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* Drax's evil scheme could have been pulled off without the use of spaceships. Firstly, it would have been much cheaper to build his Ark underground, environmentally sealed,
** Two reasons:
*** Expense is nothing to a man willing to ship a French mansion to California stone by stone and rebuild it there.
*** And Drax was insane.
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** Maybe Drax didn't have the idea until he had already built a space shuttle program and working space station, and at that point it would have been cheaper to put everything in orbit rather than build an underground ark.
** The space station could serve future purposes; given that he wants to remake human society, one of his pet peeves might be that we should be devoting more time and money to space travel, and his new world will do that. Plus, the man has a God Complex; he probably couldn't resist the idea of raining down death from the Heavens. As for money, he is planning to annihilate the human race. If he succeeds (or if he fails and is caught), money isn't going to be all that important anymore (it would also be harder to ''get'' caught, for various reasons).
** More simply, if you are going to end all human civilization do you ''care'' about your unpaid credit card bills? Drax can borrow as much money as banks will lend him, sucker in as many investors as he can string along under false pretenses -- none of it matters. Since his plan is to end the world, none of the people he's taking money from will live long enough to need paying back. So expense really is no object for him, as he's running on deficit spending.
* So in ''Moonraker'', lasers are small and lethal enough to be used as an infantry and anti-air (anti-space?) weapon. We also have shuttles that can be launched in under an hour, and marines trained in space-borne operations. Why didn't this show up anywhere else in the franchise?
** Pure [[Fan Wank]] here; the training of the space marines ran parallell to the whole space shuttle programme and Moonraker was the first time we saw them being used. Despite their critical role in saving the world, the political fallout from the massive loss of life and the cost of continuing the operation meant that funding was withdrawn from the project. Hence no space marines to take out the satellites in ''[[
* The falling out the airplane stunt early in film.... completely ridiculous and totally unnecessary. It looks as if it was added in post-production because the rest of the film was so terrible.
** But all of the later Roger Moore films featured an over-produced teaser with eye-popping stunts. It's in line with those.
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