Corrected entry: In the Venice scene, Bond uses a hovercraft gondola. Such a vehicle should have air intakes for the lift fans in its bottom. So, it'd have sunk without some sort of inflatable pontoons, which it didn't possess. Also, when the vehicle rides on the streets, there's no sign of propeller or so - lift fans can only hover a vehicle, they can't push it forward.
BocaDavie
13th Sep 2004
Moonraker (1979)
27th Aug 2001
Moonraker (1979)
Corrected entry: Bond and Dr. Holly Goodhead escape from a fiery death under a space shuttle by running through a convenient ventilation shaft. However, the flames from the shuttle exhaust would use up all the air in the shaft and suffocate them. That's if they haven't been killed by the fumes from the shuttle's solid fuel boosters or even killed by the sheer noise of the shuttle blasting off.
Correction: All assumptions. The ventilation shaft is open at the far end allowing air to flow in and replace any oxygen burned off by the shuttle exhaust. The air flowing in would also vent fumes away from Bond and Goodhead. Apparently they were able to survive the noise of the shuttle's lift-off.
28th Aug 2009
Moonraker (1979)
Corrected entry: The third probe enters the atmosphere long after Bond and Goodhead in the shuttle, though it's pretended earlier that they have to enter at a steep angle to keep track of the probe.
11th Oct 2008
Moonraker (1979)
Corrected entry: When Bond is investigating the laboratory, he is interrupted by two scientists who come in so he hides in the room behind. Just then the vials fall to the ground emitting the deadly gas. The room Bond is hiding in is now sealed and the only way to get into that room is through the laboratory. Only one problem, how does Bond get out and not be discovered in the room. The room would be sealed until crew are able to come and clean it up, so Bond couldn't possibly get out.
15th Dec 2003
Moonraker (1979)
Corrected entry: When Bond is in Rio watching the planes taking off through a telescope he follows its path only to be looking straight at Dr Goodhead, looking straight at him, ALSO through a telescope. Bond then takes about 5 steps towards Holly meaning that the plane must have passed close enough for them both to have jumped on.
4th Dec 2003
Moonraker (1979)
Corrected entry: After Bond and the guard have tumbled out of the ambulance in Rio, Dr. Goodhead, the CIA agent, is left alone in the van. She should be able to escape. She is still tied up, but she should be able to free herself in the same way that Bond did, especially as there is now no one to stop her. Why is she still a captive later on in the film?
31st Oct 2002
Moonraker (1979)
Corrected entry: Why is the space station not visible from earth? Its got a radar jamming device so it can't be tracked by radar, but it hasent got a cloaking device. So you would still be able to see it with the naked eye from Earth. You could see MIR and the International Space Station.
Correction: You would see MIR or the ISS only if you were looking for them, and even then you would need a powerful telescope to see that they were spaceships. Unless you were specifically looking for this space station it would appear, at best, as a dim star for the casual observers from earth - and no one was looking for it.
13th Sep 2004
Moonraker (1979)
Corrected entry: Laser beams should be invisible in vacuum, such as the final battle scene.
Correction: Should be, yes; and should not "strike" an object with an audible impact. These are apparently not lasers, the only real "laser" in the film is the one aimed at the American shuttle. These are some imaginary technology weapons that fire an energy bolt that leaves a tracer behind.
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Correction: Retractable plates would cover the lift fans during normal operation to keep it from sinking. We see the hovercraft gondola drive forward in the plaza so we know it has some form of locomotion; possibly a wheel mounted beneath it.
BocaDavie ★