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Old Aug 25, 2005 | 07:28 PM
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I can't stand Moonraker. It's pretty stupid. Not to mention that they were so eager to do a Bond-in-space movie after Star Wars that they recycled pretty much the exact same plot from The Spy Who Loved Me. I mean yeah, it's not like there's a ton of variety among Bond plots, but to have two movies back to back with the exact same premise is kinda ridiculous. In both cases, there's some random egomaniacal genius rich guy who wants to create a utopian society at his remote facility he's secretly spent his fortune on, then kill everyone else on Earth, and bring his better people out into the world once it's safe again. The only difference is The Spy Who Loved Me has an underwater base for the evil dude and Moonraker has a space base for the evil dude.

Oh and I like Dalton. The movies he made were kinda weak but easily better than most of the Moore movies. As an actor he kinda reminds me of Patrick Stewart but with hair. I'd say the main problem with the Dalton movies was the producers didn't give him material that would have suited him better. The overall premise of The Living Daylights is fine at least til the end with the fake general guy in the museum, but the writing is just horrible. The overall premise of License To Kill is just stupid. Going after some random drug guy is just kinda blah for James Bond. The scripts and supporting casts for those two movies are for the most part really damned bad which kinda only let Dalton do so much with them.
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