Suck it, 2020. Suck it long, and suck it hard.
He’s outlived by Trebek!
R.I.P.
Not to mention Zardoz.
Yes, I know his name — insofar as he had a name — was Zed. However you cut it, nobody could sport red diapers like Sir Sean.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves:
Alan Rickman = great
Morgan Freeman = great
Mary LongLastName = great
Kevin CostCo = meh
The movie’s almost over, everybody tries their darnedest, but it’s nothing I need to see again. What? At the last second? King Richard the Lionheart? IT’S CONNERY TO SAVE THE DAY!!
Actually, I thought it an appropriate swan song, and thought he might have intended it that way. The movie, while not a good interpretation of Moore’s graphic novel (virtually none of the movie adaptations are), still revered the concept. At the end a (non-drug-addicted) Allan Quatermain, played by Connery, hands the mantle over to the up-and-rising Tom Sawyer*, just as Connery was handing over the Action Hero mantle to younger stars.
Connery was in a lot of other film roles, several of them excellent. He was supposed to get the very last line in Richard Williams’ beleaguered animation masterpiece The Thief and the Cobbler . According to the Wikipedia page on this, Connery reportedly never showed up to record his line. But on the re-assembled fan version someone who sounds an awful lot like him does speak the line.
- As I said, definitely not Moore, but someone who at least worked seriously with the concept.
You just reminded me of something. My grandmother wanted to see Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves so my sister and I took her to the theater. She loved Sean Connery but we didn’t tell her he was in the movie. When Connery showed up on the screen Gran blurted out “Oh! It’s Sean Connery!” Probably louder than she meant to… but the whole theater laughed.
Gran rocks! 
The best Bond and unbeatable in The Man Who Would Be King. One presumes he had urgent business in the south.
He goes on to get the best line in the movie (which, apparently, was ad-libbed by Connery).
“Look at what you did! I can’t believe what you did!” is a line my wife and I quote all the time.
Shite! 
I love that movie, “The Man Who Would Be King”.
Rest in Peace, Sean Connery. Thank you for entertaining us. Thank you for showing us, Now THAT’S the Chicago way.
A favorite of mine too. But really? Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) is happy now. She’s not weeping, she and James Bond are sleeping together. Finally. And forever.
Connery starred in a movie a few years before this, Finding Forrester, where he passes the mantle of writer to his protege and friend, Jamal. It was a much better movie than The League of Extraordinary Gentleman and a movie I imagine Connery would much rather be remembered for.
I saw an ‘RIP Sean Connery’ meme this morning – with a picture of George Lazenby. 
Great job in Indiana Jones #3 , very good movie.
An early and poorly timed effort by Connery was the comedy A Fine Madness with Joanne Woodward. It was in 1966, while he was still doing Bond movies and I don’t think audiences saw him as a comedic actor. It’s a fun little film about a frustrated poet who works as a janitor. There’s a cameo by Sue Ane Langdon as a sexy secretary.
In the same way that a truly great narrator can make a piece-of-shit audiobook totally worth listening to … there were a couple of actors in whom I’d see anything, and who would basically never disappoint even if they couldn’t totally redeem the film.
For me … first to come to mind are Jack Nicholson and Connery.
And “The Rock” was, for years, the only DVD my wife and I owned. Total and complete guilty pleasure material.
Yeah. Thanks for countless hours of truly solid entertainment and performances, Mr. Bond.
I guess Goldfinger was finally right:
Yeah Connery was great in the Last Crusade. There is a 20 minute or so stretch in it which is a pinnacle of film action-adventure. It starts with the scene you linked and ends with this.
I just realized that Connery and Moore died at a very similar age: 90 and 89. I still find it remarkable that Moore was three years older than Connery.