James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide. When a U.S. space shuttle is stolen in a midair hijacking, only Bond can find the evil genius responsible. The clues point to billionaire Hugo Drax, who has devised a scheme to destroy all human life on earth! As Bond races against time to stop Drax's evil plot, he joins forces with Dr. Holly Goodhead, a NASA scientist who is as beautiful as she is brilliant. And 007 needs all the help he can get, for Drax's henchman is none other Bond's old nemesis Jaws, the indestructible steel-toothed giant. Their adventure leads all the way to a gigantic space station, where the stage is set for an epic battle for the fate of all mankind. Of all the James Bond movies, Moonraker seems to elicit the quickest negative opinions in conversation. The producers, admittedly, attempted to capitalize on the sci-fi bandwagon of the late 70s taking major liberties with the original story and rocketing James bond to space. On the cover of it all, indeed even the movie poster itself, this is a laughable scenario. But in practice, I'm not sure it's actually enough to doom this Bond outing. In my opinion, Moonraker is far from the worst Bond movie, and actually quite enjoyable.<br/><br/>All Bond movies are a product of their time. All these movies are a great reflection and pulse of their respective contemporary popular culture. So while today it is easy to say Moonraker is a cheesy forgettable Bond movie, I'd say you never saw Live and Let Die or Octopussy. Essentially, you've already seen Moonraker. Just like The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker is yet another re- working of You Only LIve Twice which was really just reworked from Thunderball. A water/space craft is stolen and taken to an underwater/outer space fortress to wreak havoc on the free world. That's pretty much it.<br/><br/>So you think Moonraker is cheesy? Space Shuttle cheesy? Did nobody actually watch Goldfinger and the laser beams, razor Odd Job hat, or Thunderball jet pack? Jaws is a good guy cheesy? Well Lois Chiles' "Goodhead" is pretty laughable, but runner up to the raciest double entendre after Pussy Galore. There are no stupid poison tipped knife shoes. Bond does not build a helicopter from a briefcase or dress up as a clown. Moonraker is definitely riding the coattails of the near perfect success of The Spy Who Loved Me, one of the top two Bond movies ever in my book, and it's a great piece of entertainment with a nice, if nonsensical, title song. <br/><br/>There is no perfect or reference Bond film. They are all just escapist entertainment with flaws keenly visible on any repeated viewings. Many people want to point to Goldfinger as the, er, gold standard, but it's cheesy as heck in every way. While Connery is easily the best 007, I think On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Spy Who Loved Me and Goldeneye are the actual movie benchmarks. But don't fool yourself thinking Bond is anything more than a two hour fantasy. Even the really bad ones like Die Another Day, License to Kill or Live and LEt Die are watchable. Moonraker fits nicely in the middle. Don't be a snob, Moonraker isn't a comment on the human condition but it's fun and entertaining in a way the dour and stale Skyfall isn't. Cut it some slack. Space Camp from 1986 is much worse than this. The James Bond series has always swung like a pendulum along a line of stupidity, flitting from more or less realistic spy thrillers like 'From Russia With Love' to the sheer ridiculousness of 'Die Another Day' with it's invisible cars and never-sleeping villains. 'Moonraker' is one of those entries which is very far removed from your standard spy film and from it's opening sequence of a space shuttle theft blowing up a 747 to the gloriously over the top laser gun climax, it wears its colours proud; this is James Bond as an action franchise with tongue lodged firmly in cheek.<br/><br/>Whether you enjoy it the first time you catch it on one of the multitudes of Bond seasons that frequent television schedules these days then will depend on your mindset at the time. If for example you believe that Bond begins and ends with that Scottish man that everybody does impressions of then this isn't going to be the movie to change your mind. In Roger Moore's defence though, he is more than competent in the role and should be celebrated for playing the character his way, rather than trying to copy his predecessors. His version of James is like a public schoolboy on a round the world trip who also happens to be a deadly assassin; all double-entendres and raised eyebrows allied to a ruthless killing efficiency. Interesting to note that he only fires one gun in the entire movie, but just look at how he does it - effortlessly dispatching a would-be hit-man before nodding an arrogant gesture of triumph at Super Villain Of The Week Drax.<br/><br/>However, if you're ready for a bit of mindless escapism with plenty of bad one liners ("I think he's attempting re-entry sir"), large explosions and beautiful women then this is certainly a lot more entertaining than some of the horrific misfires that would dog Brosnan's post-Goldeneye jaunts. Barely ten minutes elapses between set pieces before our man in the tuxedo finds a new way to get into peril and some of them are excellent. His bull-in-a-china-shop brawl with a Japanese martial artist in the middle of an art gallery for example is a riot, the two combatants smashing priceless artifacts to pieces with such reckless abandon there's barely time to question why Drax's henchman has brought a wooden sword to the fight. And then there's Jaws. Oh yes, Jaws. Richard Kiel returns for his second and final time as the metal-toothed and indestructible giant and though he manages to speak only four words in the entire movie, he is still one of the most memorable aspects, his facial expressions summing it all up. Just look at those bulging eyes and the slack jawed terror when his speed boat first pitches over the side of a colossal waterfall, or his frantic attempts to fly when a parachute fails to open. Kiel is nothing less than a scene stealer all the way through and while some may moan about him becoming more of a slapstick foil this time around, just check out the moment where he advances in a carnival costume down on a dark alley on one of his foe's numerous lady friends; cold and evil menace made reality.<br/><br/>In short then one of the most riotously-enjoyable entries in the franchise. It's not a classic by any means and the fun factor hinders that status as much as it helps it, but it's still a worthy entry. It may have a higher level of a camp than an episode of the old Adam West Batman TV series, but as one of the suave super-spy's less cerebral adventures it definitely delivers the goods. Moonraker's only real imaginative surge comes in a rousing pre-credit sequence in which Bond is pushed out of an airplane and survives by deftly sky-diving to a parachutist and swiping his chute. After this, a bizarre blandness takes over. [2 July 1979, p.68] When the space shuttle Moonraker is hijacked in midair while being transported to the United Kingdom, MI6 director M (<a href="/name/nm0496866/">Bernard Lee</a>) assigns his best agent 007 James Bond (<a href="/name/nm0000549/">Roger Moore</a>), to investigate, starting with the shuttle's creator Drax Industries, headed by billionaire Hugo Drax (<a href="/name/nm0003909/">Michael Lonsdale</a>). Aided by NASA astronaut/scientist and CIA agent Dr Holly Goodhead (<a href="/name/nm0001042/">Lois Chiles</a>), they uncover a genocidal plot to destroy the Earth's population and repopulate it with selected couples currently being housed in an undetectable space-city hovering over the Earth. All of the James Bond movies are based, in some part, upon novels by British author Ian Fleming [1908-1964]. Moonraker is based on Fleming's 1955 novel of the same title. It was adapted for the screen by English screenwriter Christopher Wood. Wood, in turn, novelized the movie in James Bond and Moonraker, published the same year in which the movie was released (1979). Moonraker is the eleventh film in the EON Bond franchise and the fourth movie to feature <a href="/name/nm0000549/">Roger Moore</a> as James Bond, 007. Moonraker is sung by Welsh singer Shirley Bassey, who is the only performer to date that has done more than one Bond theme. She also did the themes for Goldfinger and Diamonds are Forever. Bond starts out on an airplane returning to London from Africa, where he was just finishing the last leg of another mission. He is then sent to California in order to talk with Hugo Drax, the builder of the Moonraker that was hijacked in midair. There he meets Dr Holly Goodhead for the first ime. When Bond learns that some of the parts for Drax's Moonrakers are being made at the Venni Glassworks in Italy, he flies to Venice where he encounters Holly Goodhead again. Bond figures out that Holly is a CIA operative, and they decide to work together. They learn that Drax is moving his operation to Brazil, so they fly to Rio. After Bond discovers Drax's base in the Amazon jungle, he and Holly commandeer a Moonraker and end up in outer space. Drax is playing Raindrop Prelude, opus 28, number 15 in D flat Major, composed by Frédéric Chopin. In the DVD commentary, it says that the effect was created with high-pressure air jets through a thin nozzle on a tube held off camera by Roger Moore himself. Moore suffered bruising to his cheeks afterwards.As he explains to Bond, one of the six Moonrakers that were needed for him to complete his mission developed a fault during its assembly. He needed to get back the one that was on the way to England because he was breaking down his operation on Earth and didn't have time to fix the ship that developed the fault or build another Moonraker. According to a commercial raiser of snakes, it's a reticulated python, native to Africa. It's the theme song from <a href="/title/tt0054047/">The Magnificent Seven (1960)</a> (1960). During his fight with behind the glass-faced clock, Bond spots some large crates with the Drax Industries logo and Rio de Jainero stenciled on them. One of the crates is partially broken open and Bond spots one of the globes he saw in the laboratory inside it. Bond and Holly knock out the pilots for the sixth Moonraker and take their place. Flying on a preset course, they eventually rendezvous with the other Moonrakers at a radar-cloaked space station where Drax has assembled numerous pairs of perfect people whom he intends to use to restart the human race. Bond and Holly disable the radar jammer in order to make the station visible from earth. The U.S. subsequently sends a military shuttle to investigate. Meanwhile, Drax has launched the first three of 50 globes carrying the deadly nerve toxin to earth in his attempt to wipe out the imperfect human race. A laser battle in space takes place when the military shuttle arrives, and Bond manages to eject Drax into space after shooting him with a cyanide-tipped dart. The space station begins to break up, so Bond and Holly attempt to get away in Drax's personal Moonraker, but they can't get the release work. Jaws (<a href="/name/nm0001423/">Richard Kiel</a>), having been convinced to turn sides when Bond points out that Drax won't allow him and Dolly (<a href="/name/nm0712255/">Blanche Ravalec</a>) to live in his perfect world, agrees to help and frees the Moonraker. As the space station begins to disintegrate around Jaws and Dolly, their module also detaches from the station; they go floating into space just before the space station explodes. Bond and Holly track down the three globes and destroy them. In the final scene, M has gotten visual contact with Bond's Moonraker. Bond and Holly are seen floating in space with only a sheet to cover their naked bodies. "I think he's attempting re-entry," says Q. Bond flicks off the camera, and Holly asks him to "take [her] around the world one more time." After Bond destroys the last globe, a Houston controller states that the American shuttle rescued two survivors "a tall man and a short, blonde woman", indicating that Jaws and Dolly did indeed survive. Bond comes across Drax when M has Bond expose him as a card cheat. Drax has a red beard that covers scarring on his face. The Moonraker is a missile instead of a space shuttle. Jaws and Chang aren't in the book. Dr.Holly Goodhead is instead a Scotland Yard agent named Galatea "Gala" Brand. Drax turns out to be a Nazi named Graf Hugo von der Drache and the Moonraker is secretly aimed to hit London. Drache captures James and Gala and plans to cook them with the Moonraker's rockets. They escape and James changes the gyros then he and Gala hide in the shower turned on full blast. Drache escapes in a Russian submarine but a reprogrammed Moonraker blows him out of the water. Bond and Gala are exiled to France until the event blows over but Gala reveals to Bond that she's engaged to marry another man. Including Moonraker, Moore made seven movies in which he played James Bond: <a href="/title/tt0070328/">Live and Let Die (1973)</a> (1973), <a href="/title/tt0071807/">The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)</a> (1974), <a href="/title/tt0076752/">The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)</a> (1977), Moonraker (1979), <a href="/title/tt0082398/">For Your Eyes Only (1981)</a> (1981), <a href="/title/tt0086034/">Octopussy (1983)</a> (1983), and <a href="/title/tt0090264/">A View to a Kill (1985)</a> (1985). a5c7b9f00b download Episode 1.185The Inglorious Bastards tamil dubbed movie downloadThe General's Return movie free download in hindiEpisode 1.82 movie in hindi dubbed downloadAn Unsurpassable Existence movie in hindi dubbed downloadPsycho-Pass full movie in hindi free download mp4Mad Max 720pmalayalam movie download The HackerThe New Mutants full movie hd downloadEpisode 2.5 in hindi free download
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