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Dashing spies, beautiful women, criminal masterminds, gadget cars, and unforgettable one-liners. This is one of the first places to find all that. The James Bond films of the 60s and 70s were quite different from the more action oriented ones of the 90s and 2000s. Bond flicks of this age were less about action and special effects and more about solid plots, classic lines, memorable (if sometimes unbelievable) characters, and they had much more clever humor. The story can get pretty silly at times but it has the spark and charm of the characters and plot to make you completely forget the silliness.
A classic opening with Bond blowing up a criminal HQ with plastic explosives, exchanging clever lines with contact, making out with a beautiful girl, and killing a villian in a dramatic fashion is what your treated to in the first five minutes of the film. Then the opening credits playing the sexy and classy movie theme and then beautiful overhead shots of a Florida beach resort. We are then introduced to the villian who shares the title with the film. Au Goldfinger is a classic villian who set the standards for movie villians in the following decades. Even more so is his henchman Oddjob who kills his victims by throwing a steel brim hat at them. In any other movie that would seem to absurd to be credible but for some reason in a James Bond movie it works just fine
Classic scenes include the famous laser heading for the groin with its famous dialogue and tense atmosphere. Women are no longer treated as sex objects (with the possible exception of the poor soul who dies a rather interesting death right at the beginning of the film). The women aren't invicible and treated with kid gloves either. No less than two die near the beginning of the film but its balanced out considering that over a hundred men get killed. Spy gadgets and technology make one of the, if not their, first appearance in this movie. A car with an ejection seat have become standard in most spy parodies and when was the last time you've seen a cheesy action flick without a 'Q'
Some scenes have no action at all but are nonetheless very effective. Such as the golf scene where Bond uses Goldfinger's own cheating habits against him to make him lose the game. Goldfinger's reaction to the lost shows us how demented and wicked he is while Bond's actions show how clever and how he can take advantage of any moment. Sean Connery displays one of his best Bond performences ever as well as one of his best performences period. Nobody has been able to bring the character to life like he did and nobody has carried on and passed on a legacy as well as he has done.
During the evening, instead of watching some present day horror flick or overrated teen movie, put this film on and experience spy action like you never have before
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This is it, folks; the one that got everything right. While "Dr. No" and "From Russia With Love" were great films, and the rest of Connery's Bond efforts were pretty solid (minus "Diamonds..."), "Goldfinger" was the one that really shot this character into the mainstream. It was the funniest, most exciting, and most memorable of all the Bond pictures, and Connery's best performance in the role to boot (he really hit his stride here, feeling fully comfortable in the role at this point). This film also had two of the top three Bond villians of all time; Oddjob and of course, the dubbed Auric Goldfinger (needless to say, Blofeld, who, quite amazingly, didn't appear in this film (unlike seemingly all of the other Connery Bonds), was the all-time greatest). In any case, if you've never seen a Bond movie for some odd reason, this is the one that will make you love the character, want to see the rest of the series, and give a whole new meaning to your admiration for Sean Connery!
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GOLDFINGER burst onto the scene in 1964 and the Bond world would never be the same. Though the previous two entries had been well-received, this is the one that touched off the worldwide phenomenon that propelled the series well into our own generation (currently filming Bond movie #21!!) In fact, it would become the Bond movie that all other's would be compared to ("yeah, I liked the latest Bond movie alright, but it wasn't as good as GOLDFINGER!!)
GOLDFINGER introduced us to so much of what would become trademarks of the series. It was the first to have an independent opening sequence (yes, FRWL had one, but it was more of a prelude than a stand-alone "mini-movie"). It was the first Bond film to have a title song sung during the opening credits (which would also become a fan-favorite Bond theme). It featured the first souped-up gadget car (hailed by many as still the best). It introduced us to the first "larger-than-life" henchman in the character of OddJob - a silent-but-deadly killer who would be the quintessential Bond henchman until Jaws came along. And, it featured the first main villain to truly stand on his own alongside of Bond. Gert Frobe left a memorable impression as the titular nemesis, and is also a fan-favorite to this day. Finale, it features the first of many double-entendre female characters - Pussy Galore(a very overrated Bond gal, by the way)
Unfortunately, the movie also introduced us to that "other" element of the Bond series, and that is the "over-the-top" action spectacle. Sure, it is nowhere near as out-there as Bond in a submersible car, or Bond on the moon, but the genesis of all that followed in the "unbelievable" department begins here. And this is where my criticism of the film really comes in. Having just watched for the umpteenth time this weekend, I was really able to see the flaws of the film. For the first time, Bond is placed in an elaborate "machine-of-death," when a simple gunshot to the head would do. Yeah, it's a lasting image no doubt - that of Connery strapped to a table with a laser inching it's way toward his, ahem, mojo. And yes, it provides us with the first classic Bond line - "No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!" - however, it is a really silly moment compared to the series up to that point, and begins to take us into the more fantastic and out of the more believable.
Several other actions by Goldfinger leave one wondering how intelligent he really was. In the above mentioned scene, all Bond has to do is suggest he knows more than Goldfinger thinks he does about his fiendish plot, and Goldfinger gives in and allows him to live. Why didn't he simply ask Bond to prove it - tell him what else he knows? He could easily have exploited how little Bond knew. Later, GF pitches his plan to a room full of mafia bosses (in one of the goofiest scenes with GF opening all kinds of hidden maps and displays in the room and the gangsters responding with lines like, "What is this, some kinda merry-go-round?") When one of the hoods declines being involved, GF has him taken out and secretly shot. However, he ends up gassing all the other hoods in the VERY NEXT SCENE! WHY? Who knows!? If he was going to kill them all, why take the one guy out and kill him seperately? If he was going to kill them all, why even tell them his plan? Yes, unfortunately, the more elaborate the film gets, the sillier it gets as well.
Which leads us to a bizarre finale. Having foiled GF's scheme, Bond is sent home on a US Jet, presumably millitary. This is at an airstrip surrounded by millitary - yet somehow, GF and Pussy have gotten aboard, incapcitated the pilots . . . ah, it's just too much!
Well, I have alot of complaints, obviously, and it mainly because I see the film in its context as being the first to really bring Bond down. DR. NO and FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE tried very hard to give Bond some street cred as a believable Secret Agent - GOLDFINGER and later films tore that image down and turned Bond into what he is today - another generic action hero. That being said, there is still plenty of charm in this film - and it is still a Bond classic, if only for its score, villain, and Connery's most relaxed and comfortable performance in the role. His first, "Bond, James Bond" in this film is said with such suave dismissal, that you realize for the first time that Connery IS INDEED Bond, James Bond.
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You have to love the sound track, the one-liners, the ladies!!! What more can you say!!! The action in the movie is excellent and keeps you on your toes till the end. Also, the gadgets and the Ashton Martin was the bomb. I would like to purchase one, but I would have to make over 6 figures a year just to come close! Excellent film.
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This was the second greatest Bond film (my favorite one being FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE). The Bond theme song is great, and we have yet another Bond girl with a sexually-suggestive name, Pussy Galore (parodied in Austin Powers as such names like "Alotta Fagina" for example). Bond doesn't play cards in this one, but he does shoot up a lot of things and wins the girl in the end. The gadgets were great, and even believable to some extent. And of course, a nuclear warhead is involved. Oh yeah, and there's a naked lady painted gold.
This is one case where the movie was better than the book. I thought some of the book wasn't really believable but the movie was more realistic, believe it or not.
This was a refreshing turn from other Cold War spy movies, where they're just going after the Russians. Something like that would be dated today, for obvious political reasons, but Goldfinger is the perfect, timeless villain who could fit into any evil situation. Odd Job is a funny character and it's great the way he dies, especially when he deserves it.
All in all one of the best of the Bond films.
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