ROGER MOORE?!?!?!
Excuse me, but he was the smarmiest, camera mugging ,polyester wearing doofus ever to land the role... and in the longest run of LEAST entertaining double entrendre laden, over the top FXapaloozas in the series.
What Made Connery in the role was the sense of menace he was able to portray in his early bond films.... you could believe Connery, in Doctor No, as a killer.
Moore? He didn't look nor act like he could empty a moustrap, much less kill a person in cold blood.
Daniel Craig is a fantastic Bond, simply because he is able to evoke a similar sense of menace- and also because he is not traditionally a "pretty boy".
And- Altho I have not seen the newest effort- I have to say that Casino Royale was one of the best Bond films ever... because of a NEW direction, away from over the top effects, and away from smarmy sexual innuendo- and into a more brutal and gritty sense of what it means to be an assassin.
The fight in the stairwell in Royale was one of the best Bond sequences ever filmed. It did not need lavish silliness, nor cinematic "tricks, nor over the top impossible stunts...
The desperation and danger and sheer effort required to kill someone trying to kill you was pretty effectively portrayed without all those distractions.
I am seriously hoping that the new course of films will stay well away from the ridiculous effects sequences, the idiotic focus on 'gadgets' and sex jokes- and instead maintain the focus on the darkness inherent in any character whose job it is to kill other people.