I don't think so. He did a lot of similar stuff in the 70s; maybe it didn't become clear how bad the movie is until they finished it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_connery#Beyond_Bond

It seems Connery had a preference for (pseudo) historical swashbuckling heros - he turned down several iconic roles of the fantasy/scifi genre:

Goodness, Gandalf was a license to print money! I can understand him turning down Dumbledore, who is the nutty professor type. The Architect I can't remember. I only watched one of the Matrix movies - one was enough.

Perhaps he didn't really need money. If you make a few million, and invest in real estate, there's a good living to be made just owning it - rental income, etc.

I watched World War 2 in Color - again.

Watch what version you get! This time I had a 10 episode version from the Excited States which really only covered the European and American bloodbaths and is a very poor history. The version I saw first time was much better. Episode 1 takes you as far as Dunkirk. Then you only touch the headline events so by episode 6 (of 10) you're on D-Day. Not covered are: The African war; Italy, or any other Axis Power except Japan; Burma, or nearly all of the war in Asia; Iwo Jima, or the horror of that fight; the naval struggle with submarines; the role of Australians, Indians and other Commonwealth countries; The Philippines; The Invasion of Italy & Mussolini; the hypocrisy of the pope. The show generally & the last episode in particular is frank about racist attitudes and the use of neuclear weapons in particular.

It's a good watch, provided nobody in the room is sickened by a million or two dying in horrible ways - being left to starve, treated as human experiments, gassed, etc. Better watched alone by the few who can stomach it.

Some how I missed Attack the Block when it came out, but noticed it in a list of Jodie Whittaker movies. It's low budget alien invasion at its best and the music is great.

How to train your dragon, & How to train your dragon 2.

These are animated movies, and good ones. The animation is so good you forget they are cartoons. When all the main characters are expressing subtle emotions as part of the plot, the animation has to be excellent. I didn't think there would be a second decent plot in 'how to train your dragon' but there was in the characters they had created. That said, if there a third movie, I'll hardly go for it.

But it was all good clean fun except for about one third being the war and violence typical of cartoons. The ending was a little unclear, but that's a small issue. You'll enjoy them.

^ Good to know. I watched pt 1 a long time ago and enjoyed it.

Trailer looks like good fun, and good music - but aliens that look like fluorescent angry bears are a little too unconvincing for me I think.

On WW2: found my titles.


Avoid "The Greatest Events of World War 2 in colour" with 10 episodes. It also has American historians who have boned up on this big time but haven't had one interview in their lives. Now somebody put a camera in front of them and said 'talk,' which they did to excess.

Recommended "World War 2 in colour" with 13 episodes, which gives a more even coverage.

It seems somebody started a "Good 2021 movie to watch" thread on Slashdot.org
I reckon there's gotta be one watchable movie for some weirdo in the 138 comments to date!

I was going to stick a review up here, but as nobody really seems to be here, I won't bother.

You know how it works: posting to a thread automatically subscribes one to it, everybody who ever posted here and regularly logs in sees every new post. But sometimes they have nothing to say.
Personally I'm not all that interested in WW2 documentaries.

I looked at the slasdot link, thanks for that - there was one show that possibly interests me, some I already knew, and some that probably don't interest me.

I'm not hugely interested. It's historic instead of military. Some of that stuff was prophesied. It's only a few words here or there, but I'd like to know nevertheless.

Unforgotten Season 2
A London police procedural about historical cases, and how unearthing crimes of the past influences the present.
Season 2 was better than the first I think; I was particulalrly happy about its conclusion!
I don't want to spoiler anything, so you're just going to have to watch it.
The characters are deeply developed and the constantly present nostalgia is something most people of a certain age can relate to I guess.
We learn a lot about saponification in the first couple episodes.

Unforgotten Season 3? I got 1-4, and will be surprised if there's a season 5.

^ so? I still have one more season to watch.
Two more actually, because my previous post was about season 2, not 3. Fixed it now.

Annika Series one.

Just finished it. It's more reminiscent of a small soap opera than a detective thing.

It's fairly painless, just not very good. No sex shoved in your face, although it's in the plot. Nicola Warden(?) who also was in "Unforgotten" stars. I found the dialogue bits straight to camera occurred at predictable places and were weird - treatises on pagan gods by a disfunctional mother. Instead of character development, it was more character deconstruction. I watched it all, however, and not much gets that far. I'm not a huge fan. The Marine Homicide Unit is a good idea, but there's nothing naval about the show - the bodies get washed up on harbours or bathing spots.