MOONRAKER | Attack on Hugo Drax’s space station
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- MOONRAKER had its Royal World Premiere today in 1979 at the Odeon, Leicester Square in London. Today’s clip is the attack on Hugo Drax’s space station, which was designed by Ken Adam with ex-NASA’s Harry Lange (who worked with Stanley Kubrick on 2002: A Space Odyssey) supplying the detailing to make it look as authentic as possible.
Whats amazing about this sequence is that it was achieved by double exposing the film and making sure nothing overlapped each other. That's why some of the shots of the astronauts have no stars close to their bodies. If you got one thing wrong, you would have to start over.
That must have caused a few sleepless nights.
Gotta love the ambition with these sets, backgrounds, plots and battles.
It's not just the music and the design that's outstanding, and you would expect that from John Barry and Ken Adam respectively, but the stunning miniature special effects of the late, great Derek Meddings, forever associated with Thunderbirds.
Rip Michael Lonsdale who played by Billionaire Industrialist and main villain Hugo Drax 1931-2020 died at age 89
He played a inspector in Day of Jackal.
@@tomaspolacek1128 your right he was the French Inspector Lebel who goes against the assassin Jackal played by Edward Fox and was in the Robert De Niro film Ronin in 98. He was in the film Munich in 2005 which starred a number of actors who were in James Bond films including Daniel Craig who played Bond of course in 4 films and releasing his 5th and Mathieu Amalric who played the Bond villain Dominic Green in Quantum Of Solace.
And roger moore and Richard kiel
He also acted as the one who helps De Niro recovers in Ronin.
He played Martin Bormann in the 1981 film The Bunker alongside Anthony Hopkins as Hitler
Moonraker divides opinion but what doesn't is Barry's fantastic score. Oscar-winning standard.
Moonraker is undeniably the most cartoony film in the series BUT it has 2 of the most disturbing, scary and violent moments in the franchise too with the centrifuge scene and Corinne getting eaten by the dogs..
License To Kil still takes the crown for the most disturbing deaths tho' ^^
Diamonds Are Forever was cartoony.
@@ricardocantoral7672 cartoonish and disturbing aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. The crematorium scene really shat me up as a kid
@@jeanpaulsinatra AGREED. If Shady Tree hadn't checked the diamonds when he did, Bond would've died a very painful death.
Have you seen Die Another Day bro....
Time and again I'm AMAZED at how well this scene holds up. Between the special effects and the realism of what a laser battle in space would actually look like, this scene really is one of the best.
Except for the laser beams being visible and the arcade sound effects of the shots.
@@annoyed707 they're an AR overlay :)
The Spacesuits that appear to have Ice cream tubs stuck on the front.😂😂
@@annoyed707, да, пердежа не слышно
The soundtrack for this film is excellent one of my favourite bond films RIP Roger Moore
I actually think it is the all time best bond film with the right humor, no sensory action overload like the new ones that dont have a scene over 3 seconds long. Classy , easy to digest, well written.
There was a Chinese kungfu movie that actually stole the soundtrack from this movie, if you're not careful maybe one day you'll be unfortunate enough to see the corny flick. You'd be better off dimming your screen black and just listening to the music and punching, trust me!
Amazing.....Ken Adams' designed set is absolutely fantastic.....
R.I.P. Sir Roger Moore
The first Bond film I ever fully watched when I was a kid. I thought it was the best thing ever back then...
The most ridiculous part of this scene is that with a gazillion lasers going off, none of them hit any of the shuttles nor the space station.
They are so low powered, that it won't affect them. Only "unarmored" targets die by them. But then again, why doesn't the attacking shuttle nor station have more powerful defensive armament onboard and later only Drax's shuttle has a capable laser to destroy sturdier objects. The plot demands it goes like this and it's as you say, ridiculous but Bond movies are, they just are. But aren't they fun?
The laserbeams would have been invisible.
Actually, it’s that the laser weapons made any detectable sound in space.
@@Kyntteri I totally agree but this is a Bond film. In reality if such a scheme were attempted with a space station [similar to Drax's] it wouldn't be so easy to destroy and more heavily armed also story plot armor [typical of Bond movies] wouldn't save him he'd be long dead before he got up there into space.
Hard to believe this movie shares the same universe as License to Kill
Just as more than 20 other movies in the James Bond universe.
Unbelievable but also kind of nice to have some variety. The beauty of Moonraker and Licence To Kill is that there are no other films like them in the series.
The funny part is much like You Only Live Twice, despite the fantastic elements of the storyline. It marks one of the few times Bond actually does investigative work.
The same universe, literally.
Though its not as hard to see it in the same universe as Dye Another Day lol.
When you're a ten year old kid in the late seventies seeing this on the big screen..... unforgettable
Agreed. Me and my brother won tickets to a press screening and on the big screen this was amazing!
Back when training astronauts was so cheap you could use them for cannon fodder and no one would bat an eye.
They were trying to cash in on the Star Wars Craze, they forgot this was a movie about a British spy.
This movie was only 10 years after the US landed on the moon, 2 years before the US shuttle was operational, and 4 years before Reagan's Star Wars. This movie was well suited for the era it was set in.
And what are these British spies doing? The space race was central to the cold war era.
James Bond always dealt with the era of tech they were in without directly relating it to the Cold War. Hence why you see the Cold War era battles but usually with the Soviets not being the primary enemy. Moonraker is no different. This era of Bond was when going into space was a huge deal.
Who gives a fk about Star Wars.
@@wotdoesthisbuttondo Currently, yes...
I was always disappointed that Lois Chile didn't wear the outfit she was depicted in on the movie poster.
Now I've googled it, yes. Definitely!
Barry, as usual, comes up with a superb score, I remember this movie, and still remember the music after all these years.
He must’ve been busy, what with Starcrash and the Black hole around that time.
"Somewhere in Time" as well.
The music for this movie is 10/10 in my book. This particular tune is amazing. The best thing about Moonraker. John Barry knocked it out of the park.
By far the best Star Wars movie. I don't care if it pretends to be a Bond movie.
Good lord
I will say this. Some of Drax's men were better shots than the Imperial Stormtroopers! Most were just as (ha-ha) good! U.S. Marines still have them beat! Semper Fi! Oooh-rah!
I saw this film theatrically when it came out in 79 and has always been a guilty pleasure. Although I have to say, at 1:35 I still remember since the first day I saw it... the guy reacts before he's actually shot. LOL
Did you win a Seiko watch? I didn’t, the bastards getting our hopes and excitement up with a promotional competition. Curse them!😂
he sees the laser coming and he moves as slow mow he knows hes a goner
This fight is still one of the coolest in my books.
That shuttle pilot's TURTLENECK SWEATER!!!
This is a preview of the USA Space Force...
Preview? I thought this was the Trump Administration's training film.
@@ront7774 Stow it, lib.
Ronald Reagan's Star Wars Project
Throw in a that lil blonde Haagen-dazs. I'm on board.
1:15
🙄 Dont worry about him; hell either be rescued or hell die long before he actually reaches the sun.
But as a kid I remember I was devastated by that, and its one of the details that made this particular laser fight stand out, besides the music and the whop whop whop of the laser.
I found his scream horrible and my son said he would of sounded like him if he was in his shoes which I did imagine.
I would of been making the same noise as him if my back pack was propelling me off.
@@georgie1246 Ewww
@@georgie1246 I would probably be screaming the whole time i could because my air is venting into space. I would love to be in this battle.
@@andrewmarsh3106 Yes I would like to be in it, I think the same every time I see it but after my wife asked me a question I did think about if I got hit and my propulsion system was spiralling me off one thing I know is that I would be screaming my head off just the same as him for as long as I could knowing that I would never be found and the effects of decompression on my body. The screams and cries I would be doing would be deafening lol.
Literality an absolutely beautiful Cinematic Scene which has influenced many Generations since its release.
The way they filmed the space scenes was magnificent. I watched the "making of" recently and it showed how far ahead the effects team was.
Said no one...
Hugo Drax and Karl Stromberg were the two most evil villains in the James Bond series.
I agree - both intentionally seeking the end to human life. Makes robbing Fort Knox look like a harmless prank.
@craiglancastermarr4016 Who said anything about removing it?!
Rest in Peace, Michael Lonsdale (1931-2020)
Somewhat cheesy but actually it's really cool! This one really went for the gold.
Ah, the real Bond movies. Timeless!
Still one of the best bond battle scenes ever i would love to have been in it.
Because, as everyone knows, being in space makes you move slower.
No, but it means you do to avoid spinning out of control.
When filming in space that happens. Same thing on Austin Powers set. There's no control of space, one wrong move can get you Marooned. You might end up becoming Alien Jerky. Think about it.
For that time the FX were quite good
I imagine it would be much harder to spot EVA'ing space marines even in direct sunlight because of how bloody dark and shadowy space is
the do lower there sun visors before getting into range.
Sorry, but 2001: A Space Odyssey is film of Stanley Kubrick
Open the cargo - uh, pod bay door.
I remember in GI Joe the Mass Device, Cobra beamed troopers to the Relay Star satelite to defend it. The suits the Cobra Troopers wore seemed far more flexible (for good aiming) & almost laser resistant.
Why didn't they make the Space Marine's suits more reflective and laser resistant? Never quite understood that.
time and materials are issues. they only a limited amount of time to get things ready for the assault after learning what Drax was up to
The most realistic space battle ever
Not even close- *_nobody_* has laser weapons yet that can shoot like that, and in order to fire at a target in space in reality, you have to calculate the window where the object/person is so that you can fire the shot you want to fire so that it can hit the target in question (this was the case in the first tie-in novel based on TSR's/Wizards Of The Coast's _Buck Rogers XXVC_ RPG, where Buck Rogers and a Soviet cosmonaut named Karkov face off in near Earth orbit, each having to figure our where the other will be so that their weapons can hit each other.)
Also the lasers wouldn't make a noise. There is no air in space.
@@ProjectPowerPoint can you imagine being in a battle like that?
@@georgie1246 I did imagine it after seeing this movie as a kid.
No one here trying to take down numbers. This is a battle for the world. Drax would of made everyone wear baige Penny's Suits.
Love the way the exit corridor has its own local gravity, and how every scream is audible. #Realism
Hah
Their screams were horrible to hear.
Yikes! So the ‘good guys’ had to sit through take off stuck in cargo? That must have been fun..
Roger Moore as 007 as Luke Skywalker in Moonraker.
Jedi bond VS Darth drex
Go Space Marines! 😎
_Today, the enemy shall know fear!_
Heartbroken mr drax take a giant step for mankind
1:10 Poor guys don't stand a chance.
Ah yes the one were Jaws turns good despite previously being a murderous maniac!
Amazing futuristic job!!
This film was made before the first launch of the space shuttle to the space.
Excellent movie, but not the best Bond movie. The effects and music are much better and more realistic than most movies made with CGI today.
This is ACTUALLY very realistic. Chris The Science Guy Approves!
Is that the visuals or the physics?
@@ProjectPowerPoint Both!
I can't tell if this is sarcasm lol
@@ProjectPowerPoint lol no Sarcasm haha. I mean the whole scene and physics is very realistic people just floating there firing lasers at each-other space suits blowing up is all very realistic.
But we hear their screams somehow and the corridors have gravity despite not rotating with any gforce and the lasers travel at 20 metres per second despite the speed of light being 186,000 miles per second
All those expendable astronauts that were killed by lasers and their non decomposed bodies continue to orbit the earth
_Great thought, thanks_
Ewww
its actually mentioned in the novel tie in.
I thought it was impossible to hear sound in space.
Nor can you see lasers. It wouldn't be much of a film if you had neither.
What's so ridiculous is they had an underwater fight with spear guns in 'Thunderball", used the same idea again with lasers in space and no one picked it up.
for a Star Wars parody, it's much more entertaining than the more recent Star Wars movies
no substitute for VERTICAL FLIGHT. Straight,move around, straight down again. All horizontal flight vehicles are easy targets.
This is what if 2001: A Space Odyssey had some space battle.
Still love this scene, and yeah it kinda all looks decent, even now, imagine this was all mattes and models, pre CGI. Also this is what in envision when I hear about space force…
Very much noise in the noiseless space, where there is absolutely no air or gas whatsoever! There could be no sound at all!
You are right but you would probably hear their screams over the radio.
I can't imagine a worse way to die.
Getting hit by a laser blast that killed you instantly wouldn't be so bad
But having your propulsion system get hit, sending you hurtling off into space to suffocate. That would indeed be my worst way to die
try drowning in salt water
Nah, the most horrifying way of dying in a movie must be being eaten and digested alive by the Octalus from "Deep Rising". Imagine being still alive half-digested filmschoolrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/deep-rising-commentary-header-750x493.jpg
Starvation is probably a lot worse.
@@sheldon-cooper The only one killed instantly was the guy who got it in the face my wife cringed at all the screams then asked me if I would of screamed lol
Is that Lou Reed at 1:45 ?? Satellite of Love....dooom...doom..... dooom
Moonraker was filmed to cash the huge success of Star Wars 2 years earlier. But i have to say, the space battle between the Marines and Drax army was pretty silly and ridiculous.
...when Bond was Bond and not just another action figure...
Where’s drax
Oh he had to fly
Rest in Peace roger moore
i get star wars vibes from this
Kubrick went mental when he was how realistic this space fight looked.
There's no noise in Space.
the origins of Quake: Arena
lol I love all logic of things in space in film.....there wouldn't be any sound.
Me and my wife said that you wouldn't be able to hear their screams.
LOL. Like those rubes would be any match for the US Marines.
I think the term you're looking for is *SPACE FORCE*
@@sheldon-cooper Not in 1979...
Just wondered how all those shuttles got launched and Norad or USSR air defense didn't notice.
Yep, you can really tell they were trying to cash right in on the Star Wars Craze back then!
Hey anybody know if they've an exact replica model made for sale to model makers? Didn't the original film model get sold at an auction?
EXCELLENT AND EXPERIENCE WORK NASEER QATAR DAKAR RALLY .. QATAR AIRWAYS
Star Wars Episode 5 Bond Strikes Back
One the worst bone battles all time
Even had Drax’s Space Troopers won his plans were destroyed. First, a large percentage of his “perfect males” were killed so a lot of perfect women would have been lonely…and alone. Second, his “City in Space” is now known. One surface-to-space missile and all the rest of them would die as well.
I have wondered what happened to the perfect females I think if my man had been hit I would of joined the battle outside.
I always thought the men going outside where his goons and not the perfect males as they were going to be stuck on the station and not allowed back anyways. Like the tech with glasses.
@@andrewmarsh3106 It would have been interesting if they let the women into the battle outside.
@@gina7288 they would of expired just like the men did ..
@@RS-rj5sh It would be certainly be noisier with women in it lol
The first Bond Movie that Jumped the Shark before Die Another Day did it harder.
Why was Jaws here, on the same (?) side as Bond?
1:18 When you and your mate see a group of hot girls at the club
EXCELLENT AND EXPERIENCE WORK NASEER QATAR DAKAR RALLY .. QATAR AIRWAYS☺😚
if this is a Star War then where the hell are all the aliens ?!?
Moonraker gave birth to starwars ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨📸
What ever was this movie about anyway?
This is the point where the Roger Moore era jumped the shark. The sad thing is, they kept making movies after this.
Not really. Moonraker was unique. For your eyes only, Octopussy and A view to a kill were all way more grounded aside from a view gadgets and jokes. It would be a shame, especially if "For your eyes only" would not have been made.
For Your Eyes Only came out two years after this, and was arguably his best Bond movie, and one of the best Bond films overall.
#PROCEED!!!!!
Learned a few FX tricks from NASA
Like a Call of Duty Ghost.
where is Mr Bigglesworth?! lol
I was living at an Army base called the 82nd airborn when this movie first came out, you should have heard the cat calls and" boos" when they saw U.S. Marines painted on the side of the space shuttle!
Oh, dear.
The most rediculous bond they ever made.
I thought no one can hear you scream in space.
I thought the same but you can definitely hear their screams as they go spinning into space.
The guy heading towards the sun @1:14 his scream is horrifying to hear.
What happened to all the pretty female pilots?
This has the highest death count for female villains in a Bond film.
All got blown up when the space base disintegrated.
I believe the Director's Cut has the scene where, just as the shooting starts, most of the women run and make it down to Moonraker 3, undock and return to Earth.
For their cowardice, the Villains Union demoted most of them back down to Villain's Poolside Eye-Candy status, which most of them seemed perfectly happy with.
Is it Star Wars?
Bond to capitalize on Star Wars. Moonraker.
How many marnies come out of the shuttle and same for draxs minions
i think its 24 marines to 50 draxites
@@andrewmarsh3106 we just won't discuss numbers on shuttles 😂
Well now we have a real
“Space Force”
No one would have ever known if Drax didn't have an overinflated ego an stole the shuttle to replace the one that had a fault. Also why not have Jaws simply kill Bond instead of risking the whole mission in trying to burn Bond alive? At least shoot his legs shot off so he can't run through the exhaust vent! Yeah I know PLOT ARMOR FOR STORY SAKE!
Ok, that was painful to watch...
The Laser Beam SFX needed some more work!
Campiest Bond movie by far
Looks comical.
Who's ready for the battle of Mars 2024
Wouldn't bullets be just as effective and cheaper?
In the weightlessness of space? Don't bet on it!
@@markschroeder2578 Actually the Soviets tested a slightly modified 23mm cannon on a Space Station and destroyed a derelict satellite with it.
Q branch doesn’t do anything by halves
Kick back from a firearm would be an issue.
The most silly Bond movie there is out there. Hey at least it had a great score by John Barry. The pretty girls Pyramid scene also had a great track underneath it and my got so much pretty girls of all ethnicities.
2:13 《 《 007