Deathmatch 2022: The Bonds - Group D

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Performance as Bond, then. Now, obviously, the comparison is phoney given that they haven’t had the same script and direction nor been in the same film, but that’s never stopped anyone being “Best Actor” at the Oscars or the like and being lauded for it. Common perception may hold that Bond is a flat character and doesn’t change film-to-film but is the genial old cove on screen for 20 minutes of A View to a Kill really the same as the MooreBond of Live and Let Die? The Craigs may show breadth of character; the Connerys breadth of waistband, etc.

Criteria for choice is up to you; it could be which performance you prefer, it could be which you think would win in a “real” (cough) fight against the other, it could be which had the better nose. Who knows what criteria the voting public base their choices on, anyway? Recent elections and referendums, it could be absolutely anything, some of it considered unnatural.

Voting ends 26 June.

  • Connery - You Only Live Twice
  • Connery - Diamonds are Forever

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  • Connery - You Only Live Twice
  • Moore - The Man with the Golden Gun

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  • Connery - You Only Live Twice
  • Brosnan - Tomorrow Never Dies

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  • Connery - You Only Live Twice
  • Brosnan - Die Another Day

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  • Connery - Diamonds are Forever
  • Moore - The Man with the Golden Gun

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  • Connery - Diamonds are Forever
  • Brosnan - Tomorrow Never Dies

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  • Connery - Diamonds are Forever
  • Brosnan - Die Another Day

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  • Moore - The Man with the Golden Gun
  • Brosnan - Tomorrow Never Dies

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  • Moore - The Man with the Golden Gun
  • Brosnan - Die Another Day

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  • Brosnan - Tomorrow Never Dies
  • Brosnan - Die Another Day

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Connery was always magnificent - except when he was not, in YOLT.

Moore was not bad in TMWTGG - but he was better in the following films.

And Brosnan was energetically projecting fun (and an appetite to bite some part out of Teri Hatcher, one understands) in TND, and he was very relaxed in DAD (perhaps the knee medication? In SP they definitely gave Craig too much of it.)

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Again surprised that the votes for Connery’s performance in YOLT was much higher than Brosnan in DAD.

To be honest, Connery’s performance in YOLT makes you think that he wanted to be in somewhere else than playing Bond, he’s bored in the role, at least with Brosnan in DAD, he’s still engaged and had energy into his portrayal, I know the movie’s not that good, but when it comes to their performance, Brosnan’s portrayal in DAD was much better and more engaged than Connery’s in YOLT, he’s obviously bored.

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