Goldfinger (Special Edition)

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Summary: completely new feeling
Review: I have seen Goldfinger quite a lot of times on Video and TV - but watching it on DVD seems like watching a completely new Goldfinger: perfect picture and best sound ever! It seems like it was shot only yesterday. The Bonus material is simply a must for every Bond-Fan: Just sit down, relax, have a Martini and let Guy Hamilton or Honor Blackman or... tell you about the making the movie using the commentary in the Bonus-Section. A lot of unknown behind the scenes pictures and the two very good documentaries make this quite a complete 007-DVD. Not that I want to complain but it would even be better if more different languages would be optional and the music score would be on it.

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Summary: Goldfinger far and away outshines the field
Review: As Bond films go, Goldfinger is the motherlode, far and away outshining the field. Sean Connery is at his best as the British superspy and Gert Frobe is to this day still the undisputed best of the Bond villians as the suavely sinister Auric Goldfinger. Goldfinger has everything working for it. Gams of gorgeous women(tempered by the feline perceptivity of Honor Blackman), the menacing henchman with a sense of style in Oddjob, and Q's eye-popping bag of hightech tricks. And to top it all off, Goldfinger has perhaps the less convoluted of all the Bond storylines in that the villian, as the unforgettable theme song warbles, "loves only gold." The only minus was Felix Leiter. Jack Lord was the best Leiter (with the perfect hair and the gravely cool), and would have given Connery a run for his money in the handsomeness departemnt. Cec Linder's Leiter came off like a used car salesman. Nevertheless, Goldfinger shines eternal.

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Summary: Simply one of the finest He-man spy films of the century
Review: Short and simple: this film could not be made today, witness the newest limp Bond movies and Mission Impossible. One cannot capture the style and carisma of the 60's male superspy in the 80-90's sexual revolution films. Sean Connery is a spy/lover legend; this film is a must - both to see and own.

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Summary: the best bond film ever
Review: this is a truly brilliant film my favourite character is oddjob who is great if a bit dated now.Sean Connery is as good as ever and gert frobe is great as goldfinger.The best bit is when the laser is about to hit the bond family jewels 'do you expect me to talk' 'no mr bond i expect you to die.

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Summary: Second Best
Review: This one rocks because it basically became the standard of every following Bond movie. It has the gadgets! It has the cool second villain (OddJob), great actor as the key villain (Gert Frobe) and an out of this world scheme, where arch villain Goldfinger will raise the value of his gold by blowing up Fort Knox. Exciting and terrific!

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Summary: Sean Connery is back as 007!
Review: This is got to be Sean Connery's best Bond performance ever. Connery returns to deliver another great punch into history as James Bond. 007 is in for a real treat when he discovers that it is Goldfinger who he is up against with a vile henchman that uses his hat a weapon. He jumps right into action from the beginning and doesn't let up for a heart-beat. You don't want to miss this Bond classic and better get it while it is still available.

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Summary: Very fun and exciting Bond adventure
Review: Goldfinger is the third film in the Bond series and starring Sean Connery. Goldfinger just may be the most exciting Bond adventure. It has its full of heart pounding action and humor. It also has some very good music in it. Sean Connery is excellent in it as 007. Also it has one the very best of the Bond enemies in it Oddjob. He is truly evil, but he is likable evil. He is a great character in this film. If you want Bond it doesn;t get much better than this.

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Summary: You mean to tell me this has been out of print?
Review: Although this film is the earliest Bond to go all-out for high-tech special effects, unlike future releases, the story premise is right out of the Fleming novel--filthy-rich industrialist obsessed with gold goes after the biggest single supply of it in the world: Fort Knox. He also cheats at cards, which is how Bond meets him. We also get the debut of the most famous Bond car ever--an Aston Martin DB-5 as defense-oriented as anything driven by the Marines (a recent spine-buster ad in TV Guide even offered a bookcase model of the thing with an ejection passenger seat that really works--4 monthly payments of $29 or something). Since I'd read the book first, I found most of the story familiar. My one complaint about the casting is that Gert Frobe plays an overly-Germanic Goldfinger. In the book, Bond speculates that the name "Goldfinger" sounds Jewish, only to be told by the millionaire who introduces the two that he's actually English. As in the book, there's an Oriental bodyguard who's all but invincible but can't talk (he only says "Ah"). In one scene where Goldfinger greets Bond when he arrives at his estate ("Ah...Mr. Bond!), my brother muttered under his breath "He must've taught that bodyguard how to talk". I first caught this film as a teenager in first-run release--it was an outing by my brother's and my garage band to the earliest mall-based first-run theater in my area (it hadn't been that long before that first-run houses were all downtown). A lot more recently, watching it on video, I couldn't help but reflect on the fact that when I first saw it, I never figured that someday I could have my very own copy of it. Videotape was only in TV stations back then. The first time I saw the scene where Goldfinger is about to slice Bond down the middle with a laser the size of a naval cannon ("Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger?"/ "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die"), it never occured to me that one day I'd be using lasers myself (a lot smaller than that one, to be sure) to play my records. That makes TWO things I can thank Japanese technology for-

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Summary: The coolest original bond movie
Review: Goldfinger rates five stars on my list. My second favorite henchman was in there, oddjob. It had a great plot and a very good choice of actors in this film! I HIGHLY RECOMEND this movie to any bond lover or action lover!

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Summary: CONNERY'S BEST "BOND"
Review: Director Guy Hamilton directs the 3rd and MOST EXCITING entry in the "JAMES BOND" movie series. Connery in top form. Forbe ALL TIME BEST "BOND" villain in role of "AURIC GOLDFINGER". Honor Blackman ENTICING as "PU**Y GALORE". Story and plot MAGNIFICENT. [NOTE: Ms. Blackman, fresh from her role in the British TV series "THE AVENGERS", was a real-life black belt in Judo during the making of this film. In the fight scene with Connery in the barn, she EXPERTLY threw him for a loop].