MOONRAKER: Roger Moore: James Bond Revisited
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- James Bond in space! I know, I know - sounds crazy, right? Well, it actually happened back in 1979. In the wake of The Spy Who Loved Me's major box office success, another Bond movie was greenlit, and originally the plan was to do For Your Eyes Only. But then, a little movie called Star Wars came out and the decision was made to compete by making the next 007 flick sci-fi. The result was a Bond film that's often much maligned by fans, but still has its silly charms as we'll discuss in this instalment of James Bond Revisited!
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I must say that Moonraker was the first I saw in the cinema and has a special place in my heart. I know the film gets a panning but it is just Bond at its most over the top and I love the film for that.
A masterpiece
I also saw it in the theater. I went with a friend when I was 16 !
I think there might be a mistake at 5:53. You say "if Roger Moore was in this..." maybe you meant Sean Connery? Or maybe I misunderstood 😁
Glad I'm not the only one who caught this
@@MrOSUrocker me too!
I was just about to comment the same thing!
Warms my heart everyone is being so kind about such a minor error and is checking to see if anyone else caught it first.
Yeah thought my ears or the audio was messed up. From the context, Sean Connery would be my bet.
I really like this James Bond movie. Sure, there are some silly moments oh, but it is still well shot. The sky diving opening was awesome, John Barry's score was great, JAWS was fun, and the space special effects were decent.
This poster is smoking something saying its one of the worst bond films, I really liked this one next to Goldeneye and live and let die
Definitely a classic bond🙌
Love this movie so much!
this is the Best Bond movie. Nobody can deny this. Critics try to find faults with it but their criticism is not based on quality. You have judge a movie based on its quality and Moonraker was really good. Yes it was obviously heavily inspired from Star Wars but all movies are inspired by some movie. If Moonraker would not have been a good movie it would not been a record breaker which I believe was broken by Goldeneye, a movie released almost 15 years after its release. Those were not the days when hype and publicity alone could drive a movie.
Best Bond film . Yes it’s cheesy. But I can watch this over and over again and never get tired of the silly gags. The other serious bond films are great too but I can only watch them once.
even judging by 2020's standards, this movie is 7 out of 10 for me. compared to most 70's movies, i'd give it an 8 out of 10..
Moonraker was my first Bond at the cinema. I thought it was unbelievably good. Of course I was about ten years old. Still love it now though for that reason.
Your first Bond movie in a cinema is always extremely special - for myself it was The Living Daylights. I personally love Moonraker, and prefer it to The Spy Who Loved Me: the location filming in Moonraker is infinitely more substantial.
I still see For Your Eyes Only as Roger's finest hour, however.
Totally agree about For Your Eyes Only.
My first Bond film at the cinema also about 1980 my friends mum took us thought it was brilliant reme3his mum cringing at the space battle and putting her hands over her ears lol it's still a favourite of mine today and have it on DVD.
I think it was my first bond film too. Do you remember the blonde girl with pigtails having braces?
I thought it was brilliant seeing it as a kid in the cinema the space battle was good to see on the big screen and the screams of the spacemen were deafening.
The irony of Moonraker is that all of the action in outer space only took place in the last 30 minutes of the film!
To be fair to Q, he was actually looking at the shuttle's trajectory on his screen when he said that
Lol good ol' Q
I think that Drax's women would boost the Bond Girls score up a couple more points. I found their outfits in the Amazon pretty memorable.
I also liked Manuela.
One of my favorite quotes of all the bond movies came from Moonraker though, when Drax said, "You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season."
While admittedly it was cheesy (it was the 70's after all), I freaking love this movie. Sir Roger Moore plays it to the hilt. It's just a fun bit of Bond action. Definitely one of my favorites.
This was the first Bond I took a date to, back in high school.
I loved Moonraker as a kid. Haven't watched it since, so I guess I still do!
Very silly movie but very enjoyable movie. Good old Rog is on good form and yeah, that Barry score is just glorious.
My favourite Bond movie as a child.
it s one of my favs!
many good shots for me, space, the plot of eden, dif countries, girls,
and the line; as you said, such good sport!
my fav of all times!
Excuse me, but wasn't 'You only live twice' about space? Bond was literally ready to pilot the rocket in that film, but was discovered. 'Diamonds are forever' is also about space. The only reason there wasn't more space stuff was the lack of budget. Anyone who says 'Moonraker' was some shocking weird turn away from the established canon is out of his mind. It made perfect sense to introduce a villain who wanted to annihilate humanity from space, and frankly, the scenes in space, accompanied by music from John Barry, were sublime. Thank God they made that film. I absolutely love it, it is a fond childhood memory, and anyone who doesn't appreciate this film probably doesn't even understand what the Bond franchise is about.
This is one of my favorite 007 movies. It fits well with the year it was released.
Well here is the shocker: I love Moonraker (purely for nostalgic reasons), I watched it on a re-run in the theater ( I think I was 12 or 13) and I fell in love with James Bond then. It still has a lot of good thins going for it, best opening scene, best gadgets...
1. Moonraker
2. From Russia with Love
3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
4. Thunderball
5. The Spy Who Loved Me
6. Live and Let Die
7. Goldfinger
8. Dr. No
9. Diamonds are Forever
10. You only Live Twice
11. The Man with the Golden Gun
I absolutely love moonraker!
While i grew up primarily during the Pierce Brosnan error, i always liked Roger Moores bond movies due to the humor and a bit more laid back and comedic style, as a kid.
The Redemption arc of Jaws always caught me in moonraker aswell.
I know many Bond fans don't like Moonraker. But I have such a warm memory of seeing this film at the cinema in the summer of 1979. The first Bond film I saw at the cinema as a kid. There's never a dull moment in Moonraker. Just a fun movie, so grab the popcorn and just enter the amazing world of 007.
I've seen 'm all, over and over - Moonraker is my favorite. The pre credit non cgi scene alone was worth the price of admission
I think it is one of the best bond movies ever. There is comedy in it and I like it.
I think *all* of Roger Moore's Bond films contained comedy. Take your pick
@@lukewright9031 True, but For Your Eyes Only is arguably the least comedic among them.
@@bonghunezhou5051 True, until the cringeworthy scene when the "Prime Minister" calls to congratulate Bond. That kind of destroyed the tone but since it was a Roger Moore film, it didn't look out of place.
RIP Bond Girl Tanya Roberts
Which _did_ die, if anyone is wondering. Her death had been announced prematurely. God rest her soul.
@@FindecanorNotGmail U mean WHO did die...
I'm confused; did she pass away on Sunday, or Tuesday, or...?
@@bonghunezhou5051 Her death was prematurely announced on Sunday.
RIP probably 80% of the ppl who worked on it
To be honest about the Man with the Golden Gun I've always liked it even with it's weaknesses, but it had a good Bond Villain with Christopher Lee who incidentally was an intelligence officer in WWII and related to Ian Fleming.
Can’t beat a baddy with three nipples and a midget.
When he puts that gun together, epic!!!!
With Christopher Lee (Dracula) and Herve Villechaize (Tattoo) who can complain ?
@@konglives4453 Not me for sure.
Ridiculous, hilarious and awesome. Not to mention it has the best score from entire series.
Moonraker has an epic moment in Bond films... having Jaws realize that the good path is way better than the bad and I've always wished he'd return as an aid to Bond. Sadly, this is impossible now. :)
The death of Corrine by the dogs is one of the most graphic death in the bond films.
I also like Moore when he escapes from the centrifuge . Holly comes up to him and you expect him to make a comment.
Instead he just walks by her , clearly shaken from that near death experience .
This is one of my favorite bond films. Yes it's silly but really enjoyable and has some of the best scenes in the franchise..
I loved the movie as a kid I first watched it on PBS, but jettisoning your sworn enemy into open space without a space suit is a pretty brutal way to kill someone with a pun or otherwise... Who am I kidding I love James's puns
Roger Moore is my favourite Bond as he added a bit of humour to the role and didn't take himself seriously unlike the others!
This was my all time favorite Bond movie growing up! Lois Child was my favorite Bond Gal ( full disclaimer, I was a space nut growing up as a kid) that said, Lois is a stunning woman
I saw Moonraker in the theater at release, the audience actually cheered at the end of the opening sequence when Bond falls out of the plane, as well as at the conclusion of the film. As cartoonish as it was at times, it delivered what audiences were looking for back then and was one of the most financially successful installments of the series. There were great individual scenes as well, particularly the G-force simulator. Also of note is the scene where Drax unleashes his attack dogs on the woman that Bond had a fling with in Drax's mansion. That was a very effective, even artful sequence as unsettling as any of the death scenes throughout the series.
You know, I own this one on blu-ray, and I was glad to see you do this particular Bond film. I feel much the same way about it as you laid it all out here. Yep, it gets too silly, yep, it's a more lighthearted outing...but dang if it ain't good fun somehow! You nailed it, too, on Roger Moore. I couldn't see any other of the other actors in this particular film, other than Roger Moore. He is actually Bond in some of my other favorites, like Man with the Golden Gun. And wow, one of Jonh Barry's best scores, indeed. But, he was a master anyway. Black Hole, King Kong, Dances with Wolves...I never heard a bad score from John Barry...not even Starcrash...LOL!
In his Chicago Tribune review of “Moonraker”, Gene Siskel wrote that Hugo Drax looked like someone you’d see lurking in the back row of an X-rated theater. I was only 14 at the time, but that image of Drax has always stayed with me.
Ugh, it's such a shame that Gene's old reviews are practically impossible to find.
He looks more like Jonathan Frakes to me.
@@coreytoomey7579 The only similarities is that they’re both white with all their limbs. They look nothing alike.
Cannot wait for the For Your Eyes Only one. My absolute favourite Roger Moore Bond movie
The best one liner: "you missed, mr bond"- "did i?"😂
Moonraker is a guilty pleasure of mine
I don't understand the hate Moonraker gets. For me, at least, it's a more fun film than anything from Daniel Craig's Bond outings.
I agree, it's still a fun movie to watch.
Because it's cheesy as hell. Good villain and Bond girl, I'll give it that.
Also the plot is a clone of the Spy who Loved Me, with a few modifications.
Because it's not fun enough to counter it being a bad film and an ill fit for an espionage franchise. It's at least more interesting than the next two, but it's still campy.
I have said this for years... Moonraker is one of the absolute best unintentional comedies I have ever seen... Especially if you smoke a little of the wacky weed before watching it
how was that unintentional?`
They clearly saw that their audience was getting younger and loved all the tech gimmicks more than the womanizing and quip wielding and adapted to that... and it has stayed that way until the end of Brosnan'S run, whenever they tried to be serious again (Dalton) it turned out badly, both for audience satisfaction and quality of the movie.
Bonus points for showing us the horrors of space battles... nowhere to hide or find cover and you get shots from pretty much everywhere.
It horrified my wife she said they have nothing to hide behind and all the screams made her cringe.
It always horrifies me to watch it and what happens to the men in it and the noises they make getting hit and spinning off into space.
I watched this when I was 8 or 7 , with my cousin.. so have a soft spot for this movie
"Take a giant step for mankind" for some reason is my favorite Bond quip. Probably the way Roger Moore delivered it.
This movie made me check out some places in Venice that I wouldn't otherwise have visited when I was there
I saw this in the movie theater the year it came out in North Hollywood, California, I was 8 I think, my friend and I took a bus to get there, was epic good times.
"Moonraker is the dumbest installment of the series"
*Die Another Day has entered the chat*
Octopussy is like, you forgot me
I think there is a slight difference here, in my opinion, between dumb and bad. Moonraker being the former and Die another day the latter.
Quantum of Solace deserves that infamous title.
I walked out of Die Another Day waste of time
This movie is incredible dumb, however, Die Another Day made us realice the class and charm this movie had.
Movies are supposed to entertain and this film is very entertaining. So many great scenes. I love it
Moonraker was trying to be the Star Wars of the James Bond franchise and so full of cheese, it's pretty dumb but Roger Moore is still very watchable as 007.
6:00 “… In a space shoot, suiting laser guns” 😁
DOLLY HAD BRACES!! IT'S THE MANDELA EFFECT!!
True story.
The moment the franchise jumped the shark...HOWEVER, decades later, Die Another Day will make us realice the class and charm this movie had.
I wouldn't say so. The Man With The Golden Gun was worse.
Wow, people still having fits about the invisible car almost 2 decades later? I like Moonraker for what it is, but D.A.D. is miles better. Plus, it was meant to be a meta-hommage to the whole franchise (being the 20th movie), so naturally the producers went all out and gave us space lasers, diamond encrusted bad guys and power armor.
@@Phoenix-xn3sf The film is still a hot mess but I can think of worse in the series such as Quantum of Solace and SPECTRE.
Die Another Die doesn’t have a legion of nostalgic boomers rooting for it. Moonraker isn’t watchable for anyone under 60
I remember the publicity that said 'NOW OUTER SPACE BELONGS TO 007' and it was very very effective ! For me Moonraker is my Teenage years so I LOVE it
I loved this movie, it was pure fun entertainment.
Is a Fun movie. It is silly, it is awesome!
Love this movie
Great Bond film!!! Great Bond and Bond girl, great director, great DP, great production desinger..........
I love this one forever, cause it was my first Bond when I was a ten year old boy. Well, kind of, because it was on a VHS along with "You only live twice".
Btw: In my opinion Hugo Drax is one of the best villains, much better than Stromberg.
Jaws is an iconic character in the bond Franchises however I will always have a special place in my heart for Mr Larsonl😅
I remember Dolly with braces!! Also I remember her name being Molly!!!
You are not alone
Did you see the original on film in 1979? I remember it too along with everyone who saw it on film and she had braces. So I tracked down the original film through some people in the film industry and found a copy to prove it and when I looked at the scene she didn't have braces I was like this can't be in clearly remember it being funny because of her braces but this was the original film on fugi film dated 1979 and she had non unless the guy doing the screen shot was pulling a fast one on me buy he had no,reason too that I know of
@@magiccheeseball the Mandel effect!!! I actually had to step away from it a couple of times cause it was driving me crazy!!!!
@@arturkarpinski164 me too that's why I went to the trouble to find the original film that wasn't edited, I have seen other movies that were edited too becase they weren't appropriate nowadays
The Spy Who Loved Me was my first Bond movie in the cinema, I was eight years old. BUT when this came out two years later I was hooked. On Her Majesty's.... is my favourite BUT Moonraker is definitely my guilty pleasure
One of my favourites of bond. It’s silly but so entertaining and a really big movie. Probably my favourite era of bond from 1977 to 1983.
My friends and I saw this movie in the theater back in '79, so it definitely has the nostalgia factor with me. I still occasionally spin my blu ray for fun.
After the next Mission Impossible installment goes into space, nobody is going to think Moonraker is where the franchise jump the shark. I also have a osf spot for this entry, as a child it combined my love for sci-fi and action. Great as usual, Than!!!
Is it a silly movie - yes it is. Was it a well made and fun movie - absolutely.
That's what movies are all about at the end of the day.
Fun and escapism is exactly what Moonraker delivered.
I think you've grossly underrated this movie. The bond villains were pretty good. You had the team up of Chen and Jaws. The gadgets were good. And the speed boat chase at the end was excellent. The silliness as you say is what makes it so fun. Bond even kills a giant snake with a poison pen! I would give this one a solid 8. But keep the reviews coming, thx.
The problem I have with Hugo Drax as the bad guy in this movie is the fact he kind of reminds me of Brian from Pinky and the Brain in his way he says his lines.
Well, he was trying to... "TAKE OVER THE WORLD!"
So... Orson Welles?
What's funny is Brain's appearance is based on a guy who looks like the late Michael Lonsdale.
5:55...”If Roger Moore was in this, he’d be a little embarrassed...now, ROGER MOORE? He Takes it all in stride...’Space? Yes!”...HOW did you MISS THIS?!
See comments above.
Split personality
Loved it as a 10 year old and I still do. Then again I love The PAT Movie.
That gondola now rests at a James Bond museum about 5 km from where I live =P
Where's that?
MOONRAKER IS AN UNMATCHED CLASSIC!! My favourite Bond movie by a massive stretch, and it makes perfect sense, because James Bond as a character and what he does is inherently silly (secret agent my ASS!) but that space theme is just awesome!
Why does everyone decry sci-spy in Bond? When you love a crotch laser in Goldfinger, it's open season.
Bond should be five minutes into the future, not five decades.
@@ricardocantoral7672 we still don't have any crotch lasers, so yeah, Goldfinger is also at least five decades ahead so far ;)
@@goodial We currently have industrial laser cutters so no, not really.
I kinda an agree with you, but however I liked Moonraker movie because it had a creative storyline. Roger Moore really fit well on James Bond doing a space mission, Lois Chiles really made Holly Goodhead a great Bond girl with some unique traits. Also liked the idea of Jaws turning good at the end because Jaws need to redeem himself. I liked the chase scene with the creative gadgets. Also like some of Roger Moore one liners. The Corinne Dufour scene where she dies from the dogs makes me nervous about dogs in the future. I had wished that Corinne Dufour could have had more scenes in the movie, or some scenes with James Bond, and allowed Bond to help Corinne Dufour escape. Also in Moonraker I liked on how Bond plays detective style to investigate different things. I give this one a 8 out of 10.
The dog chase scene was amazing.
Moonraker is not meant to be taken seriously... after the Spy Who Loved me, it was time to play for some laughs. It's important to remember, the UK wasn't a very funny place to live in at the time. It was complete escapism.
Jaws got the prettiest chick in the movie. And Drax had a pile of gorgeous models as his female space crew. I don't think Lois Chiles made it at all as the main Bond girl. She can 't do a sexy role , and have heard her say in interviews she is not really into men(though she has been married), and you could tell in the movie , it seemed there was no feeling/chemistry between her and Roger Moore. One of the better Bond films though, , and the furthest in "camp", even past Golden Gun.
You are joking right? Lois Chiles was a former supermodel in the 1970s. She was all sexy in Moonraker and one of the sexiest looking Bond girls of them all. And that chemistry you picked up from her performance may have something to do with Lois losing her youngest brother to Cancer at the same time of filming. You gotta know the whole story before slagging someone off.
Did you see the original version on film? Do you remember if she had braces when she met jaws?
I watched this on Star Wars day last year. I love it.
Moonraker is one my favorite Bond movies of all time, it's a perfect movie. I don't know why people find this Bond Film silly..? We have an International Space Station for over 22 years right now since 1998, so the plot could be real. And I love the special mix of locations, Venice, Rio de Janeiro and at the beginning of film the location of the French castle. And I find it's the best Bond film of Roger Moore as 007 after "The spy who loved me".
This is one of my favourite Bonds lol
Probably not the best Roger Moore entry as 007, BUT my favorite! Love the John Barry score and Draw as the baddie - an he has the best lines!
I loved this when I was 9 I remember seeing this at the theater.
This movie is fantastic! What’s not to love? It has a chillingly sinister plot (mass extermination of humanity), sinister villain (Drax), exotic locations (Venice, South America, umm… SPACE!), humor, amazing action scenes, hell, they brought back Jaws. Roger Moore is in his 4th turn at Bond and has mastered the character completely. Seriously don’t understand where all the hate comes from. It’s entertainment people.
Finally the new James Bond revisited is here!
This is much better than anything after Sean Connery and Roger Moore. Actors after them just don't have what it takes.
Finally can’t wait for for your eyes only!
Best poster ever!!! Great Bond entry. Amazing song 🎧.
This is my 2nd fave in the series after Goldfinger. The only thing i don't really like is Jaws turning good, but i've learned to live with it and i think i'll watch this film this afternoon.
I watched and rewatched this Bond installment with my cousins when we were just kids (those days were so carefree) so I have a soft spot for this film.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; Roger Moore is the best Bond 👌
You didn't talk at all about the opening stinger. The stunt (and camera) work during that sequence was stunning, though sadly ruined a bit by Jaws' sad attempt to "fly"
Moonraker is probably my least favorite film in the bond series, but I did love the moonraker laser in 007 goldeneye for the N64
same
Wasn’t there a boat that converted into a hand glider?
I can't believe there was no mention to the best scene of the movie, and one of the best stunts in the history of the franchise, the no-parachute jump at the opening... Everytime I see that scene, I almost get a little heart attack. Yes, Moonraker is silly, but even the lesser Bond films have at least one great cinematic moment in them.
Was a great stunt
The silliest part of this movie (among a lot of silliness) must be the mid-air hijacking of the space shuttle in the beginning! Someone MUST have told them that the space shuttle just doesn´t work this way, but they went with it anyway because they thought it looks cool (and of course it does)!
Hard to think about Connery in Moonraker but I'm sure he would have adapted.i love the way you can see that planets atmosphere in Star Wars opening.
Yeah, that pigeon bit really kind of kicked the energy of that scene in the nads. It was like something out of a low-budget slapstick comedy. The scene as a whole wasn't exactly super serious in tone, but that rewind double tack was just not the sort of technique you see in a James Bond movie.
I did like this movie when I was younger, though I like it less as an adult. Still a fun enough watch however.
To me, the first 2/3rds of the film made sense. You have Star Wars and the brand new (at the time) NASA shuttle program as the back drop. Drax, (I've always like him as a baddie) a Blofeld like baddie, with his typical Bond villain master plan involved with cutting edge technology. (again, at the time) The scene where he sets the dogs out is stone cold. Good villain stuff right there. Then you get Bond in space, with some laser blasters, and its just cranked up to absurd. I can't help but like this one. You are correct, if it were any other Bond but Roger Moore would have been terrible. He made it work, and it just fit with his Bond.
And yes, John Barry with that score was ON POINT. Also.... Shirley Bassey with the theme song. She's the gold standard when it comes to Bond themes, and this is a great theme song.
I remember thinking the 7-Up billboard wasa little too obvious. Maybe also another one for watches. . . Omega?
05:18
That was like a call of duty multi-player match
Just because JoBlo didn't like it isn't important. I loved MR for Roger and the special effects. Lois is gorgeous. You gotta go back in time to recall the enjoyment.
Love this film,it was my first Bond film;)
I had the DVD of this years ago, and it's interesting how the FX were made. Rather than optical compositing, they used an absolutely insane method where the same strip of film was re-spooled and re-exposed over and over, element by element. The upshot is that there are no matte lines - that's why the FX look so clean. But the downside is that a single mistake could ruin days, even weeks, of work because there was no safety net. They had to either live with the mistake, or re-do the entire shot from scratch.
Moonraker is an absolutely fantastic movie.
i love Moonraker. convinced me to give those Star Wars movie a try….glad i did
As a Bond fan, I find this movie frustrating. It could have been the best Bond movie ever. It has some brilliant elements to it. Like Drax, Jaws, the set pieces, the plot etc. But it felt more like a parody of the spy who loved me. I wish they had taken this film more seriously and not gone for cheap laughs and gimmicks. They have wasted the potential of this movie.
RIP Tanya Roberts (I think). You only live twice!!!
I always felt that this could easily be a far darker film. For starters, Hugo Drax could have been Jim Jones type cult leader who was being followed by the elite of each nation.
The cinematography in this film is very good especially the shots in South America/waterfalls etc
Moonraker was indeed a rehash of The Spy Who Loved me but that was in turn a rehash of You Only Live Twice. It was felt that the idea of a master criminal stealing someone elses (US/Soviet/British) equipment leant itself to a whdunnit hunt format that ended in a big "Villain's Lair" battle was a proven formula that could have the big setpiece battle at the end easily filmed in a large (007?) soundstage. Variations have been used ever since. The departure from this, to an extent, was what was refreshing about Casino Royale but they were lured back with Quantum of Solace and I think that's why the fans weren't so impressed.