Here's a scene that would never be done today (explanation in comments)
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There's a second bit of context to this film:
This, The living daylights and Licence to Kill are the only two Bond films with Timothy Dalton. When he came in it was the tail end of the cold War so they didn't want to paint it as 'those evil Soviets' as the villains and they didn't have an evil organisation like Spectre to fall back on. So both of these films played more into the narrative of the war on drugs with this one being the opium trade and the film after being about South American cartels.
Timothy Dalton also gets a under-appreciated as he plays Bond more like an assassin like in the books and I do like his more cold take on bond which is why I rate him third in my list of Bonds.
He's my favorite bond actually. He's the coolest in my opinion. Pierce Brosnan plays a pretty good Bond, but I don't think his movies are very good.
For me it goes Dalton as number 1, Roger Moore as number 2, Pierce Brosnan and Sean Connery are pretty much tied for me as number 3
That guy who only had one movie, which I've only seen once and don't really remember is by default number 4
and Daniel Craig sucks, so number 5.
I really dislike Daniel Craig as "Bond". Think of a scene with Daniel Craig's Bond. Is he scowling or looking mopey....Gonna guess that when you thought of his Bond that's the image that conjured up.
About the one thing Bond should never be is mopey looking, and that's what they went with Daniel Craig's "Bond" and his default face throughout all his movies. There's nothing suave or cool about Daniel Craig's Bond.
I go Sean Connery number 1, just hit it running with Dr No onwards, then Pierce Brosnan THEN Timothy Dalton.
The reason I go that order is Pierce even though he started string with Goldeneye got shafted HARD with the writing. Timothy got shafted with the TIME his films were released.
If Pierce got more serious scripts like Timothy's run or even Daniel Craig's run, I think his charisma in how he played Bond just NARROWLY would put him ahead but it'd be a near tie 2nd place for them both. Then Rodger Moore as I just didn't like as much how he played the 'gentlemanly' Bond , then George Lazenby and finally Daniel Craig.
Same reasons here tbh. Connery is just, well, Bond. Both Brosnan and Dalton were ones I liked while similar to your reasons Moore just didn't really "fit" what I expected of the character. Lazenby is... probably best left forgotten. Craig was just too much action hero for what was meant to be a spy/assassin.