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Path: ...!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-19 (Sunday) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:17:05 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: <vmpkeu$idgm$1@dont-email.me> References: <UBI20250119@dont-email.me!> <vmmu78$8dft$1@solani.org> <vmn5pu$3p6k0$1@dont-email.me> <vmo8vg$40ho$2@dont-email.me> <vmoieg$77nb$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 03:17:03 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e34fe0417b88ef8dbc0690a865815507"; logging-data="603670"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18IqggwJXLdBii8mvGDIzO4" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZEzfy4dKdEkpQWrhecvkIhnkY9U= In-Reply-To: <vmoieg$77nb$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3257 On 1/21/2025 8:36 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote: > 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. No card game, Drax just insults Bond by saying Afternoon Tea is the only positive thing England has contributed to civilization. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.