If Bond failed and Stromberg managed to engineer the end of the world, I always wondered...

...exactly who gets a ticket on this boat ride?
Naomi, yes probably, but the only problem there is she gets perforated before the apocalypse can begin...
These two goobers?

No, they were toast before Bond even came on the scene...
Seems like there's plenty of staff, but is this really who you want to spend the duration of eternity with?
"I'm something of a recluse," says Stromberg. OK... so maybe he planned to go it alone?
Well, no because he's got this whole underwater berg modelled out. But who wants to live in a windowless grey nipple beneath the shadow of a giant metal frog that can ascend and descend at will and likely crush you to death?

And has this miserable prison even been built yet?
"...the only hope for the future of mankind..."

Yeah, some hope. But again, who's going to repopulate the species when the world has been turned to ashes?
Not her anyway
Jaws is on Atlantis, but he's not exactly flushed in the way of stimulating conversation - and nobody needs him breeding
There's this guy in deep background but quite honestly he looks like he just wandered off from some tour group and has no idea how to get back to the hotel
Maybe these two guys hid in a storage closet after dropping Stromberg off like, "there's no way I'm going back to that gdamn oil tanker death trap..."
Speaking of which - what happens to these chumps? Do they just spend Armageddon sailing the seven seas, periodically towing Atlantis around the Med? Or do they get to live on board Stromberg's gaff somewhere?
But... where?

Even as a kid, the geography of this place never quite made sense. Stromberg's overblown dining hall occupies most of the valuable above-leg real estate. Where does he sleep even?
Where does his chef store and prepare all that friggin sea chow?
This handy schematic by Roger Stewart gives a sense of where others might exist on Atlantis. So... maybe there's a dorm in one of the other legs? But most of the space seems functional and drearily work-focused.

I mean... colour me there, right?
Plenty of people down in that control room but Jesus Christ when you're staring down the barrel of several years of nuclear winter would it kill someone to install a ping pong table?
On reflection, it seems pretty clear if you're destined to spend the end of days aboard Atlantis, the most fun place to be is in the one thing designed to get you the hell out of there...
Anyway, this is my long-winded way of saying Drax's plan makes far more sense and therefore Moonraker is clearly the superior film thank you this press conference is over.
And yes, Anya might have been there, but she was never part of the original plan and Stromberg looks like he really has no idea what to do with her anyway...
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