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

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 1/20/2025 7:54 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:

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:

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

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

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.

Why not set the movie in the 1950s? There's absolutely no continuity.

So what about the book requires it to be set in the 50s?

It was written then and there was no space program.

Drax was a Nazi posing as a patriot who wanted to give the gift of a
nuclear weapon and missile to the UK in defence but in reality wanted
revenge REVENGE and destroy London.

The bridge game in which Bond first faced off with Drax was some of
Fleming's best writing. A little bit of the game is in the movie but it
wasn't as exciting.

I don't remember any card games in the movie.

When Bond meets Drax in California and they size each other up over a
meal, that's pretty much the only scene that reminded me of anything in
the novel. I thought there was a card game at that point but I may not
have recalled correctly.