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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-19 (Sunday)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:36:32 -0000 (UTC)
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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.