Dalton may have been a little humorless, but I feel things more with him than Moore or Brosnan. This is what I love about the way Dalton (and Craig) play Bond he's a more real, more vulnerable character.
That was Fleming's Bond – a man who drank to diminish the poison in his system, the poison of a violent world with impossible demands. 'Unlike Moore, who always seems to be in command, Dalton's Bond sometimes looks like a candidate for the psychiatrist's couch – a burned-out killer who may have just enough energy left for one final mission. Or, even more oddly, sometimes it doesnt even come up as Daniel Craigs best movie. It was just way more realistic than the typical movie chase/fight and it makes me feel more like Im watching those characters in a real struggle. What I do not understand is that some people do not even include it in their top 5. From Dalton's Wikipedia page, a quote from Steven Jay Rubin from The Complete James Bond Movie Encyclopaedia (1995): Nevertheless, I think Casino Royale is the best movie, but I totally understand that it is not everyones favorite. No mention of Timothy Dalton? Seems like many people don't like him, but his Bond is so much more in the vein of the current Bond - I think he was before his time (and his films aren't 'fun' in the way that even Craig's films are), but License to Kill and The Living Daylights are two of my favorite Bond films.
