Great actor, even a greater man, a true legend.
"There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man" - Sean Connery.
Sean Connery has died
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I find it more perplexing that we pre-occupy ourselves with splitting the people of the world into those who are good and those who are bad. And then making sure the bad group can't ever make its way back into the good one. Rarely, if ever, is it so clear cut. And if anything, it's quite a juvenile (and pervasively Western) value system. I find it particularly exhausting and the world is as it is because there isn't…
What a very weird take on my comments. We didn’t make Sean Connery identify as “bad” - he did that, and did so unremorsefully and unapologetically. He didn’t want to come back to the “good” side. I find it most perplexing of all that you would want to do mental gymnastics to defend someone like that or minimize the highlighting of genuine harm that person did by trying to disingenuously act like it’s more nuanced tha…
Most reasonable people understand his overall sentiment and the underlying humorous opinion on the interaction between the sexes, but that requires nuance and context.
In the absence of that, perhaps a modern interpretation would be useful, so here is Bill Burr (famous world-class comedian) on a similar subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rksKvZoUCPQ
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'The Man Who Would Be King' is a wonderful film. He was also in some stinkers ('Highlander' springs to mind).
Highlander a stinker?
The Name of the Rose is pretty terrible. The book is incredible, though. It's the movie I instantly think of when someone asks "what is the worst movie adaptation of a book you've seen?"
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The best James Bond is George Lazenby. Sean Connery was fantastic in "The Man who would be a king" and in "The last crusade".
Yes, and the best “Bond girl” is Diana Rigg, also in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and who also sadly died recently.
Diana Rigg is absolutely my fave Bond girl. Those eyes could melt the coldest male resolve...
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#246RIP (the best James Bond.. a fantastic actor!!)
The best James Bond is George Lazenby. Sean Connery was fantastic in "The Man who would be a king" and in "The last crusade".
Agree; Lazenby is vastly underrated and in fact he played Bond in what I consider the best film in the series, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
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Any living person can hold a reprehensible point of view, and as much as I may disagree with it, I really can't stand this attitude of writing people off because of a flawed perspective. That doesn't mean I support spousal abuse by association, it means I recognise he has a shitty point of view amongst all of his other flaws, as well as his qualities. There isn't a single person in history that can meet this standard…
I hate the recent “Cancel Culture” thing (that the phenomenon you descrive is an instance of). Firstly, and beside the point, the term itself is wonderfully (though I suspect accidentally) ambiguous and self-defeating, as one can read it as “the culture of a cancelling” (as intended) or “this will cancel culure” (a possible side-effect). Anyway... yes, cancel culture... I criticised it here once previously and amongs…
I think the point is fair. From the perspective of liberty, there's no government using aggressive force against you; this is a perfectly free-market phenomenon.
That said, that doesn't mean it's always moral. For example, I don't feel comfortable saying at my place of work (software engineer) that women are biologically different than men and this probably has a large impact on why the field isn't 50/50 men/women.
I think this is a perfectly reasonable position, yet there's no way I could say this at work. I'd lose my job, just like James Damore.
So, I don't think that what is being done is wrong in the political sense, but I do think unfair cancellations are unethical. I think it's fine to "cancel" people/businesses/organizations that cause or allow unfair cancellations to take place. I already quietly decline to do business with and lobby against companies that adopt "woke" postures.
I'm part of a silent majority that votes with their wallet, I suppose.
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Nitpick: it wasn’t a Messerschmidt. It wasn’t even a German design ( https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Pilatus_P-2 ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilatus_P-2 says it first flew on April 27, 1945, so it must have time-travelled to be able to attack Indiana Jones in 1938.
Good thing he took it out, then!
That is one good reply. :)
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'The Man Who Would Be King' is a wonderful film. He was also in some stinkers ('Highlander' springs to mind).
Highlander a stinker?
I enjoyed it when it first came out. But I watched it again with my family, recently, and the cringe factor was high. The janky special effects were of their time. But there is no excuse for the accents! The music is amazing though.