AJB live commentary on MOONRAKER

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Bond gets dry very quickly...
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    The shuttle exhaust scene reprised from the Fleming novel - one of the best scenes in the film.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    I'd say this is Ken Adam's masterpiece... if I hadn't seen YOLT.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    The ever so slightly crestfallen look on the girl's face when she sees that Bond has beaten off the snake... it's like the look on the henchman's face when he realises that Bond has stopped the centrifuge force simulator... and both sort of refer back to Oddjob's mildly crestfallen look inside Fort Knox when Connery sees his chance to grab the steel rimmed bowler hat...
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    The chamber under the exhaust had been intended for at least one more scene, but was ultimately only used for one.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Seiko watch. Oh damn, that's Higgins' territory. Where are my green trainers?
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    "Flight into space" - love this piece too.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    As C&D said above, this scene is close to Fleming- pretty much the only bit in the movie that is!
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Charmed & Dangerous wrote:
    "Flight into space" - love this piece too.

    You're a bit ahead, C&D
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    edited April 2020
    I don't think this brief cue for the countdown to the ignition, as Bond is in the chamber making for the air vent, is on any album, Barry's or Raine's?
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  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Seiko watch. Oh damn, that's Higgins' territory. Where are my green trainers

    :o :o
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    No, it isn't.

    Edit- replying to Shady
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    "Flight Into Space" :x :x :x This is on the OST (thankfully). A different "space" sound from JB than he'd used previously.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    Some really good compositing of live action with miniatures in the whole launch area sequence. Really well done work.

    Timestamp: going into space now.

    Derek Meddings again. Clearly relishing all the resources he now had at his disposal for this, compared with the Gerry Anderson TV shows he'd worked on, like 'UFO' and 'Space 1999'.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Unworthy thought- before Jaws & Dolly have sex, does he tell her to brace herself?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    I'm missing Shane Rimmer's 'Scott Tracy' voice for radioed operational commands... but I guess he couldn't go back to bit-part voicework in a Bond after his substantial role in TSWLM as Captain Carter.
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    Unworthy thought- before Jaws & Dolly have sex, does he tell her to brace herself?

    lol!
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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Brilliant megalomaniac speech by Drax. Pure Bond film villainy.
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    The NASA/Vassar joke is lost on non-Americans.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    General Gogol! Not with Anya Amasova, sadly.
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    edited April 2020
    Lois Chiles' delivery sounds so non-plussed and casual through this part of the film. I know she was playing up to the idea of her character's professional cool, but even still...
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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Gymkata wrote:
    'Orbital Communicator, Level 10'
    'Lingerie and Women's Clothing, Level 12'.

    :D :D :D
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Pausing...
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Barbel wrote:
    The NASA/Vassar joke is lost on non-Americans.

    It's lost on me. I'd have to look it up.
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Lonsdale's little laugh during "Tedious inevitability" works, though I suspect it wasn't intended...?
  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Why does Moore, after nearly two films, still try to punch Jaws in the mouth with his bare fist?
    Critics and material I don't need. I haven't changed my act in 53 years.
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Gymkata wrote:
    I also love how the US is able to prep a shuttle, get it fueled, get pilots ready, and get a space force ready in what...10 minutes?

    Obviously didn't have my wife on board then.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Shady Tree wrote:
    Barbel wrote:
    The NASA/Vassar joke is lost on non-Americans.

    It's lost on me. I'd have to look it up.

    That's what I did. Not being American, I sometimes find... oh, wait.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,077Chief of Staff
    Charmed & Dangerous wrote:
    Gymkata wrote:
    I also love how the US is able to prep a shuttle, get it fueled, get pilots ready, and get a space force ready in what...10 minutes?

    Obviously didn't have my wife on board then.

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  • Shady TreeShady Tree London, UKPosts: 3,013MI6 Agent
    Was that technician also the voice of Alan Tracy in 'Thunderbirds'?
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