hey GrantZilla, the only way you could hate Moonraker is fi you were some kind of moron who thinks that the whole point of a James Bond film is to copy the Ian Fleming novels. Maybe a few die hards want to see that but the vast majority of the public wants relevant up-to-the-minute entertainment, not some dusty pretentious novel adaption by some mouldy old fogey.
The James Bond books bear little resemblance to the films, because the producers of the movies had good sense to see how ridiculous the premise was and to make their films into tongue-in-cheek semi-spoofs. Bond with Connery or Moore (the greatest) was at his best; unflappable, invulnerable, cool, charming, sauve, and without the faintest hint of self-doubt, anger, or 2emotion". Like the Batman TV show, it worked best when it was a simpler, more comic book style, adventure.
By the way, having seen Casino Royale, I must say that even NSNA is better than that piece of crap.
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crawfrordboon
18 years ago
give me camp humour and indesctructive likeable superheroes over "tortured, troubled, dark" characters any day. If I wanted more than an escapist fantasy, i'd watch a serious film.
Neither the Bob Kane series nor the Ian Fleming novels would be anywhere nearly as prominent now had it not been for the Adam West Batman and the flambouyant Bond vehicles. Personally I didn't like Dr No, Goldfinger, or Thunderball as much as the bigger and funnier entries in the series. Batman Begins was a decent film ,second only to Batman and Robin in the Batman series (B&R being the closest in style to the West version)
CR really has only done well due to its marketing campaign, DAD was the previous record holder, and TWINE before that, they have all been similar successes but it gets bigger with tiem due to inflation and expanding cinema culture. Any film with such a marketing assault would do as well - look at crappy Batman 89 and all the money it made, that was like the most marketed film ever at the time.
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18 years ago
Well the Batman series and B&R were amusing and watchable, throwaway adventures, far more watchable than Burton's "dark" and "troubled" version, which I found dull.
As for homoeroticism, there are some great homoerotic movies out there, usually action movies, which are so hilarious to watch, given they are pitched towards young men:
Rambo
Commando
1980s Rocky
prety much anything starring Arnold
Lethal Weapon
Heartbreak Ridge
Top Gun
Csaino Royale just could not fail to be hit which so much publicity, I highly doubt whether it had any less than DAD or any other Brosnan or Moore movie.
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