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I did post it on here before though the video was blocked when I scrolled back through the thread. Sir Sean had cemented his Legacy and then some, I don't blame him from walking away from Hollywood.
It's very clear what damage The League of Extraordinary Gentleman has done. He had rows with the director and producers. It was a very troubled production.
What a horrible interviewer, by the way. She asks the same question four times.
Didn't know that. Thanks! Thats why Sean was in a good mood.
Thanks for bringing that video up! It’s a shame having to deal with incompetent executives/directors is what drove him away. He could have been extra selective of who he worked with in the 2000s, but by his 70s he probably thought it was a good time to cash in his chips. The only real active people his age are so few now like Clint Eastwood, who also turned 90 this year.
Also, a neat bit of trivia, I discovered on the This Day page that 2 other Bond series legends share an Aug. 25 birthday - title designer Maurice Binder (1925) and John Stears (1934). The stars were aligned on that date when it came to talent coming together to make the Bond series great.
He did do the ensemble Playing by Heart. Makes you wonder if he was more interested in a paycheck by that point anyway.
Yeah absolutely: if you were a millionaire several times over and you lived in the Bahamas, what would you do? Sit around on a set in Prague with a wig on and get angry with some young director?
I watched the Russia House for the first time last week: I realised I'd never actually seen it. Not one of his best, but again the score was absolutely outstanding.
Oh! For real? Wow! What a Score that would have been! Yeah, I would have also liked to hear a Goldsmith Bond score. He's so consistent and can score any genre. I like all of his scores, I don't skip a track when listening to them. Maybe he was just being modest by saying a Bond score suits a British Composer more, coz he knows he's so good and part of what is called the "Big Four'' of late 20th century film Composers. The other 3 are Henry Mancini, John Williams and John Barry himself!
1. The Untouchables
2. The Man Who Would be King
3. The Offence (easily his best performance)
4. The Rock
5. Entrapment
6. The Russia House
7. Outland
8. The Great Train Robbery
9. Robin and Marion
10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Other great films worth mentioning, where he only has a smaller role -
1. Highlander
2. Time Bandits
3. A Bridge Too Far
What a legend. The only man worth looking up to.
Aargh, that's a punch to the gut! :)
Indeed. And one of the few Michael Bay films with some positive reviews. Oh! And Zimmer's Score....Epic!
Connery gets to do it all in this film: action, tough guy, humor. About the only thing he doesn't get to do is kiss the girl, but that's okay. Rather than a forced romance with a former girlfriend or something, he gets time with his daughter and that makes up for that.
If you haven't seen it, Welcome to The Rock.
No Hunt For Red October?
Bay’s last good film before he went downhill. And Zimmer’s score was stirring, especially the opening credits with Ed Harris’s character laying flowers at the grave of his wife in the pouring rain. His speech gets me misty-eyed sometimes.
For me, it’s his "losers always whine about their best" and "I don’t quite see how you cherish the memory of the dead by killing another million." lines that are his best delivered.
Joe Dante is a fan too: