please empty your brain below

Er, Licence (to kill) and Madonna 4th?

Amazing that Shirley Bassey and Paul McCartney/Wings don't appear.
I see what you did there.
Ignore the Madonna comment - sorry
I appreciate both the time of posting and the general chaos that the last section will cause.
Most Unlikely Bond (and also first Bond) : Bob "Give me a P please" Holness.
Re Niven as Bond.

Oddly he's probably the closest to the Fleming original as described in the books, even drives the right car.

Casino Royale (Niven version) is a really strange car crash of a film. The cast list is utterly stellar, the director first rate, and the result a fascinating mess. And for some reason [personally] compellingly watchable ... every time I catch it on TV a couple of hours is lost.
In 1962 when Dr No was released I was working in an Odeon cinema and was surprised that people were queuing to see the film as it did not seem anything special.
I enjoyed the Roger Moore films. Colourful locations, humour, and action.
In the last 3 James Bond films have been awful, dark scenes modern "shaky camera" techniques and little humour. I doubt if I will bother to see the latest one.
For the avoidance of doubt in the first list...which Casino Royale?

(Most will correctly assume the more recent remake, but a listicle post should have that precision)
Makes me feel sad for the rest.
Wikipedia reckons Bob was the second, after Barry Nelson (who?). Radio and American TV, in case anyone was wondering.

“Best Bond” is a matter of taste, often spiced with a hint of childhood nostalgia, as with “Best Doctor Who”.
My favourites

1. Roger Moore
2. Sean Connery
3. Daniel Craig
4. Pierce Brosnan
5. Timothy Dalton.
6. George Lazenby.
I'm confused by what villainous lengths are being measured on the 8-19 scale.
Nobody tell him.
I think it's a reflection on modern charts and how they are generated, that the only number 1s have been in the last few years.

For one reason or another, the gaps between the Craig films are enormous. The Roger Moore era churned them out.
Given the number of times No Time to Die was delayed due to the pandemic, I'm wondering how many will take its release as the one true sign that the dark times are finally over.

Also, it never passed me by that Billie Eilish got a Bond number one. Sam Smith didn't just break the Curse of Bond, they threw the floodgates wide open.
Ha ha ha. Love what you have (deliberately) done, with "The Best James Bonds".
No.1 OBVIOUSLY Sean Connery!!!!
I hadn’t realised that the interval between the most recent two films was almost as long as between The Living Daylights and Goldeneye.

That gap (due to some contractual dispute) spanned most of my teenage years and seemed like an eternity. I wasn’t so interested in Bond films after that.
I'm sorry, but as a fan of the Ian Fleming books, the best James Bond is Daniel Craig as he portrayed Fleming's character perfectly.
Stop getting Bond wrong!
Your lists were doing so well, then you dropped your final one and it all went wrong.
Number of Bonds films I've watched in its entirety: 1
- View to a Kill at the cinema in 1980-something, and even then only because I like the Duran Duran song!!
I'm absolutely flabbergasted that none of Shirley Bassey's Bond themes make the highest charting list. I suppose 'highest charting' doesn't mean 'best'.

And the last list... I'm not going to take the bait!
I think I read that the gap between Licence to Kill and GoldenEye was because the future of the films was in doubt after the Timothy Dalton change of image didn’t come off very well and he decided to go. Pierce Brosnan had missed out previously because of a clashing commitment, so there was a dance between him and the Broccolis before the latter committed to a further re-boot with an ace director.
Sounds like that was part of it. I've just read a long article elsewhere on the internet which suggests it was a combination of a conflict between studio and distributor, then once resolved, Dalton's loss of enthusiasm to commit to go beyond his three film contract, which the Brocolli family wanted him to do as there had already been such a long interval between his second film and the (potential) third one. Had always wondered.

(My comment above should have referred to Licence to Kill and Goldeneye - for what it's worth The Living Daylights is my favourite film in the franchise)
I am of the generation where the best Bond film was our first; GoldenEye. But also our best Bond across all media was the N64 computer game GoldenEye, possibly the greatest computer game ever.
n.b. I ordered the last list, of best James Bonds, entirely at random.

I thought the random number generator did pretty well - not perfect, but almost convincing.
Les Sabine, the Bond of Fleming’s books would never have dreamed of the insubordination that Craig’s incarnation displays.
Small mistake there ... If you count the two non-Eon films, there have been 27. So James Bond should appear 27 times ... unless there's a film where he didn't turn up? (could say that about several of the Roger Moore ones).










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