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Well, not if you're going to cut and paste out of context there isn't, no.
excuse me i'm 32 and i think Craig is the best bond simply cause he's given Bond back his coolness and suave that he lost with Bronson and Moore plus Casino royale and Skyfall and even QOS rival anything Connery done. Sean deserves the praise for his First three Bond films which are classics and he's the blueprint , he deserves out the ying yang but he's not perfect he has a stinker or two in his Bond canon.
Ever see Marnie? Connery was okay in it...
Ever see A Fine Madness? Connery shined.
My point is that roles close to who Connery was were what he made into gold back then. And bizarrely, Bond was in many ways, close to Connery. THAT is inspired casting- seeing the diamond in the clay. Whilst Dalton is my favourite, and I prefer Brosnan's three to many of Connery's, really, Connery was incredible at what he did, and I agree with his sentiments that he should have been in as a partner seeing how ESSENTIAL his talents were in launching & flying the franchise.
To me, TB is pure magic mainly because of Sir Sean. Slow as it can be in spots, it's absolutely mesmerizing. I'm hard tasked to find 4 other Bond movies that can stand next to it by that reckoning.
I have no response to this.
How do you think I feel?!?!?! :O
Sean Connery can never be described as a great actor, he may be a great "star" but a great actor...never. He made his name as Bond and lived off of that for the rest of his career.
Well, that surely explains his 1987 Oscar and all the great performances he's had over the years. It took him awhile to move past Bond, but many fans identify with other things past Bond such as his Oscar winning role and his appearances as Indiana Jones' father, just to name a few, when you ask them.
That's a joke. Sean is brilliant in everything, not just Bond. Even if the film is horrible that he is in, he is the best thing about it and makes it a must watch just because he is in it. He improves every film he is in by 100%.
Oh, come now, his portrayal of the Egyptian/Spaniard/Scotsman in Highlander was rivalling Olivier in Hamlet.......oh wait, that was rubbish too......
Can't really argue with that Ellipsis.
There's a huge difference between movie star and actor.
I would say the only two films in which Sean inhabits the part and is not just playing Sean Connery are The Hill and The Offence.
Dalton and Craig are far better actors than Sean but he beats them for sheer star power.
So convincing as he announces, in a broad Edinburgh accent: "I am Juan Sánchez Villalobos Ramírez, Chief metallurgist to King Charles V of Spain. And I'm at your service."
:))
Don't get me wrong, I love that movie. Just as much as I love Sam Jones' Flash Gordon, because it's so bad it's brilliant!
Stop. I get chills!!! He was being awesome icing on an awesome cake. One of his best roles, along with that of Henry Jones.
I see Connery's Oscar win for The Untouchables as pure snobbery--the Academy should have given him an Oscar for Bond (his defining role, and perhaps the defining character of the '60s) but they'd never award a Bond movie with an acting Oscar.
Craig and definitely Dalton have never done anything outside Bond to rival Sean's non-Bond achievements. Practically every film Craig stars in (as opposed to being part of an ensemble) disappoints at the box office. As noted above, he lacks the star power. He is a decent actor and a good Bond, but I find myself coughing into my cerials every time I read how Craig has now superceded Connery as the best. Hilarious. Not quite as funny as when they were saying it about Brosnan, but hilarious all the same.
Yep.
I suppose to be fair he should be given the 13 years or whatever it was that Connery had before he did The Untouchables after DAF.
That said, Connery was doing stuff like The Hill way back, which IMHO wipes the floor with anything Craig has done.
If I'm entirely honest, after Connery, Brosnan is the actor I've enjoyed most outside of Bond. I hated him as 007, but he's given some entertaining performances in other stuff.
Craig is kind of dull to watch for me. He's a bit one note. Don't get me wrong, he's not bad, just not as amazing as people make out.
Connery, Craig and Brosnan have all worked with distinguished film directors away from Bond. Connery with Hitchcock, John Huston and Brian De Palma, Craig with David Fincher and Brosnan with Roman Polanski
Sadly it seems that Dalton has not judging by his imdb page.
I've actually just read on Wikipedia that Dalts was going to appear in Polanski's film Pirates but was replaced because the two didn't get on - interesting!
The only films where I really feel he was embodying the part were The Hill, The Offence and The Name of the Rose.
I largely think his good but nothing special by his standards performance in The Untouchables was rewarded with an Oscar because they realised they should've given it him for Name Of The Rose. If Untouchables was Oscar worthy then so are Red October, Indy and the Rock as all four are just prime examples of him playing Sean Connery.
Yep :p
I must admit sometimes even as Bond I thought "ooo, Sean Connery"
The RP accent so strong in DN seems to vanish forever halfway through TB.
Be fair his Spanish/Irish/Russian accents are spot in though. Or there's always that other classic - hastily rewrite the character to include a clunky reference to him being from Scotland.
I've always wondered why Sean and Michael Caine are always allowed to get away with this. If I'm paying the kind of fee they command I expect them to have a vague stab at an accent at least.
Yeah, accents (or lack there of) can ruin things. I love Dan to pieces, but his English accent in the Swedish set Dragon Tattoo (where he is supposed to be Swedish as well) just throws me off a bit.
I think Dan's American accent in Cowboys and Aliens in C&A is a bit dodgy too
Other real accents include Dalton's occasional Coronation Street voice in LTK and Brosnan's occasional American twang.
Also, didn't Craig get a bit of flack for his accent in Munich?
'Things were about to get nasty!' Brilliant