Spies In Space- Moonraker vs. In Like Flint. Which is your favourite?

chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
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To ME, In Like Flint is a consistent parody, with great action scenes & females to boot. Moonraker is an inconsistent mess with great FX & a fantastic Barry soundtrack.
I like the Flint film better.

Your views on this?
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  • Gassy ManGassy Man USAPosts: 2,972MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    To ME, In Like Flint is a consistent parody, with great action scenes & females to boot. Moonraker is an inconsistent mess with great FX & a fantastic Barry soundtrack.
    I like the Flint film better.

    Your views on this?
    In Like Flint.

    But if you really want to see the movie that was Moonraker before Moonraker, watch Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I used to love the Flint movies, ( still think he's a great character, and could still
    Make a entertaining series of films ) but looking at them now, the seem very slow
    In places and IMNO, little action in places, the same goes for the Matt Helm films.
    So I think Moonraker is the better film. :))
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  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    I personally have not heard of the Flint Films :#
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    AlphaOmegaSin wrote:
    I personally have not heard of the Flint Films :#
    The American Bond, in parody. Our Man Flint & In Like Flint. Entertaining nonsense. -{
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    In like Flint, is Austin Powers favourite film, ..... Baby yea ! :))
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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    I've not seen the space one and only a bit of the other ones years ago on BBC 2 but I have no doubt in my mind that Moonraker would easily trounce both of them. In fact, it used to be my favourite Bond film when I was a kid. :) -{
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Our man flint , movie
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ZZzD0Kupc

    In like flint, movie
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=inHywCAPqgo
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Silly silly films. I rather took them seriously in my extreme youth... 8-)
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    As a kid I loved them -{ they look very dated and silly now. :D
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    As a kid I loved them -{ they look very dated and silly now. :D
    I admit I have a difficult time watching them now. Our Man Flint drags a bit too. In Like is faster paced and a bit funnier. Goldsmith's music is better on the second one as well.
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
    #1.TLD/LTK 2.TND 3.GF 4.GE 5.DN 6.FYEO 7.FRWL 8.TMWTGG 9.TWINE 10.YOLT/QOS
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    :)) I still bought them to have on DVD ! :D
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  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    As a kid I loved them -{ they look very dated and silly now. :D
    I admit I have a difficult time watching them now. Our Man Flint drags a bit too. In Like is faster paced and a bit funnier. Goldsmith's music is better on the second one as well.

    I agree. And I would never choose one of those films over a Bond movie - not even Moonraker! :D
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Blackleiter wrote:
    I would never choose one of those films over a Bond movie - not even Moonraker! :D
    Your undying devotion to Sir Rog is admirable. :v
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    One of the Matt Helm movies, the Ambushers, also had a Space theme, about a flying saucer.

    I used to love the Flint and Matt Helm movies but there was always one Helm movie I hadn't seen - Murderer's Row - until this summer when it was on one of the Sky channels, so I taped it and saved it to watch on my birthday.

    My review, to Quote Bond taking to M at Skyfall Lodge: "Appalling". :# :))

    The Flint movies are like Citizen Kane by contrast. :))
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  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    chrisisall wrote:
    Blackleiter wrote:
    I would never choose one of those films over a Bond movie - not even Moonraker! :D
    Your undying devotion to Sir Rog is admirable. :v

    Thanks my friend! -{

    (SHHHHH!!! - Don't tell him it's my undying devotion to Bond!)
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  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    Blackleiter wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    Blackleiter wrote:
    I would never choose one of those films over a Bond movie - not even Moonraker! :D
    Your undying devotion to Sir Rog is admirable. :v

    Thanks my friend! -{

    (SHHHHH!!! - Don't tell him it's my undying devotion to A View To A Kill!)


    ;)
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    # " ground control to Commander Bond, take your protein pills
    and put your helmet on !". :))
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Blackleiter wrote:
    (SHHHHH!!! - Don't tell him it's my undying devotion to Bond!)
    I heard that.

    And knew it already. :v
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • BlackleiterBlackleiter Washington, DCPosts: 5,615MI6 Agent
    AlphaOmegaSin wrote:
    Blackleiter wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    Your undying devotion to Sir Rog is admirable. :v

    Thanks my friend! -{

    (SHHHHH!!! - Don't tell him it's my undying devotion to A View To A Kill!)


    ;)

    How dare you! :))
    "Felix Leiter, a brother from Langley."
  • mpoplawskimpoplawski New Jersey, USAPosts: 128MI6 Agent
    Funny, as a kid I thought the Flint movies were fun but silly. Now, I really like them. They are a parody, yes, but the imagery of the clothes, the 60's, the women...are the greatest. I bought the boxed set a few years ago. I would choose them over "Moonraker," sorry. There is something about James Coburn's look and his delivery that is intriguing...definitely over the top and campy, but in a good way. You are in on the joke.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I think Flint is a great character, the idea of stopping his heart ( Bond did
    a bit of that himself in DAD :v ) , his use of Martial arts ( that was new for
    the 60s) -{ also one scene from " our man Flint" ( Which I did see as a kid
    on ITV ) which is always cut, but I think is over the top funny. Is Flint reviving
    a soldier buy getting his boss to stick his finger in a light socket, and transfer the
    Electric current into the soldiers heart, to start it again :)) with health and safety
    Rules and not giving ideas to kids, It may never see the light of day again. :))
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  • SilentSpySilentSpy Private Exotic AreaPosts: 765MI6 Agent
    Moonraker.

    But I do like In Like Flint. The comedy is a bit too direct at times though.
    Gassy Man wrote:
    chrisisall wrote:
    To ME, In Like Flint is a consistent parody, with great action scenes & females to boot. Moonraker is an inconsistent mess with great FX & a fantastic Barry soundtrack.
    I like the Flint film better.

    Your views on this?
    In Like Flint.

    But if you really want to see the movie that was Moonraker before Moonraker, watch Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die.

    I've never seen Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die. I'll look that one up.
    "Better late than never."
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Barbel posted a link to it, so it's on YouTube. -{
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  • FiremassFiremass AlaskaPosts: 1,910MI6 Agent
    edited December 2014
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    but looking at them now, the seem very slow.

    To bring myself up to speed I just watched both In Like Flint and Our Man Flint. (I actually had to BUY them because I couldn't find any place that rented em)

    Both films were excruciatingly dull and I didn't laugh once. They reminded me of the first Pink Panther movie or Casino Royale 1967. Just flat out NOT FUNNY and tedious.

    It was a little weird how some of the Bond parody references seemed to be based on You Only Live Twice, yet both Flint films were released prior to that Bond film. Hmmm. Moonraker should not even be part of this discussion. The real Bond question is why was YOLT borrowing from Flint?

    Don't get me wrong..I do have a sense of humor and love the first two Austin Powers. Flint just didn't have enough hindsight to make an effective parody of Bond.
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  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Flint wasn't so much Bond parody as an American version with Batman sensibilities.
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    As a kid, I loved the fight scenes in the Flint films, I even thought
    The martial arts fights in Matt Helm were impressive. :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • chrisisallchrisisall Western Mass, USAPosts: 9,062MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    I even thought
    The martial arts fights in Matt Helm were impressive. :))
    Bruce Lee choreographed The Wrecking Crew. :D
    Dalton & Connery rule. Brozz was cool.
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    And Chuck Norris made his first appearance in it too ( I think) ;)
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  • UltimateTruthUltimateTruth Posts: 140MI6 Agent
    If you're just judging a Bond movie on elements that capture The International Jet Set glamour setting in which Bond operates , I put MR in the top 3 of the whole series.....It is a gorgeous, organic film to watch.........
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    The Brazilian Amazon Scenes -{
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