# Worst Sean Connery movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 2, 2002, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003 "2002-08-02T12:46:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/21 "2002-08-03T08:03:35Z")
Oh, definitely _Highlander II_. That’s the worst movie _ever_ as far as I am concerned. The other movies that have been mentioned (that I’ve seen) are merely weak. Well, some of them are. I thought “Darby O’Gill” was cute for what it was (B-movie by Disney); “First Knight” was weak but not in an extraordinary way, same goes for “Medicine Man” and “Russia House”. (Well, “Russia House” was just a bit slow, is all.) I didn’t cringe when I saw these movies (well, maybe a little with “First Knight”). On the other hand, I absolutely fell into a coma of shocked disbelief when I saw “Highlander II”. It is the **worst movie EVER.** I find it interesting that “Russia House”, “First Knight” and “Medicine Man” all have scores by my favorite living composer, Jerry Goldsmith. I believe that the “Russia House” score was nominated for an Oscar, and the “First Knight” score was a critical favorite. (Can’t remember if it was nominated, though, but it was probably a contender.) Same goes for the “Medicine Man” score. Damned good score. Huh. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/22 "2002-08-03T08:26:01Z")
Highlander II “In the end, you will wish there could only be one.” Tris ---
**Author:** ![dr\_hermes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@dr\_hermes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dr_hermes)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/23 "2002-08-03T09:32:43Z")
Connery`s Tarzan film was actually a pretty good straight adventure film, from a period around 1960 when the films tried to be more adult. Gordon Scott as a grim Tarzan, a group of sleazy jewel thieves scheming against each other. Connery played a bloodthirsty gunman who wasn`t intimidated by Tarzan at all, went out looking for the Apeman and found out what an arrow in the chest felt like. ``` HIGHLANDER II on the other hand...brrrrr. It`s like a movie where we find out Sherlock Holmes WAS Moriarty, blaming his own crimes on an imaginary mastermind. Dreadful idea. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/24 "2002-08-03T10:55:46Z")
Outlander. ---
**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/25 "2002-08-03T10:59:07Z")
Or make that ‘Outland’. (now that I check the IMDB) ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/26 "2002-08-03T11:17:41Z")
I thought that Outland was a pretty good remake of High Noon. Highlander II was a really bad movie, but Avengers was more than bad. It’s the only film I’ve ever seen where the majority of the people in the theatre walked out. Avengers bring a new meaning to bad and I say that because it tried to be a big budget cool adventure flick. Highlander II never wanted to be anything but a popcorn movie. ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/27 "2002-08-03T12:07:05Z")
**A Good Man in Africa** was pretty bad. ---
**Author:** ![tetsusaru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@tetsusaru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tetsusaru)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/28 "2002-08-03T14:07:59Z")
The Avengers? Uma Thurman in a black leather catsuit? What`s not to like? Never Say Never Again was also far better than the Roger Moore tripe EON was serving up at the time: Moonraker, anyone? "Good to see you back, Mr Bond. I hope we`re going to see some gratuitous sex and violence." OK, Entrapment sucked. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Griffin)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/29 "2002-08-03T15:40:44Z")
He’s a poor actor full stop. Vastly over-hyped. ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/30 "2002-08-03T15:54:17Z")
nuh uh. He was awesome in “The Hill” ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/31 "2002-08-03T15:55:56Z")
**Wrong is Right** was actually pretty amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/32 "2002-08-03T16:38:41Z")
\*\* Meteor, Meteor, Meteor!!!\*\* Uh, I think. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/33 "2002-08-03T17:48:44Z")
I agree with **The Griffin**. This guy is one of the most overrated actors of all time. Two movies that haven’t been mentioned yet. **Just Cause** had a lot of potential and a great storyline, but I just didn’t believe that this old fart and Kate Capshaw were a believable couple. He was 65 when this movie was made. He was older than her father! He annoyed the piss out of me in **Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade**. **The Name of the Rose**. Sticking a fork in my eye would have been less painful. Actually, now that I think about it… I can’t think of too many movies this boob has been in that I think are any good. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/34 "2002-08-03T17:56:41Z")
Those Bond movies he did sucked pretty hard. I don’t know if anyone ever saw them. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/35 "2002-08-03T19:52:34Z")
I was going to mention **Sword of the Valiant** , a Golan/Globus retelling of\* Sir Gawain and the Green Knight \*starring Miles O’Keeffe…and yet, there sits **Highlander II** , perched in my brain like some feces-smeared statue commemorating some unspeakable atrocity. The “Hamlet” scene alone is enough to make strong men weep. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/36 "2002-08-03T21:54:38Z")
I cast my vote for Zardoz ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/37 "2002-08-04T00:05:31Z")
Just wait until you see **Shalako**. Trust me, you will search out this thread and change your vote. **Haster** , you mean he was in a Bond film? Which one? Who did he play? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/38 "2002-08-04T10:29:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max \* > > **The Name of the Rose**. Sticking a fork in my eye would have been less painful. > > Actually, now that I think about it… I can’t think of too many movies this boob has been in that I think are any good. I liked that film. **First Knight** gets my vote. ---
**Author:** ![dr\_hermes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@dr\_hermes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dr_hermes)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/39 "2002-08-04T10:50:12Z")
Good movies with Sean Connery starring? ROBIN AND MARIAN THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE HIGHLANDER THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER THE WIND AND THE LION ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003/40 "2002-08-04T13:48:13Z")
THE HILL \*why does everyone forget that film? \* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-sean-connery-movie/122003.md?page=3)