Moonraker

The centrifuge sequence is my top 'Bond in jeopardy' scene.



I was thinking that while watching it on Sunday. They weren't bad at all.

Considering it's one of my faves, I haven't seen Moonraker that often. I also have to say Moore will always be 'my' Bond. :o
 
Strange you mention that, according to a poster on RAB today, Sky HD has just showed Goldfinger with the "Bond will return in OHMSS" tag on the end. :cool:
 
wasnt there a bit of a backlash against bond's space high jinks in *moonraker* though, and why in *for your eyes only*, the plot reverts to a more basic premise, with less gadgets etc?
 
As a self-proclaimed Bond expert, (ahem)... Moonraker was one of those sea-change films, where they had pushed the formula to far away from the core of a secret agent and turned it into "larks in outer space". Although I enjoyed it at the time, I spent more time groaning at the physical impossibilities of the space travel sequences and the whole multi-shuttle story.

Live and Let Die was superb, Man with the Golden Gun fairly good, and Spy Who Loved me passable. Moonraker was a James Bond comedy.

For Your Eyes Only was a much needed reboot to the franchise after this comic strip guff. Octopussy was so-so... and A View to A Kill dire... time to get a new Bond (oh no, it's Dalton!!)

We had to wait till 1995 and Goldeneye before Bond ever reached those giddy heights once more..
 
Moonraker!...One of my favourite bond films (along with For Your Eyes Only) ..and a great theme tune !....my favourite bit is the battle in space with the lasers!! Yes far fetched but great fun...always liked the space bond films......These earlier bond films are a world away and far better than the latest bond movies!!
 
Indeed there was.

The reviews were scathing on the slapstick and double entendres that had started in TSWLM but this was to be expected from writer Christopher Wood who had done the Confessions films and after the success of SPY obviously believed we wanted more of the same but worse.

FYEO could have been perfect but there was still a couple of instances where stupid things happened
 
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