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Reply #180 on: February 12, 2020, 08:33:54 AM
I didn't say I liked it.

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Reply #181 on: February 12, 2020, 08:54:29 AM
I liked it well enough, but that's because I was about 11 when I saw it and was quite impressionable - "oooh, space, battles, Space Shuttles, awesome!!!!"  ;D

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Reply #182 on: February 12, 2020, 09:22:17 AM
I can't remember who the Bond Girl was in that film.

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Reply #183 on: February 12, 2020, 09:24:04 AM
Lois Chiles as "Dr. Holly Goodhead"

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Reply #184 on: February 12, 2020, 09:27:36 AM
Yeah, I just googled it - can't say as I really remembered her in the way that I did with other more, erm, outstanding Bond Girls. ::)

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Reply #185 on: February 12, 2020, 09:33:52 AM
She was one of my favorites.

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Reply #186 on: February 12, 2020, 09:37:04 AM
Those names...lol

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Reply #187 on: February 12, 2020, 09:38:14 AM
Subtlety was not a strength of the earlier Bonds.

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Reply #188 on: February 12, 2020, 10:43:03 AM
I actually knew the family. The men in it weren't overly fond of the name either.   ::)

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Reply #189 on: February 12, 2020, 09:36:37 PM
I liked it well enough, but that's because I was about 11 when I saw it and was quite impressionable - "oooh, space, battles, Space Shuttles, awesome!!!!"  ;D

Yeah, that's pretty much the same reason(s) I enjoyed Moonraker as well.  Plus, didn't Jaws have a Face Heel Turn and meet a girl in that one? 


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Reply #190 on: February 12, 2020, 10:18:45 PM
I liked it well enough, but that's because I was about 11 when I saw it and was quite impressionable - "oooh, space, battles, Space Shuttles, awesome!!!!"  ;D

Yeah, that's pretty much the same reason(s) I enjoyed Moonraker as well.  Plus, didn't Jaws have a Face Heel Turn and meet a girl in that one?

You mean a Heel–Face Turn, but yeah, he hooks up with a girl in pig-tails.

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Reply #191 on: February 12, 2020, 10:52:42 PM
And Moore played the whole movie with a straight face. Now that's some acting.  :go-on:

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Reply #192 on: February 13, 2020, 06:16:39 AM
Yeah - Roger Moore was a great actor.

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Reply #193 on: February 13, 2020, 09:06:21 AM
And Moore played the whole movie with a straight face. Now that's some acting.  :go-on:


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Reply #194 on: February 13, 2020, 09:12:25 AM
Do you recall his earlier TV series, the Saint?  In that he was sort of a Robin Hood character, working to catch nasty crooks and save the life savings of little old ladies.
It always seemed that he just played Bond as an older, world-wearier Saint.  Things were desperate, but never really serious.
If he told a villainess that he would beat her up,. It was just an empty threat.  He'd never do something so...so cadish.
Whereas if Sean Connery told a woman of evil that he would hurt her, you knew it would happen.
Watch the opening of Diamonds Are Forever.  He wants revengehe for Tracy s death

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