Bond

[El Unicornio, mang]

I like Tom Hardy, definitely believable as a tough guy with a few humorous quips, still can't quite picture him doing the suave/sophisticated stuff though. Henry Cavill seemed a more obvious choice. But, I'd be happy if Hardy is confirmed, could be interesting.

Would he be the best looking Bond we've had? I remember around the time of Casino Royale loads of people I knew fancied Craig but is that still the case? He's become a very odd looking man.

I never though Craig was conventionally attractive (although a lot of my female/gay friends would argue otherwise) but he has a lot of charm/animal magnetism and the Adonis figure. I remember the outrage when he was announced, some hardcore fans even refusing to watch his films.

[beanheadmcginty]

Roger Moore is quite clearly the best looking Bond.

[lipsink]

Dalton's pretty handsome. Did anyone fancy Brosnan apart from bored housewives?

[Noodle Lizard]

Tom Hardy's a great, magnetic actor who unfortunately turns up in a lot of very poor films. I don't see him as Bond, though - he's too weathered already. I wish they'd go back to taking on relatively lesser-known actors for the role (I don't think any of the formative Bonds were known at all outside of the UK - or Australia in Lazenby's case), that way they can "become Bond" without all the baggage of whatever they did before. I suppose Daniel Craig kind of fit that bill at the time, having only really been seen in a few British films, but I never liked him much in anything. I'm not a fan of the idea of Henry Cavill either. If you've been Superman already, you've had your turn.

If I had it my way, I'd really throw a curveball and cast someone like Toby Jones. That's presumably why I don't get to make these decisions, but I really should.

[dissolute ocelot]

They should have a Bond with a beard. That would be very now.

[Dr Rock]

I'd like to see him ride a big Penny-Farthing.

[Butchers Blind]

Its about time we had a mumble Bond. 

[famethrowa]

Would he be the best looking Bond we've had?.

Come on, even at the start Craig looked like a little pouting toadstool. Naturally the best looking Bond was in Live and Let Die, Roger was just a spring chicken at *checks notes*.... 46??

[Kelvin]

id like a Bond hoos a skellington

[Noodle Lizard]

If I'm allowed to make an incredibly shallow post: I'd say Pierce Brosnan is the most conventionally good-looking Bond, possibly Lazenby second. Connery was a bit unusual-looking, a bit like a seaside caricature drawing of himself, but he definitely had the most alluring charisma. Roger Moore was the hardest for me to buy in the "serial shagger" aspect, even in his younger days he looked like a slightly pissed uncle. Dalton was probably very appealing to some, but a bit toadlike - on the VHS cover of The Living Daylights he looks like Terry Jones. Daniel Craig just looks pure dehydrated to me, with this permanent pursed-lipped expression that exudes smarm more than charm.

Again, I really wish they'd go for an unexpected choice this time round. Reece Shearsmith or someone.

[imitationleather]

Get Pete Doherty to do it.

[Kelvin]

I wud like bond who is a worm

[samadriel]

Neil Degrasse Tyson should be bond

[Pearly-Dewdrops Drops]

See I'm thinking they might even have the same M, Q and Moneypenny but it would seem quite unusual. Perhaps maybe one film without them?

Would he be the best looking Bond we've had? I remember around the time of Casino Royale loads of people I knew fancied Craig but is that still the case? He's become a very odd looking man.

They've already done the first part before with Judi Dench continuing to play M across Brosnan and Craig.

Maybe I'm not in a position to say, but surely Tom Hardy is not even 75% as good looking as Pierce Brosnan? (In an objective mainstream sense)

[checkoutgirl]

Moonwanker.

The Man With The Golden Cum
Thunderballs
On Her Vajesty's Secret Pervice
Dr Ho
Holefinger
You Only Jizz Twice
The Guy Who Bummed Me
Bumraper
Cocktopussy
Licence to Drill
The World is Not a Puff


sorry.

[machotrouts]

See I'm thinking they might even have the same M, Q and Moneypenny but it would seem quite unusual.

Standard practice for Bond innit? Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewellyn, and Lois Maxwell all straddled Connery, Lazenby, and Moore. Robert Brown who replaced Lee halfway through Moore's tenure stayed around for Dalton. Llewellyn survived till Brosnan. Judi Dench managed to survive an entire continuity reset.

Come to think of it, they've never fully refreshed the M/Q/Moneypenny deck between Bond actors. And the current set have only really spanned half the Craig era so it'd be a bit shan to start now.

Anyway I think I should play the next Bond because I want to be a pioneer for gay fat ugly pieces of fucking shit.

[Attila]

Its about time we had a mumble grunting Bond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_zbR2trnGI

[El Unicornio, mang]

If I'm allowed to make an incredibly shallow post: I'd say Pierce Brosnan is the most conventionally good-looking Bond, possibly Lazenby second.

Agree about Brosnan, but I thought Lazenby looked like Mister Bean, but with less charisma

[Thomas]

legend bond:



His Aston Martin came equipped with a subscription to FHM. The 90s were Britpop, Baddiel, and Brosnan.

[Butchers Blind]

Connery and Craig look like they could handle themselves in a case of punch-ups but the other four, not so much.

[beanheadmcginty]

Brosnan has aged superbly though. His appearance in that mediocre Eurovision film nearly turned me.

[thecuriousorange]

The man can sport a beard and did so fabulously as Bond.

[Bad Ambassador]

Aiden Turner should be the next one.

[Shit Good Nose]

The man can sport a beard and did so fabulously as Bond.

Fake beard and wig wasn't it?

[lipsink]

Tom Hardy also seems like he hates interviews more than any human being who's ever existed. How will he handle all that if he becomes Bond?

[greenman]

legend bond:



His Aston Martin came equipped with a subscription to FHM. The 90s were Britpop, Baddiel, and Brosnan.

His Bond almost felt like Brian Ferry turning into the previously ironic character he played, in Goldeneye I think they deliberately played him up as a little too slick and charmless to push the idea the character was a relic then you had some hint at a more likeble "real" Bond towards the end of the film. After that they desided they liked the slick cliched Bond act and kept that as his standard character.

If Hardy does end up as Bond what are the odds they switch from Jason Bourne influences to John Wick? Bond more as a troubled assassin than a globe trotting playboy.

[frajer]

Bond more as a troubled assassin than a globe trotting playboy.

Good christ I hope not. We've already had 3 or 4 films of Bond being permanently joyless. More than troubled, he just looks like a mardy bastard. The middle-aged chap at the office who's lost all enjoyment for the job but can't be arsed to learn anything else so just tries to make everyone else as miserable as him.

Looks like No Time to Die has pulled back from the dour side a bit. I'd very much like the next Bond film after that to be utterly daft and bombastic.

[lipsink]

The John Wick films are quite fun though aren't they? I'd be happy with that as Bond films have always 'borrowed' from whatever is going on at the time.

[Brundle-Fly]

Agree about Brosnan, but I thought Lazenby looked like Mister Bean, but with less charisma

" We'd been together for a week now and it was time for me to go. To my surprise, I was sorry to say goodbye. I had a new found respect for Blofeld, although I still didn't feel that close to him. That probably made me no different to anyone else in his life. "

[Dr Rock]

Lazenby looks like a good-looking man who got his face smashed in by golf clubs.