ivo-cobra8 Moonraker (1979) is criminally underrated and bashed by Bond fans and I know everyone is going to disagree with me. This is my second favorite James Bond 007 film and in my opinion not yours Roger Moore's best film. This is the eleventh spy film in the James Bond series to be produced by Eon Productions, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The third and final film in the series to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, it co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Cléry, and Richard Kiel. This film has so much action, action, action, action all the time. It has beautiful girls, climatic battle fights with laser guns in outer space, Bond jumps off the plane without parachute. Climatic fight between Bond, Holly Goodhead and Jaws on the Cable Car in Sugarloaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro. I love this film to death I grew up with this film and it is my favorite. I'm a hard-core James Bond fan. I make no apologies for believing that even the late Roger Moore is the closest thing we've seen to IAN FLEMING's James Bond.Since I was a kid I have really enjoyed this film, I have enjoy it in high school and I still do till it's day. I know a lot of people's is at least favorite Bond film because it is science fiction film it is set in space. James Bond 007 in outer space is a bad idea because in 1977 Star Wars come out and they were so popular that they decide to make this film, I don't mind it.James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide. Roger Moore in my opinion is the most underrated James Bond 007 ever and I have more respect then i would have a respect to a morons like Daniel Craig I hate the new James Bond! Roger Moore R.I.P. I really miss you I am long time loving fan of you. Thank you for your visiting Slovenia in 2000 I have so much respect for you. My condolences to his family.Star Trek was so popular even the movies and the show and I don't like em I hated the reboot they made and I still hate Star Trek movies but I love this movie so much it is in space like only 45 minutes and even that wasn't that bad.This is the sequel to The Spy Who Loved Me Richard Kiel reprise his role as Jaws from the film The Spy Who Loved Me and it was the last film Lewis Gilbert directed. Jaws returns in "Moonraker" and adds some tension to the film… Richard Kiel has become something of a cult figure since his appearance in 'The Spy Who Loved Me'. He reappears as indestructible as ever. His performance was beautiful and wonderful even for the comedic effect than in The Spy Who Loved Me.Why is my favorite and why I love it so much: I love the filming locations the film was set from California to Venice, Italy to Brazil Rio de Janeiro to Amazon River to Drax base in Iguazu Falls I love this film. This movie has so much beautiful girls you see so many blond girls in this film I feel like this movie set Supergirl. You have a great boat chase on the Amazon River it is fantastic Bond blows up the assassins with a mine. Bond fights with a python in the river Drax's base. Honesty I think Conan The Barbarian copied from this movie the scene about Python fight. Bond fights off Drax henchman Chang (Toshiro Suga). Bond throws knife in the assassin in Venice river and flees with his own boat.Great direction from Lewis Gilbert I am so proud on the director that he filmed this film in Venice, Italy in the city in which my mom visited. Great music score from Shirley Bassey - Moonraker and John Barry did a wonderful score for the James Bond film.Michael Lonsdale's performance is astonishingly controlled and precise as Hugo Drax... There's something really scary about his true personality and character... He gives sarcastic remarks about 007: 'You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season.' 'At least I shall have the pleasure of putting you out of my misery!' 'Mr. Bond, you persist in defying my efforts to provide an amusing death for you.'Lois Chiles is a great and the finest Bond girl, the irresistible Holly Goodhead: A CIA agent and astronaut who joins Bond and flies with him to Drax's space station. She was really sexy and beautiful all tough I prefer Drax's astronaut girls way better cause they were so blond.10/10 Moonraker to me is way better then Skyfall, Spectre, Quantum of Solace, The World is not Enough, Die Another Day, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and even more Bond films I dislike. This is the most underrated film I have ever seen.10/10 Grade: Bad-Ass Seal Of Approval Studio: Eon Productions, MGM/UA Communications Company Starring: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Corinne Cléry, Toshiro Suga Director: Lewis Gilbert Screenplay: Christopher Wood Producer: Albert R. Broccoli Based on Moonraker by Ian Fleming Rated: PG Running Time: 2 Hrs. 06 Mins. Budget: $34.000.000 Box Office: $210,308,099

mark.waltz "Look after Mr. Bond. See that some harm comes to him." That leads to one of the few great moments when Roger Moore uses one of his secret weapons to stop a machine simulating a space ship whirling around faster than any amusement park ride. This is one of the few misfires in the first two decades of the series, going more for laughs and less for thrills as Bond strives to protect a British investment in a huge rocket, resulting in him going over the world for no seemingly real purpose. Richard Kiel's villain "Jaws" returns, having a nice dance in the sky with Bond in the opening sequence, and getting a bizarre "cutsie" romance in the second half of the film. While a semi followup to "The Spy Who Loves Me", it seems like its walking along with its own drumbeat. It helps to watch these two films back to back, simply to tie in the Jaws character, although it goes way overboard in many moments.Every adventurous moment strives for comic relief, and while there are laughs, there's also a scratching of the head feeling that goes along with it all. That's never more obvious than the initially thrilling Venice scene where Bond's gondola suddenly parades through the town square as confused tourists look on. A tense action sequence with Kiel and Moore battling on a high up people mover in Rio de Janeiro starts off promisingly and ends up with a farcical outcome that has to be seen to be believed. Lois Chiles is a rather ineffective "Bond Girl". To top it off, Shirley Bassey's theme song is one of the blandest ever. Moments of comic genius mixed with the usual Bond elegance can't hide the fact that this is the silliest entries in the series. Spoofing the spaceship music from "Close Encounters", this seems like a Bond film as seen through the eyes of Mel Brooks.

zkonedog By most accounts, "Moonraker" should be a middling Bond effort at best. The villain is weak, the plot is like tissue paper, and the acting is supremely over-the-top. Yet, for some reason, this movie has always just provided me with some great, thoughtless entertainment!For a basic plot summary, "Moonraker" sees James Bond (Roger Moore) run up against Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale), a crazed entrepreneur bent on conquering Earth from his space base. Along the way, Bond enlists the help of Dr. Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles), as well as the traditional orders from M (Bernard Lee) and gadgets from Q (Desmond Llewelyn).Perhaps I can stomach this movie so well because it was one of the first "old Bond" movies I ever saw, right when I was getting into the franchise, but I think there are a very inherent "saving graces" that indeed make it watchable:-The space theme, which is very different from the typical Bond fare and makes this movie unique to the series. -The character of Jaws (Richard Kiel), who is one of the most exciting Bond villains of the entire run. He is never the "main baddie", but as an "evil henchman" you can't get any better! -Moore's lighthearted Bond can sometimes get sickening, but for some reason the shtick works pretty well in this one, getting even some legitimate laughs throughout.Overall, even though "Moonraker" can, at times, be the epitome of cheese-ball and eye-rolling cinema, it still can be enjoyed by Bond fans looking for "something different".

KineticSeoul After "The Spy Who Loved Me" I thought just maybe just maybe the next James Bond movie with Roger Moore wouldn't be a "007" spoof. Where Roger Moore wouldn't be a caricature of the silliness that applies to the Bond films he is in. I thought he would be out of that stage and it was smooth sailing from there on...Well I was wrong. I just didn't think the title "Moonraker" would literally apply to the films plot. This film starts out alright despite the campy and ridiculous intro of James Bond parachuting and Jaws (the villain from the previous film) returning and trying to kill bond. It's quite obvious they got the idea from that scene from D. B. Cooper. It was actually kind of cool to see Jaws again as one of the villains, he was like a menacing figure in the first one. In this he is like Nemesis from "Resident Evil 3" minus the intimidation, he is actually more goofy than a intimidating figure in this. Mainly because of the set ups and Jaw's facial expressions during certain parts. It just made him look like a dumb tall guy at a children's party that just didn't know what was going on. There is one scene where Jaw's falls for a woman after their eyes intertwine, it was sweet but it was very laughable. Anyways like I said this installment started off alright until the Venice chase scene where Bond uses his pimped out Venetian row boat to escape by also being able to move on land as well. The whole super car being able to go under water is alright, but a Venetian row boat that moves on land was comedic for the wrong reasons. There is also other ridiculous parts, but lets just skip to Bond going into outer space. I guess after "Star Wars" was such a mega hit, the producers probably wanted to take some ideas from that film. There is even a laser gun in this as well, with the similar guns the stormtroopers have. As for the main villain, it didn't seem like they were trying anymore. Some of the really standout villains are the ones you can sort of understand why they are the way they are. Or at least understand their motives, not necessarily agree with it but understand where they are coming from. That is far from it in this, the past villains was about world domination, money or just killing people. In this one it's the whole "Noah's Ark" scenario. Except a human guy that is out of his mind, chooses only certain people that fit his terms of human perfection onto his spaceship. Than wipe out the whole human race so only people he deems perfect can repopulate the world. Overall this is probably my least favorite Bond film compared to the previous one. At least "The Man With The Golden Gun" was amusing. Like in some previous Bond films there is a climatic battle scene, well this one is with a band of astronauts and laser guns *sigh*. I like Star Wars as well but some universes should not mix.3.5/10