007 – Goldfinger Review

Stop! Look! He's gunning for trouble. 007. It

spells Bond. Shocking. He's the idol of every

woman. Who are you? Bond. James Bond. The envy

of every man. The nemesis of the treacherous

Mr. Goldfinger. Goldfinger, a tramp in thrill

-making cinema entertainment. A three -time winner

for Fleming's Secret Agent 007. My name is Pussy

Galore. Isn't it customary to grant the condemned

man his last request? You've asked for this.

Come and purr over Anna Blackman as Pussy Galore.

The female who is all feline. Also starring Gert

Frober as Goldfinger. International cheat. International

menace. Gentlemen! Goldfinger, why weren't we

told the New York and the West Coast weren't

on this? Goldfinger, I made a delivery. Where

is my money? And you owe me one million bucks.

Goldfinger, the man with a finger in every pie.

His goal, Fort Knox, the world's biggest bank.

His enemy, 007, the world's wildest, toughest

gentleman agent with a license to kill. 007,

it spells Bond. James Bond, mixing business with

girls. and thrills. Girls and fun. Girls and

danger. The hotter the danger, the cooler he

takes it. I think you've made your point, Goldfinger.

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Goldfinger the third Bond film in the franchise

And I think we're gonna head it on over to JT

who has just the facts for us. Secret agent James

Bond is relaxing in Miami Beach when CIA agent

Felix Leiter approaches him. Felix has brought

Bond new orders from MI6 Commander M saying Bond

is to observe and report on the actions of an

orc Goldfinger, a suspected gold smuggler who

is also staling at the hotel. 007 begins his

assignment by causing Goldfinger to lose a game

of cards with the help of the villains assistant

Jill Masterson. Bond then proceeds to try and

bed the willing Masterson. but is knocked out

by Goldfinger's bodyguard odd job. When he comes

to, Bond finds his new friend dead by suffocation

after being covered in gold paint. Bond later

meets Goldfinger at a country club and the two

enter into a high stakes golf game. Bond trounces

the overbearing Goldfinger and later follows

him back to Switzerland, where he sneaks into

Goldfinger's processing plant to find evidence

of his crimes. He discovers Goldfinger smuggles

the gold out of the country by melting it down

into car parts for his vintage 1937 Rolls Royce.

Bond also runs into Tilly Masterson, Jill's sister,

as she tries to assassinate Goldfinger for killing

her sister. While they struggle with each other,

they set off in an alarm and are forced to make

a run for it. Unfortunately, Oddjob kills Tilly

with his razor -rimmed bowler hat, and Bond is

captured by guards. He is tied down on a table

as a cutting laser begins to slice it in two.

Bond manages to BS his way out of the predicament

by convincing Goldfinger that MI6 knows about

Grand Slam. Goldfinger stops the laser, planning

to use Bond to mislead British intelligence.

The captured secret agent is then flown to a

horse farm near Fort Knox in Kentucky by Goldfinger's

personal pilot, Pussy Galore. Upon arriving in

Kentucky, Bond escapes and sees Goldfinger meeting

with the mafia, who have brought equipment necessary

for Grand Slam to work. After describing his

plan and promising them a larger cut of the take,

Goldfinger kills the crooks with some nerve gas.

Bond is then recaptured and almost mockingly

told by Goldfinger that he doesn't plan to steal

any gold. He's going to irradiate the gold with

a nuke, thereby making it unusable while at the

same time increasing the value of his own stockpile.

Operation Grand Slime begins with Pussy Galore

spraying the nerve gas all over Fort Knox. However,

Bond, having previously worked his sexual mojo

on Miss Galore, gets her to replace the gas with

a harmless placebo. The military contingent,

having previously been warned, play dead while

Goldfinger's men break in. Goldfinger soon arrives

with a nuke and has Oddjob handcuffed 007 to

the bomb. The US troops then attack, but Goldfinger

is ready for this and switches into a General's

uniform in order to escape. Bond quickly escapes

the handcuffs, but not the hulking Oddjob. Bond

fights with Oddjob, who overpowers the secret

agent, but Bond wins by electrocuting Oddjob

with his own hat. With just seconds left, Felix

Leiter arrives with a bomb tech who manages to

subdue the bomb with only seven seconds left

on the clock. With Fort Knox safe, Bond is invited

to DC to meet with the President and is flown

there by Pussy Galore. However, Goldfinger skyjacks

the flight, seeking revenge for Bond's interference.

During the struggle, Bond shoots out a window

which causes Goldfinger to get ejected from the

plane via explosive decompression. As the plane

crashes, Bond rescues Pussy Galore and the pair

parachute to safety, ending the film. Adapted

from the seventh novel of the Ian Fleming series,

Goldfinger opened in theatres on September 17,

1964. The film was directed by Guy Hamilton,

who would return three times to direct Diamonds

Are Forever, Live and Let Die, and The Man with

the Golden Gun, respectively, within the Bond

series. Aside from Sean Connery, who returned

for his third turn as the dashing 007, the cast

included Gert Frobe as Oric Goldfinger, Sec Linder

as the second Felix Leiter in the film series,

Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore, and

Harold Cicada as the lethal oddjob. Goldfinger

had a budget of $3 million, the combined total

of both the previous films, and would go on to

make almost $125 million worldwide. Critics generally

loved the film. Critic for the Sunday Times,

Derek Prowse, said the film was superbly engineered,

it was fast, it was fun. The film critic for

The Guardian called Goldfinger the most exciting

and extravagant of the Bond film series. Many

modern day critics also loved the film, shown

by Rotten Tomatoes current fresh rating of 96%.

The film of course has some trivia you may want

to know about. First thing is that Unicron himself,

Orson Welles, was originally sought for the role

of Goldfinger, but was ultimately let go when

he demanded too much money. Goldfinger is also

the first Bond film to generate toy tie -ins.

Corgi Toys began its long relationship with the

series when it released a toy version of Bond's

signature ride, the Aston Martin DB5. Another

tidbit is that The Laser Beam, which was a first

in any film up to this point, was actually a

replacement for a spinning buzzsaw idea that

producers rejected as too cliché. Goldfinger

was also the only Connery -era Bond film to not

feature the villainous Spectre organization.

However, the popular spinoff video game GoldenEye

Rogue Agent would attempt to link the organization

with Goldfinger almost 40 years later. And did

you know that the film was initially banned in

Israel because Gert Frobe, the actor who played

Goldfinger, was a member of the Nazi party in

World War II? This ban was lifted, however, when

a Jewish family came forward acknowledging that

Frobe sheltered them from persecution during

the war. Goldfinger is a favourite of many Bond

film fans, myself included. The film is cited

by many as being one of the best performances

of Sean Connery in the series, and is considered

by many as being one of the definitive Bond movies.

It's packed with action, adventure, and one of

the best lines in Bond movie history. This was

Just the Facts Goldfinger. I'm JT from Saskatoon.

Signing off. Thank you so much, JT. Very, very

awesome. You stole my audio clip, you asshat.

I was going to use that later in the episode,

but yes, the famous line, no, Mr. Bond, I expect

you to die. When did you first, again, going

back in time here, neither one of us was born

at the time that this came out, but when did

you first see Goldfinger? I think this is probably

the first Bond movie I ever watched and like

most of the ones I was first exposed to was probably

on television when I was a kid. It was probably

the first time I ever saw it. I think for the

longest time, I always assumed Gold was the first

Bond movie. It's like the one you hear most often

referred to. It's probably the most iconic. So

for the longest time, I always thought it was

the first movie and I think it's the first one

I saw. But yeah, so it was probably way back

when I was growing up on cable. Yeah, I... I

knew Of. Like, I had seen bits and pieces of

it over the years. I don't think I've ever seen

it all the way through. And as JT so eloquently

pointed out, that they tried to tie Goldfinger

into Dr. No and Spectre and all that in the GoldenEye

Rogue Agent, which I absolutely love that game.

That game is so frickin' cool. But yeah, I had

not seen like from beginning to end the film

until just before we started recording I just

I don't know what it is what a lot of these older

bonds I either haven't seen them at all like

know nothing about them like when we get to Lazy

be crap You know or I've seen bits and pieces

and I know of their legacy, you know that kind

of thing Yeah, I watched it. It was great. I

thought it was you know, it was probably one

of the to date It's probably one of my favorite

bonds besides Brosnan stuff Really really loved

it and I know JT went down some of the cast.

Well, he actually went down all the cast, but

we need to talk about this cast, because you've

got Connery back as Bond. You have Honor Blackman

as Pussy Galore, the Bond woman. Sorry. I mean,

Bond girl. That's from an outtake, people. You

have Gert Froby as Orit Goldfinger. I don't think...

Don't think I could have seen Orson Welles as

Goldfinger No, I mean I I couldn't either I think

he I don't see him fitting that role and I think

this is wasn't this time of period wasn't really

the best for Orson Welles to begin with but yeah,

I he kind of Really won't fit Goldfinger. I don't

see him as being as menacing or as nearly as

memorable as skirt Furby I could imagine anybody

else playing that part You know, you got Shirley

Eaton and Tania Mallet as Tilly and Jill Masterson.

I like them. I mean, Honor Blackman, at first,

I didn't even remember that they had, well, sort

of had, a couple of sex scenes. I didn't even,

I mean, obviously it doesn't show it, but the

whole, hey, let's roll around in the hay. You

know that and then the end I I didn't even realize

that and I just I don't know I I really like

that I think I think she makes for an excellent

bond girl What about you? What do you think of

honor blackman is pussy galore actually? Yes,

I agree completely I think he's probably one

of the best bond girls and once she's completely

different than I think all the bond girls up

to this point she's not as like voluptuous or

Classically beautiful as like the fun girls that

we've seen like honey rider. She's she's more

of a personality. I think she's More subdued

and which I liked I know in the book she like

they definitely play up her sexuality I think

it's a lot more obvious that you know She she's

a lesbian and they kind of hit down that the

movie but they don't go They don't beat you over

the head. No. No, they just kind of hit at it

which Which is interesting, but I love her as

a bong girl. I like the fact she has a personality.

I think the performance is great. The only thing

I kind of wish they, in the script -wise, maybe

told us more about her motivations and why she

was working for Goldfinger, because I never really

understood why she was doing it in the first

place. Yeah, I mean, other than the fact that

at one point during the ruse, and I don't even

think she was in on the actual plan until the

very end. uh... because during the ruse wouldn't

there at his little well house here in in kentucky

yet uh... when they're here and she says something

to the affair he says some effect of her about

you know uh... you know you have more money or

what whatever else are you're getting your fair

share or whatever it was I just assumed that

her stake in it was money. Oh yeah, it was. It

was money because she said something about, you

know, I would buy an island and I would put up

an on trespassing sign. So I guess that could

kind of, she's going to go off and start Themyscira

2 women only. Yeah, you know, it's kind of funny

I don't know if you notice like her her blonde

You know bombshell pilots that a couple of those

were actually guys on wigs. They mean You couldn't

tell because you don't really see many close

-ups But a few of the shots are actually, you

know men wearing wearing blonde wigs, but uh,

so yeah, but I that's But yeah, that could be

a motivation. I guess it's money I just maybe

she never understood completely because what

his plan was because I figured it seems like

once she kind of got a better understanding Like

her allegiance has changed plus, you know James

Bond James Bond kind of helped the you know Yeah,

you helped her change teams in a number of different

ways. Well Okay, let's let's think this through

here They're at his they're at Goldfinger's little

estate there in Kentucky Goldfinger essentially

Walks James through the plan doesn't even monologue

about it just says mr. Bond figure it out for

yourself and bond figures it out so what could

have happened was As sad as sad and weird as

this is he was pillow -talking her to the point

of You're not getting rich He's going to destroy

The United States Gold Reserve. He's not you

know he probably told her the plan hence why

she You know called Washington etc. Etc. Etc.

So that's probably why they hurt outside of you

know the You know riding the hay You know outside

of the sexual escapades. That's probably why

she decided to You know be a turncoat on on Goldfinger.

Yeah, I think in part of that too. I think they

leave it up they kind of Don't let us in on the

roost so that ending is more more of a surprise.

So we don't really know Yeah, what's happening?

So that may be part of the reason that doesn't

fully explain what her reasoning is Overall I

love the film. It's great I mean, it's you know

as as JT said and as we've said it's by far one

of the best Bond movies that Has ever been and

that you know that Shirley Bassey song Goldfinger.

Oh my god. I love that song Yeah, I completely

agree when I think of bond songs It's like the

one I think of I think it it kind of set the

standard for what bond songs are. It's very very

bombastic It's kind of grandiose and but it still

has a little edge to it. I think it's it's one

of the best bond songs It's still to this day.

I think it's probably the best and I think originally

Adele song for Skyfall kind of it reminded me

kind of similar to it felt like it was a throwback

to To this song it's a little bit. I mean the

tone and the overall musicality is different,

but if it felt similar Yeah, and this was the

first toy our first first film as JT said that

Corgi toys made a toy of the Aston Martin And

I like how they're Like in the film franchise

so far how they are Breaking bond out of his

shell essentially cuz in dr. No, it's like oh,

you don't need that lady's gun take this This

is better and this you don't need that stupid

Bentley. Take this. This is better, you know,

yeah They've built up to the Q gadgets and I

think this is probably one of the One of the

best ones or at least one of the best cars he

gets is that the Aston Martin is the Aston Martin?

Yeah um all right uh let's see here uh for me

um i did not expect him to electrocute the guy

in the tub at all my note was oh flash in the

pan uh i I thought it was a really awesome and

funny scene when Connery has his way with Jill,

or Bond has his way with Jill, in the hotel room

because of the fact that Felix calls and she's

in the background whispering, et cetera, et cetera,

et cetera, and he just gently pushes her away.

I thought that was hilarious. Yeah, he can be

dismissive, but he's multi -talented. He can

kind of do a few things at once, as we see. That

freaks me the hell out, though, afterwards. Because

you don't know what it is. Anybody watching this

movie back then did anyone really know that that

until it was explained Did you really think that

was gold paint? I I wasn't sure what it was.

I Come in a golden, you know, it could have been

I don't know it just it didn't seem to be paint

to me but I and and again watching this movie

for the first time all the way through I Wasn't

even sure if I had known about that scene before

and because when I saw it I was like, holy shit

Yeah, it's a very striking image. I think when

I first saw it when I was younger, I don't think

I really realized it was gold paint. I thought

it was just like, oh, they turned her gold. I

figured that gold finger had the minus touch

where you could literally turn things gold. Because

it's hard to tell. And I mean, I know. there's

been like a there was a huge rumor that she actually

did die because of that gold paint because of

the rumor that you know if you cover yourself

in paint you then your body can't breathe and

you'll suffocate it's not necessarily true but

you can see why because of just how like frightening

that image is it just kind of comes out of nowhere

yeah um and of course you got odd job very very

cool one of them one of the better bond i wouldn't

well I guess he could be called a villain, because

essentially, I mean, yes, Bond has the fight

with Goldfinger on the plane, but that's just

a plane fight, you know. But odd job, he's more

than just your average henchman, so I would classify

him as more so the physical villain for Bond

in this, whereas Goldfinger is more the mental

villain. Yeah, definitely. He kind of we we realized

that Goldfinger can't match up with bond But

odd job certainly can and he's He kind of I always

figured odd job is kind of like a wrestling gimmick

took seriously Yeah, just the way he looks his

outfit, you know his classic hat and the character

the actor that played him in real life was an

actual wrestler and you can kind of tell because

he's really good at that physical acting he doesn't

say anything but through his body moments, his

body language, you can kind of, you know, see

his anger and he really does have his huge physical

presence where you're kind of like, I don't see

how Bon could possibly take out our job. And

he kind of, he kind of really doesn't. He kind

of has to cheat to get by him. Well, true. Yeah.

I still love the money penny bond chemistry.

That's, that's always nice to see. Yay, cube

branch. And this is where from this point forward,

There's two scenes in this movie that Goldeneye

didn't necessarily rip off, but they homaged.

Um, the cube ranch scene, if you, if you open

up two different YouTube video windows and you

look at Goldfinger and you look at Goldeneye,

you know, and you know, picture in picture, whatever

it's different situations, but it's pretty much

the same movement, same, same everything. And

I was like, Oh wow, I've seen this scene before,

but it was a different movie. Yeah, that's I

mean, I'm sure that's true. They're very yeah,

I do tie together pretty similar They're very

similar with one another And I love I love on

the golf course, I love the caddy he's so funny

James Bond makes golf fun. Yay. They've been

happy Gilmore probably only two people. Yeah,

exactly Again much like in was it was a dr. No,

I think I don't know one of the other ones that

we had already done I had I had really loved

the day. I think it was dr. No, I love the driving

scenes again in this one I love the driving scenes

as well, you know, it's not the the best chase,

but it's still it's still very cool to see that

that style from that era of What moviemaking

was with a you know? an action set piece like

that. I really enjoyed that. Yeah, a great use

of practical effects. They really had a lot of

great little gadgets with that Aston Martin.

You kind of can see where the game Inspire Hunter

came from. It probably was inspired a lot by

all those different things like the ejector seat,

the machine guns, the oil slicks and whatnot.

But yeah, that was a really fun action set piece.

Probably one of the better ones up to the Bond

franchise. I think it's one of the big reasons

this movie is so memorable is because of the

Aston Martin and that car chase sequence. Let's

see what else do I have for highlights here.

The ejector seat. I love that. It's so awesome.

I wrote this down, but I'm going to phrase it

more of a question. You must phrase your answer

in a formal question. Nice. The old lady, is

that Goldfinger's mom with the machine gun? That,

I don't know. Maybe it's supposed to be a question

we ask, but we don't have an answer to, but maybe.

Yeah, I just found that old scene hilarious.

Um, Pussyglaw, I must be dreaming. and that car

crushing oh my god the guy got crushed oh that's

just overall that's pretty much where my highlights

stop because I just by the time that the The

one mobster got crushed in at the car part. I

just started watching the film for fun So what

do you have for highlights? A lot of them we

touched on already. We talked about our job and

Goldfinger I think they make a perfect combination

of a henchman and villain Like I mentioned, we

know Goldfinger is not gonna go toe -to -toe

with bond and physicality or a fight So having

our job is kind of makes him a lot more of a

threat I think we mentioned with dr. No, I personally

didn't find him a threat to to bond but our job

to me is probably the best bond henchman maybe

not the best villain but easily the best henchman

um and he it's interesting that he throws a hat

and so easy to make fun of like as we see in

Austin Powers um but it if they play it straight

and it is rather frightening because it like

that could legitimately make sense because we

can see him like it as a character that would

have this like deadly hat carrying around because

of everything they show like how he can crush

golf balls and how he basically feels no pain.

So I love Odd Job. I think he's one of the best

parts of Goldfinger. I think we start seeing

a lot of the Bond tropes. Some of the... Bond

tropes are best handled with this movie. It starts,

we talked about the song, one of the best Bond

songs. I love the pre -title sequence. It lets

you know right away that this is gonna be a really

fun movie. Yeah, that was really an interesting

pre -title sequence and it was also an interesting

title sequence as well. The visuals on that were

really cool. Yeah, definitely, I agree. I love

the little camouflage with the... the duck or

the goose head, and then changing out from the

wetsuit into a tux immediately. I mean, that's

pretty pimp. And then the last fight where he's

with the one girl, and he's going to kiss her,

and then he sees a guy sneaking up on him through

her eye in that shot, which was a great shot,

because there's no computer effects. So that's

one they had to actually do. And I think that

was a great framing of that moment. I thought

that was a really great fight, too. But yeah,

we talked about the Aston Martin. Still, to this

day, I think it's the best Bond car. The classic

painting of Jill Madderson is still, I think,

one of the most iconic deaths in all of movies,

just seeing that image of her laying on the bed,

like, silently, and just covered in gold. It's

creepy as all hell, though. I mean, it's... I'm

not a horror guy at all. I don't... I don't do

horror movies, but if you put this in a slightly

different movie, that could almost be a horror

image. It could fit somewhere in a horror movie.

A classic horror movie, not that Saw crap. In

the final climax, they actually got me. I didn't

realize that they were tricking us and that the

knockout gas was a knockout gas and they were

just playing it for our movies. I was like, wow,

I was really surprised. Yeah, that was it was

really yeah, I was like and it will you kind

of They kind of almost give it away because after

the planes go over they call in Bob I you see

the trucks driving in and they drive right by

the the car that has Felix in it and it it Pulls

in to a close -up on them on those two guys Felix

and the other guy And I almost half expected

them to open their eyes. They didn't then, but

obviously they do later. No, I just absolutely

loved it. I still wonder, is that... Did Fort

Knox really let them film in there? I think it's

probably the only movie that has ever... They

didn't film inside they couldn't go inside. They

did a lot of outside establishing shots I think

they actually did know in Fort Knox a lot of

the flyover shots were actually Fort Knox But

they couldn't shoot inside Fort Knox actually

it's figured but yeah it I mean you can't really

tell because it's the the way they establish

with those shots, with those flyovers and how

they move into the final climax when they're

going into the base. That transition is pretty

seamless. The fact that we don't know or we question

it is a testament to their filmmaking. And then

also, like you mentioned it earlier, with Goldfinger

coming back. And I don't know if him having a

golden gun was supposed to be a lead -in to another

movie we'll eventually cover. And I don't think

he's nearly as threatening as that villain. But

it was kind of cool seeing the golden gun and

watching him get sucked out of a plane was rather

entertaining. So a lot of great highlights, a

lot of things we touched on. I really love Goldfinger.

Completely agree and understand why it's looked

as one of the best Bond movies ever made Yeah,

no I agree as far as some lowlights I have four

Now you you you praise the the practical effects

of of the beginning scene with with the The hotel

with the chick and the guy and everything else

I know it's just a film and all but I have to

call into question seeing the guy in the gleam

of her eye That just, I know it's a practical

and it's an awesome effect, but seriously, if

you're looking at this as James Bond is real

and this is real life to him, that's never going

to happen. Yeah, I agree. It's probably not something

that can actually happen in real life. But I

think it's kind of letting us know. Right away

that this isn't a real -life movie. It's completely

different than like Russia with lovers I think

it's played more straight. I mean the fact that

he goes from a wetsuit to a tux That's you know

with no wrinkles. It's you know, it looks amazing

I think that's kind of part of it. But yeah,

it's not something I think that could happen

I mean you can look in someone's eyes and see

reflection, but it being that distinct is probably

impossible Yeah, exactly. Um Now if the gas was

replaced to a placebo or to something non -lethal

that maybe just knocked them out. I'm thinking

this over in my head after I wrote the note down

because I was like, well, if if the gas was replaced,

why did everybody? You know, the car, OK, I guess

if you make someone unconscious as they're driving,

they're going to crash their car. But it just

it seems so weird to me that almost the entire

town is you know, knocked out. I don't know.

It just seemed too strange. I mean, I get the

plan. I understand the plan. But again, this

was before the whole switch was even revealed

to us. And I was like, well, crap, they're dead.

Holy, you know. And then the switch was real.

And I'm like, well, that's still, to me, that

didn't make any damn sense then. Yeah, I think

they tricked. I mean, when you watch it the first

time, I don't think you notice. But any of you

watches, it does kind of make sense. make a little

less sense. I think the big reason that we're

doing it is because they needed to verify that

he had the Nuke on site before they went after

him. But yeah, it kind of seems like if that

was the case, they kind of maybe played it a

little too thick if they were just pretending.

That's like that's kind of one of those hard

parts is how do you play the ruse and make it

seem like it surprises us, but then. Make it

seem like they're realistically playing the ruse.

It's a hard balance to strike Yeah, it is And

again, I have to slightly criticize the bond

versus odd job fight. It went on a little bit

too long because They're sitting here having

this knockdown dragon mount fight and bond is

pretty much trying everything and nothing is

working Yet this ticking nuclear time bomb is

ticking down As much as I love the fight I have

to criticize it for that because it's it Seems

like it goes on too long and yes, I agree bond

did kind of cheat at the end But again, he you

know, if you look at him in his assassin, you

know persona He is an assassin assassins do anything

they do to you know, they'll do anything to get

the job done But I just think if they took out

maybe two or three minutes of that fight. It

would have been slightly better Yeah, I could

understand that it does kind of It is a rather

long sequence with everything that's going on

at that moment because you have that fight going

on and you have you know the Marines kind of

Coming in and then you have a nuclear bomb all

happening all at the same time So I mean, yeah,

that's that's my main complaint is there's a

fucking nuclear bomb right next to you And you

two are sitting here beating eat well odd jobs

beating bond up But you know, I mean, it's just

yeah, I think and the last last complaint I have

is And I can say this because I am a fat guy.

Even with the plane cabin depressurized, there's

no way that fat man goldfinger would fit through

that window. There's no way. Even taking into

account of the pressure of being, say, 30 ,000

feet in the air, I'm sorry. There's no way. That

would have happened. Yeah, if the physics in

that moment was weren't exactly, you know 100

% realistic, but yeah I'm sure maybe he would

get stuck or would wouldn't nearly be as kind

of a Jerkin jerky moment or go sir as quickly

as he did out that window It was kind of I could

see if the door got knocked off of the plane,

you know what I mean? And then he flew out the

door. That's fine. I you know, I could see that

or if let's say because of the deep i don't think

this would happen but say because of the depressurization

the back half of the flint the plane somehow

got destroyed or something and i could see him

falling out of that way but the fact that he

got sucked through a plane window i don't buy

that at all i just don't i just don't buy that

at all uh... but overall love the film it's absolutely

amazing uh... is there anything else you want

to say about it or? Besides the Lilith you mentioned

some of them that kind of not bugged me they're

kind of more of nitpicks than anything uh...

in the second act i think Bonn kind of I think

he kind of gets lost in his own movie. He stops

being like the cog that keeps the things going.

And he ends up being more of a witness as he's

kind of captured. And things are happening. He's

watching them happen. But he spends a lot of

the second act just kind of being captured by

Goldfinger. It does lead to one of the best moments

in Bond history, the laser sequence where he's

strapped to the table. I love that moment and

how he got out of it, how he didn't use a Q gadget.

He had to kind of talk his way out of it, which

was cool. everything after that was kind of you

kind of waiting for bond to kind of have his

moment and it took a while for that to happen.

And the only other one be I felt there were too

many bond girls at times. I think it kind of

went a little bit little nuts You know, you had

pussy girl or his fighters you had Jill Anderson

Joe Madison and her sister which her sister's

character I think was one of the most Superfluous

characters in bond history and she was completely

pointless. She wasn't there that long She seemed

to be only there to let us know that our job

can kill someone with this because like that

seemed like The only point she was there was

to show us that the die really I felt her character

was rather pointless And there's there's there's

a few of those moments where like there's just

so many Sometimes bond has a tendency to have

too many characters You had a similar situation

with for Marsha with love and we'll have more

as we go on and I think this is guilty of that

same sin Yeah, I mean, having Jill's sister there,

I see that she wants to kill him because he killed

her sister. But as you said, it's essentially

a non -character. And they already showed that

Oddjob could kill somebody with the statue. I

mean, they already demonstrated that. And I actually

thought that when they killed... the sister,

I actually thought that she was decapitated.

No, because you see, okay, you see that first

scene with the statue and the statue gets decapitated.

You see the scene with them, an odd job and he

throws it and she just goes down immediately

and you don't see how she falls. So I original,

I was like, did he just decapitate her? Holy

shit. What i'd i kind of the opposite i wasn't

sure like did was she dead or is she just she

just knocked out i couldn't tell but i could

yeah i mean if you look back at what happened

with that statue logic would tell you that her

head would be knocked off and maybe if this you

know they could go for that our rating it would

have been but uh they obviously can't go there

i guess i figured you know what we we had a girl

covered in in gold paint i think we'll just kind

of make it look like she fell down that's not

let's let's keep it a little bit simple as we

kind of went crazy already so yeah But no, it

was very, very, very awesome. I absolutely love

the film. I think we're going to go to some ads

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.com slash geekcastradio. Overall, for me, I

really, really, really enjoyed Goldfinger. I

almost said golden eye. We're not there yet,

damn it. A very well -done Bond film. Thought

the story itself overall was very well written

it had you know beginning middle and it didn't

really lag for me like Normally when movies lag

for me is like when they're going so slow and

the plot isn't most one of the reasons why I

don't watch a lot of the old westerns because

to me that the time the timing of the old westerns

is just like Get on with it already Yeah, the

plot here is pretty straightforward what we'll

get to a plot that gets a lot more convoluted

than this one But this one's pretty it's you

know, you kind of know what's going on I mean

it there's some there's sort of a mystery to

it, but it's not just like, you know destroy

the world type of plot it's just like he just

wants to kind of you know become rich and he

has a different he's an Interesting method of

getting there. So Well, yeah, well, yeah, I mean

At first, I thought you were going the other

way. Yeah, he does want to get rich, but only

off of his own, what he already has. He doesn't

want to get rich by, which I like that. I think

that's very interesting. This isn't just, hey,

let's go in and raw. This isn't your average.

Again, the writing in this was very well done

because. This isn't your average, Hey, I'm going

to rob a bank and the biggest bank in the United

States is Fort Knox. I'm going to go rob Fort

Knox, but he's not actually doing that. Uh, you

know, I, I like that because if it was just out

of, Oh, my plan is to go in and rob Fort Knox

and share it with the mobs of the, of the, of

the U S is like, cause at first I was like, what

the hell? I was like, really? But no, the whole

twist was awesome. Yeah, we do have a couple

of questions and a couple of qualms about the

twist and how it went about her pussy galore

turning over and all that stuff. But overall,

at least for me to this point, this is my favorite

Connery film. It's freaking great. Yeah, I'm

right there with you, I think. You can understand

why it's so highly regarded with Bond fans and

critics in general, why it's the movie that kind

of made Bond into a phenomenon. I mean, Dr. No

and Fresh or Love are definitely successful,

but this was completely different. It really

upped the ante. I think those movies, you had

a different director, and I think this director...

When kind of thought like okay, let's not even

try to be a little realistic. Let's have fun

with this Let's kind of let the fans know we're

gonna kind of be larger than life and we get

about that I think is kind of the style that

continues and really continues when we hit the

Roger Moore movies So yeah, I loved it as well.

The qualms are small. I don't think it's a perfect

movie It's not it's but it's nearly a perfect

Bond movie if you'd look at the Bond recipe and

what we expect with Bond films In almost every

area, it hits it out of the park. The song, the

Bond girl, the Bond villain, the Bond henchman,

the Bond car, all those moments we look for in

a Bond movie, it has one of, if not the best,

in those categories. So it's a great movie. Very

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