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

On Jan 21, 2025 at 10:07:26 AM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> 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?

 

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.

 
During Fleming's lifetime too! Fleming's plot from the Goldfinger novel
wasn't used. The novel's scheme by Goldfinger was poorly thought out.

"Do you expect me to talk?"

"No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die."

Last month I played lead trumpet in an orchestra concert of famous songs from
film and one of the pieces on the menu was GOLDFINGER. They hired a woman who
did a pretty good impression of Shirley Bassey. I was just stoked to be able
to do the musical equivalent of an actor chewing the scenery with the trumpet
part. You don't often get to combine falling glisses and wah-wah mutes in such
an over-the-top way. In any other piece, the conductor would be like, "We need
less of that." In this one, it's "More. No, even more."

The first four bars are the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D1nK7q2i8I