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I’ve missed you all!!!

Wow! It’s been a week that hasn’t really ended for me! But, I was so happy to finally sit down and watch this film!

Well! I feel like this movie lived up to its hype! I enjoyed this one. It felt like a cozy James Bond Film that I was used to but with some awesome surprises! I feel like Sean hasn’t ever looked better! Awesome Bond girls, some epic one liners and an Epic Villain with an odd henchman! So many memorable moments characters and quotes! James Bond killing it with the charisma — I felt like everyhting in this one just leveled up! Gadgets, sets, car chases, Villain. Loads of camp and babes galore! I loved it!

Some of the memory bank kicked in from having seen Austin Powers but I had to wiki Goldmember 🤣 smelting accident. I had forgotten about that!! Wow, do I ever get that joke now.

Thanks for being here! Love the lot of you!

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Bond, Ames Bond

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GOLDFINGER (1964)

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AJ

Golf taking over the channel! LFG

MikeLL

This is the first really "modern" Bond film. This set the template for all the Bond films going forward. Absolutely fantastic top tier John Barry music score, one of the greatest film scores of all time. I wore down my vinyl copy way back in the 60's. Can't wait to watch the reaction, Aames will have fun with this one.

MikeLL

Shirley Bassey went on to sing two more Bond theme songs in her career. And her live performances were legendary. Here she is many years later singing Goldfinger at the 2013 Oscar ceremony. Only a 3 minute clip, but I'll never forget watching this performance live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bli22Bvwdkc

Toc

Bond, Ames Bond! 🤣 Brilliant! 008!

RFK Fan

To me? Connery might always be the original James Bond but nothing says 007 more than Shirley Bassey. Her voice was one of a kind matched only by Adele I think with SKYFALL…. The one constant I always enjoyed was the opening CREDITS (with a couple of exceptions) and Shirley had some of the best in the 60s. GOLDFINGER, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER and THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN. Special shout out to McCartneys LIVE AND LET DIE and who can forget Carly Simon’s NOBODY DOES IT BETTER?

Gardner von Holt

Honor Blackmon (Pussy Galore) was a co-lead in the early "Avengers" UK TV show, season 2 and 3, playing "Cathy Gale" alongside the oh-so-dapper John Steed played by Patrick MacNee. These were back in the early 60s, definitely way ahead of their time. The sound is unfortunately not great in the tv recordings that remain, but her character shines thru. She left that series to be part of this movie. (in the US, Prime Video lost its rights to the series, and tubi has it now). Free on both. Also, if you arent familiar with the show, definitely check out seasons 4-6 with Diana Rigg taking over as Emma Peel (think "Man Appeal"). The town of no return, Cybernauts, Death at Bargain prices, Too Many Christmas Trees, Casle De'Ath)

Teemu Laitinen

When people think about a Bond film this is it. All the essential elements are here. Just a fantastic score by John Barry. Shirley Bassey did amazing in all her Bond theme songs. The producers had seen Gert Fröbe in some German film and wanted him for the film. They asked his agent if he spoke English. LIke any actor when asked if they can do something the agent said yes he can. When Fröbe arrived on set they realized that all he could say was "Hello, how are you?". His voice was dubbed really well by Michael Collins and Fröbe just said his lines phonetically. In the next film there is the great Italian actor Adolfo Celi. Celi was also good friends with Kabir Bedi who you will meet in Octopussy. Fabulous sets by Ken Adam as usual. Apparently the Fort Knox set was so accurate that the US government started to wonder how they managed it since of cource they weren't allowed to visit the real thing. This film actually started Connery's love affair with golf. He olayed it religiously for the rest of his life. And yes Connery was wearing a hairpiece. The Aston Martin DB5 is definitely the Bond car. Desmond Llewelyn as Q is always so serious about his work and always pleads with Bond to return things intact. Which of course never happens. Llewelyn in real life was just horrible with technology and had trouble with his lines. Roger Moore would do practical jokes with this and rewrite Llewelyn's lines to absolute nonsense. I actually got to see the Rolls-Royce Phantom III among other Bond cars in the Bond In Motion exhibit in London a few years ago. In the novel Pussy Gallore was actually a lesbian so Bond's seduction was even more impressive. Many of the Bond gadgets became a reality many years later like the "gps" that Bond was using to track Goldfinger's car. Bond films are just pure escapism at its finest. Just loved the Cubby Broccoli era of Bond. I do have to disagree with you a bit Ames about the old lady with the submachine-gun. She handled the recoil like a champ and actually hit Bond really well too. Without the bulletproof glass Bond would have been a goner. For once a villain who actually hits something. Glad you enjoyed it Ames! Also Oddjob is definitely one of the most iconic henchmen in movie history. Harold Sakata does a fantastic job in the film. Just adore his smirks and he is always dressed to impress. Love that the only time Oddjob is worried when Bond graps his hat. Because of course Oddjob knows what it can do. Auric Goldfinger also has a few things in common with the current president of the USA. Both love gold and are good at golf, but still cheat at it even though they don't need to.

Catchermag

Probably my favorite Conner Bond film, although that’s an ever changing thing depending on my mood. Just a great time! Thanks for the reaction.

Ian Forbes

Ames, to connect some of this to the Austin Powers films if you didn’t already look it up: Goldfinger = Goldmember (from the 3rd film as you remembered) Pussy Galore = Alotta Fagina (from the 1st film, the girl Austin “seduces” in the hot tub) Odd Job = Random Task (1st film, but he throws a shoe … “Honestly, who throws a shoe?”)

Reggie

Great reaction to my favorite Bond film! This is the (pardon me) "gold standard" of all Bond movies :) I think it has the best mix of sly humor and drama of the series. Watching it also reminds me of how my Dad was stationed at Ft. Knox in the early 1950s when he was in the Army. He drove a tank and said that he and the other drivers would actually get bored and sometimes see who could knock over the biggest tree with their tank!

Lana Gorgeous

I am so happy that you enjoyed the James Bond movie Goldfinger. Believe it or not I watched this in the movies as a kid. I must have been 9 or 10. Although it was rated PG they weren’t seriously caring about anyone’s age. As a child when I saw Goldfinger, OMG it just blew my mind. I had never viewed any movie so incredible and such a spectacle, adventurous and intriguing. But then I saw Thunderball the next year and it was incredible I thought at the time as a 4th or 5th grader. I think it held up pretty well over the years. Adjusting for inflation it was the 2nd most profitable James Bond movie of all time only behind Skyfall. At the time this movie Hollywood tried to capitalize on it and created TV series such as The Men from Uncle , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM5gbwUrIgw and The Avengers , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjQRwMtae5g and Comedies like Get Smart, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ6gdRfBW6c, and even a hit song called Secret Agent Man that peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 100 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iaR3WO71j4, and the toy of the day all boys wanted and even girls like me next to Barbie were secret agent attaché cases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t6Bd0MwEh8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eRpfa04I9c All this due to the popularity of James Bond. 😊

MikeLL

When I was a kid, the youngest of five children, my father took my three older brothers to see Goldfinger in the theater. Why wasn't I allowed to go? Because my father thought the whole affair was too expensive. For while normal ticket prices at the time were around $1, the movie theater jacked up the price of the Goldfinger tickets to an astronomical $3! (Even though it was a large city, there weren't as many theaters as today, only one screen to a theater and only one theater in town had Bond.) So sadly, my sister and I stayed home. (I must have been in just first or second grade!) The James Bond movies were the most popular of the time!