How about The Arab Conspiracy or Wrong Is Right?
OMG! I completly forgot Meteor, with Brian Keith and Martin Laundau having a complete over the top meltdown in front of the Russians.
Is Meteor the one where Sean utters those immortal words:
“Why don’t you just shove a broom up my ash so I can shweep the floor on my way out!”
?
(and yes, I was trying to reproduce that Scottish accent…)
Zardoz may be hilariously bad, but it is really fun to watch. Plus, Connery is running around in the most ridiculous red leather outfit ever. Seven thumbs up.
Highlander 2, on the other hand, is just painful.
Am I really the only one that *liked *Zardoz?
On an unironic level? Yes. Yes, you are. Just watch the clip of Sir Sean twirling into the glass pyramid (here at the 1:11 mark). I dare you not to laugh!
P.S. The penis is evil. The gun is good.
Oh, c’mon…First Knight is not only the worst Sean Connery movie ever, it’s in the Top 5 Worst of All Time. I mean really – King Arthur facing a crossbow firing squad?
No, I have seen it a half-dozen times or so and have a soft spot for it, too, for two reasons: it is so weird (!) and it introduced me to Charlotte Rampling.
[**On an unironic level? Yes. Yes, you are. Just watch the clip of Sir Sean twirling into the glass pyramid (here at the 1:11 mark). I dare you not to laugh!
P.S. The penis is evil. The gun is good. **
Wow! That was really bad. (although the penis is evel. the gun is good would make a great t-shirt slogan)
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Sean Connery movie. That clip isn’t making me want to change that.
Youtube has the trailer for Zardoz.
NSFW?
Not Safe For Society?
Not Safe For Your Brain?
What the hell was THAT?
Zardoz is fucking great, an early 70’s uber-pretentious SF dystopia flick with Sean Connery in a tangerine nappy and a Zapata moustache, and a giant floating head that vomits guns.
I had a friend in 1974 (still a friend, btw) who at the time had a full beard and a 'fro. He’d bunch the hair back from his forehead, open his mouth in a grimace, and say “check it out…Zardoz”.
Behold the power of the orange diaper! (And also that giant godlike head thing in the sky.)
IMHO Zardoz wins[?] it by the width of Connery’s butt cheeks.
I actually forgot he was in Meteor. On the other hand I think my brain has repressed most of that movie.
Well it did have some hot naked women with equations projected on them for some soft core math porn at the end…
What is this Highlander 2 everyone is talking about?
You’ve never seen ANY movie with Sean Connery? No Bonds, no Hunt for Red October, no Name of the Rose? Get thee to a Blockbuster Video, my friend. You’ll see that whatever nationality the character, he always has a Scottish accent. Awesome.
My friend, who first lent me the Zardoz DVD, actually made me a t-shirt with Red Leather Manties Connery on the front and the slogan “The Penis is Evil” on the back. I wore it at work for most of the day.
Anyway, perusing Sir Sean’s filmography, he really starred in a bunch of crap during the 90s, like Medicine Man and Just Cause.
I’m going to revise my opinion and say worst is Highlander 2 and a close second is First Knight. Up till now I had successfully blocked out that terrible, terrible movie. I still remember how when Connery walks in on Guinevere and Richard Gere getting busy, the filmmaker superimposed a flame over his eye. Subtle.
I feel the same way. It’s not something I’d watch time and again, but there was nothing terribly wrong with it, and I certainly don’t see why anyone would lump it into a “worst movies ever” category.
Highlander 2, though, whoa… Stinkier than the men’s room at a truck stop. Even the Director’s Cut/Renegade Edition/whatever else it’s been called was really bad, just not quite as bad as the theatrical cut.
Never saw Zardoz. Only saw a few minutes of Avengers while flipping through channels one time. It did seem pretty bad, so I just changed the channel again.
I, too, liked The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I honestly don’t understand why some people seem to hate it so. Sure, it wasn’t anything great, but it was fun. I could name scores of movies that were far dumber, with plots that made far less sense.
Zardoz, on the other hand, is without question the worst movie Sean has ever been in. Dumb to the nth degree, nonsensical to an even higher degree. And pointless, did I mention pointless? I’ve actually seen it twice. I saw it when it first came out, because I didn’t know any better. A few years ago, I was telling my wife, who loves Sean Connery, about Zardoz. She couldn’t believe that Sean could be in anything that was as bad as I was describing. So we watched it. She now believes me.
That t-shirt would have been great!
I thought I must have sen a Sean Connery movie - he is such an icon. But I checked at IMdB - & no i haven’t seen a single one! Robin & Marion sounds like me though. & I’ll write down your reccommendations.
The only James Bond I’ve seen in its entirety is The Spy Who Loved Me. I saw part of the 1st Daniel Craig one - but fell asleep. (Not cause the film was bad, I was exhausted!)
Ugh! No, it’s another terrible movie that he’s been in. The work that made him a star are the James Bond films; Goldfinger is particularly iconic.