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pres2032 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 04:45 PM
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Poll question: favorite Sean Connery Movie
Edited on Fri Feb-18-05 04:46 PM by pres2032
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 04:47 PM
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1. Goldfinger
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TheCentepedeShoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 06:47 PM
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27. Voted for Goldfinger, too
think that was the first SC movie I saw (?) Like everything, though, including "Marnie."
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NewHampshireDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 04:48 PM
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2. No 'The Untouchables'?!?!
I'll never forget the standing ovation he got at the Academy Awards that year!
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loudestchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 04:53 PM
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8. Loved that film...despite an abiding dislike of Costner.
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pres2032 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 04:55 PM
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11. had it, but replaced it with a bond movie
thought those would get the bigger responce. sorry!
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Osamasux Donating Member (846 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 06:16 PM
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20. The Untouchables.

Great acting job. Great lines, delivered perfectly.

"Thus endeth the lesson."

"You carry a badge? Carry a gun."

"How do you think he feels now?"
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 06:17 PM
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21. "What'sh yer reel name, bafore ya changed it?"
Hard to write in Scottish brogue. Even though he was playing an Irishman in "The Untouchables." :)
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4_Legs_Good Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 06:18 PM
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22. I agree, Untouchables is the best, IMO
And Andy Garcia rocked!! And Robert DeNiro!!!

Oh, and the fantastic score!

david
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aden_nak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 04:48 PM
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3. "Shome thingsh in he'ah doohn't react well to bulletsh."
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 04:49 PM
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4. I don't know, but I do know what his worst one was.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Oh it's not that he was all that bad *in* it, it's just that the movie sucked SO bad, I'm forced to distribute blame evenly.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 04:58 PM
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12. you know we just saw League for the first time
it wasn't as bad as expected, compared to the movie book review, but it could have been so much better.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 05:02 PM
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14. Oh I couldn't stand it.
I have a moderate ability to engage in "willful suspension of disbelief." But that movie went SO FAR past my limits, I was laughing at how terrible it was.

The one thing I liked: the special effects were outstanding. A+. But it was way too much to cram into a movie, and special effects just aren't going to carry you when the rest of the movie is so rotten.
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Mikimouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 04:50 PM
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5. The Name of the Rose...
One of my all time favorite movies.
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loudestchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 04:53 PM
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9. Really liked that one as well...better than any of the others in the poll.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 04:58 PM
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13. yes he is wonderful in Name of the Rose
but I think he is wonderful in pretty much everything.
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 04:51 PM
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6. Zardoz
Just saw it again recently and really liked him in it.
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meganmonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 04:54 PM
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10. Absolutely! I was thinking the same thing
It's a must-see.... ;)
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 05:08 PM
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16. Especially the social commentary part
plays so well right now ...
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LiberallyInclined Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 04:52 PM
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7. robin and marian
Edited on Fri Feb-18-05 04:56 PM by LiberallyInclined
great flick.
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Wilber_Stool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 05:03 PM
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15. I always liked
Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 05:53 PM
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17. Yep. He sings in that one.
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 06:14 PM
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18. Other: "The Man Who Would Be King" -- Connery at his best...
Larger than life, so why shouldn't he be a king? Great performances also by Michael Caine and Saeed Jaffrey.

One of my favorite movies.:thumbsup:
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Twillig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 06:15 PM
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19. The Hill
Best Connery ever did.

Perfect movie to see if you want a dramatization of how things like the Stanford prison experiment and Abu Gharib go.
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 06:22 PM
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24. "Yer not running th' place, WILLIAMS IS!!!!!
Damn, this is a terrific film, even if it's hard to pick up the dialogue the first few times you see it (Stahaaaf!!!). All the shouting British accents in the enclosed echoing spaces makes for a tough listen.

That said, it's quite memorable, and it's got a shocking ending that still gets to me.

Excellent pick, Twillig -- :thumbsup:
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TyeDye75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 06:21 PM
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23. Thunderball
just shades it over..you only live twice...for me.
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 06:22 PM
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25. Diamonds are Forever
Goldfinger
Dr. No
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
From Russia With Love
The Untouchables
Red October
Never Say Never Again
Dragonheart
Time Bandits
Highlander


I'm a huge Connery fan.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 06:23 PM
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26. The Molly Maguires
I'm convinced this movie was suppressed for years because of the similarity between this 19th century group of immigrant Irish and the Black panthers who were accendent when it was released. It's a sympathetic potriat that raises question about whether sometimes violence is the way to address injustice. I'm not saying it advocates violence, but it allows the viewer to learn where the vilence comes from.

Richard Haris plays opposite Sean Connery. Now that's a match-up!
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