Lazenby was the best Bond
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kob79 — 22 years ago(January 30, 2004 08:48 PM)
Sean Connery was easily the best James Bond. He is an excellent actor and he could also do the physical acting and action scenes far better than any of the others who played Bond. Lazenby I think is nowhere near as good, even though the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service is quite impressive overall. Moore wasnt too bad, but there was not a good Bond movie with Moore. Brosnan has no class as Bond and he is physically too scrawny. Dalton is a good actor but his Bond was too serious and emotional somehow, he is just not right for the role. Connery is the only true action star who played Bond. Although everyone is entitled to their opinion about this.
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axis12002 — 22 years ago(February 06, 2004 01:54 PM)
Goldfinger was the best film but I think Lazenby should at the very least be acknowledged as the best 'action actor' of the series.
Compare the way Lazenby fights (particularly in the opening sequence at the beach and in the final attack on the moub68ntain) to the other Bond actors - especially Roger 'Bring on the Stuntman' Moore. These films are, after all, action films and Lazenby gives by far the most convincing physical portrayal of a trained killer - even down to the way he walks.
He also has the coolest 'Gun Barrel' sequence - again compare to Connery's awkward 'jump' before he fires.
All I can say is that Lazenby's detractors must judge his performance either by his off-camera arrogance (Bond himself being one of the most arrogant characters in movie history) or by his subsequent failure to make it big. If they could only watch OHMSS in isolation from these factors then there might be more people who , like me , regret that he didn't continue in the role and really show what he could do with it. -
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yer — 21 years ago(January 18, 2005 07:19 AM)I just saw "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," this past weekend, as part of Starz' James Bond Marathon. The last time I saw it was in a movie theatre, 35 years ago, when it was first released.
WHAT a revelation! I remembered I DETESTED the film, 35 years. What? A James Bond movie WITHOUT Sean Connery! It's funny what time can do; five different actors have now played Bond.
I LOVED it this time around! George Lazenby, perhaps, did not have the panache of Connery, but I got used to him. Diana Rigg was WONDERFUL! Telly Savalas made a good Blofeld. Jeez, HOW many actors have played Blofeld, by now? Heck, HOW many actors have played Felix Leiter, for that matter? B111cOTTOM LINE: I have revised my list of the Best Bond Movies: "From Russia With Love"
is the all-time greatest, followed by "Goldfinger" and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" a CLOSE
third. The Worst? ALL of the Roger Moore movies in the series. Roger Moore was "The Saint,"
NOT James Bond. I read somewhere on another thread, that "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" OUTSELLS all the other Bond movies, on VHS and DVD. That doesn't surprise me, "OHMSS" rarely plays on television. For you teen-agers, out there, who grew up knowing Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan as 007, ask dad to shell out a few bucks and discover George Lazenby.
THIS MOVIE is a wild, wild, wild trip! You WON'T be disappointed! It contains a screenplay MUCH BETTER than MOST of the other Bond movies. -
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meljohal40 — 18 years ago(February 20, 2008 11:33 AM)
George Lazenby was indeed the best Bond. I have finally acquired all of the Bond DVDs (including the awful For Your Eye's Only it pains me to say - dodgy Thatcher impression and "I BUY YOU A DELICATESSEN - IN STAINLESS STEEL !" What the heck is all that about?).
Anyway I have spent a good week getting through several veiwings of OHMSS along with all the docs and commentary and it is truly BRILLIANT. Lazenby comes across as a tough, sauve, confident and humanistic Bond. That could never be said for Moore, Brosnan or Connery or even Daniel Craig. Timothy Dalton only came close to Lazenby's standard.
OHMSS is an extremely well directed, well acted, well scripted film with a stylish edge that could have served the series well into the 70's. Shame that Diamonds Are Forever just went in another direction and then Moore came along and the series was never the same. Now Craig's Bond just wants to ditch all the traditional elements altogether - why call it Bond then? - it's just XXX or something for the mobile phone, lap top and Ipod generation. -
ActionfanSeagal — 21 years ago(March 15, 2005 09:57 AM)
When lazenby played as Bond he had the potential but not the experience. You can't campare Lazenby to Connery because he only did one film. and Connery did six films as Bond. The only reason people think lazenby was good was because of the story in OHMSS. But lets face it if Connery played in OHMSS it whould of been the best bond film of all time. If Lazenby kept his role of Bond he would of done terrible in D.A.F Because that wasnt the greatest story and I kind of didn't like that movie even that Connery was in it. But my points still stands People only think that Lazenby was good cause of the story in the movie. I some times forget about him because in my opion from frist to last of the Bonds would be Connery,Brosnan,Moore,Dalton and Lazenby. Many poeple hate Brosnan because he is better then Moore.
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Ming_7_6 — 21 years ago(March 15, 2005 12:35 PM)
I disagree completely. In fact Cubby Broccoli said numerous times they ONLY made OHMSS as it was because Connery was not in it. The fact is Connery would not have even made this type of film. The people who keep asserting otherwise know nothing of the issue at hand.
