Goldfinger Discussion Thread

[quoth_the_raven]

You get the idea by now. Discuss.

[Horror_Buddy]

What a good topic raven


Goldfinger is my favorite James Bond movie and The James Bond Movies is my favorite series that is non horror. Goldfinger is the first movie of its time to not feature SPECTRE or anything or body to do with Spectre. Goldfinger and Oddjob are my favorite villains because Goldfinger is completely insane and he is the first person to have a henchmen who doesn't get punched and he dies. Also Pussy Galore is my favorite bond girl because she wasn't a dumbass the whole movie or she wasn't looking for shells. This is alos the first movie to feature the Q-Branch workshop and James Bond's Car, the 1964 Aston martin DB5 with a ejector seat and bullet proof windows. Sean Connery is a awesome actor and he is my favorite Bond. Even tody his movies like LXG and The last crusade are really good movies for a older Sean Connery. I think everyone can agree with everything i just said.

10/10
i also give all of the Bond movies a 10/10

[Ted Pikul]

The first great Bond film.

Everything falls into place with Goldfinger.

Connery was never better & everything else (villain, henchman, love interest(s), car, gadgets) is nigh on perfect.

The quintissential Bond film in many respects.

[quoth_the_raven]

Great plot, and it sees Connery probably at his best at bond. Two of the great villains in Goldfinger and Oddjob (I've wanted his hat for years...great stuff!). Gorgeous girls, especially Pussy Galore, but I've always thought Honor Blackman was gorgeous in her youth. it even has some of the best lines seen in the bond movies.

Don't ask my why, but I don't enjoy it as much as From Russia With Love. Goldfinger is an excellent movie, but it never quite captured me in the same way...its a more complete movie, but one that falls just short of its predecessor for me...as I've often stated, I am a little weird ;)

[Puck Bond]

My 2nd fav film of all time!(Things have changed last couple of years)

Goldfinger(1964)-10/10...the third James Bond film is a great action-adventure film and is still the best Bond film. It set up the whole Bond formula as it stands today...and this film spawned many spy-film imitators at the time. Opening title song sung by Shirley Bassey and a new director Guy Hamilton. By this time Connery had completely settled into the role of 007. This time around he goes against one of films most dastardly villains Auric Goldfinger played by Gert Frobe an international jeweler who plans to break into Fort Knox. He is aided by his Korean henchman Oddjob who kills with a steel-rimmed bowler hat! played by Hawaiian wrestling star at the time Harold Sakata. Also this features Bond girl Pussy Galore still the best Bond girl name played by Honor Blackman. With Q being introduced in the last film we now have Bond's little encounters with Q in the gadget branch (another part of the series that are a favorite of mine) and this is where we first see Bond's new car the Aston Martin DB-5 with modifications including a passenger ejector seat. Still one of the most famous movie cars in history. Classic scenes in this fim are the opening with the fight that ends with a man being fryed to death in a bath "Shocking, positively shocking", the famous scene of Shirley Eaton covered in gold paint lying on the bed, the golf scene where Bond fools with Goldfinger and ends up with the beheading of a statue, the scene where Bond is about to be dissected with a high-powered laser "Do you expect me to talk?""No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!", and finally the daring raid on Fort Knox is another classic...I love how the atomic bomb ends with the number 007 on the timer. Little touches like that make this the best film of the series and my favorite film of all time.

[bob]

Ergh, I can't believe I missed this.

Goldfinger is the ultimate Bond movie, and on top of that, one of the best action films ever.

While the film itself is light on action, it carries itself on the more important aspects of Bond films: Beautiful women, colorful villains, and, in his best Bond performance ever: CONNERY.

He owns every frame of this film. The pre-credits teaser could go into a time capsule by itself as the most important scene in the development of the modern-day action hero.

This film is one of the few Bond films to be both energizing, exciting, and important. A solid A-, if only because of the blue one-piece deal Connery wears on the beach. YIKES!!!

P.S. Thank God they didn't stick right to the novel. Cat flesh, cannibalism, and lesbians? Not for Bond.