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haha, ok. He can kill without help when he wants to.
Exactly. Goldfinger's final attempt to kill Bond on the president's plane was such an utter failure from the start. It was a foolish effort, especially considering that he had already escaped successfully, and didn't even need to confront Bond. I really think the directors should have just left this scene out and either (1) have let Goldfinger escape, (2) let Bond track him down and deal with him in the fashion of Mr. White in CR, or (3) make the ending similiar to the novel where Bond and GF slug it out on the plane and GF gets choked to death.
FRWL , OHMSS , FYEO are just as good as GF....imo
Are you getting into that "Bad 3s" conversation Dimi and I were in a couple pages ago? Because, yes, Superman III was horrible.
It's good, but it DOES get boring and it is overrated, I don't think it deserves to be the general favourite. It started the formula but that doesn't mean it perfected it.
*Connery
*PTS-
*Aston Martin db5 with weapons
Girl being painted gold
Laser "I you expect you to die" scene
Oddjob's hat
a girl named "pussy"
the big ending battle goes down in America
A guy gets sucked out of an airplane
this stuff wasnt seen on the screen back then. This was Star wars.
Dont get me wrong-FRWL is the best "FILM", this is the best "Bond MOVIE".
I got a question, what if This was the 1st entry in the series? Would FRWL be "The Empire Strikes back" of the series?
####Edit**** lol I really need to start reading the posts , because All the points I made are pretty much verbatim what other posters have already said. Well, I guess that proves WHY it is considered the favorite if everybody can see the same reasons.
I give you the three bolded options, but these alone aren't enough to make this movie the best. The three striked out aren't even half interesting (gee, a guy getting sucked out of an airplane... even if I had seen this in theaters in 1964, this still wouldn't have been impressive to me).
If you dont think Bond seeing the thug in the reflection of the ladies eyes is pretty cool, then I dont know what to think. also, unzipping the wetsuit, and he has a Tux underneath is awesome.
edit- Yeah, Connery's cool as hell, confident performance is reason ALONE.
Not to mention, This had The initial "Q is frustrated at Bond" scene that set up Desmond 's character the rest of the series.
Plus, as Guy Hamilton put it, the PTS is a "wonderful bit of nonsense", which is why I don't like it. I understand that Bond films are supposed to be fun, but when the main character shows up with a duck on his head and is somehow capable of putting a skintight wetsuit on over a slightly baggy tuxedo... A line needs to be drawn there. And, the "seeing things in someone's eye" thing has never interested me.
As far as I'm concerned, the Bond/Q relationship, the DB5, the white tux, and Connery himself are the only good things that movie contained.
I thought that scene was awesome !
Frwl is great, but there are about 5 or 6 Hitchcock spy movies better than that one.
That's a pretty broad opinion. I do feel that GF is overrated at times, but I still love the film and it is in my Top Ten. But just because you don't like a film in the series, doesn't necessarily exclude you from being a fan of the series.
The majority of them are sillier than Gf.
I dont get the "boring" complaint about this movie. Dr.no , Frwl and Ohmss are just as boring, and Ohmss is just as silly.
I think The so callled "real fans" dont like it because all the critics and the general public like it.
At least Bond isn't captured through half of Dr. No, FRWL and OHMSS. He's captured then escapes quickly after.
I'm no doubt one of Goldfinger's greatest defenders on this board. Truly I don't understand why everyone doesn't at least appreciate the film. That someone would prefer overdone slop masquerading as a Bond film like MR or DAD to Goldfinger is as DC would say, "appalling" to me. But I wouldn't go that far myself to say what you have here and while I definitely understand your sentiment for sure, people are people and have their opinions and no matter wacked out some may be to you and I, the fact that they have one on all 22 films and some semblance of preference is something indicates they are fans and enjoy the series.
My good man Murdock, did you by any chance read my alternative view on Bond's "imprisonment" in Goldfinger? It's a view I believe to be the correct one. Bond wanted to be Goldfinger's "guest". He could have escaped several times and chose not to. And said so in so many words. A spy's job is to stay close to the villain long enough to find out what he or she is up to and then sabotage their plans. Of course everyone who wants to can dislike that the movie went in that direction, but I feel it speaks to Bond's strength of character and sense of duty to risk his life by sticking close to Goldfinger, and the strength of Goldfinger's plan in leaving him little choice but to do so. Those who see the film this way know that this movie is far from "boring".
Point taken, but it's still boring to me. However I still enjoy the film on a good day and appreciate it's value in the Bond series. I respect the film, and like it's little nod in "Catch Me if You Can" Good film by the way.
No, I don't like it because it bores the sh*t out of me. So, somehow, that makes me less of a fan than you? You hate some of the films I like, does that make you less of a fan for it? You would say it doesn't, I would say it does. Oh, and OHMSS boring? Let's see, the battle of Piz Gloria is 100% more interesting than all of GF.
Russia does drag on a bit, and it's all a bit serious and technical, it's easy sometimes to get a bit bored actually, but still a great release that has reached legendary status
OHMSS isn't so much boring, except every now and again, but George keeps the action going and there's plenty to get involved in, some of the Piz Gloria bits do seem to go nowhere though
I don't like Goldfinger, as mentioned above, because critics and people give it so much adulation, what they do is their business. It's merely (once again) a long haul of mundane action bits that go nowhere, wasted Bond, wasted potential, and I'd only view it any time now if I had a serious Insomnia issue. Terribly dull film all said
The only thing that is reserved for, regarding the James Bond franchise, is the awful piece of shit theme intros from Madonna and Keys and White, that's as close to genuine hate as I go for anything Bond, i.e. genuine loathing and distaste
Too late for me, so it's a goodnight
I-)
Sorry, I hate Goldfinger.
I knew about the first three, but I didn't know you weren't a big fan of DN. How come?