Word: filming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sink back into your chair and watch the opening sequence of the new film, you'll relive the excitement of the old movie's climactic fight scene. Later in Rocky II, you'll feel those same chills as you realize you're going to see that same fight for the third time in two movies. They couldn't let a good fight end after 15 rounds, so you'll sit through 45. The third time around, you'll even see it in show-motion streams of sweat and blood...
Egging Rocky on as well is his trainer Burgess Meredith, who looks like he'd been in one too many fights himself. Meredith mugs his way through a tailor-made role, but his is still the most enjoyable performance of the film...
...true that this film starts off like any other Bond extravaganza (including undulating female silhouettes). Something gets stolen (in this case, a U.S. space shuttle on loan to the British), and Bond has to find out what happened and try to get it back. But this is classic; even Sean Connery Bond flicks used such plots. (Goldfinger bought up most of the world's gold supply, Spectre took bombs from a hijacked American submarine in Thunderball, and arranged the thefts of two American and one Russian space craft in You Only Live Twice...
...Bond film, 007 gets his weapons from Q, that master of gadgets who provides Bond with something which you can bet 007 will use later on when all appears lost. Although one of these gadgets (a throbbing silver motor-boat with all the extras) is wasted on a chase scene with footage lifted from Live and Let Die, it nonetheless makes up for the obvious absence of the modified Ferrari which always seemed to be at 007's disposal throughout all his other films...
James Bond movies are never appropriate places to bring your thinking cap. In fact, they require that you leave your intellect at home in a glass jar next to your T.V. set. But Roger Moore as James Bond in Moonraker finally clicks thanks to the film's luxurious backdrops, reasonably intelligent dialogue, cutesy references to other contemporary films, beautiful members of both sexes, and a hit man who'll bite on anything--in short, the old formula. And, to top it off, 007 really does DO IT in space...