Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moviePig Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-19 (Sunday) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:54:11 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <2116058341.759116140.201111.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 04:54:11 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a773564301da963c77943f41795e223d"; logging-data="2173541"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19giJrC4j9Cz4CaZYU6TYCjO7omIhRqodw=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:3jh6nyaiSbnGEmHb0MgCOlrl5uo= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3683 On 1/23/2025 3:34 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > On Jan 21, 2025 at 10:07:26 AM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman"" > wrote: > >> Dimensional Traveler wrote: >>> On 1/20/2025 5:39 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>> Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>>>> Ian J. Ball 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 Maybe nostalgia's lying to me, but I feel they don't make 'em like that any more...