re: UPDATE II| OP: A few questions for James Bond fans

1) Are they all good?

No. After the early Roger Moore films they got extremely campy. Additionally, A View to a Kill is a remake of Goldfinger and Roger Moore was way too long in the tooth at that point. Consider this; Roger Moore was three years OLDER than Sean Connery. All of the Connery films are very good, but when he returned for Diamonds Are Forever, it was obvious that he had already been out of the role for the previous movie - On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Connery actually looked better in the unofficial Never Say Never Again.

2) Is it worth the time to watch them all, or should I start out with a certain actor or decade first?

Go in order. They are worth a watch from the standpoint that they are time capsules of what was going on and the evolution, or de-evolution of the character.

3) Who's your favorite James Bond and why?
Connery because he was born for the role and had so much of Fleming's material to work with. Pierce is second for me, just because I was a Remington Steele fan and thought he was born for the role as well. Dalton was the brooding Bond that Fleming wrote, and the world was not ready for him after Roger Moore. Daniel Craig had the luxury of coming into the franchise when everyone seemed ready for more grit. He's good at it, and while I enjoy his acting, I really have a difficult time with the fact that he is not what I would consider suave or even really good looking.