Continuing my journey to see every single 007 film before the release of Skyfall, I just got finished rewatching the third Bond film, Goldfinger, and it still holds up as one of my favorites.

I'll never forget, my father (who surprisingly turned me to a lot of films I love) introduced me to two of my first Bond films...this film and Die Another Day. I told him I never even heard of James Bond and he whipped out two Bond DVD's and had me watch them with him. I loved both films (though I managed to Die Another Day less and less with each watch) and from that point I was a big fan of James Bond. Just for being…

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Dr. No-vember or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bond Films

You're a woman of many parts, Pussy.
-James Bond

This is where Sean Connery hit his peak when it comes to portraying James Bond. He was strong and confident in the role since Dr. No, but it just got better from there till he hit perfection in Goldfinger. It's not all Connery's doing however, the supporting cast presents him with great opportunities that weren't present in the two previous films to play off them.

While he already had some playful banter with M (Bernard Lee) and Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell) in the previous films, here is the first time he truly gets to interact with…

Day three of the Bond Film Marathon, Film three: Goldfinger. A lot of people would rank this in there top 10 or even top 5 for all time Bond films. Some would say it's the best in the franchise and Connery's best. Again, like I stated in my review for From Russia With Love, I disagree and I believe Connery's best is Thunderball, but I'll get into that later.

Goldfinger is one of the most memorable entry's in the franchise. From the pre-title sequence where 007 Throws a man in a bath tub with an electric heater, to the stunning opening titles with the powerful vocals of Dame Shirley Bassey's hit song "Goldfinger" to the memorable henchman, Oddjob with his…

OK. Here we go. the stand-out Sean Connery Classic. It's got the Aston Martin, Odd Job, That scene with the frickin' "lay-zor", Pussy Galore and a fat ginger bloke with a camp German accent. It's only because of these things that I don't give this 3 stars.
From the minute this starts, with the Tuxedo in the wetsuit and the very first of this film's horrendous one-liner's it becomes a cartoon version of the James Bond featured in the previous 2 movies. This is NOT Ian Fleming's character... at all. There's even a point when he shows M up whilst talking about brandy which comes across like James Bond's a total cunt.
The grand scene with Shirley Eaton's Jill Masterson...…

One of three things pops into the head of most people when the subject of Goldfinger is brought up. Jill Masterson and the gold paint, the roll in the hay with Pussy Galore, or Bond about to be sliced in two by a laser. For me it's none of those things. I think of a classic exchange from the Holy episode of Bottom.

Connected or unconnected, in my case, there's no doubt that Goldfinger ramped up the iconic scenes to arguable series-topping proportions, but it's a also landmark for the series in a couple of different ways - good and bad. This was the point at which Q, after a fleeting appearance in From Russia With Love, would become an…

Film #4 of the James Bond Challenge

James Bond: Manners, Oddjob. I thought you always took your hat off to a lady.
James Bond: [to Pussy] You know, he kills little girls like you.
Pussy Galore: Little boys, too.

I have seen this movie so many times as a kid, but not enough times as an adult. Of all the Bond films that I saw as a child this one stood out the most to me. I'm not sure if it had to do with the imagery of a statuesque woman laying naked on a bed painted in gold, or if it was the almost super-human feats of the character known as 'Odd Job'. But I vividly remember being in…

1964 saw the world go mad for James Bond. EON Productions built on the winning formula of the previous 2 films and injected the ingredients that really showed the world what the 007 films were all about.

It straight away set the standard for the glamorous girls, iconic villains, fantastical cars, dangerous stunts and memorable gadgets we've come to love from James Bond.

With Sean Connery back as Bond, he must investigate the suspected gold smuggling operations led by one Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) spanning America and Europe and aided by his mute Korean bodyguard with the dangerous bowler hat - Oddjob (Harold Sakata).
After a glorious battle of wits and the most famous dice with death yet thanks to…

Day three of the Bond Film Marathon, Film three: Goldfinger. A lot of people would rank this in there top 10 or even top 5 for all time Bond films. Some would say it's the best in the franchise and Connery's best. Again, like I stated in my review for From Russia With Love, I disagree and I believe Connery's best is Thunderball, but I'll get into that later.

Goldfinger is one of the most memorable entry's in the franchise. From the pre-title sequence where 007 Throws a man in a bath tub with an electric heater, to the stunning opening titles with the powerful vocals of Dame Shirley Bassey's hit song "Goldfinger" to the memorable henchman, Oddjob with his…