He seemed like a classy guy. He made the decision to stop playing Bond because he said the leading ladies were young enough to be his granddaughter, and "it was disgusting."
Connery's Bond was also awfully sexists and misogynistic. It's incredibly cringe trying to watch certain scenes of that era. Some are rape fantasies through and thru.
The first book is interesting... it has the typical Bond setup... here's your mission, your exotic location, and your beautiful assistant... and Bond goes:
"A woman? What are you sending a woman for, she'll only get in the way."
If you liked this, you need to see Roger Moore's performance in Cannonball Run. Lolol, he plays a rich boy who is pretending to be a spy/actor named Roger Moore, it's beautiful and fits well with this story.
License to Kill was a bit before its time. Bourne before Bourne was a thing. I think people still wanted the campy Moore era and just weren't ready for that.
Casino Royale aped the Bourne thing later and was a smash hit.
He was much better as a supermarché owner in any case.
I don’t think Lazenby gets enough credit but yeah I’d agree. Dalton is also the best actor outside of Bond, Connery probably has more credits but he’s not a time lord.
The Roger Moore films are extremely corny and campy even by Bond standards - which is saying something! I've got a bit of a soft spot for them though. All the Jaws plotlines probably resonated with me as a freakishly tall person.
Not FYEO. It was intentionally written to ground Bond in reality after the absurdity that was Moonraker. He has one gadget, the Lotus, which gets blown up immediately, leading us into the iconic 2CV car chase. Even has Moore, well aware of the age gap between actors, blowing off the advances of the much younger Lynn-Holly Johnson by offering to instead buy her an ice cream. Great action sequences throughout, and one of the most kick ass Bond girls in Carole Bouquet.
I've got a friend who thinks Pierce Brosnan is the best one because he was "our generation's Bond". Both born 92/93 so Goldeneye, et al. were a sensation for us at the time.
Personally I like Sean Connery but that's an unoriginal opinion. I enjoyed the story about the casting producer who wanted him for the role immediately because he "walked like a panther". What a departure from being a milkman in Edinburgh!