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A lot of people might not know this but Connery retired from making films.His last movie was in 2002.So does it really surprise anybody here that he did not come out of retirement to do the last Indy film? How can anybody blame him for not doing it? after looking over that god awful script he probably did the wise thing and told them he wasnt going to do it since that was the lousy script they decided to go with.Smart thinking on Connerys part.If I had been him,no way would I have come out of retirement to that disgraceful movie either.

How is keeping your word and staying in retirement smart? Has he shown any interest in doing any other movies before? Has he said he would come out of retirement for a good script?

I wouldn't mind seeing him make a cameo in a future Bond film

Originally posted by Wei Phoenix
How is keeping your word and staying in retirement smart? Has he shown any interest in doing any other movies before? Has he said he would come out of retirement for a good script?

for the last two questions I have no idea.for the first one,cause like i said,the movie was so horrible he was smart not to attach his name to that movie.

Originally posted by steverules_2
I wouldn't mind seeing him make a cameo in a future Bond film

yeah that would be cool.

cameos would be cool. in good movies.

Indeed.

sean connery actually gave a couple of 'false retirements," but a good script would bring him out.

as for indy 4, indy's father would most probably be dead or too doddering to go on an epic quest which involved quick thinking and aliums.

plus, communist russia would kinda crumble under him. he would just have to say something intelligent in latin or greek or aramic or....
and the russians would fall over dead from complete and total lack of understanding.

And show Indy old age doesn't mean you can't still be a winner in a fight.

That being said, John McClane and Rambo both aged better than Indy.

Quite.... good point.

In fact, Rambo was never so good at shooting people in half.

Trueism right there.
Not to mention Macheteing a guy in virtually half, gutting him, and that massive stamina testing Run through the jungle.

Rambo needed not to pause in the action commenting to the enemy that he "Though that'd be easier" or some 'arent I old and pathetic now' line.

No comedy Gophers were bought in to laugh at accidents befalling McClane in attempt to make him a laughing stock as he dispensed Ninja Chicks, Hamster wheel dudes and Mercs/assassins alike...

WITHOUT his walker!

Indeeed..!!!

Im not in the least bit interested to see a great actor like Sean Connery have to change his character's colostomy bag on screen, just because those cashcow b**ches say it must be done.

Which he won't anyway.

Yup. Good for him.

Indeed

Until they CGI a fake Connery one day...............

Ouch... they might actually.

Hopefully he can still legally oppose that whilst he has the chance.

I doubt it.

I can't help but think of that interview where Carrie Fisher had joked about the fact of having signed her likeness over to Lucas being a factor in her life to the extent that everytime she looks in the mirror she owed Lucas five cents.

Maybe its part of the deal that Connery then would have his image whored around and raped.

This might explain the photo in KOTCS/TAOS.

Oh yes.

So Carrie Fisher had a piggie bank attached to her mirrors?

May as well have, by the sound of it....

She is so darn funny.

I bet shes great fun at parties, for sure.

Yup.

Postcards-from-the-edge-tastic...

Originally posted by Mr Parker
yeah that would be cool.

What as tho?

Is that even English?

Not to mine knowledge.

hehe

He may have been speaking Connery.

Shshshspeaking?

Exshactly.

Originally posted by Sadako of Girth

This might explain the photo in KOTCS/TAOS.

What the hell is TAOS ?

Its the almost universally agreed upon true name of Indy IV.

"Indiana Jones and the aliens of shit."

Yeah.....'almost universally agreed upon true name of Indy IV'

i have'nt agreed on it myself and won't be hearing from on that anytime soon.

certainly shorter than KOTCS, tho...

Originally posted by Kazenji
Yeah.....'almost universally agreed upon true name of Indy IV'

i have'nt agreed on it myself and won't be hearing from on that anytime soon.

Hence the useage of "almost".

Originally posted by Jaeh.is.Awesome
certainly shorter than KOTCS, tho...

Indeed. Which is is brevitytasic.

And more to the point.

Sadly so.

Yup.

Hopefully, next time, it'll be a case of "Indiana Jones hand his habit of using his a son as a bulletproof shield."

Our favourite Indy scene when then go SPLATTT!

I would buy the DVD to watch that over and over and over.

Perpetual loop.

Yep It'd be like a screen saver, only one that ends up burning your plasma/LCD screen because of how damned good it is and often it would be repeating..

THat's worth a new monitor.

Hehehe indeed. An Imax one.

I like it!

I imagined you saying that like that guy Emil in Robocop did when he recieved a Cobra assault cannon and delivered his verdict..

You're forgiven.

Twas, praise, not abuse. I liked that guy's attitude.

I'd buy that for a dollar!

Only one dollar?

Can youuuuuuuu fllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, Bobby?

Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply.

"I guess you think you're pretty smart, huh...? Think you can outsmart a bullet?"

Quick, call a doctor.

That line was even more hilarious in the director's cut.

The irrelevancy of any medical intervention was WAY more obvious in that cut. Dark humour at it's best.

Oh yeah.

Speaking of dark.... Saw "The diving Bell and the Butterfly" today.
Heavy movie. You seen it...?

Yup. But I only liked the first half. Once they let go of the POV style, it kinda died. I don't know how they should have solved it, since the POV got kinda stae as well after 45 minutes, but it sure was more fascinating than the rest. Maybe it should have been a short movie, then it would have been brilliant.

Im with you on that.
I thought the 1st half was fresh, and barring a blurred crossed sight frame of eyebrow and nose, they couldnt really have nailed the 1st person bit any more convincingly.

The dark comedy of his one eye being the focus of reaction for the subsequent like 45 mins was not enough comedy to balance the utterly depressing aspects of the story, for me....and the reveal of what had put him in that position was a bit "Oh...that was it? After all the flashbackery, He simply had a stroke at the wheel, noone else was killed like it was hinted that they may have been by the flashes... It was good that it creates stroke awareness, though.

Oh I agree. Too bad, but in the end it wasn't entirely an idea for a full length feature I think.

Seems so.

Then again, nicely done.

Did you see Let the Right One In yet? Excellent film.

wow I had no idea this thread had taken off like it has and was still going on.At the time I made it there wasnt much of a response.

And that didn't make you think?

It made me think "Schhhhouldn't thisssh thread be called 'Scchhhhean Connerehhhy was schhhmart"...?"

Who's reviving all this old crap?

Wasn't me....

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Gophers! Why did it have to be gophers?

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"Sqvveeeeeeeeeeeeak heil"









Nazi Gopher

Yeah, I got that.

They're like regular gophers but they watch lots of shizier vids and oppress the other gophers.


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Sqveeeeeeeak heil..!!!

Ant I bet zey vear little black strapz...

...mit und precision das ist qvite ruthless indeed...

I vant wan.... I VANT WAN!

Several Geese in ze vicinity vere beaten up, and varned zat their steppingz vil be now known as "der Gopherstep".

Exzellent... zat vill show zem.

Ya unt zhey had to learn fast as vee executed them.

Zen vee stole zheir sunloungers.

Und next: zeir gopher moundz.

Ya. Da Furher von Speilberg ist zheir leader.... He vill get thoze moundz and bring victory to ze new Empire.

Soon ze re-release of close encouterz but viv ze gophers in da spaceship at ze end will be on bluray.

Gopherz veir created to manipulate ze earz to fint a plaaz for naz..err... to find ze anzer to life, ze yunivurz and all ze rezt.

Ya...zeir motivez unt aimz are qvite admirable unt should never be qvestioned.

Innocently, zhey burrow, for ze gutt of humanity.

Unt fur ze Fuhrer...

Sqvveeeek Heil!

His ist ze only true vay of ensuring a proper ruining of ze golfing course, und lowerinnck ze standards of zeeenema.

Yezz and ven finalleeh ze american zeenema goez down, ze UFA films from Djermaneeh vill rise. Unt vee vill show ze wuuhrld goffers zey have nevurh zeeennn!!! Jaaaaa!!!

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Connery wasn't that smart, if you look at his list of credits over the last decade of his career.
From Highlander II to Medicine Man to Just Cause to First Knight to The Avengers to The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen - it didn't look like he could recognize a good script if it fell on him.

Maybe it was those years of familiarity with the smell of a poop script that informed him well enough to bail out this time....

Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Maybe it was those years of familiarity with the smell of a poop script that informed him well enough to bail out this time....

Compared to his later films, KOTCS is a well reviewed classic.

Maybe. But Highlander ruled.

And no cared about a scotsman playing a spaniard.

I cared. Though Connery was great.

A Spanish Egyptian, at that.

And Christopher Lambert who was a french actor

but besides these silly things yeah it was a good movie.

Ahhh but at least they attempted to address that.

Cop: "You talk funny, Nash... Were are you from..?"

Nash/McLeod:"Lots of different places"...

And looking back on his artifacts, and in the WW2 flashback, the movie alludes to McLeod having spent some time in France that century, and maybe for a while before that too...

The second Highlander movie is good if you get the directors cut where it does'nt mentioned nothing at all them being aliens.

Yeah I remember HL2 the 1st version as being a great evil of film making.

The worst.

Planet Zeist.... tsss.... Zeist is a small provincial boring town in my country. That certainly didn't help.

Yes that was screwup number one

*shudder*


Well, that and the 'there can be only one' and more show up...

*Remembers and puts gun in mouth*

Just watch the first one.

The was only the 1st Higlander.... "There can be only one"

Exactly.

The rest was just a salary for a very limited actor called Christopher Lambert.

He acts?

I gave him some credit... he did entertain us in Greystroke and Highlander... and the stopped.

Did you not like "Fortress"?

Err... no. Did you?

I remember enjoying it at the time... t'was many years though since I saw it.

He was a good Raiden in the Mortal Kombat movie.

Maybe Raiden was just a good Christopher Lambert...

We've seen Lambert's lightningy tendancies twice before..

Raiden's Agent was like "Son...you're BORN to have that Lambert role."

And he didn't get the hint?

Hes from lots of different places.

Roger corman presents Dinocroc vs Supergator

and it was also David Carrandine's last film.

Well sounds like a winner

With a special feature of him on the disc in a Bangkok hotel room.

Even better.

For fans of perhaps murder/perhaps auto-asphyxia accidents

Perhaps a lot of perhapses too?

Perhaps...

Possibly.

Was your possibly possibly referring to a perhaps?

Maybe.

I thought so.

It may be that you did.

Perhaps. The possible possibilty is a perhaps a stong one.

Vewy stong.

Maybe.

Indeed.

Potentially

Rather.

Lava?

Maybe... when it's hot enough.

Well its gone all gloomy, wet and nippy here now.

Welly time here.

Enter the gloom sky.

Long will it hang over us like a big filthy oilrag that blackens the heart of anyone it drapes over.

Gone is the colour of the 5 secs of summer from this year. The quite literally monotonous greys are here to render everything in the same hues as Saving Private Ryan.

Hey hey... I had lovely weather in Cornwall for two weeks while The Netherlands were being drenched.

Now, two days of sunshine.

Awseome we have hurricane reminents pissing down and being all windy and stuff right now.

Enjoy it while it lasts.