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  1. Sam Favate

    Connery in On Her Majesty's Secret Service?

    Yes, this, exactly. Brosnan was very good, but the writers never rose to the occasion for him. Tomorrow Never Dies is, I think, his best, due in large part to the great performance by Michelle Yeoh, and a pretty smart script (compared to his other films).
  2. Sam Favate

    Connery in On Her Majesty's Secret Service?

    I remember that! Oh, Moore would have killed it in OHMSS.
  3. Sam Favate

    Connery in On Her Majesty's Secret Service?

    And let’s not forget Honor Blackman in Goldfinger — the Bond series got a lot of mileage out of The Avengers.
  4. Sam Favate

    Connery in On Her Majesty's Secret Service?

    Diana Rigg left no doubt as to her feelings about George Lazenby, and vice versa. They famously did not get along. There's a story - which may be apocryphal - that Lazenby would eat garlic before scenes in which he had to kiss Rigg. By most reports, Lazenby had in his head he was the next big...
  5. Sam Favate

    Connery in On Her Majesty's Secret Service?

    It occurs to me that one of these days, as AI gets even more developed, we will be able to ask it, "Show me the movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service starring Sean Connery." The New York Times had a piece on this recently where AI provided stills from Jorodowsky's version of Tron, which never...
  6. Sam Favate

    Connery in On Her Majesty's Secret Service?

    I've heard the knee-jerk reaction that OHMSS with Connery would have been the best in the series, but I don't necessarily think that's true. I love Connery and he's my favorite Bond, but the movie needs Bond to be played without so much winking at the audience, and Connery had already started to...
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