BOND FIGHTS A GIANT OCTOPUS IN DR. NO???????? Shit I need to read these books.

If you treat the two Kill Bill movies as one long movie, they kinda do that in reverse. Bloody bloody hard-R for the first half, and then quiet family drama for the second.

Just a head's up, in two weeks the next article is going to be about a movie that is only 9 years old.

But remember the baccarat scenes in, say, Goldeneye? They weren't…good.

She wasn't good in "The Golden Compass," but in fairness to her, NO ONE and NOTHING was good in that movie.

It's hard for me to imagine a version of Moonraker that doesn't eventually go to space.

She's not 16, she's just comically short. And I WISH the plot was as you said, but sadly they just return to Earth in an escape pod, not go to Mars. Although that does give me the idea for a fanfic….

I've never read any of the Bond novels actually. What's different in the Moonraker book?

Oh yeah, that movie was total garbage. Truth be told I can't even remember anything that happened in it. Not only was it bad, it wasn't even memorably bad.

I re-watched "Thunderball" a few months ago, and it reshuffled my Bond list. I might put that as my favorite at this point. That scene where he surprises the bad girl in her bath, and then gives her shoes when she asks him for "something to put on" is the coolest thing ever. It's only flaw is the ending underwater…

I do think Lazenby wasn't given a fair chance. That said, had Connery stuck around to do On Her Majesty's Secret Service…hot damn, that might have been the best Bond movie of all time.

Right! I mean, off the top of my head, Quantum of Solace, Die Another Day, The World is Not Enough, Tomorrow Never Knows, Octopussy, Live and Let Die, and Diamonds are Forever are all worse (and some significantly so) than Moonraker.

That's a great point, I never thought of it that way. I love that moment right before Mr. White shoots him where he actually pleads a little bit ("I'll get the money!")

The movie certainly has that reputation. A tottally incorrect one, one that I can only assume comes from people not actually watching the movie. I could understand being "meh" about Moonraker, but come on, it's not THAT bad!

I too saw Moonraker when I was a kid, and certainly there are some nostalgia glasses there. But whatever, that movie rocks.

I haven't finished reading, but no Tom, I don't think we all can agree that Moonraker was "a massive low point." I love that movie to death (and I've seen every Bond movie except License to Kill).

I don't buy this. Chavez was just as much a dictator, and every thing that happening now was a predictable consequence of Chavez's actions.

It does make one question whether we truly understand both the laws of gravity, and assholery.

Horrifically chummy.

Why does anyone give Sean Penn the time of day at this point? This guy spent over a decade flacking for the dictatorship in Venezuela, and now that country is at the point of complete collapse. Frankly, Sean's apologias for Chavez are as offensive as Dennis Rodman's defenses of North Korea.