Technically I grew up with Dalton, but when I was small Connery and Moore were pretty much both Bond (I don't know if I ever saw OHMSS with Lazenby).
Octopussy was one of the first movies I can remember actually, we had it on VHS (I called it "Mister Pussy," I was a smart kid
).
In hindsight, I'd trade a few of Roger's extensive run for more Dalton. The latter was actually offered the role after
Diamonds, turning it down feeling he was too young, and then he famously flew the coop after that early 90s clusterfuck with Eon/MGM etc - shame, as I thought TLD was a decent first outing, and while the first half of LTK is utter shite (entirely due to a script and shoots reminiscent of a random TNT original movie), the South American-set latter has some good Renegade Bond action. Just ignore the canonical Achilles heel of Felix getting mauled by a shark, again, with a note saying
"He disagreed with something that ate him," again.
Ah jeez. Bond canon, Godfather canon, who cares after the OG author carked it eh.
Funny thing about Roger, he may be the campiest and chummiest Bond by miles, a true English gent - but at the same time he's the most massive shagger and brutal killer of the entire set.
Shooting Stromberg square in the dick before blowing his brains out,
FYEO's
car kick, even performing the formidable task of cucking Christopher Walken - can you imagine keeping your rod with that creepy fuck staring at you and jacking it?
He famously disliked the violence of his later run, it should be said, particularly VTK's Walkenriffic employee massacre, but I think it gives his films a certain odd edge; like Simon Templar finding himself in a world of 70s quasi-sploitation.
How I wish Connery had starred in Golden Gun, though. Moore comes off like a cross schoolmaster, scolding the formidable Christopher Lee - doesn't really convey the sense of two apex shaggers and master killers facing off. Speaking of Lee, god damn. I'd have gone with him over Lazenby Moore and Brosnan combined.
"That's the problem." "There's no problem." Dracula man steals film
My absolute #1 favourite Roger Bond thing ever. 
Ultimately the only Bond films I'd be compelled to put on a desert island spy thriller list are Dr. No (hometown favourite, also Ursula Andress
), From Russia With Love (the earthiest of Connery's run with some nice low-fi intensity, like that brutal traincar scrap) and Goldfinger, which is about as blockbusty as I want my Bonds to get. I'll happily watch lots of the others, but I think it's universal that each Bond dropped off significantly as their run went on, with the obvious exception of Lazenby.
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Special mention to the glorious Foley - punches, body falls, and gunshots exude classic cucumber-crunching 80s brawn. Serve fuckin loud.
