B-Movie Roll-Out: "Moonraker" (1979)

This is Episode 8 of Season 2 of the B-Movie Roll-Out, and this episode takes a look at perhaps the sillies entry to the James Bond 007 series, 1979's "Moonraker". This is meant to be humorous as well as legitimate criticism.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• B Movie
• Moonraker (film)
• movie
• review
• funny
• comedy
• james
• bond
• roger
• moore
• jaws

[braindeadbeau]

lold so hard: "do be a dear and fuck off" oh god

[BMovieRollOut]

@braindeadbeau Thanks! I'm glad I was able to pull that off. lol

[UpSky2]

I'll make a third on defending Lois Chiles a bit. Sure, dumb script, but not even anywhere near the dumbness of Stacy Sutton... I guess, because Chiles didn't get upstaged by Grace Jones at any point :)

But you raised some good points. Drax, while quote sinister endquote, is actually a Stick as they used to say, which is a gross contradiction of the saying that the Devil has the best tunes. Yes, Christopher Walken as Drax (with a bit of rewriting) might have improved this flick a goodly bit.

[BMovieRollOut]

@UpSky2 Christopher Walken as just about anybody would usually be an improvement! And that's a fair point regarding Chiles, I just have a hard time seeing her as a "Bond girl". Tanya Roberts, although one of the worst Bond girls, at least looked the part. Thanks for the feedback!

[garethwills1980]

@BMovieRollOut Excellent review of undoubtedly one of the lamest Bond movies!! Are you planning to review any more weaker Bond films such as The Man With The Golden Gun, Octopussy, or The Living Daylights?

[BMovieRollOut]

@garethwills1980 Oh geez, I'm afraid we disagree a bit here. I like Octopussy and the Living Daylights (and Live and Let Die) quite a bit. The Man with a Golden Gun is one of my least favorites, but I think I've said my piece on Roger Moore. If I do a Bond film next season, I feel I should tackle something like Diamonds are Forever or On Her Majesty's Secret Service (or perhaps a defense of Timothy Dalton). But we'll see, I guess!

[rlauren900]

Moonraker is so bad that it's more like à parody of à Bond movie.

[rlauren900]

@garethwills1980 octopussy is no lame Bond movie. Live and let die maybe

[Ebb1993isgreat]

@UpSky2 Okay.

[UpSky2]

@Ebb1993isgreat ...and the space station exploding in *flames* too... that's taken literally from The Green Slime also. See the Green Slime Trailer to get an idea.

[Ebb1993isgreat]

@UpSky2 I see.