall presence & body of work as Bond. Daniel Craig was pretty good too.