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Moonraker

ActionAdventureThrillerScience Fiction

Directed by Lewis Gilbert

After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space. From TMDB

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Moonraker is a 1979 action adventure thriller film, directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Roger Moore, Lois Chiles and Michael Lonsdale.

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  • Miss Machete, Pumpkin Spice Cannibal @miss-machete.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2025

    Merry Bond-Mas! Today we are watching Moonraker (1979)! So someone watched Star Wars, hm? This has to be the jump the shark moment for Bond. (And with its own Jaws. Sorta.) What the hell is this? And why is it so captivating? Space shuttles, museums of glass, kendo, and boa constrictors. Hell yeah.

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  • Rock @ricosblues.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 5, 2025

    Rewatched MOONRAKER last night. Uh… is it normal to get teary eyed during Jaws’ scenes? #filmsky

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  • William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2025

    MOONRAKER is considered by many to be the most ludicrous James Bond movie. The villain is a billionaire who privatizes space travel and is secretly a fascist who wants leave Earth and cultivate a master race. Doesn’t sound so far-fetched NOW, does it?

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  • Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2025

    Make a Bond movie academic Moonraker: On the Feasibility of Mining He-3 from Lunar Regolith Using a Neural Network-Facilitated Robotically Dragged and Tined Feeder to a Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometer-calibrated Centrifuge

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  • The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.comBluesky · Oct 5, 2025

    I just rewatched Skyfall, and it's amazing that films as different as Moonraker (1979) and Skyfall (2012) exist in the same film series. 👌

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  • The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.comBluesky · Dec 28, 2024

    You couldn't make the movie Moonraker today. It would need to be a leafblower on the Moon and nobody wants to see that

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  • Dave Grillo @dgrillo.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    I think the novel version of Drax is closest. Working with British military to launch the Moonraker. Best book, worst movie.

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  • Etincelle Books @etincellebooks.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2026

    They also nailed it with Hugo Drax, the space obsessed eugenecist in Moonraker (1979). How is this film 47 years old? That can't be right.

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  • Jack @wakeupangry.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2025

    James Bond spent 20 years carefully explaining every gadget, weapon, and technology shown… then Moonraker, the first movie made after Star Wars, inexplicably had laser rifles as a prominent battle weapon that was never discussed in the movie or ever again.

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  • Wakefield Museums and Castles @wakefieldmuseums.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2025

    Did you know that liquorice made in Pontefract featured in an iconic Bond film moment? 👀 In 'Moonraker', Jaws is seen biting through a thick electric cable. Yep, that's Pontefract liquorice! Liquorice really has been used for all sorts! 🍬 More tasty #FunFacts in this thread (1 / 5)

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  • Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 10, 2025

    Moonraker is not even CLOSE to the worst Bond movie. Quantum of Solace License to Kill and yes, No Time to Die All stinkeroos

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  • Tim Ruggieri @truggieri.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    Honestly Moonraker is my favorite Bond movie _precisely_ because it is a giant wheel of cheese.

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  • The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.comBluesky · Oct 27, 2026

    Moonraker (1979): US International One-Sheet, art by Dan Goozee I love how Goozee incorporated action scenes from the movie into Drax's Space Station.

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  • The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.comBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    RIP John Grover (1938-2026) The English film editor worked on a half-dozen James Bond pics (including Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me), Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, Lifeforce (1985)... He was 87.

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  • Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.comBluesky · Jul 3, 2025

    Our modern world is being largely shaped by a bunch of charisma-less dildoes who watched MOONRAKER and thought it was a film about some woke British asshole ruining a perfectly good billionaire's plan.

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  • The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.comBluesky · Oct 15, 2026

    Sorry, I’ll always have a soft spot for Moonraker—an unabashedly fun film from my childhood. We had it on a V2000 cassette, even before VHS came along. Michael Lonsdale is one of the best villain. And he's crazy like Elon. (It was also very sexist, in my memories, but as was Bond back then).

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  • Neil S. Bulk @nsbulk.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2024

    I wrote about my experience with the film #Moonraker, from seeing it for the first time to producing the new soundtrack reissue from @lalalandrecords.bsky.social.

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  • Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 6, 2026

    The “Beats off” Chronicles day twenty-nine: A deleted scene from the film Moonraker. “Simon Letch” is, of course, one of Bond’s many aliases.

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  • Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2025

    Steven Knight off of Peaky Blinders is to write the next Bond film. Now, that’s all well and good, but we all know the best screenplay (Moonraker, fuck off, no you fuck off) was written by the bloke who wrote the Confessions films and I think they’ve missed a trick not asking me.

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2025

    They’re beyond measurements of “good” and “bad” imho. Moonraker is a bad movie but also? It’s a good movie

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 15, 2026

    I know Moonraker is not actually a good movie but this street parade scene whips ass compared to the showoffy fake one-er from Spectre youtu.be/xOOMjexvgns?...

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  • Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2025

    “Inside! Moonraker! It’s the new Bond movie!” Dated this very day in 1979, a mere 46 years ago, 2000AD & Starlord #119, with its rather terrific cover starring Roger Moore’s James Bond.

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  • Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.comBluesky · Dec 26, 2025

    Make a Bond movie academic: Moonraker: high and low plausible ROI of asteroid mining and Earth Orbit resource gathering weighted to account for scalable de-orbital delivery of captured material

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  • Andrew R @excelpope.netBluesky · Dec 28, 2024

    -Not a lot, really. Had a few cans. Downloaded a rip of the new Paddington film to watch with the grandkids. Once they'd fucked off me and the missus fell asleep in front of Moonraker. [Long pause] -That was Thought for the Day, with his holiness Pope Francis. You're listening to BBC Radio 4…

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  • nat. @natclayton.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2025

    Dude I'm fucking heartbroken, how did I let my 100th movie logged in 2025 be "Moonraker"

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  • The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.comBluesky · May 19, 2025

    Close Encounters and Arrival, Contact and Project Hail Mary 😁, Sunshine and Mickey 17, TMP and ST6, The Whale movie and Galaxy Qu'est, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, Aliens and The Thing, Mars Express and Ghost in the Shell, all of Andor Night with U-wing popcorn bucket.

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  • Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 15, 2025

    Saturday night’s spaceship: the Drax Industries Moonraker 6 space shuttle, from 1979’s 11th (canonical) James Bond movie.

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  • Shaun B @slbuckle.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 19, 2026

    #LetterboxdFriday Jenifer (2005) Cabin Fever (2002) Hostel (2005) Moonraker (1979) Some fairly gruesome 00’s horror films and then arguably the silliest Bond movie of them all #FilmSky #LastFourWatched

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  • Infinite Regress @infinite-regress.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 10, 2024

    Your reporting on Musk conjures up the image of the Bond villain, Hugo Drax, from the film ‘Moonraker’. It’s as if Musk has deliberately modeled himself after that fictional character. The parallels are uncanny.

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  • Richard Paris @rwparis2.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2024

    What was your first Jame Bond movie? I saw Moonraker (1979) at a drive in theater.

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  • Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.comBluesky · Jul 4, 2026

    Wow. I just experienced the weirdest Mandela Effect. I haven’t seen the cheesiest Bond film, Moonraker, since I was a kid, and I was absolutely certain that the blonde lady with the pigtails who instantly falls in love with Jaws wore braces…but she didn’t.

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  • Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2025

    His evil plan is also to develop a private rocket arsenal by profiting off lucrative government contracts. FWIW, Moonraker is the best-written and least problematic Bond novel and the film adaptation is a crime.

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  • Steve Senski's Watching @stevensenski.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 27, 2026

    The massive hit THE AMITYVILLE HORROR was released OTD in 1979, the fifth and final major studio film during Hollywood's "Summer of Horror." Based on Jay Anson's 1977 bestseller, it was eclipsed only by MOONRAKER so far that year for opening weekend sales. Spawned 10 sequels.

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  • Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2025

    Moonraker was Roger Moore...from somebody who actually saw that movie in the theater! LOL.

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  • Mark Stout, Ph.D from Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2025

    Make a Bond movie academic. Moonraker: Reconsidering Wiltshire Folkloric Traditions.

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  • Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 11, 2025

    I *really really want* to see a period-piece Bond movie faithful to the book "Moonraker"! It's got it all: a secret British ICBM program, a stolen nuke, rocket scientists who are a Nazi werewolf team planning to flatten London and win the war a decade after VE day ...

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  • cobysev @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 31, 2026

    Novel Bond is very different from Movie Bond. Novel Bond is described by the author, Ian Fleming, as an "extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument." He picked the name "James Bond" from the author of the book, "Birds of the West Indies," which he thought was a very boring, average name. This Bond is a loveless, depressed alcoholic who only lives for the next mission. He doesn't really have a personal life and throws himself completely…

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  • Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2025

    Moonraker Novel: The real name of henchman Jaws is revealed: Zbigniew Krycsiwiki. Film: In the film, he is simply referred to as Jaws.

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  • Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2026

    The 11th in the 007 series. MOONRAKER (1979) ‘For Your Eyes Only’ was meant to be the next film but after the success of ‘Star Wars’ (1977) Cubby Broccoli went this way.

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  • Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.comBluesky · Apr 18, 2025

    Okay I’m not even joking I think Elon Musk may have literally got his personality from the villain in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker. What the hell

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  • Revan @revan.eurosky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2026

    Step 1: Adapt the actual Moonraker plot. Step 2: Film the entire thing in dismal weather on the English coast.

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  • geha714 @geha714.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2025

    man, this image takes me back to the first time I saw Moonraker on TV and what a really fun time I got then also, I unironically love how hard Ken Adam went for his final Bond film as production designer

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  • Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2025

    One of the 12” action figures used as American Space Marines for the orbital laser battle scene in 1979’s James Bond 007 movie Moonraker.

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  • Black Eagle Polycule @poly007.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 17, 2025

    No lies detected. The fact that Holly Goodhead is unironically cool as hell in the movie just makes it even funnier that that's her name. Also I don't know if this is a hot take or not, but Moonraker is fun and a surprisingly reliable comfort movie during dark times.

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  • Important Business Dinosaur @ibdinosaur.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2023

    Doctor Holly Goodhead. Moonraker is my favourite Bond film. #art #jamesbond

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  • Bette Davis Side-eyes 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaciem.blacksky.appBluesky · Nov 1, 2026

    I've not seen SPECTRE, but Moonraker had all of that and a lady named Holly Goodhead. SPECTRE cannot have been a worse excellently awful Bond movie than that one, which was the highest grossing of the series in its time.

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  • Jeff Marshall @jeffmarshallstudio.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2025

    BOTD: Bernard Lee who played Admiral Sir Miles Messervy, “M” in the first Bond movie, Dr. No until 1979’s Moonraker. Lee's no nonsence interpretation of the character was in line with the original literary vision. #thethirdman #sinkthebismark #operationkidbrother #drno

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  • Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2026

    James Bond continues to make my weekly movie-watching experience a real rollercoaster (Moonraker is THE worst Bond I’ve seen yet, too - the villain is a bore, Roger Moore is already getting old and jowly, there’s barely any plot, etc) #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched boxd.it/MDyt

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  • gjung70.bsky.social @gjung70.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2025

    I think they were supposed to shoot “Octopussy” but after the success of “Star Wars” they went ahead with “Moonraker” to capitalize on the space movie craze at the time. It had “Jaws” and was in outer space, everything I wanted in a movie as a kid at the time. 🙂

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  • Quantum Of Silliness @quantumofsilliness.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2025

    People say MOONRAKER is the movie where Bond jumps the shark, but it’s actually LICENCE TO KILL.

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  • Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2024

    Roses are red / My favorite Bond film is Moonraker

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  • LostArcNZ @lostarcnz.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2023

    Up to Moonraker in the Bond Movie marathon. So far, every single actor who has died could learn a thing or two about acting from Sean Bean.

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  • MistWeaver @weaverofmist.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2026

    this a reference to a non-existent James Bond movie they came up with on the podcast by combining the names of two existing James Bond movies: Moonraker and Octopussy. I'm assuming in this context it's a reference to how many James Bond movies there are.

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  • Maja Öberg @majaoeberg.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2026

    Moonraker. The James Bond film that tried everything. From Jaws finding love, the incredible set design of the Villains base, to the Clint Eastwood references, to the kung fu christian monks, to the insane laser light show in space.

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  • Miss Machete, Pumpkin Spice Cannibal @miss-machete.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 15, 2025

    But also charismatic. Kind of a best of all worlds. And this movie does get dark, but that is refreshing compared to like... Moonraker.

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  • Henry Beedee @hibide.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2025

    Moonraker is the best Moore movie Seen it a few times already but also Quantum of Solace is good

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  • Random Commodore 64 Screenshots @rndc64screens.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2025

    Moonraker (1984/2015) This doesn't have anything to do with the James Bond movie. It's a pretty simple sci-fi arcade game with five distinct levels (not unlike Gorf, for instance). The screenshot is from the first one, a sort of Space Invader meets Missile Command. 1/2

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  • Arran Haynes @arranhaynes.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2025

    New Bond movie plot! Remake "Moonraker" but with this.

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  • Dr. Moiya McTier @goastromo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2025

    I had historian @ceaubin.bsky.social on Pale Blue Pod this week to review the movie Moonraker. We took full advantage of our license to gripe! Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

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  • Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2024

    Moonraker the movie: JAMES BOND GOES TO THE FUCKING MOON Moonraker the book: What? Shut up I'm playing cards

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