Thanks Laura, that was really nice... If you get a chance, check out the song by Symphony X - The Odyssey ... it's got kind of another version of The Odyssey that was originally done by Queen. Very artistic as well.

In reply to this comment by laura:
Thought you might like this one:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sean-Connery-Recites-Ithaca-by-CP-Cavafy
forgive me if you've seen it already!

Just thought I would let you know that the last comments of yours I read were on the thread concerning the "ignore" feature....and I won't be ignoring your comments, FYI. Seemed that whole notion got you pretty upset, but please remember that people have their own "ignore" features already which consist of bothersome scrolling past comments they don't want to read. People who ignore you (or anyone else for that matter) simply aren't ready to read what you have to say and wouldn't have understood it anyway...unless they were meant to read it, in which case they will read it. Make sense? Prolly not. I thought you would like this one anyway:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Sean-Connery-Recites-Ithaca-by-CP-Cavafy
cheers

Thanks!!

In reply to this comment by swampgirl:
*promote smurfing.. among consenting Smurfs of course

Man I really want to hit her. But not in that way. More in this way.

Yeah, you're right.

In reply to this comment by spoco2:
I have to say, I don't think Michael Bay is as bad as people think he is... he IS bad when he tries to be serious, maybe one day he'll learn how to actually do a serious flick, but he can't at the moment.

When it comes to big, fun, tongue in cheek action, I have to say... I enjoy his stuff. Transformers? Great flick, really doesn't take itself seriously, and is wonderful fun for it. Bad Boys? Hey, I find it entertaining and funny. The Island... actually started out well and started to demonstrate that with time he may be able to do a serious flick... but dissolved into pointless action. Armageddon shits me because it's terrible, but I remember tearing up at it all the while going 'This is blatent emotional triggering. The Rock, despite some terrible lines that are truly cringe worthy (Sean Connery talking about screwing the prom queen or whatever it was) it too was great fun.

He's good at films that are great fun, great escapism, but not deep in any sense of the word.

Boll on the otherhand creates films that have you being wrenched out of your suspension of disbelief every other minute to say 'Oh my god that was a terrible line', or 'What ham fisted acting', or 'What? Why the hell did that just happen?'

This is the man who made this for god's sake, he WANTS to be Michael Bay, he WANTS to be the other directors... check out the horrendous misuse of 'bullet time' in that clip... not for any betterment of the scene at all, he seems to direct with a checklist:
[ ] 'Hardcore' soundtrack
[ ] The latest fad camera techniques
[ ] Blood
[ ] Swearing
[ ] Nudity if possible

Do these things have to fit into the film, or the scenes? Nope, he just figures that a good movie have those things.

The fact that he took to punching his critics in the ring speaks of his complete inability to take criticism, he is a seriously sad and angry little man.

I have to say, I don't think Michael Bay is as bad as people think he is... he IS bad when he tries to be serious, maybe one day he'll learn how to actually do a serious flick, but he can't at the moment.

When it comes to big, fun, tongue in cheek action, I have to say... I enjoy his stuff. Transformers? Great flick, really doesn't take itself seriously, and is wonderful fun for it. Bad Boys? Hey, I find it entertaining and funny. The Island... actually started out well and started to demonstrate that with time he may be able to do a serious flick... but dissolved into pointless action. Armageddon shits me because it's terrible, but I remember tearing up at it all the while going 'This is blatent emotional triggering. The Rock, despite some terrible lines that are truly cringe worthy (Sean Connery talking about screwing the prom queen or whatever it was) it too was great fun.

He's good at films that are great fun, great escapism, but not deep in any sense of the word.

Boll on the otherhand creates films that have you being wrenched out of your suspension of disbelief every other minute to say 'Oh my god that was a terrible line', or 'What ham fisted acting', or 'What? Why the hell did that just happen?'

This is the man who made this for god's sake, he WANTS to be Michael Bay, he WANTS to be the other directors... check out the horrendous misuse of 'bullet time' in that clip... not for any betterment of the scene at all, he seems to direct with a checklist:
[ ] 'Hardcore' soundtrack
[ ] The latest fad camera techniques
[ ] Blood
[ ] Swearing
[ ] Nudity if possible

Do these things have to fit into the film, or the scenes? Nope, he just figures that a good movie have those things.

The fact that he took to punching his critics in the ring speaks of his complete inability to take criticism, he is a seriously sad and angry little man.

^ ^For example, we know that EVERYONE is attracted to Sean Connery. Male, female, whatever, you know that you get all hot and bothered when you watch him in Goldfinger and The Hunt for Red October.

Also, since homosexuality has been found in nature, which is supposedly God's grand design, it must be natural for homosexuality to occur. Is it the most common thing? No, but then again, neither are a lot of perfectly "acceptable" traits. People end up gay without being raised by homosexuals, and this has happened all throughout history, so it's just stupid to say that homosexuals would ever cease to exist.

Sean Connery definitely made this movie. I think it's better than Raiders, though not by much... 2 was definite crap though.

Classic scene from the movie.

never saw this, so I'm gonna have to ask-which season was it?
anyway, it's nice they gave it to Hammond for testing, knowing his affection for bikes. and I must say, I am sooo amazed at how even Clarkson behaved pretty much like a child while talking about it. I'm not quite sure why they think the Dutch have a Sean-Connery accent, though, but nevermind. I did think they borrowed some elements from a gallardo for some of those rear angles, didn't you?

I think the point is the imbalance in the type of role the Muslims stereotype is cast in, as Tom Stall pointed out, they are, more often than most other stereotypes cast as the role of the enemy.

The reason there is not a Jewish version of this video is because Jews in movies can also be sympathetic genocide victims, or intelligent problem solving types, or funny scene-stealers, or that cute guy the cute girls falls for in the latest 3 hankie chick flick sobfest... and yes, Germans in films are for the most part perpetually stuck in 1939-45 invading other countries and shouting 'Mein Furor' but they can also be punk rockers, composers, happy beer-swilling tourists, new wave musicians or esoteric art film directors... its not to say that these groups are not stereotyped in film, but their stereotypes have more variety, and fill many more roles than always being terrorists.

I think Farhad is right in that the Russians are the only group that can begin to compare in the treatment the Arabs have received from Hollywood, they are always baddies perpetually dubbed as 'those sneaky-fucking Russians'. Unless they are played by Sean Connery, then they get to be noble, but they still speak with a Scottish burr.

Musics worth an upvote for making me smile

Airwolf was great in its day, but aged so badly One for the memories, not to be rewatched...

Gyros have been around a fair while. I caught a snapshot of a Bond on a few weeks back, one with Sean Connery in, and he was flying a Gyro in it back then. His had all kinds of gadgets too

yea. and a poorly impersonated sean connery (the dragon).

me too! He does sort of look like Sean Connery.

I wish I could vote twice. Once for the vid, once for enfathom's comments. Welcome to the Sift! (Said in a Sean Connery voice from The Rock).

This reminds me of Sean Connery in The Untouchables where Ness is trying to recruit him. The whole time, in each scene cut, the top button of his shirt goes open, closed, open, closed, open, closed. Once you notice it, it really distracting.