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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, than to build a space station in orbit. Secondly, Drax could have used aircraft to deliver the toxin. Why? Because he runs an '''''aero''''' ''space'' company, and he had a radar jamming system for his space station. And even if it couldn't be fitted on a plane, stealth wasn't a complete unknown back then. Putting stuff into space is insanely expensive, up to $10,000 to put ''one kilogram'' into orbit, which is why you didn't take your last holiday at Utopia Planetia, Mars. But I guess this was all discarded in favour of footage of space shuttles docking, undocking, and performing course corrections.
** 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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** 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the political fallout from the massive loss of life and the cost of continuing the operation meant that funding was withdrawn from the project.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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