I’ve never watched this movie, but have seen images from it. I thought this was burt Reynolds this whole time
this woman beater can piss off
good post
Oddly, I’d rather watch the imaginative Zardoz than LotR or The Hobbit. Sorry…
BTW, The Hill and The Offence are two Connery films that are well worth watching. His stint on The Hill, IMO, was his best role.
Zardoz was awesome though. It actually had an interesting world and compelling sci fi ideas. And one of the greatest reveals in cinema! You know why call him “Zardoz”, right?
The gun is good! Penis is evil!
I’ve enjoyed a great deal of movies with Connery as the lead. I think he made the right choice not being Gandalf.
Connery even made a Michael Bay movie watchable.
There’s not many actors that can say that.
Cocaine was cheap and plentiful in the 70s.
Connery was old school. He was into whiskey and beating women.
Not Lola Larson though
People still wondering why Sean Connery isn’t a household name… 🙄 /s
Okay, but hear me out. Zardoz is good.
I know it looks goofy, and it IS goofy. But it’s also GOOD.
I need to watch it. The guy who hosts our card games has that picture on a greeting card on his fridge, it makes me laugh everytime I see it.
Cards against Humanity put out an answer card that was just the Zardoz image with no words, and in our games whoever played that card as an answer automatically won that hand.
Same. It was actually trying things, but all people see is this one image of Sean Connery.
The director’s commentary is so delightfully honest, right at the top he’s like “so I’ll be the first to admit, this film kinda got away from us,”
Quoting from memory. But that was the gist.
The gun is good!
I heard this story, not sure if it’s true, but I choose to believe it and will not hear any corrections; apparently, he was approached about Gandalf, but he turned it down because he didn’t really understand it. Then he was approached about Dumbledore, but turned it down because he didn’t really understand it. After seeing how those two franchises turned out, he said, “screw it, I’m taking the next role that I don’t get.” That role was Alan Quartermaine in League of Extraordinary Gentleman. After that movie bombed he retired from acting altogether.
He didn’t quit acting just because the movie bombed. Him and the director had such epic fights on the set of the movie, that BOTH of them quit Hollywood afterwards.
I already told you, I will not hear corrections! Blocked!!!
Well, just for blocking me, I’m blocking you. In fact, I’m double blocking you! NyahNyah! ;P
In all seriousness though, thank you for the information, but I will still continue to believe that Sean Connery gave up acting because he could no longer figure out what good or bad movies were.
I mean, looking back at his filmography, he arguably never could. (Zardoz is good, though.)
Highlander rocks too. Time Bandits as well. He had some interesting, unorthodox choices throughout his career.
That role was Alan Quartermaine in League of Extraordinary Gentleman. After that movie bombed he retired from acting altogether.
Which is a shame really because I remember it being… Kinda good? Clearly not a work of great art, but fun action silliness. Admittedly I watched it as a kid and never again so who knows really.
I don’t feel the need to discuss the rest of the movie but that car, though … It was a thing of beauty.
With adult eyes, it’s pretty bad. Also, it’s an adaptation of a much better Alan Moore graphic novel.
It has some of the worst dialogue and pacing of any movie I’ve ever seen. I can see how it would be fun as a kid, but even as a teenager, it sucked ass.
Didn’t hate it? It was a fun action film. Sometimes people take things too seriously.
I’d also argue that however the movie did after the fact, turning down roles you don’t understand is probably the smarter option. Maybe those other movies would have also flopped if they had Connery in those roles.
Like I can’t picture him doing a good Gandalf. It wouldn’t be Gandalf, it would be Sean Connery in a wizard outfit. I can’t think of any roles where Connery played someone who wasn’t Sean Connery. He brought a lot of charisma to his roles but not a ton of range.
I agree that he wouldn’t have been right for either part, but I’m sure they still would have been very successful franchises. Also, he probably wouldn’t have gotten either part (definitely not Gandalf), they were just approaching him about it. Producers on Batman (1989) were in talks with Bill Murray and Pierce Brosnan before they moved on to Michael Keaton, but it’s pretty unlikely either one would have made it.
Jesus can you actually imagine if LOTR had Sean Connery instead of Ian McKellen? Hideous prospect. No shade to Connery, he’s played some of my favourite characters over the years, but christ that would have been a terrible mistake.
Idk he could land “Run, you foolsh!” pretty well.
“You shall not pash!”
“Is it shecret? Is it shafe?”
“When did Sharuman the wishe replace hish wishdom with madnessh?”
You could play this game all day long
“I have no memory of this plashe…”
He did his best work in Time Bandits.
time bandits is cheating
I mean, maybe the bottom picture made perfect sense to Sean?
Or it’s the reason he stopped doing ones he thought made no sense to him?
i mean, i can understand zardoz tho
Yeah, it’s called “I was young and broke, and needed the money”.
Although, I really do recommend watching Zardoz at least once. It’s a trip.
I fucking love Zardoz!
Zardoz is sci-fi
goldplatinum.When I first watched it for the ridiculous Sean Connery outfit I became quickly outraged that it’s not spoken of more highly in sci-fi film media. It’s got some really solid bones.
The name is Grey. Gandalf the Grey.
There was a population boost in the town they filmed Zardoz in due to all of the drug-induced revelry that was going on during the making of that movie.
There is a good chance that town is populated with tens if not scores of Sean Connery’s illegitimate grandchildren now.
