All things Bond, eventually

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Originally Posted by frodo potter

Goldfinger is the best bond movie hands down.

I know the above comment is a widely held belief, indeed, I just to-day read an article in the Entertainment Weekly that espoused the very same thought -- Goldfinger is the best.

I just watched it and I can not figure out what makes it the gold standard of Bond films. I liked it. It was OK. But I am not convinced of the film's greatness.

I actually was going to go point by point about what I thought was off about that movie, but after writing it, I deleted it. For whatever reason people will always choose Connery as the best, so what can a brother do?

Maybe my fondness and genuine nostalgia for the 1970s clouds my ability to see how Goldfinger could in anyway match a film like The Spy Who Loved Me, which I think ranks not as a great Bond film, but as a great film of the action genre, itself.

Interestingly enough, I read a review that made the claim that TSWLM was the best Bond film -- period, but then went on in the next paragraph to explain by Connery was still better. Ridiculous. It's like Roger Moore was revealed to be a Nazi sympathiser, or something.