7. The Space Pyjamas (Moonraker)
Moonraker is easily one of the daftest Bond films and the one guaranteed to have Fleming acolytes gnashing their teeth. By now the secret agent actually has 007 on the bottom of his gadgets and any attempt at genuine suspense is sacrificed for the next sight gag. It's almost as if you're watching a film crew's holiday movies stitched together into a vague semblance of a film. On the plus side, Bond gets to sport a natty blazer, some black fatigues and some tweed, but - oh dear - then you get to the section where Bond must go into space to stop the evil Drax re-enacting the same plot as the previous film but this time from space not underwater. If it wasn't bad enough already that great henchman Jaws had inexplicably fallen in love with Sue Pollard, you then see Bond in the space station's uniform. Who sits down at a evil mastermind's planning session and says: "let's dress all my minions in bright yellow shiny pyjamas"? Well, Drax did. The spacesuits here do the previously believed impossible task of making the space pyjamas in Star Trek: The Motion Picture look good. If Bond wasn't suffering enough as it was, he then has to float around a bit as the gravity turns off. The shame.
Terry Warner
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Writer of The Blog of Delights, a review site covering film, TV, cult TV, books and audio. Fan of Dr Who, Bond, X-Men and Marvel. Also the writer of e-book 'Fictional Legends: Doctor Who - the TV Adventures' for Collca.
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