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The actor who played the copilot of the plane that blew up at the start of the movie also played a submarine officer who was killed in The Spy Who Loved Me. I guess we can assume they were twin brothers, which means the family had a double loss.
Moonraker is pretty underrated. Sure, it has some cringeworthy camp, but it's also a well crafted spectacle. The cinematography here is really gorgeous at times, the score by John Barry is strong, the effects (rear projection work aside) are phenomenal and I do actually really like Drax. The lines he gets are not only memorable, but also kinda poetic. Also, how the hell did you not like Jaws in TSWLM? I mean, I could understand that he's too much in Moonraker, but he's pretty much perfect in TSWLM imo. The last time I watched it a few months ago, it actually went up quite a bit. Currently ranks at #16 for me. Btw, Jaws was beloved by children in particular. It's not like grown men wrote EON fan mail saying "Make him a good guy!". It was children who did that. Looking forward to what you'll think about the other Bond films.
Thanks Nikolai! Yeah it still boggles my mind Dean doesn't even like Jaws that much from TSWLM, that scene in Egypt with the ominous lighting and music is really really great - Daniel
@@TheMovieJourney Oh yeah, I started watching Bond when I was around 6 years old. Jaws mostly just scared the living crap out of me, when I was a kid. And that jump scare during the train scene as well. Uff :D
5:04 Sir Roger Moore was such a gentleman. Even though I am not the biggest fan of his portrayal of Bond, there has never been a better example of an ambassador or spokesperson of this franchise than Sir Roger Moore. Thats why during the premieres of the Pierce Brosnan and the Daniel Craig Bond movies, they would bring him to talk about the legacy of the franchise and he would always display class.
Trivia Except for a few brief close-ups, the entire sequence of Bond, Jaws, and the pilot falling from the plane, with Bond and the pilot fighting for a single parachute, was shot in free fall. The seven-pound camera for these sequences was mounted on the helmet of another skydiver, and a few shots are of the cameraman's own arms and legs. Stuntmen Jake Lombard and B.J. Worth wore parachutes concealed within their suits. The "parachute" over which they fought, was actually a dummy chute, which had to be removed before the stuntman could use the real parachute underneath. Stuntman Jake Lombard would don and remove the dummy chute up to three times in a single jump. The actual parachutes used by the stuntmen had a main and reserve chute concealed within the suitcoats. A breakaway seam ran down the back, which allowed the parachute to be opened without the need to remove the coat. There were only sixty to seventy seconds of free fall time, between when the stunt performers exited the aircraft, and when they had to activate their chutes. After factoring in the time needed to get the performers and cameraman into position after leaving their plane, only a few seconds of film could be shot per jump. Therefore, the entire sequence required eighty-eight jumps, and five weeks to film, just to produce the two minutes of footage in the final movie Trivia The scene in which the gondola converts into a hovercraft, and elevates out of the water, succeeded with the fifth attempt. During the first four takes, the vehicle was so unstable that Sir Roger Moore fell into the water, and he needed to have his silk suit replaced for each take. It was fortunate that the stunt worked during the fifth take, because he was wearing the last available silk suit. Trivia The cost for this movie was $30 million, nearly as much as the first 8 films combined, without taking into account inflation. Trivia The cable that Jaws bit was actually made of licorice Trivia Producer Albert R. Broccoli called Steven Spielberg, requesting permission to use the indelible five-note leitmotif from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Broccoli wanted to use it as the entry code for an electronic laboratory door lock in a scene in this movie. Several years later, Spielberg called Broccoli requesting permission to use the 007 theme music for a scene in a movie he was producing, titled The Goonies (1985). Broccoli pointed out that there were more than five notes in the 007 theme music. Spielberg suspected the producer's tongue was firmly planted in his cheek, as he continued to banter. He was right. The Steven Spielberg and Albert R. Broccoli connection has another twist, an interest in directing a Bond movie while in negotiations with Broccoli, until Star Wars saga producer and creator George Lucas offered the script for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Trivia Sir Roger Moore arrived a few days late for the shoot in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, due to a kidney stone attack in France. Moore had also had a renal colic attack while filming Live and Let Die (1973). Once he arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he literally walked off the plane, went into make-up and hair, got fitted out, went back onto the plane, and was then filmed arriving in Rio de Janeiro as James Bond for this movie. Trivia During the cable car stunt, high above Rio de Janeiro, a real cliffhanger moment occurred when stuntman Richard Graydon slipped, and was hanging on for dear life. The rest of the crew, including Ken Adam, were petrified while the camera was rolling, and they were watching from a vantage point. Trivia This movie became the focus of a real-life adventure story, when mercenary John Miller used it as cover, in his attempt to kidnap fugitive Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and return him to Britain for trial. Miller and his team posed as members of this movie's production team, offering a cameo in the movie to Biggs, intending to lure him onto a yacht for the proposed scene to be filmed, and once in international waters, sail it to a Commonwealth country, from where he could be extradited. The scheme became unstuck when a member of the press, who'd heard rumors of the operation, telephoned Biggs' house, thinking he had already been snatched. Trivia It was the first movie to feature the modern space shuttle in a movie. This movie's release was suppose to coincide with the first launch of the space shuttle, but this unfortunately didn't occur until April 12, 1981, just before the release of the next James Bond movie, For Your Eyes Only (1981), and exactly twenty years after Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space (April 12, 1961). Trivia Lois Chiles was pregnant during shooting If you want more trivia here's the link to the page https ://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079574/trivia
I was a kid back then. Stood and stared at the poster for so long. Didn't get to see it, of course, just the James jokes. And it seems some boys snuck in a puppy in the cinema hall and pinch it when one of those scenes came on and it would yelp.
Remember watching this in the theater, and it was something to see. I did wonder even then how much it seemed to veer back and forth with the comedy (double take pigeon) and the death of the girl in the woods. Still, it’s great fun and and follows on with the Star Wars craze going on then.
9:25 "What if she had metal teeth?" I've heard a rumor that people thought that Dolly (Jaws's girlfriend) wore braces and this is one of the reasons they fell in love. But thanks to the clarity of DVD and Blu-ray, we now know she doesn't.
@@TheMovieJourney Oh, you have no reason to apologize. It's fine what you think about it. The film is corny as hell, but that's what I love about it. Keep doing what you guys do.
The reason the spy who love me and Moonraker have almost identical plots and story is because the spy who loved me, even though it's an original story, elements from Fleming's Moonraker was used in the writing of the story.
There was no intention to make Moonraker into a film, hence why they adapted its story elements into The Spy Who Loved Me.... but then a little thing called Star Wars happened, and MGM/UA felt the pressure to cash in on the craze
It has nothing to do with the moonraker novel. The director Lewis Gilbert basically made the same movie three times based on the Roal Dahl script for YOLT. You only live twice, The spy who loved me and moonraker all have the same basic plot and themes
@@crimsondeath7468 if they were both inspired from Roald Dahl’s script…, does that make Stromberg’s Atlantis the chocolate factory and a Moonraker shuttle the great glass elevator?
@@TheMovieJourney Jaws , Richard Kiel , also done work under name Dick Kiel , mostly roles in TV shows and few movies in 1960s and 1970s Best role i have seen him with lot of dialog is action comedy TV show The Fall Guy , episode , That's Right, We're Bad (1981) , Lee Majors as the main character . Seems he done lot of these silly roles on TV shows , but this was really weird and the plot holes , Richard Kiel was 7 ft 2 in (218 cm) , he could not hide on that plane anywhere , so that you would not see him and suddenly he pushed Bond out of the plane .
We didn't. We've had a podcast for nearly 4 years now, and we started the Bond series on our Patreon earlier on this year. It's only when we got halfway through we started giving the videos a try
Wouldn't it be hilarious if Drax only became evil cause Bond refused to eat one of his cucumber sandwiches when they first meet? I find the idea hysterical.
@@codyt821 have you read the novels? Temperamentally Moore's Bond is closer to the source material than Craig's and some of Connery's. Moore's weakness are campy elements like the Tarzan scene in Octopussy which was overpowering. Overlooking that Moore's approach in the danger scenes combine real drama with an exhilarating sense of adventure.
Talk about a movie for its time. 2 years after the release of Star Wars and EON Productions basically stuck Bond on Tatooine, the home planet of Luke Skywalker. Or a space ship above earth. I've never been a fan of the more outlandish Bond films. I prefer the more grounded, realistic stuff, but there's a time and place for any Bond film, I think, and every one is kind of an interesting time capsule. Living Daylights, for example, was so 1987 that it basically had Osama Bin Laden as a Bond ally, supplied by the CIA, in Afghanistan fighting Russians. Boy, did that not age well. LOL.
We had started our James Bond series on our Patreon in podcast discussion form, it was only at Moonraker we decided to move to video reactions. Perhaps in the future we will go full circle and do the earlier Bonds 👍🏻
2 points i need to say. Jaws is so freaking bad that it brake the universe and became good as fuck. The second one, as a brazilian dude i must say that the space fight is more beliavable than he going in the midle of Rio de Janeiro and make out of there alive.... and with his wallet. I mean, i love Brazil, but even i am absolute terrifyed of Rio.
The film's fine. Your commentary shows a little bias. Moore's acting is actually exceptional here and much of the plot development follows a standard Bond outline. I think the real point of contention is whether to accept Bond in space.
We have been doing an audio podcast for over 3 years, and we started the bond series/Dr. No on our Patreon a while back. We just decided to start up videos again at this time. BTW I've been waiting for someone to ask us this 🤣
It's a Mardi gras in New Orleans. 9:50. In Mardi gras everyone is a friend and they party. Boy do they party! You Brits should come down to New Orleans during Mardi gras.
You are way too negative even from the start. It's almost as if you have no interest in watching the movie, because someone told you it wasn't good. What's the point of doing a movie-reaction if you are not even going to watch it?
What do you think of MOONRAKER? Comment your thoughts below, as well as your ⭐ rating!
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Drax is one of my favorite Bond villains. He's an eye roll personified.
The actor who played the copilot of the plane that blew up at the start of the movie also played a submarine officer who was killed in The Spy Who Loved Me. I guess we can assume they were twin brothers, which means the family had a double loss.
5:40 this is probably the most comedic Bond movie of all time 🤣🤣🤣
0:29 that reaction is priceless 😆
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Still one of my favorite Bond movies. It's so fun.
Glad you enjoy it!
For all it's faults (and there are many), I can't possibly hate the movie that contains the single best line in the franchise (15:35)
Massive highlight of the film 😁
Roger Moore was literally blowing a hair dryer in his own face.
Awesome opening sequence of bond falling from the airplane .best bond opening .
6:34 He always did enjoy playing chopsticks
Under rated bond movie i like it
This is Bernard Lee's final appearance as M because he unfortunately passed away a year after this Film came out
Moonraker is pretty underrated. Sure, it has some cringeworthy camp, but it's also a well crafted spectacle. The cinematography here is really gorgeous at times, the score by John Barry is strong, the effects (rear projection work aside) are phenomenal and I do actually really like Drax. The lines he gets are not only memorable, but also kinda poetic.
Also, how the hell did you not like Jaws in TSWLM? I mean, I could understand that he's too much in Moonraker, but he's pretty much perfect in TSWLM imo.
The last time I watched it a few months ago, it actually went up quite a bit. Currently ranks at #16 for me.
Btw, Jaws was beloved by children in particular. It's not like grown men wrote EON fan mail saying "Make him a good guy!". It was children who did that.
Looking forward to what you'll think about the other Bond films.
Thanks Nikolai! Yeah it still boggles my mind Dean doesn't even like Jaws that much from TSWLM, that scene in Egypt with the ominous lighting and music is really really great - Daniel
@@TheMovieJourney Oh yeah, I started watching Bond when I was around 6 years old. Jaws mostly just scared the living crap out of me, when I was a kid. And that jump scare during the train scene as well. Uff :D
@@nikolaiquack8548 Yeah even though I've seen TSWLM multiple times, the Jaws train jump scare still gets me 😂
5:04 Sir Roger Moore was such a gentleman. Even though I am not the biggest fan of his portrayal of Bond, there has never been a better example of an ambassador or spokesperson of this franchise than Sir Roger Moore. Thats why during the premieres of the Pierce Brosnan and the Daniel Craig Bond movies, they would bring him to talk about the legacy of the franchise and he would always display class.
Jaws IS great in this film!
My jaw dropped when jaws spoke
It was definitely unexpected!
Trivia Except for a few brief close-ups, the entire sequence of Bond, Jaws, and the pilot falling from the plane, with Bond and the pilot fighting for a single parachute, was shot in free fall. The seven-pound camera for these sequences was mounted on the helmet of another skydiver, and a few shots are of the cameraman's own arms and legs. Stuntmen Jake Lombard and B.J. Worth wore parachutes concealed within their suits. The "parachute" over which they fought, was actually a dummy chute, which had to be removed before the stuntman could use the real parachute underneath. Stuntman Jake Lombard would don and remove the dummy chute up to three times in a single jump. The actual parachutes used by the stuntmen had a main and reserve chute concealed within the suitcoats. A breakaway seam ran down the back, which allowed the parachute to be opened without the need to remove the coat. There were only sixty to seventy seconds of free fall time, between when the stunt performers exited the aircraft, and when they had to activate their chutes. After factoring in the time needed to get the performers and cameraman into position after leaving their plane, only a few seconds of film could be shot per jump. Therefore, the entire sequence required eighty-eight jumps, and five weeks to film, just to produce the two minutes of footage in the final movie
Trivia The scene in which the gondola converts into a hovercraft, and elevates out of the water, succeeded with the fifth attempt. During the first four takes, the vehicle was so unstable that Sir Roger Moore fell into the water, and he needed to have his silk suit replaced for each take. It was fortunate that the stunt worked during the fifth take, because he was wearing the last available silk suit.
Trivia The cost for this movie was $30 million, nearly as much as the first 8 films combined, without taking into account inflation.
Trivia The cable that Jaws bit was actually made of licorice
Trivia Producer Albert R. Broccoli called Steven Spielberg, requesting permission to use the indelible five-note leitmotif from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Broccoli wanted to use it as the entry code for an electronic laboratory door lock in a scene in this movie. Several years later, Spielberg called Broccoli requesting permission to use the 007 theme music for a scene in a movie he was producing, titled The Goonies (1985). Broccoli pointed out that there were more than five notes in the 007 theme music. Spielberg suspected the producer's tongue was firmly planted in his cheek, as he continued to banter. He was right. The Steven Spielberg and Albert R. Broccoli connection has another twist, an interest in directing a Bond movie while in negotiations with Broccoli, until Star Wars saga producer and creator George Lucas offered the script for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
Trivia Sir Roger Moore arrived a few days late for the shoot in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, due to a kidney stone attack in France. Moore had also had a renal colic attack while filming Live and Let Die (1973). Once he arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he literally walked off the plane, went into make-up and hair, got fitted out, went back onto the plane, and was then filmed arriving in Rio de Janeiro as James Bond for this movie.
Trivia During the cable car stunt, high above Rio de Janeiro, a real cliffhanger moment occurred when stuntman Richard Graydon slipped, and was hanging on for dear life. The rest of the crew, including Ken Adam, were petrified while the camera was rolling, and they were watching from a vantage point.
Trivia This movie became the focus of a real-life adventure story, when mercenary John Miller used it as cover, in his attempt to kidnap fugitive Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and return him to Britain for trial. Miller and his team posed as members of this movie's production team, offering a cameo in the movie to Biggs, intending to lure him onto a yacht for the proposed scene to be filmed, and once in international waters, sail it to a Commonwealth country, from where he could be extradited. The scheme became unstuck when a member of the press, who'd heard rumors of the operation, telephoned Biggs' house, thinking he had already been snatched.
Trivia It was the first movie to feature the modern space shuttle in a movie. This movie's release was suppose to coincide with the first launch of the space shuttle, but this unfortunately didn't occur until April 12, 1981, just before the release of the next James Bond movie, For Your Eyes Only (1981), and exactly twenty years after Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space (April 12, 1961).
Trivia Lois Chiles was pregnant during shooting
If you want more trivia here's the link to the page https ://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079574/trivia
Thank you for taking the time to comment those pieces of trivia 👍🏼
I was a kid back then. Stood and stared at the poster for so long. Didn't get to see it, of course, just the James jokes.
And it seems some boys snuck in a puppy in the cinema hall and pinch it when one of those scenes came on and it would yelp.
Remember watching this in the theater, and it was something to see. I did wonder even then how much it seemed to veer back and forth with the comedy (double take pigeon) and the death of the girl in the woods. Still, it’s great fun and and follows on with the Star Wars craze going on then.
Yeah the shift in tones was interesting 👍🏼
9:25 "What if she had metal teeth?"
I've heard a rumor that people thought that Dolly (Jaws's girlfriend) wore braces and this is one of the reasons they fell in love. But thanks to the clarity of DVD and Blu-ray, we now know she doesn't.
Final Film of
Bernard Lee
(1908-1981)
This is my favorite Bond movie
One of the better Bonds. So enjoyable.
One of my all time favorite Bond films.
We apologise for our review then 😁
@@TheMovieJourney Oh, you have no reason to apologize. It's fine what you think about it. The film is corny as hell, but that's what I love about it. Keep doing what you guys do.
@@coryspang7548 thanks mate! Hope you enjoy the videos 👍🏼
Mine too, Jaws makes it for me.
This was like the marvel movies back in the day. Just enjoy the ride and unplug your brain.
The reason the spy who love me and Moonraker have almost identical plots and story is because the spy who loved me, even though it's an original story, elements from Fleming's Moonraker was used in the writing of the story.
That makes sense!
There was no intention to make Moonraker into a film, hence why they adapted its story elements into The Spy Who Loved Me....
but then a little thing called Star Wars happened, and MGM/UA felt the pressure to cash in on the craze
@@k1productions87 yeah I don't blame them for trying to capitalise on the Star Wars craze
It has nothing to do with the moonraker novel. The director Lewis Gilbert basically made the same movie three times based on the Roal Dahl script for YOLT. You only live twice, The spy who loved me and moonraker all have the same basic plot and themes
@@crimsondeath7468 if they were both inspired from Roald Dahl’s script…, does that make Stromberg’s Atlantis the chocolate factory and a Moonraker shuttle the great glass elevator?
12 year old me loved this film. It's painful seeing it ripped to shreds in my middle age.
Honestly glad you started with Moonraker, had you started with GoldenEye we woulda missed out on the best ones, Living Daylights and Licence to Kill 😎
Really wish we got the videos going when we started the series 😕 but yeah, didn't want to miss out on the Dalton duo 😁
@@TheMovieJourney Jaws , Richard Kiel , also done work under name Dick Kiel , mostly roles in TV shows and few movies in 1960s and 1970s
Best role i have seen him with lot of dialog is action comedy TV show The Fall Guy , episode , That's Right, We're Bad (1981) , Lee Majors as the main character .
Seems he done lot of these silly roles on TV shows , but this was really weird and the plot holes , Richard Kiel was 7 ft 2 in (218 cm) , he could not hide on that plane anywhere , so that you would not see him and suddenly he pushed Bond out of the plane .
@@pete_lind haha wow I never really thought about that 😂 good pick up
I can't believe you skipped Live and Let Die, one of the best Bond films ever!
We didn't. We've had a podcast for nearly 4 years now, and we started the Bond series on our Patreon earlier on this year. It's only when we got halfway through we started giving the videos a try
The two dogs attacking the girl seemed to come from a completely different movie.
Such a massive tone shift for that specific 5 minutes of the movie
You know that Moonraker is the neste James Bond movie. And it's actually maybe the darkest.
This movie was fucking awesome in the theater. I was 11.
I can definitely see it 😁
By that time Star Wars was a success and Bond production wanted to take advantage of that and make a story in space.
3:32 😂😂😂😂
I always thought Drax was Peter Dinklage's dad.
What happened to the chick in the plane in the beginning?
Love that you're enjoying these. Would love a ranking
Oh we plan on doing a rankings list once we see No Time To Die 👍🏻
Black Madonna and White Madonna fight with those glass artifacts in the Die Another Day theme song. Analyse this this this.
Wouldn't it be hilarious if Drax only became evil cause Bond refused to eat one of his cucumber sandwiches when they first meet? I find the idea hysterical.
Well done fellas. A hoot as usual. Also hot take…Roger Moore is my fave JB 😬🤷🏻♂️
Wow that is a scorching hot take Gerald 🔥 Can I ask why?
God Moore is about as far off from how Fleming wrote the character as you can possibly get.
@@codyt821 have you read the novels? Temperamentally Moore's Bond is closer to the source material than Craig's and some of Connery's. Moore's weakness are campy elements like the Tarzan scene in Octopussy which was overpowering. Overlooking that Moore's approach in the danger scenes combine real drama with an exhilarating sense of adventure.
+1 checkov's moonraker laser, wrist dart gun
Yeah you knew that was coming back in some form at the end
But in the end they didn't say anything if they liked it or they didn't, they just said goodbye.
Moonraker exists because of Star Wars.
This one's for the algorithm 'cuz I love you beautiful bastards.
Haha thanks Nick!
Talk about a movie for its time. 2 years after the release of Star Wars and EON Productions basically stuck Bond on Tatooine, the home planet of Luke Skywalker. Or a space ship above earth. I've never been a fan of the more outlandish Bond films. I prefer the more grounded, realistic stuff, but there's a time and place for any Bond film, I think, and every one is kind of an interesting time capsule. Living Daylights, for example, was so 1987 that it basically had Osama Bin Laden as a Bond ally, supplied by the CIA, in Afghanistan fighting Russians. Boy, did that not age well. LOL.
Fair points all around!
I love your piss taking reaction.very funny
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
@@TheMovieJourney the part where jaws stopped the cable car by stopping the wheel and one of you said 'fuck off' had me in stitches
@@andrewallen3826 🤣🤣🤣
oh damnit , i would have loved a dr No reaction.
We will go back and do the earlier Bonds in the future 👍🏼
Will you guys be releasing Dr No to Spy Who Loved Me?
We had started our James Bond series on our Patreon in podcast discussion form, it was only at Moonraker we decided to move to video reactions. Perhaps in the future we will go full circle and do the earlier Bonds 👍🏻
He would destroy her! 😅
14:14 is this a James Bond movie or Star Wars 10????? XD
I know right?!
2 points i need to say. Jaws is so freaking bad that it brake the universe and became good as fuck. The second one, as a brazilian dude i must say that the space fight is more beliavable than he going in the midle of Rio de Janeiro and make out of there alive.... and with his wallet. I mean, i love Brazil, but even i am absolute terrifyed of Rio.
😂
The film's fine. Your commentary shows a little bias. Moore's acting is actually exceptional here and much of the plot development follows a standard Bond outline. I think the real point of contention is whether to accept Bond in space.
um... if you're going through the entire james bond series why on earth are you starting with the 11th movie???
We have been doing an audio podcast for over 3 years, and we started the bond series/Dr. No on our Patreon a while back. We just decided to start up videos again at this time.
BTW I've been waiting for someone to ask us this 🤣
It's a Mardi gras in New Orleans. 9:50. In Mardi gras everyone is a friend and they party. Boy do they party! You Brits should come down to New Orleans during Mardi gras.
Sounds fun!
Sir that is Rio
You are way too negative even from the start. It's almost as if you have no interest in watching the movie, because someone told you it wasn't good. What's the point of doing a movie-reaction if you are not even going to watch it?