Seeing Sean Connery flirt and have love scenes with the women in this film is awkward, weird and just plain wrong. It's hard not to focus on his fake-tanned face FULL of wrinkles when he's trying to put on his Bond charm. He TOTALLY misses the mark and I feel like he's someone's grandpa hitting on women 1/3 his age. Eww, eww, eww. How awkward and weird. Connery was an IDIOT to do this film.
I specifically reminded her - bedside table! On the Kangaroo!
It would have been much better if George Lazenby had starred in Never Say Never Again. He would have been 44 when they started filming and was in great shape during that time. He could have been paid 1/3 or 1/4 what Connery was paid leaving room for another rewrite/better effects/a better composer. He was so hungry for solid roles in the 80's that he would have given it all he had... leading this to be one of the best James Bond films. However that's all wishful thinking and speculation on my part.
Lazenby, Dalton & Craig, EXCEPT NO Substitutes!
Could have, should have, didn't. Connery was heavily involved in pushing for this film to get made, from what I understand. He was clearly in McClory's camp and, quite frankly, it most likely never would have gotten made at all without Connery. His clout and his histroy in the role of 007 is what sold the film. I agree that Lazenby would have been superior in every way, but the simple fact is that he wasn't popular back then and a studio was not going to bank on him to try to compete with Eon.
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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?
80 is old. Not 53.
shareMoore looked even worse two years later with Tanya Roberts in A View to a Kill.
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"Is this a courting or a donnybrook?"---Michaleen Flynn, The Quiet Man
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"you sound like an idiot when you say that" How do you think you sound when you litter the boards with your sick obsession with age. People who live in glass houses.....
shareI saw this for the time this weekend, and if I'd seen it when I was younger I may have felt he was too old, but now that I'm closer to his age in this film, the man was still hot hot hot in 1983.
His brogue was stronger, and I really liked his voice in this film.
Why ain't you at the garden party you heathen?
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I am formerly known as HillieBoliday.....Member since May 2006:
SO WHAT?!!! NO ONE stays young forever!!!
I so enjoyed seeing James Bond older, but still possessing the same masculine, virile, self-confidence as an older 007. I like that he makes reference in the film.....as teaching and not so much as being active in the field...that's a credible and natural career progression for his character.
I'm thinking you might have issues with your own sexuality if you find James Bond doing what he always does best as....Eww, eww, eww!
Your "eww" factor would apply if he was a dirty, learing, ugly, lecherous old octopus with 20 hands.
It WOULD BE awkward if the character, James Bond, didn't have the track record of attracting and loving the ladies...but he does! It WOULD BE awkward if he wasn't as attractive, confident, virile, and respectful to women....but he is! It WOULD BE awkward if he was not as ruggedly handsome and appealing to women as James Bond has always been....but he is!
It is possible for older men to be sexy, virile and quite sexually active in their older years! I have an older (70)friend who has been a widower for about 7 years; who is so sexy, handsome, suave, charming and very attentive to women. WOMEN LOVE HIM...and I understand why. He and I have been friends (and friends only) for many, many years.....I was also friends with his deceased wife. I totally get it why she fell in love with him.....and I totally get it why women.....and I mean much younger as well as older women find him so appealing, attractive....and are always flirting with him.
It takes wisdom and maturity to recognize that although some people do get older.....they can get better with age. I think Sean Connery IS THE ONLY JAMES BOND...who could come back as older and still have an overall appeal as a still desirable 007!! Personally.....I find older men to be better lovers, because they know how important and gratifying it is to take their time and truly make love to a woman; than younger men who never bother to learn the thorough technique of "slow walking me down!"
As an older, very straight, "strictly dickly" heterosexual black female who has been crazy about Sean Connery as James Bond since the first releases in the theatres back in the early '60's......I'm soooooooooo glad we are NOT talking about someone of the alternative lifesytle!!
"OOhhhooo....I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
That's the point of this film. It's a big piss-take on the Eon films that were being made at the time. Roger Moore was three years older than Connery but he was continuing to play the action hero and the lover as if he was a man half his age. Even at his youngest, Moore was never the man Connery was. That's why this film is all about Bond being old and semi-retired and how he's basically "too old for this sh*t". Connery was mocking the idea of dragging the series on with an aging star trying to act young. Throughout the film, Bond is a relic of the 60s completely out of the step in the more technologically advanced 80s. The Moore films were famous for having scenes with hot chicks in bikinis hanging around swimming pools while Moore strolls in completely overdressed; in THIS film there's a similar scene and when Connery walks in, he's wearing a sweater with a giant monogrammed "M" on it. Coincidence? I think not.
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