21. Moonraker
Growing up, this was my least favourite Bond film. Bondshould not go into Space! Its full of utter excess. It has some real redeeming qualities in a brilliant opening sequence, one of the series best, as well as an awesome fight with an Anaconda (Something you should know is that Im a sucker for animals in Bond films- sharks, crocodiles, piranhas, Komodo dragons, snakes, spiders) and Dr. Holly Goodhead, one of the best bond girls weve ever had despite the name. But the plot is ridiculous, and the films worst crime is that it completely ruins Jaws. For gods sake, the ending is one of the stupidest Ive ever seen. Imagine if Oddjob had randomly found love, and finally spoke only to say well, heres to us!- it destroys to illusion, like whenwe Jaws roared in one of the sequels. Nitpicking aside, the villains rather boring, and its just so obvious that Cubby Broccoli was trying to ape the success of Star Wars that its distracting. Sometimes it has worked when the films try to ape similar films in its genre (Live and Let Die, Licence To Kill), but here it just shows what happens when Bond stops being its own thing and tries to copy people. This is the furthest away Bond has been from my perception of him.
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