Moonraker was a major success in its day, but the series immediately course-corrected with the more grounded For Your Eyes Only.
LOL. At least this article has the honesty to first admit Moonraker was a major success but then follows that up by telling us that the series "course-corrected" with the much less successful FYEO (9th vs 17th for the very next film!).
https://www.007james.com/articles/box_office.php
Doesn't sound like much of a course-correction to me in terms of actual interest in seeing the film...
This is a superb example of the revisionist Daniel Craig "Bond" fans attempting to rewrite history.
It's right up there with those who know claim Dalton was a brilliant Bond and one of the best at the time - Yeah that's the same guy who's films are ranked dead bottom and third bottom of that box office list when it was made (and still are). "What a shame we didn't get a third Dalton film" they say, seemingly oblivious to the fact that if he'd made a third and it had dropped again as far as LTK's BO did from TLD's, there's a good chance the series would have ended there and then.
However, a nonsense article anyway - it doesn't even explain in any way how it would have "fixed" anything.
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