Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-19 (Sunday)

On 1/20/2025 5:39 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 1/20/25 1:18 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 1/20/2025 9:53 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

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What did you watch?

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'Moonraker'. And yes, the physics ARE complete male bovine digestive
end product but its still a fun flick. :)

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I have it on good authority that "Moonraker" is the best Bond film,
EVAH!!  ;p

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I despise this movie on principle that they made such a horrid
adaptation of Fleming's best novel. All they had to do was set the movie
story in the 1950s, same as the novel, and it would have been a great
movie. We don't need Bond In Space in, essentially, a remake of major
elements of You Only Live Twice and The Spy Who Loved Me.
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Why not set the movie in the 1950s? There's absolutely no continuity.
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 So what about the book requires it to be set in the 50s?
 

Apparently the original written story was about a billionaire building a nuclear missile to nuke London.
By this point in the movie series Fleming was long dead and they weren't really "adapting" the books, they were using them as inspiration for their own scripts/stories.  One of the extras included footage of Chubby Broccoli discussing basically how out of date the Fleming story was and how they needed to "update" it to the current times.  Eon did realize that despite the huge success of 'Moonraker' they needed to bring Bond back down to earth, metaphorically.  That's one of the reasons for blowing up his Lotus early in 'For Your Eyes Only', to move away from relying on gadgets and more on Bond's abilities and skills.  (I'm working my way thru the FYEO extras before watching it and they talk about this a lot.)
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