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RIP, Bond...James Bond..
gentleguy1020 38 Reviews 3681 reads
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A great actor and male sex persona from my formative years:  

What’s your:
1. Best Sean Connery Bond movie?
2. Best Sean Connery non-Bond movie?
3. Any Bond girl look alike you ever dated - civvie or hobby?

My choices:  
1. From Russia with Love (would have been On Her Majesty’s Secret Service - if he acted in it)
2. Untouchables  
3. Honey Rider (Dr. No) (civvie)

Just a tidbit: one my atf and I had a ritual: watching all Sean Connery Bond movies together in between cozy and great sex.

mrfisher 115 Reviews 117 reads
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Goldfinger

Darby O'Gill and the Little People.  NOT.  I suppose Marne

I should have been so lucky.

Theocrat 14 Reviews 112 reads
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1. From Russia With Love for classic cold War espionage.  You Only Live Twice for sheer over the top zaniness.
2. Has to be Untouchables. What else are you going to choose? Zardoz? The Rock? Although Outland had some good moments.  
3. Yeah I should be so lucky. The closest might be Pussy Galore. There was this German chick who if you squinted real hard could be close.

Hpygolky 233 Reviews 126 reads
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My list
1-You Only Live Twice
2-Untouchables
3-Ursula Andress....Playin around while in Vegas...Yes she was a pros
This one hits home

coeur-de-lion 400 Reviews 102 reads
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1.   The Name of the Rose
2.   Untouchables  
3.   Everything Bond

36363jensen 4 Reviews 133 reads
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I would put in The Name of the Rose.

gentleguy1020 38 Reviews 127 reads
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Lucky you!!! Got to undress Andress ;)

gentleguy1020 38 Reviews 109 reads
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Lol! My Honey Rider (Ursula) look alike was a bit of eye squintier too :) but she was hot ... we were both in late 20s ... oh good ol’days ...

JawKnee36 95 Reviews 154 reads
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1. Dr. No
2. Time Bandits
3. Plenty O’toole (only because of her name, and she was apparently named after her father)

mrhudson 137 Reviews 115 reads
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1) My fave, Thunderball
2) Untouchables
3) i should be so lucky!

mr5mike 7 Reviews 104 reads
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1. Thunderball
2. Name of the Rose
3. Domino - civvie (Kim Basinger - hobby)

cageyboy 25 Reviews 115 reads
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1. Diamonds are Forever. I love this Bond film! It encapsulates Vegas in its prime when the Mob still controlled it before the corporations ruined it. Connery was beginning to age and he looked fucking cool a little older. The car chase scene in the Vegas Strip where  Bond outfits the idiot cops is classic.  

2. Outlander is my favourite non Bond Connery film. It's what a space station out in our solar system is gunna look like.

3. Been out a few times with a girl that comes close to Ursella. Nothing ever came of it.

Drumguy25 23 Reviews 133 reads
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The man just had a swagger.

gentleguy1020 38 Reviews 121 reads
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Oh yeah, that car chase in Las Vegas made history in movie making.  
So did the underwater scenes and camera work in Thunderball  - it changed the way Hollywood made underwater movies forever!

36363jensen 4 Reviews 120 reads
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And I suppose it might not matter generally, but given this is related to his memorial it might be worth noting that Connery hated the Bond character.

cageyboy 25 Reviews 101 reads
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Posted By: 36363jensen
Re: Not sure if others already knew
And I suppose it might not matter generally, but given this is related to his memorial it might be worth noting that Connery hated the Bond character.
He grew tired of the attention that comes with fame. I'm sure that's what made him resent 007. Once you get famous you can't turn it off. It's wonderful at the beginning but over time it gets old and annoying, and your privacy is constantly invaded. Bob Dylan once said, "Obscurity is a blessing."

Theocrat 14 Reviews 125 reads
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He got pissed at reporters who didn't know he'd done stage acting before Bond and that he did many roles after. He clearly didn't realize the thing would blow up like it did and limit his career choices for a long time.  He was also pissed that he thought he was underpaid for the role given that every movie made big money. I recall reading that he demanded and got 1 million for Diamonds Are Forever (big money back then) and then promptly donated most of it to a boys' school to prove it wasn't just about the money.

Then again he had an amazing second act starting in the late 80s.

But he was also generally an irascible guy. He said some shit about hitting women that was wrong then and is wrong now.

-- Modified on 11/1/2020 5:53:25 PM

36363jensen 4 Reviews 146 reads
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Perhaps but he said it himself - lol

 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Connery:  
Although Bond had made him a star, Connery grew tired of the role and the pressure the franchise put on him, saying "[I am] fed up to here with the whole Bond bit"[59] and "I have always hated that damned James Bond. I'd like to kill him".[60] Michael Caine said of the situation, "If you were his friend in these early days you didn't raise the subject of Bond. He was, and is, a much better actor than just playing James Bond, but he became synonymous with Bond. He'd be walking down the street and people would say, "Look, there's James Bond." That was particularly upsetting to him."

 
But you're right, it is a bit like William Shatner and the Capt. Kirk role. Not really something either started out unhappy about but over time....

MichaelClayton20 118 reads
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1. Goldfinger
2. Russia House  
3. UTR that looked a lot like Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore)

macdaddy1944 51 Reviews 125 reads
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen..

dosriveras 108 reads
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From Russia with Love
Name of the Rose
Carey Lowell (civvie)

WICardinalfan 108 reads
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"Ryan, things in here do not react well to bullets" or something like that.

WICardinalfan 104 reads
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You only live twice

Tied: Red October and The Untouchables.  

Kim Basinger.  She is a pro and actively touring

MP67 11 Reviews 110 reads
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1 Goldfinger and Diamonds Are Forever
2 Hunt For Red October
3 Jill St. John who you wish was your wife, but dated a girl that looked like Kim Basinger in Never Say Never Again back in the 80's

dodge55 193 Reviews 132 reads
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1.  Goldfinger - This one had some great scenes: Odd Job and his hat, the nuke counting down at the end, the US army only pretending to be knocked out by the gas.  
2.  Outlander - Gritty sci-fi. Peter Doyle as a great villain.  
3.  Not really dated:  more of a Bond-like encounter. I had a sports-car in my mid twenties.  A very pretty gal in a mustang behind me passed me up going like 50-60 on a side street and I was tempted to race her, but literally said to myself "Discipline, 007"  and let it go.   A mile up the road, a cop nailed her.  

mrfisher 115 Reviews 142 reads
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The chase scene in the Aston Martin has to be the best.

mr5mike 7 Reviews 96 reads
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gentleguy1020 38 Reviews 137 reads
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“nailed” ;) her ?? Lol!!! Just playing ...

WICardinalfan 114 reads
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Ah, the Diamonds Are Forever layout in Playboy.  Lana Wood in her prime, fantastic boobs.  Came of age then. Came of some other stuff to.  

Drumguy25 23 Reviews 104 reads
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Posted By: WICardinalfan
Re: The ultimate cool guy  

   
 
   
 Kim Basinger.  She is a pro and actively touring
Say huh what?

-- Modified on 11/3/2020 5:12:16 PM

36363jensen 4 Reviews 102 reads
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LOL -- yeah, I did a quick double take on that one too.

 
I'm pretty sure he's saying his answer to Q3 was the girl looked like Kim Basinger and was not a civie date but a working girl.

 
However, I'm pretty sure Basinger played a hooker, LA Confidential?

mrfisher 115 Reviews 145 reads
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In fact she's over at my place right now.

 
Say Hi Kim.

 
Hi Kim.

GaGambler 129 reads
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inicky46 61 Reviews 171 reads
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And Kim Bassinger, also pretty old, is nuts? Then again, you did date a 65-year-old hooker, so......

nevertoolarge 30 Reviews 153 reads
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remember the house for the scene in Diamonds are forever with Bambi & Thumper.    in the 90s client of mine owned that house, i was part of team that restored it to glory.    was pretty cool to be there.      oh it is in Palm Springs ... not Las Vegas ..  ahh movie magic !  

hodick 105 Reviews 127 reads
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1. Thunderball
2. Hunt for Red October
3.  Luciana Paluzzi -- We should all be taken for a ride

cageyboy 25 Reviews 99 reads
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Thanks for the correction! I also goofed.

dodge55 193 Reviews 106 reads
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You are correct, ditto thanks on the correction!

haystacks 139 reads
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stethdoctor 16 Reviews 103 reads
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“I give us one chance in three.... more tea anyone?”

lester_prairie 12 Reviews 120 reads
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A Russkie with a Scottish accent.

MP67 11 Reviews 127 reads
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Goldfinger absolutely. Diamonds are Forever and Thunderball are close seconds. I have all of them and Timothy Dalton was a waste of time. George Lazenby was alright. Roger Moore was slightly better, but Sean Connery was the best, then Peirce Brosnan and Daniel Craig cuz of the darkness. Not necessarily his acting but the direction....

MP67 11 Reviews 118 reads
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I chatted with her some years ago. I thought 'I' was full of myself!  

She was in a flower shop in I forget which one. I think it's 'The Spy Who Loved Me'? But yeah, if that's her claim to fame I can go on how I met Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis at my favorite watering hole in Albuquerque one night 20 something years ago....

GaGambler 154 reads
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and she claimed that she was down there at the very same time. I "dared her" to prove it and she made all sorts of lame excuses about her multi millionaire benefactor not allowing it, but she later admitted she had NEVER been to Costa Rica and she was just trying to keep up her "image" of a successful hooker when in fact she was living in her car.

 
Talk about someone both BSC and delusional. lol

lester_prairie 12 Reviews 163 reads
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That's too bad about her.  I remember a movie quote, "She's got a god damn gold mine between her legs."  If some women weren't so crazy they'd have it made -- life of ease and luxury.  

MP67 11 Reviews 103 reads
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Actually this is the coolest deal I've seen in a long time! Not political. Just appreciation for an actor that made an impact on some of our lives. Art. It's so under appreciated until you're worm food....

Sir Sean Connery IS, not was, a treasure. The man was class. Some would say he was a misonygist(?)  

The fact of the matter is he was a man's man. You didn't have to apologize for being so like so many pussies now adays...

You could drink and smoke and not apologize. And still live to be 80....!

All you all's are a bunch of pussies!

bfw 9 Reviews 151 reads
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1) You Only Live Twice
2) The Molly MacGuires/The Untouchables(a tie)
3)  ...still colating data, sorry

QueenBia See my TER Reviews 136 reads
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coeur-de-lion 400 Reviews 92 reads
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the OP had a crush on him, too.  

WICardinalfan 93 reads
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