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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 9692723" data-attributes="member: 6906155">Moonraker references Star Wars, but only by being the exact same Bond climactic battle as Thunderball, You only Live Twice OHMSS and The Spy Who Loved Me, only in space, with laser beams. It still a very generic Bond film, but with the last bit wearing a sci fi skin. It's narratively nothing like Star Wars, but it is narratively like most of the other Bond films before it. And the same goes for those others. Referencing current pop culture is not the same as imitating a current movie. Until Borne came out.And North By Northwest isn't the first anything. It draws heavily on Hitchcock's own 39 Steps (itself a remake) for a start. That family of spy dramas (generally featuring wholesome everyman heroes) goes back to The Riddle of the Sands in 1903, and there are a whole bunch of (mostly British) movies from around the 1950s in that genre. Suffering the fate of the not-quite-as-good: being forgotten (you can find some if you plumb the depths of Amazon Prime though).</blockquote>