I just can’t imagine Pepper willfully visiting Hong Kong. He was insulting every Asian in sight (”You pointy-heads !”), I’d have thought he’d consider it hell.
The comedic “slide whistle” was NOT the low point. The low point was the double-taking pigeon in “Moonraker” (even worse than the ludicrous laser battle with the space shuttles). Even having one of France’s arguably best actors, Michel Lonsdale, couldn’t save that turkey. Had they stuck more to the books, these likely would’ve been better films (but, of course, they wanted to capitalize on fads of the time, such as Star Wars and Star Trek, the latter of which came out that same year as MR, in 1979).
Moore recalled he hated getting rough with Ms. Adams, especially when he bent her arm back. He wanted to play the role like his old character, Simon Templar (”The Saint”) and less like Connery, which was always his weak spot where Bond was concerned. That’s the problem when you have two totally different types of actors playing the same part (the Scot peasant-brawler Connery vs. upper crust Englishman Moore). I seemed to remember when Dalton took over from Moore that THAT was a breath of fresh air. Hopefully I’ll feel the same with the current Blonde hitman-thug’s successor (assuming it’s not a Black midget vegan transgender lesbian who speaks Swedish).
I don’t think I ever noticed the pigeon thing before.
Moonraker was a bad one, yes. Zero chemistry between Moore and Dr. Blow**b for one thing. Ludicrous plot.
I loved Dalton’s Bond, he’s on a par with early Connery to me. I wished he had done more movies, Goldeneye is one my favs anyway but I think it would have been awesome with Dalton.
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and they are going in a different direction--
Let us have a drink. A WD-40-- Shaken... 
not stirred.
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