When you were talking about getting all the sci-fi money, I’m surprised you guys didn’t mention the Star Wars-esque text overlay at the end of the trailer. Talk about blatant!

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rogering

I didn’t even think about Moore’s name!!! That’s awesome.

Roger Moore was definitely the best Bond ever. Hell, his first name even fits with the Bond film naming concept.

Count me in as also being scared by that Jaws character as a kid. The Spy Who Loved Me was my first Bond film, at the age of 12. Barbara Bach also scared me, but for entirely different reasons.

I was thinking that if I had to pick a really scary Bond villain I would have picked Grace Jones!

This is one of only two movies I ever remember being queued round the block when it opened. I wonder if you’ll review t’other?

I think your choice of who the *real* James Bond is depends on who you watched growing up. That, for me, would be Roger Moore. Mind you, compared with Daniel Craig’s Bond, I can’t really see Moore being able to fight his way out of a paper bag.

Of course one has to wonder what damage seeing Cannonball Run as a young child might have done to me also.

Great job, guys. At least some people are enjoying Wave . . .

And surely you shouldn’t be allowed to be receiving British TV!? We pay our license fee for that you swine!

It’s just for testing purposes and it’s going to glide to a landing..but still Just read the part.

Oh and you really haven’t seen this movie much more often? I think I saw this movie at least 5 times between my 12th and 18t birthday. But then again..we watched it on the Dutch, German ánd British tv channels.

This, coming from someone who kept his old Amiga so he could still play this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Thf2eoa_og , http://tinyurl.com/yczafoz ! (I’ve managed to land the thing too! The handling wasn’t THAT bad! )

I’m slightly off today and here it’s really hot and you used the word umbrage which is just waving a red cape!!!

In my defence though I did use the tongue out emoticon thus making my stomping up and down all ok.

When a shuttle is transported or ‘ferried’ it doesn’t have any active fuel cells and no electrical systems active. There are also no explosive bolts to separate the shuttle from the 747 mid air (except in the initial tests with the Enterprise).

The 747 used in the original tests also had a longer nose strut to allow for the separation seen in that video. The one in the film actually ignites its engines and flies off of the 747 in a completely different move.

Conceivably Drax could have retro fitted everything to do that but I think that would be a stretch as even after separation you can barely control the descent and therefore would be pretty easy to spot.

At that altitude you would also be essentially in crash landing mode. Which the shuttles don’t perform particularly well at (one would have to assume since it has never really been done).

So you can settle down and save your ire for next week when I nit pick Animal’s ability to chew through metal.

You CAN “launch” a Space Shuttle off a 747: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkEUBBlIjUA

OK, so it was the Enterprise, and no engines blazing, but it was certainly maneuverable!

OK, lunatic rant over! Love the format, gentlemen! It was a great read! Now to dig out The Great Muppet Caper to get me in the mood for next week’s LaDMMC!!!

I read somewhere that he refused a seven picture deal and wasn’t dumped from the franchise but refused to come back.