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WOW!!! Best pre credits sequence and my favorite Bond movie


watching all the Bond blu rays and this is my new favorite Bond movie. i said that about 'on her majesty's secret service', then 'the spy who loved me' and now this.

the pre credits sequence almost made me faint lol. i hate heights, vertigo i guess and when Bond was pushed out of the plane without a parachute i almost fainted. how could he survive? and jaws after him to. amazing.

same with cable car scene. jaws was bloody scary to. one of my favorite scenes ever. jaws once again showed why he's the best Bond villain.

the movie looked stunning on blu ray. the space scenes were beautiful. actually all locations were.

i can see why it did so well at the box office. moore is great as Bond and i loved it.

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I do agree the film loOKs rather stunning on Blu ray.

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I agree

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I don't know about it being the best pre-credit sequence. The stunt doubles are just so hilarious. I think it's better than most people give it credit for though. I enjoy it, but I can see why some find it silly. Another nice feature of the Moonraker Blu Ray, as well as the DVD, is a really good audio commentary by Roger Moore. I'm not usually an audio commentary guy, but his are great, and this one is especially entertaining.

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Absolutely the very best opening sequence of any Bond film given it took over 70 to 80 takes with the huge Panavision cameras. The stunt double for Moore looks very much like him. Of course Jaws is a little awkward. Any opening sequence that copies this post 1995 is crap given this was real and 1995 on can be cgi.

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Why is Jaws even on the plane?? His presence sums the movie up perfectly: a potentially amazing sequence (and still impressive) marred by utter stupidity.

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He's on the plane to kill BOND. Bond bettered him in TSWLM and he wants revenge. Even I got that at the age of 10.

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@wwestar:

You say he's on the plane to kill Bond, but he fails and disappears for the rest of the movie until Drax hires him to kill Bond. That makes no sense whatsoever, and is a complete failure of storytelling, like the rest of the movie. Even at age 10 I realized what utter rubbish that is.

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There's definitely something in this.

I remember watching a documentary on the making of Rambo - First Blood Part 2 and the explosion where he exploding arrow blows up the village was for real, i.e. an actual huge explosion that the crew rigged up. It's awesome, it literally shakes the camera which was filming it.

Nowadays that would be a CGI effect, and it would be obvious that's what it was.

So yeah, there's a mid 90s-ish cut off point for getting the real thing on-screen.

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The pre-credits sequence is superb. Obvious stunt doubles or not, it proves you can't beat practical old-fashioned action.

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I agree

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It's saying something that the pre-credit sequence in this film is more exciting than the climaxes of the recent Bond films. Nothing in the Brosnan and Craig era touches this.

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Saw this recently and better than I i remember. But Moore is my favourite bond as I like all his films just about.
I love the locations in Moonraker feel as if he's in switzerland

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i saw on bbc news about lewis gilbert, of this and some of the earliest bond flicks, i'm so surprised he was still around, to me his name is very familiar just because as a kid his name was on the james bond movie posters i had on my wall, and you just take for granted directors from the earliest bond flicks are long gone, what a downer for kids to grow up with today's bond movies, but come to think of i grew up during haircut brosnan, but still i was only hooked on moore and connery, i don't know about you, but my experience has been that people i know of all ages prefer these two actors, it has stuck in my mind what a viewer said on a board of this very franchise "there was a time when you could actually look forward going to the cinema", i'm amazed to find almost only positive posts on this board, because critics absolutely trash it. i've seen parts of the latest movies, and remarkably there isn't anything distinctively bond about them anymore, it's just like watching any other action. realise how "licence to kill" was the first movie they had to raise the age limit on because it contained so much violence and the director wanted to introduce a darker bond, i guess that started mr. sandman, james sandman. same director who in his own words thought it was time for a new bond, while the original producer cubby broccoli managed to convince moore into staying for another adventure before dalton took over followed by such a time gap people wondered if bond would return, at least these are the versions i've heard, all in printed paper, "it's like the internet made of a tree.", "weird" - family guy.



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How did they even film the airplane and parachute scene?

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The mind absolutely boggles at how they managed to go from the majesty of Roger Moore era Bond to where we are now with bee stung faced Daniel Craig coming back from what is five years+ away to shovel some more shit down our throats. I mean who is actually buying this? Who is actually saying "Yes Daniel Craig Sir, please keep shovelling your shit down my throat. Quick now keep shovelling it down before anyone notices"...

Honestly, how did they manage to throw away such greatness for where we are now?

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couldn't agree with you more.....bond was EPIC and now its just plain mediocre.

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