The 55 greatest James Bond one-line quips…
As much as I've enjoyed some of the films since Sean Connery departed, I've never really "bought" anyone else in the role…and I don't think it's just because he was the first Bond I knew. I think he was just the best (or maybe I should say "most perfectly cast") actor in the part.
This collection shows a little of why I feel that way. Those 007 one-liners are often incongruous, coming at a moment when all his attention ought to be on saving his ass and/or the world, not on being funny. Connery always made them feel natural anyway. The others usually (not always) made them feel like lines someone had scripted.
Some of that may be because they were inserted at more appropriate moments in the Connery films…and I wonder if that was because he refused to do them where he didn't feel they'd fit. But for instance, there's one in this montage where Roger Moore is dangling from a building about to plunge to his death and his witticism just feels so scripted and wrong. But maybe I'm alone in this viewpoint. It wouldn't be the first time.