Liking an actor, but not liking his movies

[betweensunandmoon]

I like Timothy Dalton. I have not yet seen him in anything I really enjoyed. I know everyone raves about The Lion in Winter, but I thought it was too slow-paced and the ending was anticlimactic. The Living Daylights was slightly better, but I regard the James Bond movies as tolerable at best and painful ordeals at worst. You already know my opinion on The Rocketeer.

The rest of his filmography does not look particularly promising. Alas.

Comments

[betweensunandmoon]

I saw Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade long before seeing any of the Bond films, so I guess I never quite got used to thinking of Sean Connery as James Bond. :P

Obviously a lot of people are fond of Connery's Bond because he was the first one in the role, but I found him more businesslike than charming—not a bad thing if you're supposed to be a secret agent, but not a good thing if you're supposed to be a womanizer. The way 007 was allowed to treat women back then might have had something to do with it, though.

[igenlode]

'Businesslike' is the polite way of putting it -- I thought he came across as an unsympathetic thug :-p

But I haven't seen a Connery Bond movie in a *long* time...