"Dillon Pyron" <Just like Citzen Kane or Gone With the Wind or The Wizard of Oz. You would compare any of those movies to any of the crud by Sean Connery?? HOW SAD!!

....k.a. The Red Tent are 'just plain horrid'? Never saw The Red Tent. I never thought Sean Connery as a romantic lead. Movies which spent a lot of time showing him as this wonderfully handsome and... him as a thug-like James Bond character and in a few other roles. That's it. Sean Connery is one of the most over-rated actors in the history of cinema.

... from the Godfather movie (and, I guess, double-billing with Mario Puzzo for part of the script). Comparing the elderly versions of famous actors, Sean Connery has definitely held up well. Jason Robards, Lee Marvin, John Wayne and Clint Eastwood are a few that got more honors after they got old....

"part of RogetT" <> Sean Connery at least maintains his dignity, and is a very presentable fellow as he got older, and not the mess ... mostly because the producers wanted to put his name on the marquee. Comparing the elderly versions of famous actors, Sean Connery has definitely held up well. Jason Robards, Lee Marvin, John Wayne and Clint Eastwood are a few that got ...

... comes to mind. The same can be said for Sean Connery, and while you argue that he is known ... maybe it's that you feel the same about Sean Connery as I feel about Marlon Brando - who I consider to be vastly overrated, and... little, except mass and volume, and a bad attitude) to those later pictures. Sean Connery at least maintains his dignity, and is a very presentable fellow as he got ...

...... Anonymoose wrote: "Jeff DeWitt" <> What have you got against Sir Sean Connery?> Nothing. Except that I honestly cannot think of any movie that he...only thing I have ever seen by Connery which I have wanted to see again...are the James Bond movies. The only Sean Connery movies that I have ever ... O'Gill and the Little People? Connery was a Wonderful World of Disney ...

Anonymoose wrote: "Jeff DeWitt" <> Why would Sir Connery have a bad Scottish accent, he IS a Scot! So then maybe he shouldn't be playing Russians?? Sean Connery's accent has gotten much more pronounced along with his age. He was offered the ... Saturday Night Live crew used to do a skit which featured Connery on game shows and nobody could ever understand what he ...

...Lots of others. They have all made some bad movies, but they have all made some great movies that you can say their name and the movie comes to mind. Sean Connery is James Bond. He was great in that, and because people feel sorry for him, he gets a free pass on everything else he has done.

On 2007-10-06 09:15:23 -0700, Jeff DeWitt <JeffDeWitt@nc.rr.com> said: What kind of "sick dork" would consider Sean Connery a good actor? How about the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the folks who give out the Oscars? Actualy, listing the Academy is not necessarily the best of ...

"Jeff DeWitt" <> Why would Sir Connery have a bad Scottish accent, he IS a Scot! So then maybe he shouldn't be playing Russians?? Sean Connery's accent has gotten much more pronounced along with his age. The Saturday Night Live crew used to do a skit which featured Connery on game shows and nobody could ever understand what he was saying. That was...