The love story is a mere and inferior copy of TSWLM. Think of Goldfinger or You only live twice) However, Moonraker does not compare to Octopussy or TSWLM, because of a sometimes plodding pacing, due to the addition of unnecessary scenes, especially during the first half, when James is Drax's guest in California. Remember that pre-credit scene, which was ACTUALLY shot in the air, the motorboat chase or the final space battle, one of the most spectacular moments of the entire series, (yeah, it was unrealistic, OK, but tell me how much realism you can find watching other Bond movies which are frequently referred to as" the best". I reply: certainly there are flaws, some of them (particularly Jaws conversion towards the end) very ridiculous. Critics argue that humor plays a strong hand in this movie-strong to such a degree that Bond character loses all personality, becoming blurred in an impressive set of FX and stunt men. On my opinion, this is Moore's best fourth outing as 007(may be not saying too much, but there are three films left), and a very entertaining sci-fi film. Therefore, the entire sequence required eighty-eight jumps, and five weeks to film, just to produce the two minutes of footage in the final movie.Ĭonsidered almost unanimously as one of the worst films in James Bond series, it is time for Moonraker to have a defender. After factoring in the time needed to get the performers and cameraman into position after leaving their plane, only a few seconds of film could be shot per jump.
There were only sixty to seventy seconds of free fall time, between when the stunt performers exited the aircraft, and when they had to activate their chutes. A breakaway seam ran down the back, which allowed the parachute to be opened without the need to remove the coat. The actual parachutes used by the stuntmen had a main and reserve chute concealed within the suitcoats. Stuntman Jake Lombard would don and remove the dummy chute up to three times in a single jump. The "parachute" over which they fought, was actually a dummy chute, which had to be removed before the stuntman could use the real parachute underneath. Worth wore parachutes concealed within their suits. The seven-pound camera for these sequences was mounted on the helmet of another skydiver, and a few shots are of the cameraman's own arms and legs. Except for a few brief close-ups, the entire sequence of Bond, Jaws, and the pilot falling from the plane, with Bond and the pilot fighting for a single parachute, was shot in free fall.
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