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Sean Connery, RIP

Sean Connery dead: James Bond actor dies aged 90.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...-dies-aged-90/

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I can't wait for this year to do one.
Seriously.

Oh crap, didn't even realize he was that old.

RIP

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Originally Posted by The Rodent (Post 2136656)

I can't wait for this year to do one.
Seriously.

**** 2020, **** It!

RIP Sean you legend.

Might watch my favourite Bond, You Only Live Twice followed by Highlander tonight!

RIP.
Absolute legend.

RIP. Truly was a better actor then I sometimes feel he got recognition for.

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Rest in Peace.

I had a weird respect for him for actually retiring, since so many actors seem to just act up until the really end, but he really did walk away from it one day. I admire that, and I admired his work.

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Ha, just saw this:

https://twitter.com/BrianStack153/st...29223068798977

Related, we did a podcast about that movie with Holden and it's a lot of fun, lotta great trivia: https://www.movieforums.com/communit...73#post1762573

Man, gonna miss this dude. Gonna listen to that episode again right now to reminisce a bit. :(

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OMG, 2020 has been the worst year EVER...I have to confess that I have never been big on James Bond, but I do remember seeing Goldfinger when I was a kid and being mesmerized by the urbane sophistication and sexiness of this guy Sean Connery. They broke the mold when they made this guy. That voice, those eyes...I wasn't big on Bond but I did see a healthy chunk of his work...Murder on the Orient Express, A Fine Madness, The Anderson Tapes, his Oscar-winning performance in The Untouchables, The Molly Maguires...he was the best thing about Hitchcock's Marnie and he and Audrey Hepburn were magical in Robin and Marian. I even saw Darby O'Gill and the Little People. He was also the perfect choice for the voice of the dragon in Dragonheart. My last exposure to him was 1998's Playing by Heart where he played Gena Rowlands' dying husband. This was an actor who never phoned it in and improved a movie just by being in it. RIP, Mr. Bond, I'm sure your shaken not stirred martini is waiting for you.

At first I was sad that an era had passed and a man I truly admired was dead.

But then I remembered a quote from an excellent television show.

“****, 33.Too soon.No, dying in your thirties is "tragic."*As is forties.*Sympathy dissipates from there.*Fifties is "such a shame."*Sixties is "too soon."*Seventies... "a good run."*And eighties is "a life well lived."*Nineties...*That's a ****in' hell of a ride.”

Aww man...cheers 007...

Two films hardly anyone talks of that he was good in were Marnie and The Molly Maguires.

He has had so many great roles.

I always seem to think of him in this one:

Farewell Sean.

https://youtu.be/PpLVfUidxKA
His oscar speech. Short, funny, and sweet

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Great thread here from a screenwriter on his experience with Connery, click through for the whole thing:

https://twitter.com/briankoppelman/s...18329581244417

While he was best known as James Bond, I loved him in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Time Bandits, as the voice of the dragon in DragonHeart, and his cameo appearance in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

R.I.P. :(

Loved him in everything I saw him in (well, there were one or two I give a pass to), and man, besides being a fine actor, he was a STAR---he just exuded presence and star power, whether he wanted adulation or not. If I were to pick just one performance that I loved of his besides Bond, it would be in The Man Who Would Be King. Just thinking about him in that gives me goosebumps, and a smile for how terrific he was. Here are a couple of videos of when he received the AFI Lifetime Achievement award, first from fan Mike Myers to lighten things up, then Connery himself, who was funny also, without even trying hard.
Godspeed, Sir Sean!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQYp8xJ4kpo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Z1BXALdwI

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RIP, a fine actor who made many memorable films.

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my favorite movie of him is entrapment
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rip sean connery
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Nice man. Good actor. R.I.P. 🙏✝️

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Holden, I like Sean Connery, and a consequence of Connery's death is that I reviewed his filmography, and I learned that I haven't seen most of his movies. I've seen the Bond movies, his Indiana Jones movie, "The Untouchables," and most of the popular movies that he did from the 1990's until he retired, but I haven't seen his other movies. Since you know so much about movies and seem to be a Connery fan, I'd like to know your top 10 best Connery films/performances. I'll start watching them! Thanks for your guidance.

Originally Posted by AKA23 (Post 2138908)

Hey there, Pal! Sure.

For me The Hill (1965) is his best performance, and a darn good flick. It is the first of his five collaborations with director Sidney Lumet, set in an African World War II British Army military prison. My favorite Connery movie period is John Huston's adaptation of Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King (1975) where Connery and Michael Caine are perfectly cast as two soldiers of fortune who bite off more than they can chew. Connery did a lot of great work in the 1970s, lots of facial hair, lots of period pieces, but audiences at large seemed to be slow to accept him as something other than 007 until he aged into those older roles in the '80s and beyond. The Molly Maguires (1970) is an excellent historically-based piece about Irish-American Pennsylvania coal miners in the 19th Century co-starring Richard Harris. The 1800s is also the setting for Michael Crichton's gritty and fun The Great Train Robbery (1978) co-starring Donald Sutherland. Dick Lester's Robin & Marian (1976) is set even further back, though past the point of other cinematic tales of Robin of Locksley, finding Connery and Audrey Hepburn as the title characters a couple decades after the story that is usually told and ultimately clashing again with Robert Shaw's Sheriff of Nottingham.

Set just in the first few years of the 20th Century is John Milius' The Wind and the Lion (1975), a loose riff on a real incident, here it is Connery's Moroccan sharif who kidnaps an American (Candy Bergen) and interests President Teddy Roosevelt (Brian Keith). The ludicrous ethnic miscasting of Connery aside - something that would never happen in this day and age - when you get past that and the other tweaks of history it is a rousing Kiplingesque adventure and Sean is charming as ever. Going from the past into the future, Outland (1981) is sort of High Noon meets Alien finding Connery's marshall of a moonbase mining operation above Jupiter who must almost single-handedly take on some baddies, with a wonderful supporting turn by Frances Sternhagen. Not as action-filled as today's audience might want, it's a good B-movie.

All of the other Lumet films are worth seeing. The most famous is being aboard the all-star Murder on the Orient Express (1974) as one of the myriad suspects, of course. Lesser known are the funky, paranoid heist flick The Anderson Tapes (1971) featuring a young Christopher Walken, the tense back-and-forth British cop interrogation drama of The Offence (1973), and then the least of them - though still enjoyable, especially for Connery - is Family Business (1989) where after being ethnically miscast so often in his career it is not Connery but Dustin Hoffman who is the head-scratcher here, playing his son, with Matthew Broderick his grandson. The third act builds to a big fat nothing, but Connery has some fun, strong moments.

I'd recommend working one's way through those. Happy viewing!

Thanks buddy. I have only seen one of these movies, "The Great Train Robbery," and I liked that. This is a great list!

I second The Molly Maguires. Such an underrated film

Not to sound entirely insensitive here, (because the man had a great run and as we all know he was a legend), but I'm so glad he didn't meet his end with that "knife-shoe" at the end of From Russia with Love... that would have been very... what's the word I'm looking for... not "unfortunate"... ah, yes... "anti-climatic."

Originally Posted by MarthaAustin (Post 2178908)

Legend of course. Everyone should know.

everyone knows his a legend

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Originally Posted by xSookieStackhouse (Post 2136957)

my favorite movie of him is entrapment
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rip sean connery
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Entrapment bored the hell out of me and he had zero chemistry with Catherine Zeta Jones

Originally Posted by Gideon58 (Post 2180831)

Entrapment bored the hell out of me and he had zero chemistry with Catherine Zeta Jones

people have their own opinions and i respect that

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Just updating this thread. I have seen many of the Connery movies Holden recommended and thought they were a great way to learn more about him as an actor and to appreciate the diversity of roles he has played throughout his career. Thanks Holden! @holdenpike