History YMMV / TheManWithTheGoldenGun

** Bond hitting Andrea Anders and threatening to hurt her more if she didn't give him the information he wanted. Granted, this isn't the first time Bond has hit a woman (he did the same thing to Tatiana in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''), but it's still egregiously misogynistic on Bond's part, especially when you remember that Anders is depicted as Scaramanga's SexSlave and was scared of what he would do to her if she ratted him out. Of course, Bond did not know this at the time (she only tells him how much she hates Scaramanga during their second meeting) and believed her to be a willing accomplice.

** Bond hitting Andrea Anders and threatening to hurt her more if she didn't give him the information he wanted. Granted, this isn't the first time Bond has hit a woman (he did the same thing to Tatiana in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''), but it's still egregiously misogynistic on Bond's part, especially when you remember that Anders is depicted as Scaramanga's SexSlave and was scared of what he would do to her if she ratted him out.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: In Bond's final duel against Scaramanga, [[spoiler:his trick of impersonating a wax statue to get the jump on an unsuspecting Scaramanga comes off as this. Bond has always been a CombatPragmatist, but in this instance when he's duelling a NobleDemon who's spoken at length about wanting to have a fair fight with Bond, thanks to Christopher Lee's performance you can't help but feel sorry for Scaramanga when he realises Bond's trick just before he dies. This one is possibly a consequence of the editing room, as early trailers hint that Scaramanga was supposed to be cheating in this duel, making Bond turning the tables on him using his wits seem far more justified and necessary, as opposed to Bond just taking the easy way out of a fight]].

* SpecialEffectFailure: The "dummy" portraying UsefulNotes/AlCapone in the opening blinks and flinches while shooting at the hitman.

* {{Padding}}: The film is prolonged by pointless meandering in a few cases. For example, why Bond had to get the bullet in Beirut when he had the one sent to him, the Kung Fu scene and its following canal chase, etc.

--->"An so here's me, Roger Moore, UNICEF ambassador, pushing a child overboard..."
* OneSceneWonder: Chula, the [[CombatPragmatist practically minded]] star pupil at the villain-affiliated karate school Bond finds himself in; his entire appearance seems to be [[BruceLeeClone channeling Bruce Lee]] in ''Enter the Dragon'' to the point where it's easy to assume [[{{Creator/BruceLee}}the man himself]] would've been offered the part if he hadn't died the year before.

* FanNickname: Due to this film, the isle of Khao Phing Kan (with the famous Ko Ta Pu rock) that serves as Scaramanga's IslandBase has been nicknamed "James Bond Island".