Now the dust has settled, what did you think?
Now the dust has settled, what did you think?
Aye, twas peak. The wee bairns loved it, and they were greetin by the end, but Tory pricks paid off newspapers, youtubers an aw to do a smear campaign. If Sir Billi had been the success it should've been, then Scotland would be independent right now.
Aye, it wis pure class. The wee bairns adored it, an they were greetin by the end, but them Tory bastards paid aff newspapers, YouTubers an aw tae run a smear campaign. If Sir Billi had been the success it ought tae huv been, then Scotland wid be independent by noo.
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I think it was made for an audiance of 1 person; Sean Connery. It substituted good story writing with poorly made and shoehorned references. It looked like shit, it looked like it released ten years before it did, but Hoodwinked looked like shit and was still a great movie.
The characters sucked, the story is a meandering nightmare of events strung along and forgets its A plot (Bessie and the wildlife inspector) for 80% of the film despite a huge chunk of the motivation for whatever retarded shit the characters are doing are in service of finding and rescuing Bessie.
Foodfight was a better film with reference humor and made me laugh at its intentional humor significantly more.
This set Scottish aniamtion back into the stone age, where the rest of its countrymen reside.
Reminder that Sean Connery accepted working on this movie and turned down playing Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings.
He already did Highlander 2 and Zardoz, so at that point he was all out of dignity.
Zardoz is actually good though, if you take a couple hours to watch it and not base your opinions on memes, and Cracked lists or whatever.
Zardoz
Implying he didn't have a blast doing that shit
It was less about dignity and it was more like he read the script and was like "what the fuck is this shit? the fuck is a Hobbit?" He legit thought it was going to be a failure. Had he accepted the role he would have gotten 10-25% of the box office so he'd have gotten hundreds of millions of dollars.
That's why it's funny he turned down one of the most potentially lucrative film roles ever and decided to star in stuff like Sir Billi instead.
This was Kevin Spacey's last movie before his career toppled. Some actors have terrible read on projects.
Dennis Hopper's last role was on this shit.
It felt brutal, how hard they cashed out his whole legacy for this. Whored him out GOOD
If I remember correctly, the couple that made this film lied to Connery about there being no James Bond references as he wasn't a fan of those. Also alot of skeezy behind the scenes shit.
That aside, what am I supposed to really say? It's a shitty CGI movie that serves as Connery's final role before death took him.
And he somehow thought League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was his worst.
It was a sweet sentiment for him to choose a Scottish children’s movie to be his last. It’s just a shame it sucks , Ireland animation mogs
Didn't he turn down playing Morpheus in The Matrix as well?
Brick Top in Snatch, too.
But that was a budget issue
Many this guy had like one good movie and thought he was too good for everything.
what the fuck is this shit?
Orson Welles directed, wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane which is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. His last role before he died was as Unicron the planet sized Transformer in the Transformers animated movie. To him it must have been like working on a glorified toy commercial.
And he somehow thought League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was his worst.
I imagine it's easy for Connery to dismiss cartoon movies like Sir Billi since in his mind he probably thinks it's "just for kids". Like if I got a role as a voice actor on Blue's Clues I wouldn't be much of a good judge of which season of Blue's Clues is the best since it's all just preschooler stuff and not really for me. So he probably doesn't even consider it a real movie to bother judging against his other work.
As stated earlier it seems more like he was just a really bad judge at figuring out what would be successful. Look at Lord of the Rings from his perspective. They filmed the entire trilogy back to back. From what I can find filming took 438 days. So he could be stuck in the middle of nowhere in New Zealand for over a year away from friends/family. And instead of a set salary they offered him a percentage of the box office. In retrospect that's a fantastic deal but had the films been box office bombs he would have just spent a bunch of time and effort for a shitty pay out.
All this for a script he couldn't even really understand. Now compare that to Sir Billi. He probably had to invest little and he could just show up in a nice air conditioned studio to phone in a performance.
Didn't the studio behind this throw a bitch fit when some Scottish film panel picked Brave, a movie made by Americans, as their choice for best Scottish animated movie rather than lower their standards to pick Sir Billi?
"The first Scottish Animated movie". Where Sean Connery is a badass animal dude who has to save a Beaver because...something something Scottish pride.
I wouldn't be shocked. Then again it says alot when "the movie with the bear bait and switch" is more proud to be Scottish than the Tesco brand animated movie.
How do scots suck so much? Even places like Estonia have competent feature-length animation projects.
Scots are like Canadians. Their hatred for their neighbor holds back their creativity.
The girls were hot
it's shite
it's based and billi-pilled
James Bond, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Ah yes, my three favourite Sean Connery characters
The Architect.
that it was cynical of Sean Connery to market himself as Scottish after becoming a Spanish citizen (and fluent Spanish speaker) when he moved to Spain in the 1970s as a tax exile and spent the rest of his life living there or in France or in the Bahamas, and the tax he would have paid had he lived in the UK full time would have done a great deal to alleviate problems with Scottish poverty, particularly in Glasgow, which is a net beneficiary of UK income taxation, and his political views - he joined the SNP in the 1960s when it was a centre-left party and was still supporting it up until the 2010s when it was firmly a right-wing party - were risible
he was more or less retired by then and had just sold his villa in Spain and his mansion in France to move permanently to the Bahamas
it was made as a favour to the SNP, whose politics he didn't really understand because he was neither Scottish nor resident in the UK, much less Scotland
also he had dementia by then
You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that change from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.