{"id":279203,"date":"2025-11-23T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/279203\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T16:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:39:08","slug":"who-was-the-best-james-bond-007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/279203\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was the best James Bond 007?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks Thanksgiving, officially kicking off the holiday season. All of us have our unique holiday traditions, but to me, one of my favourites is watching a whole bunch of James Bond movies. I\u2019ve always associated the holiday season with this franchise despite only one 007 movie, On Her Majesty\u2019s Secret Service, actually being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/best-christmas-action-movies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set during the holiday season<\/a>. It\u2019s probably due to the fact that I saw my first James Bond movie, Thunderball, on New Year\u2019s Eve 1989-1990, when I was eight years old. Throughout my childhood, the Bond movies were often marathoned around the holidays. It also didn\u2019t hurt that from Goldeneye on, the 007 movies always got released in November, with the exception of Tomorrow Never Dies (December) and No Time to Die (October).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, I posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/james-bond-actors-ranked\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my definitive rankings of the James Bond actors<\/a>, and it generated a lot of comments. My pick for the best 007 of all time is Sean Connery, but a lot of folks think Daniel Craig deserves the top spot. I guess it all depends on who you grew up with, although technically my generation\u2019s James Bond was Pierce Brosnan, who I respect as an actor even if I think he had the worst run of 007 movies (of them all \u2013 Goldeneye was the only amazing one).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a result, I figured this week\u2019s poll would be a good time to open up the conversation to all of our readers. Who do YOU think is the best James Bond? Take the poll and then, in the comments, let us know why you think your choice is the best Bond. I\u2019m looking forward to hearing from all of you, as the best 007 is one of the most divisive topics in all of fandom. Let\u2019s have at it!<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/wp-content\/themes\/face3-joblo\/assets\/images\/joblo-logo-icon-2025.svg\" alt=\"JoBlo logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n        Subscribe to our weekly newsletter\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-signup-text\">\n            Get the latest movie and TV news, first looks, reviews, and interviews, straight from the JoBlo crew to your inbox.        <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week marks Thanksgiving, officially kicking off the holiday season. All of us have our unique holiday traditions,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,5453,114300,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-279203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-james-bond","10":"tag-james-bond-007","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}