Posted on 06/11/2015 4:48:12 AM PDT by Perdogg
RIP indeed.
Lots of people seem to think that. He was ok. My mom likes Roger Moore.
Young Connery and Dalton are the best to me.
"He also read Lord of the Rings once every year and met J.R.R. Tolkien in Person."
IIRC his scenes were cut from the second LOTR movie. That must have pissed him off.
RIP. Old age. Better way to go than a bullet, stake to the heart, or getting your head cut off by Hayden Christensen. That bit with him standing there looking sad and shocked before he died was probably the best acting in all the Star Wars prequels.
“My mom likes Roger Moore.”
My Mom did too.
“That bit with him standing there looking sad and shocked before he died was probably the best acting in all the Star Wars prequels.”
I’ll agree with that.
I don’t want to turn this into a 007 thread, but I pose this scenario:
Supposedly Timothy Dalton was considered for Bond when Sean Connery quit after “YOLT”, but was rejected for being too young. Imagine if Dalton had been chosen as Bond and Brosnan hadn’t been hamstrung by NBC back in the mid 80s? We would have had good/great Bonds seamlessly in place for decades.
I do stick up for Roger Moore though, because most of the scripts he had to work with were garbage. Whoever followed Connery was going to have that reality to deal with; Connery did have the luxury of working with the cream of the crop, script-wise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaXHDpCe-KI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYT3ctPuVRw
There are a couple of his scenes from the movies (he was in Episodes II and III). Only fitting such an iconic, legendary actor would appear in the Star Wars Movie Series. He has, as always, an excellent performance in this character role - you might enjoy the movies just to see him. These movies were actually being released within the same time period as the Lord of the Rings movies so he was playing an iconic villain in two different series of highly popular films.
I think Moore was excellent in the few serious bits they gave him, like pimp slapping Maud Adams and tipping that dude’s car off a cliff. Wasn’t his fault the writing sucked.
“Supposedly Timothy Dalton was considered for Bond when Sean Connery quit after “YOLT”, but was rejected for being too young.”
That is true. And he was supposed to do Goldeneye (it was written for him, his first movie TLD was written Moore’s Bond and had to be butched up), I love Goldeneye and think it would have been ever better with him.
Agreed and agreed.
Maud Adams...oh yeah!!!
Not quite. The SAS (actually L detachment-SAS Brigade) was a British Army unit operating behind German lines in North Africa. The SAS Brigade was a fictious unit designed to fool the Germans the British had a Paratroop unit they didn't have. When the Germans eventually realized this, it was hoped they would overlook that L detachment really existed eslewhere (even though they didn't jump out of planes).
The SOE did jump out of planes, but were a "Black-ops" group apart from the formal military organisation. They could be legally shot if captured, unlike the SAS.
And who says Lee wasn't adept at comedy ?
Dalton was considered, but apparently he took himself out of the running because he didn’t feel mature enough for the role.
Then he’s a self-destructive whore. IOW, the polar opposite of Sir Christopher Lee.
RIP
I still like him best in the old Hammer films.
Peter Cushing was in Star Wars: Episode IV. Lucas loved to have these great actors in his movies including Alec Guiness.
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