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Sean Connery RIP

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    #122
    COVID
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭COVID


    You only live once!


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    #123
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    Knock knock.

    Who's there?

    Dishes.

    Dishes who?

    Dishes the gosht of Sean Connery.


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    #124
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,582 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    A giant of an actor, an old school man, the first - and the best and definitive Bond.

    Sean Connery was very anxious in the 1970s and 80s to be seen as more than just the first James Bond and played a variety of roles - his part in The Untouchables (1987) was a deserved Oscar win and he was superb in The Name of The Rose.

    One part he played - as a likeable rogue in the very underrated The Anderson Tapes (1971), was excellent. Very underrated film that featured a then unknown 27 year old Christopher Walken in his first big film part. He made a few complete turkeys, too - Zardoz (1973) a sci-fi film shot in County Wicklow - is best forgotten.

    By the 1990s Connery had nothing left to prove but still picked out interesting roles - 1999’s Entrapment with Catherine Zeta-Jones for instance.

    A patriotic Scotsman, an intelligent person and he oozed sex appeal. :D Yes he was rather sexist at times, but you have to remember he was born in 1930 and came of age in the late 1940s/early 50s - a completely different world to today.

    Yes, Mr Connery will be missed. 90 is very good innings and I have a feeling it was a very full life with lots of fun and adventure.


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    #125
    [Deleted User]
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    Hector Savage wrote: »
    This knocked me for six when I heard this morning, really hit me , didn't expect it... sad news

    RIP

    He was 90 years of age though. As legendary as the man was he wasn't going to love forever.

    Rest in Peace Sean.


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    #126
    Frankie Machine
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Frankie Machine


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Wow, what a scumbag. That's tonight's movie plans changed

    :rolleyes:

    Tonight's movie plans changed, and more importantly, today's 'virtue signal' transmitted.

    Your day is done !

    :D


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    #127
    paleoperson
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    Wow, what a scumbag. That's tonight's movie plans changed

    Nice parody of OTT virtue-signaling SJW reaction there, I like it.


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    #128
    Frankie Machine
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Frankie Machine


    paleoperson wrote: »
    Nice parody of OTT virtue-signaling SJW reaction there, I like it.

    :D


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    #129
    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    paleoperson wrote: »
    Nice parody of OTT virtue-signaling SJW reaction there, I like it.



    He could have slapped me in the face too, as someone else has said, and seemed to relish the thought of...

    His 007 slap at 90 would probably have been pretty limp.


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    #130
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,629 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Frankie Machine wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    Tonight's movie plans changed, and more importantly, today's 'virtue signal' transmitted.

    Your day is done !

    :D
    paleoperson wrote: »
    Nice parody of OTT virtue-signaling SJW reaction there, I like it.

    I'm pretty sure being called an sjw by the kind of 'people' who think slapping a woman is in order when she's getting a bit uppity, is a good thing


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    #131
    Thelonious Monk
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    He just oozed charisma. So ridiculously handsome too. A true movie icon. I always loved him and this is really sad news, but he did live one hell of a life. The man who would be king. Thanks for the memories Sean!


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    #132
    cnocbui
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    Wow, what a scumbag. That's tonight's movie plans changed

    That's 'Sir' scumbag, to you.


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    #133
    riffmongous
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    cnocbui wrote: »
    That's 'Sir' scumbag, to you.

    Eugh, and I thought he was in favour of Scots independence and all


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    #134
    Frankie Machine
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Frankie Machine


    riffmongous wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure being called an sjw by the kind of 'people' who think slapping a woman is in order when she's getting a bit uppity, is a good thing

    You just had to double down.

    Highlighting your risible gesture has nothing to do with 'people' and their concordance with a dead film star's opinion about anything, good, bad or indifferent.

    Watch his movies, or don't watch them. Whatever.

    Your announcement got the derision it deserved.


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    #135
    A Dub in Glasgo
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    Wow, what a scumbag. That's tonight's movie plans changed

    You are such a virtue signaller FFS


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    #136
    silverharp
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    one ping only

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #137
    Plumbthedepths
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    BBC played a tribute to Connery recorded in 2003 made up of old interviews and 'recent ' 2003 ones. The guy had his faults but his charisma and screen presence were a good balance. I already made a comment about him today but I realise now how big a talent we have lost despite him retiring almost 20 years ago.
    RIP.


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    #138
    whisky_galore
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    Man born before WW2 having old fashioned attitudes shocker.


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    #139
    bodhrandude
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    RIP Sean Connery, have always liked his films. I remember one in particular I watched with my brother a few years ago from 1973 called The Offence. This would've been one of his lesser known films, but he plays a police officer tasked with interviewing a suspected murderer and child molester played by the brilliant Ian Bannen who you might remember as Robert the Bruce's father in Braveheart. Its such an intense film worth checking out, Connery's performance is extraordinary.



    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070468/

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #140
    COVID
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Man born before WW2 having old fashioned attitudes shocker.

    Plenty of people born before WW2 would think it wrong to hit a woman, for any reason; with open palm or clenched fist.
    Full stop.

    Q. Was he the best James Bond ever?
    A. Yes

    Q.Did he have on-screen charisma by the bucket load, and was he a handsome devil?
    A. Yes and Yes.


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    #141
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,629 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »
    You are such a virtue signaller FFS

    If that bothers you more than someone saying hitting women is deserved, then you need to take a good long look at yourself, FFS


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    #142
    Always_Running
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    One of my favourite actors, I especially loved his performance in the Untouchables. RIP.


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    #143
    COVID
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    Always_Running wrote: »
    One of my favourite actors, I especially loved his performance in the Untouchables. RIP.

    His Irish accent was a bit wibbly-wobbly though.


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    #144
    Gremlinertia
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 59,744 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    Less sniping please, this is an RIP thread, not for debate of misogyny/virtue signally/whatever in general


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    #145
    whisky_galore
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    COVID wrote: »
    Plenty of people born before WW2 would think it wrong to hit a woman, for any reason; with open palm or clenched fist.
    Full stop.

    Plenty people didn't too.

    Up until fairly recently we were a benighted little island and what you did with your wife and family behind closed doors was your own business. Your own relatives probably saw no problem with it.

    Uncomfortable reading but there you go


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    #146
    Mr Meanor
    Registered Users Posts: 197 ✭✭Mr Meanor


    riffmongous wrote: »
    If that bothers you more than someone saying hitting women is deserved, then you need to take a good long look at yourself, FFS

    I see the word 'context' flies over your head and you mod history!!


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    #147
    Kaybaykwah
    Registered Users Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    COVID wrote: »
    His Irish accent was a bit wibbly-wobbly though.

    He is in that category of actors with Anthony Hopkins or Richard Harris who for lack of a palette of accents are great players nonetheless. In contrast, Daniel Day Lewis and Gary Oldman are much more versatile in playing multiple vernaculars.


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    #148
    Divisadero
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    If that bothers you more than someone saying hitting women is deserved, then you need to take a good long look at yourself, FFS

    I wouldn't normally approve of men slapping women but after reading your posts on the matter I'm starting to think he may have had a point.


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    #149
    Gremlinertia
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 59,744 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    I warned about sniping etc


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    #150
    Divisadero
    Registered Users Posts: 311 ✭✭Divisadero


    COVID wrote: »
    His Irish accent was a bit wibbly-wobbly though.

    True. However I don't judge actors by their ability to do a good accent. That's basically mimicking and requires no emotion. I might notice it at first. But if the performance is real and believable then the quality of the accent is forgotten as you are drawn into the performance and the story. That's how I feel at any rate.

    I loved his performance in the Untouchables. A great movie overall.

    RIP.


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    #151
    slipperyox
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    You only live once Mr Bond


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