Sean Connery
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@antipodean said in Sean Connery:
@dogmeat said in Sean Connery:
@MN5 Going to go against all the Connery adulation.
Worst type of professional Jock. Happy to accept a gong and then whinge bitterly about everything and how hard done by Scotland was from one of his villas in the Caribbean or Southern Spain. Massive hypocrite, limited actor - ego the size of Canada, chip the size of Russia.
Unlike my good wife, I consider every Bond movie before Golden Eye to be dreadful, so Connery doesn't have that in his positive column. And no movie I've watched since was made better by his casting. To me he just seemed to be one of those legends where the myth gets bigger with the passing of time.
So you liked Goldeneye ? Good god....
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@MN5 said in Sean Connery:
@antipodean said in Sean Connery:
@dogmeat said in Sean Connery:
@MN5 Going to go against all the Connery adulation.
Worst type of professional Jock. Happy to accept a gong and then whinge bitterly about everything and how hard done by Scotland was from one of his villas in the Caribbean or Southern Spain. Massive hypocrite, limited actor - ego the size of Canada, chip the size of Russia.
Unlike my good wife, I consider every Bond movie before Golden Eye to be dreadful, so Connery doesn't have that in his positive column. And no movie I've watched since was made better by his casting. To me he just seemed to be one of those legends where the myth gets bigger with the passing of time.
So you liked Goldeneye ? Good god....
Wrong inference.
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@MN5 said in Sean Connery:
@antipodean said in Sean Connery:
@dogmeat said in Sean Connery:
@MN5 Going to go against all the Connery adulation.
Worst type of professional Jock. Happy to accept a gong and then whinge bitterly about everything and how hard done by Scotland was from one of his villas in the Caribbean or Southern Spain. Massive hypocrite, limited actor - ego the size of Canada, chip the size of Russia.
Unlike my good wife, I consider every Bond movie before Golden Eye to be dreadful, so Connery doesn't have that in his positive column. And no movie I've watched since was made better by his casting. To me he just seemed to be one of those legends where the myth gets bigger with the passing of time.
So you liked Goldeneye ? Good god....
WTF is wrong with Goldeneye - it's an actually good Bond film, better than any modern Bond film (all of Brosnan and Craigs), yes including Casino Royale which is the one genuinely awesome Craig bond.
But unlike @antipodean I really like Connery in lots of stuff - Hunt for the Red October (still find the complaints about the accent weird, all the Russian characters speak in their own accents anyway, you can even hear a bit of Sam Neil's kiwi twang), The Rock, The Untouchables, Highlander, The Presido etc.
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Gayer than Borat.
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@Nepia said in Sean Connery:
WTF is wrong with Goldeneye - it's an actually good Bond film, better than any modern Bond film (all of Brosnan and Craigs), yes including Casino Royale which is the one genuinely awesome Craig bond.
Absolutely. GoldenEye and Casino Royale (both directed by your homie Martin Campbell) are considered to be top tier Bond movies.
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@Bovidae said in Sean Connery:
@Nepia said in Sean Connery:
WTF is wrong with Goldeneye - it's an actually good Bond film, better than any modern Bond film (all of Brosnan and Craigs), yes including Casino Royale which is the one genuinely awesome Craig bond.
Absolutely. GoldenEye and Casino Royale (both directed by your homie Martin Campbell) are considered to be top tier Bond movies.
I never liked Brosnan as Bond. Casino Royale is outstanding though
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@MN5 said in Sean Connery:
@Bovidae said in Sean Connery:
@Nepia said in Sean Connery:
WTF is wrong with Goldeneye - it's an actually good Bond film, better than any modern Bond film (all of Brosnan and Craigs), yes including Casino Royale which is the one genuinely awesome Craig bond.
Absolutely. GoldenEye and Casino Royale (both directed by your homie Martin Campbell) are considered to be top tier Bond movies.
I never liked Brosnan as Bond. Casino Royale is outstanding though
Goldeneye - great movie, awesome video game.
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@antipodean My connery rule of thumb - If he's bald he makes an effort. If he has hair he's phoning it in.
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@dogmeat said in Sean Connery:
@antipodean My connery rule of thumb - If he's bald he makes an effort. If he has hair he's phoning it in.
Maybe it took him forty years to learn how to act.
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@MN5 said in Sean Connery:
@Bovidae said in Sean Connery:
@Nepia said in Sean Connery:
WTF is wrong with Goldeneye - it's an actually good Bond film, better than any modern Bond film (all of Brosnan and Craigs), yes including Casino Royale which is the one genuinely awesome Craig bond.
Absolutely. GoldenEye and Casino Royale (both directed by your homie Martin Campbell) are considered to be top tier Bond movies.
I never liked Brosnan as Bond. Casino Royale is outstanding though
Brosnan's Bond was more like the Roger Moore Bond (humorous, less brutal), Craig's Bond was definitely the most brutal Bond, especially in Casino Royale
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@canefan said in Sean Connery:
@MN5 said in Sean Connery:
@Bovidae said in Sean Connery:
@Nepia said in Sean Connery:
WTF is wrong with Goldeneye - it's an actually good Bond film, better than any modern Bond film (all of Brosnan and Craigs), yes including Casino Royale which is the one genuinely awesome Craig bond.
Absolutely. GoldenEye and Casino Royale (both directed by your homie Martin Campbell) are considered to be top tier Bond movies.
I never liked Brosnan as Bond. Casino Royale is outstanding though
Brosnan's Bond was more like the Roger Moore Bond (humorous, less brutal), Craig's Bond was definitely the most brutal Bond, especially in Casino Royale
Not sure about that, Sean as bond twice uses a woman as a human shield (one knocked unconscious, the other shot dead) that's pretty brutal
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@dogmeat said in Sean Connery:
@antipodean My connery rule of thumb - If he's bald he makes an effort. If he has hair he's phoning it in.
He was good in Hunt for Red October, pretty awesome rug in that.
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@dogmeat said in Sean Connery:
@antipodean My connery rule of thumb - If he's bald he makes an effort. If he has hair he's phoning it in.
So he phoned in one of the most iconic roles in cinema history ?
Interesting logic.
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Love that the great man now has his own thread. Good decision.
So many great stories out about Sean Connery . This is one about his beating up infamous US gangster Johnny Stompanto my favourite.
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@sparky said in Sean Connery:
Love that the great man now has his own thread. Good decision.
So many great stories out about Sean Connery . This is one about his beating up infamous US gangster Johnny Stompanto my favourite.
Lol, not that scary as a gangster "Stompanato, an LA Mobster, was later shot dead by a 14 year old girl"
