The Sean Connery Poll

I look forward to reading the comments of the revisionists who vote for the latterday scenery-chewers such as Entrapment and Rising Sun.

Marnie, duh.

would you describe his comatose expression in both those films as scenery chewing?

(I like "Rising Sun," by the way).

fuck i forgot about Marnie and i already used my vote

Where is "The Offence"? One of his best performances!

I think he sucks basically, so I went with Time Bandits for sentimental porpoises.

"Untouchables" just for the scene where he "interrogates" the corpse outside the cabin where they catch the bootleggers. Also "Outland" for creating believable romantic tension with Frances Sternhagen.

http://www.impawards.com/1973/posters/offence.jpg

Sword of the Valiant

Lord, this one. Connery and Miles O'Keefe, together at last!

would you describe his comatose expression in both those films as scenery chewing?
I can't remember what he looked like, but in my mind's ear he slathered on the Scottish brogue (Scottish burr?) pretty good.

He does that in every film he's ever been in

Connery and Miles O'Keefe, together at last!

"How much Keefe is in this movie? Miles O'Keefe!"

(</TomServo>)

last crusaed, just because.

"How much Keefe is in this movie? Miles O'Keefe!"

I was very tempted to post that.

I guess it's time for the "Do people still quote MST3K?" thread.

A given, in my case.

terrible actor in general - best movie on the list is probably Time Bandits, but Zardoz comes close for ulta-ramp classicness.

Where is "The Offence"? One of his best performances!

Ditto. My favorite aside from the Bonds, however, is The Man Who Would Be King.

My sources gave me an incomplete list. Where's Darby O'Gill and the Little People??

Oh yeah. Was Jack Wilde in that one?

Or Kim Darby?

OUTLAND

insanely dope movie imo

yeah Outland is sweet

I guess not on Jack Wild. But customers who bought Darby O'Gill also bought Flight Of The Doves.

For fuck's sake people The Man Who Would Be King!

Anderson Tapes for #2

I've seen 37 of the movies on this list.

lol Family Business.

Does anyone remember SCTV's The Man Who Would Be King Of The Popes?

Yeah I'm a avowed ZARDOZ guy.

Though Highlander and Time Bandits could tie with it...

The Man Who Would Be King ftw.

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Man Who Would be King.

sentimental vote for robin and marian, which i loved when i was a kid and in my robin-hood-obsessive phase. i haven't seen it since, i'd like to think it's actually good but i don't know for sure.

"The Man Who Would Be King", easily.

The Last Crusade, though The Man Who Would Be King is quite nice too.

I was just about to say exactly that, so, uh, Tuomas OTM.

ack! I am expected to choose just ONE picture from the actor I would most like to f****?? this is SO bloody unfair. I think he is the most sexy handsome man (still) although he is older than god now, I would still eff him in a heartbeat. I ticked Marnie for my vote, although there are so many films I find awesome: man who would be king, goldfinger, a slew of others. I don't think he's a bad actor, I think he has been limited in his roles. But who cares anyway, he is handsome and sexy and even as an old guy, he is super sexy!

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A poll result I agree with completely

How'd Diamonds are Forever get so many votes? He was kinda terrible in that, I recall — defintely past his prime as Bond, where he peaked around Goldfinger/Thunderball IMO.

Very satisfactory results otherwise, though!

sadistic and old Bond is fine with me! even better in Never Say Never Again!

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/03/27/article-0-1C9D94E300000578-593_634x859.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK8p7rBMAWE

would anyone encourage me to see him in Five Days One Summer, Fred Zinnemann's last film, tonight?

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/late-fred-zinnemann

Sean Connery, Oscar Winner and James Bond Star, Dies at 90 https://t.co/qqd1fJaoUx

— Variety (@Variety) October 31, 2020

What a shitty set of poll results

anyone else seen any of Sir Billi?
dear Lord...

(xp) The toupee is GLUED ON

He had that odd thing called star quality, where it didn't matter so much about his acting, he could command your attention just by being onscreen. I know nothing about him as a real person, but RIP.

Feel like I need to see The Offence. I own Outland on Blu-Ray; his work in it is very good, but it's more important IMO as a great example of working-class SF, not unlike Alien.

RIP

Alfred otm about how he never did anything big, he just behaved. True to his Bond character; came to the screen fully formed. And really it’s all about the posture & the micro-expressions and/or reactions.

As pure a Movie Star as any that existed during my lifetime. RIP.

I really need to finally see The Man Who Would Be King.

It's a classic

Alfred’s take is worth a read:

https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/sean-connery-rip/

lol Tom

the 24-hour Bond channel on Pluto happens to be running Dr No and From Russia With Love b2b this morning/afternoon, which is a happy confluence

https://vintagenewsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/sean-connery-mr-universe.jpg

Before Connery broke through as an actor, he was a bodybuilder.

Not in the poll: Hell Drivers (1957), in which he supports leading man Stanley Baker. I still can't quite believe Baker was shortlisted alongside Connery to play Bond.

That is not something I was expecting

Two for the 'too low' box:

1993 Rising Sun
1986 Highlander

i threw on From Russia w Love bluray, def my favorite Connery

Don't remember much about FRWL — saw it as a kid with my dad — but the fight with Robert Shaw in the train car was great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmTs5bF0-mQ

So at least two of his best movies never made the poll

From Russia With Love is my fave Connery Bond. No frills, economical + weird gypsy girlfight, train fight, shoe daggers, Robert Shaw, what more could you need.

It's between that one and You Only Live Twice for ne

otm! i love You Only Live Twice as well!!

Pluto appears to have switched their randomiser off btw - Goldfinger just started

frwl is top tier bond, makes dr. no look boring

you only live twice a little too racist for me but pleasence as blofeld is perf

diamonds are forever getting two votes here: real baffling

i think i'm just regurgitating bond opinions i've already ruined other parts of the board with

no your take is 100% correct

diamonds are forever getting two votes here: real baffling

Unless the votes were based on it being a creepy-ass horror movie.

it blows, deserves 0 votes

Great stuff in Diamonds: creepy gay couple murder team #representationmatters. High speed car chase in Vegas where Bond drives on two wheels. Lovely photography of low-rise Vegas generally. Cool camera move where the viewer rushes Bond as a henchman coshes him from behind. One of cinema's silliest Howard Hughses. Banger theme and title sequence. Elevator fight is a rare good hand-to-hand in Bond canon, maybe?

Bad movie though, yeah.

#representationmatters

generally a v queer-villain-friendly movie, with Blofeld in drag and the probably-also-a-couple silent female karate swimsuit bodyguards in Howard Hughes' bolthole.

Highlander was shafted. He was great in that. Happy to see Zardoz get at least 1 vote. Never saw The Man Who Would Be King. Looks like that might be a fun tribute viewing

He was great in Highlander. And Zardoz is pretty dope

lol I went to cinema to watch Highlander as kid and it was what passed for pure cinema on a grey rainy night back then and had a cracking soundtrack! Zardoz is simply one of the greatest, surprised they never made some terrible 90's reboot like they did with another peak Boorman classic.

surprised they never made some terrible 90's reboot like they did with another peak Boorman classic

Took me a minute to realize you were talking about the Mel Gibson remake of Point Blank; was casting my memory back to see if I'd forgotten about some awful nu-Deliverance with the cast of Dawson's Creek or something.

The Anderson Tapes is a trial run of Dog Day Afternoon with some fun vintage high-tech gadgets. I enjoyed it.

Granted he was in an ensemble rather than the lead but forever a soft spot for Murder on the Orient Express, even though Alfred doesn’t like it because he is Wrong and Bad.

ramirez was an effete snob
he died on his knees

great thread here:

This is a Sean Connery story. 2004. Before @davidlevien and I wrote Ocean's Thirteen. Long before Billions. We had a VERY modest office--a tiny studio apartment off second avenue in Manhattan.

— Brian Koppelman (@briankoppelman) November 1, 2020

holy fuck at the pics of jacked Connery

Watching The Great Train Robbery in memoriam tonight; no actor has ever been more suited for 1855 hair fashion than Donald Sutherland.

1997 BBC program where Connery watches & discusses scenes from his career in interviewer Mark Cousins" flat:

https://youtu.be/-8xHuUi5Peo

Vegemite, what a thread!

No mention of "The Hill" in this thread? My muscles ache just thinking about it.

I imagine this doc is floating out there. Seem to recall reading a more extensive piece on this at the time. (The Sean Connery Golf Project)

https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2003-02-14/145376/

even tho i have seen DAF (and all bond films, which is how i know they're all bad) i misread sic's description of bambi and thumper as the "silent female karate swimsuit bodyguards in Howard Hughes' butthole" and my heart leapt briefly

I thought he was great in Name of the Rose, but not as great as the brief flash of young Christian Slater's hot monk-on-peasant sex barn sex scene.

Still, Connery did a great job in it.

the fraud director in the Brian Koppelman story was...... Brett Ratner.

https://www.showbiz411.com/2020/10/31/sean-connery-remembered-james-bond-star-turned-down-17-5-mil-to-play-monument-man-role-for-director-brett-ratner

Haha fucking would be that guy.

Weird to say that it wasn’t until the news broke that I remembered that he was in Name of the Rose and that I saw it in the theater with my mom, and we were so busy comparing notes and things during the movie that we were shushed by others. (I mean, we liked the movie well enough, we just had a lot of thoughts about it!)

Granted he was in an ensemble rather than the lead but forever a soft spot for Murder on the Orient Express, even though Alfred doesn’t like it because he is Wrong and Bad.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, October 31, 2020 1

He brings a welcome dignity, like a well-dressed and behaved mourner praying over a putrefying corpse.

at the london press-screening for name of the rose, when i fled at the end of the Q&A to pee, who shd be there never-to-be-forgotten in the next urinal stall but…

the film doesn't live up to this um how you say brush with stardom

Are you saying that Christian Slater was wearing a prosthetic in that scene?

Well Sean was a regular user of strap-ons as well!

Shopping Centres of Scotland: Sean Connery opens The Piazza in Paisley. (1970) pic.twitter.com/P45HRU34kQ

— PictureThis Scotland (@74frankfurt) November 1, 2020