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When I think of James Bond I immediately think of Pierce Brosnan.

As much as Brosnan's stories got worse and worse, the opening to Goldeneye will always be peak Bond for me.

I'm always torn on this kind of question because Goldeneye is my favorite Bond movie, but the other Brosnan ones are pretty awful

Kinda torn between Brosnan and Craig. Both have been absolutely great in the role that it's so hard to choose.

As a long-time 007 fan, I've gotta stay with the classics and say Connery. Feels like everyone who came after him were just imitations.

I have zero nostalgia for anything James Bond and I find Craig's Bond to be the most compelling one by far. Maybe I have little tolerance for the tropes of classic Bond but I really prefer the more complex and dark modern spin on it.

I grew up watching Goldfinger so Connery is my definitive Bond.

I still felt like Tomorrow Never Dies and The World Is Not Enough are still pretty good (TND has some subtle commentary about the problems of mass media in guiding history). Die Another Day was definitely forgettable. Also you're forgetting the best Brosnan movie-not-movie, Everything Or Nothing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEXKzDc0J-g

I find Craig boring as shit. Connery or bust.

Almost none of them look as much like the sketches of Bond than Pierce

Brosnan does the most faithful Bond I think when it comes to his portrayal of the character, but his films aren't great. I actually really like Timothy Dalton's Bond.

Brosnan's the Bond of my childhood, so I'm biased, but even so I swear he seems like he was genetically engineered to play Bond. 2nd is probably Dalton, I wish he'd gotten a couple more movies. I can't stand Craig, he just looks like a goblin.

Goldeneye is the best Bond film ever and I think Pierce Brosnan nailed the role to a tee. In THAT movie. His other ones were terrible. I still have a soft spot for Die Another Day idgaf

I've always been fond of the Living Daylights and Her Majesty's Secret Service. But you only live twice is like one of my favorite movies ever. Still TLD had one of my favorite bond themes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXM4eIoPZUU

I like Connery, Brosnan, Moore, Dalton, and Craig for different reasons, but for me it's between Connery for classic appeal, Brosnan for nostalia, and Craig for modern interpretation. I'm sorry but Lazenby was just forgettable for me. Goldeneye was my first Bond, so it's hard to compete with that.

Craig was really, really good for exactly one movie - Casino Royale. You could wipe off the "James Bond" and it would still be a good movie on its own, which is not something you could say about most of them. Brosnan for me is the most definitive Bond, although that's likely purely because that's the one I grew up watching.

I think it really depends on what you want, if I want more grounded and serious Bond I'd say the Craig films do that best. But if you're looking for something that doesn't take itself so seriously then the Moore/Brosnan ones are fine.

timothy dalton is the only bond who was actually bond. the rest are just characatures of themselves. i know roger moore and brosnan were fun and all that but their actual persona couldn't be further away from the created character.

I have this fascinating relationship with Lazenby's portrayal that I couldn't understand or communicate at first. I think he's so much of a non-entity in his performance that you can more easily put yourself in his shoes. I really like Dalton because of all the potential I see there, but unfortunately so little of him was utilized in his scripts. I have a lot of respect for him doing his own stunts, something I'm also fond of with Craig. Craig is cool because he's my gateway drug Bond and I think he projects that same seriousness and dry wit that made Connery so popular at the beginning. Brosnan is the definitive Bond from my childhood. Goldeneye was great, but everything else seems pretty phoned in (a fun drinking game is taking a shot every time his accent goes super Irish in TWiNE and DAD). I don't think Brosnan had very good stunt doubles, and while he has the finesse (best gunbarrel ever) and charisma, I dislike how little of a physical edge he has. I like Roger Moore as Roger Moore, but his portrayal isn't really faithful to the character of James Bond. I like his films for different reasons, when judged as Bond films earnest to the source material or even earnest to the spirit of the first couple films there's no wonder why they end up at the bottom of a lot of lists.