Poll
The Best Bond:
Sean Connery
16 votes (32%)
David Niven
1 vote (2%)
George Lazenby
0 votes (0%)
Roger Moore
4 votes (8%)
Timothy Dalton
3 votes (6%)
Pierce Brosnan
3 votes (6%)
Daniel Craig
10 votes (20%)
Ethyl Cyanoacrylate
13 votes (26%)
24 comments
50 votes
Reply 23 comments

Another Dalton Fan! (Score: 3, Insightful)

by billshooterofbul@pipedot.org on 2015-11-17 19:44 (#TX2W)

I think Bond is who he was when you first watched. So Dalton will always seem like Bond to me. Not particular charismatic, not particularly athletic, not particularly good with the ladies. But the universe around him just gets bent to his will so effortlessly. No sweat. If I were designing a prototype secret agent, I'd want a guy like that. You wouldn't remember seeing him at a party. You wouldn't remember bumping into him. When scanning a room, you wouldn't consider him a threat.

Unfortunately, for all those reasons, people didn't like watching movies he was in. Ah well, a more realistic secret agent is too boring for movies I guess. And yeah, kind of goes against everything Bond is supposed to be.

Edit:

I kind of love the fact that he's in third place after my vote. Pipe dot, you get me.

Re: Another Dalton Fan! (Score: 4, Funny)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2015-11-17 23:55 (#TXRJ)

I like how super glue is in 2nd place. :)

Re: Another Dalton Fan! (Score: 1)

by fishybell@pipedot.org on 2016-01-28 20:52 (#12623)

Of course super glue is in the top; it's amazing. I use it to attach corals underwater because it a) will bond underwater, and b) the chemical reaction that sets the glue doesn't release any chemicals in to the water.

Re: Another Dalton Fan! (Score: 1)

by feedmeastraycat@pipedot.org on 2016-01-30 04:10 (#12ANT)

They should have added Uhu is an option, I use it far more frequently than cyanoacrylate. Mind you, neither will bond PE or PP, which is about as gluable as teflon.

Re: Another Dalton Fan! (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2016-01-30 13:20 (#12BK4)

If nothing sticks to teflon, how does teflon stick to the pan?

I like them all (Score: 2)

by computermachine@pipedot.org on 2015-11-21 11:18 (#V9W7)

There is no bond actor I dislike. They are all pretty good, I think. I voted Connery, though.

Re: I like them all (Score: 1)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-11-21 22:42 (#VB6T)

I thought Lazenby was awful, On Her Majesty's Secret Service was a very dull movie.
As for Connery, I find it difficult to like a James Bond who rapes women during the course of his adventures...

Re: I like them all (Score: 3, Insightful)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-11-22 10:03 (#VC0D)

As for Connery, I find it difficult to like a James Bond who rapes women during the course of his adventures...
We're too damn over-sensitized in this political-correctness charged environment, where everything from making sexist comments to being drunk is called a sex crime. We rightfully mock Saudi Arabia for it's lack of women's rights, but fail to recognize the west has gone ridiculously far in the opposite direction.

In Bond's case, using a bit of force to just KISS a woman is certainly NOT rape... though it might qualify as some other sort of assault. James Bond doesn't exactly shy away from assault... in fact he murders people. Which one would you say is worse? This kind of depiction isn't limited to Sean Connery, at least Harrison Ford in Blade Runner had a similar scene, which was far less whimsical.

Over-classifying everything as rape is both unjust and will eventually have the opposite effect of de-stigmatizing and reducing punishments on actual, possibly violent, rapists, who will become indistinguishable from the large group of average people. You can see this as far back as the unfortunate term "statutory-rape", and has now happened with sex-offenders' registries, where folks completely ignore it, because they have become worthless through overuse.

Re: I like them all (Score: 1)

by wootery@pipedot.org on 2015-12-19 22:55 (#Y7PD)

Bond doesn't exactly shy away from assault... in fact he murders people. Which one would you say is worse?
Bond is a government agent. As far as I can recall, he's never killed someone out of mere personal dislike. He kills people, but I don't see that Bond is any more a murderer than is an honest soldier. (Ignoring little things like jurisdiction and international law, that is.)

His treatment of women, though, is strictly for personal enjoyment.

Re: I like them all (Score: 1)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-12-20 06:36 (#Y8CS)

His treatment of women, though, is strictly for personal enjoyment.
Unlikely. In just about every film, a Bond Girl is a crucial tool to help him accomplish his ("government agent") goals. In at least a few films, he gets tacit approval to pursue one woman or another.

Re: I like them all (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2016-03-31 08:24 (#18VEV)

As far as I can recall, he's never killed someone out of mere personal dislike.
I wouldn't be so sure about that: Licence to Kill was a vendetta, not working for the government.

Likewise, if I remember correctly, he's had his license to kill removed at other occasion(s?). That didn't stop him killing anyways. Granted, there were also some blurry cases of "you are officially fired but actually you keep working for us *wink*".

Missing option (Score: 1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-11-25 22:47 (#VRMZ)

Love

Re: Missing option (Score: 2, Funny)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2015-11-28 15:33 (#W10Z)

Meh. Ethyl Cyanoacrylate is better...

Re: Missing option (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-12-07 08:50 (#WWWS)

Just because your date is deflatable and punctures easily does mean l.. no.. wait.. mine is too :-(

Re: Missing option (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-12-07 08:51 (#WWWT)

Spoken like a true engineer

Hydrogen (Score: 2, Funny)

by venkman@pipedot.org on 2015-12-24 21:27 (#YPVW)

Hydrogen bonds for the win!

Best Bond (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2016-03-27 22:41 (#18FBV)

What about: Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, all the rest of the James Bonds from the old Casino Royale?

For that matter, what about the American actor in the first, unauthorized, version of Casino Royale?

For that matter, what about Bond of Bond On Birds of the Caribbean fame, the original?

Lol, oh my (Score: 2, Funny)

by genericuser@pipedot.org on 2016-07-22 18:24 (#1N5YY)

Connery and Moore, in that order. None of the others should ever be mentioned, even in passing.