Yeah, they were different, and Connery himself had a great deal to do with that. Movies nowadays rely way too much on a barrage of violent, spectacular, over-the-top action (with a lot of quick visual cuts) that is frankly unbelievable most of the time...and hard to even watch for older people who grew up in a different time.

But that's what the young audience is used to now, and that's what sells tickets.

Dogs and other domesticated animals eat what is put in front of them, don't they? And they do it willingly.