Goldfinger

Goldfinger
$8.94
If you're ever interested in hearing a REAL James Bond soundtrack, this is it. The orchestral arrangements are dynamic, using the full range of the instruments. Suspenseful, thrilling, sensual...and with Shirley Bassey's powerful voice belting out the film's theme song, how can you go wrong? This is what all soundtracks want to be when they grow up!

Goldfinger
$13.98
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Hello Destiny
$14.49
The Good
"One More Time" is instantly addictive and catchy with driving guitars and melodic vocals. "Get Up" infuses the brass section that ska is known for, but steel has a punk-pop feel to it. "Without Me" employs some killer guitar runs, and that's not something you expect from the ska/punk world. "If I'm Not Right" has a pure reggae feel with it's brass and steel drum backing. "How Do You Do It" is pure in-your-face guitar and vocal fury. Goldfinger keep the energy flowing on the media-bashing track "Not Amused."

The Bad
I understand the political nature of the lyrics, but "Handjobs for Jesus?" Please!

The Verdict
I know these punk/ska groups can be a dime a dozen, but Goldfinger is a little more than run-of-the-mill. Guitar solos, melodic vocals, and guitar riffage o'plenty really set them apart from their contemporaries. Hello Destiny is sure to be the most energetic and politically pondering 36 minutes of your life.

Goldfinger - 2-Disc Ultimate Edition
$9.99
It's a clich���` to say this is the quintessential Bond movie, then again it's a clich���` to say "it's a clich���`" but what do people want from a review? Unbiased opinion? Well it's my favourite James Bond film but even attempting to be objective it still lays down the ground rules for a lot of the entries in the series that followed and not only that it gets them all laid out perfectly, like a painting that you just have to admire for hours on end. Ok let's steer away from the art world comparisons and onto the film itself. First it has a solid plot driven by the villain Auric Goldfinger; a ruthless, gold obsessed businessman who is willing to kill, steal and do great bodily harm to anyone from men and women to governments to increase his stock of the world's most precious metal. That's his thing and he also has nothing to do with SPECTRE, thankfully rested for one film. So all MI6 are trying to do is prove he is gold smuggler so they can nab him for tax fraud or some such. Having no real clue as to how dastardly his real ambitions are. Goldfinger is played to perfection by German actor Gert Frobe . He apparently couldn't speak a word of English and had to be over dubbed for the entire movie. Secondly Connery does his third most relaxed outing as Bond, and walks cooley through the plot. Clearly enjoying himself and oozing charisma, virility and charm and even concern when faced with an overwhelming opponent in the form of Goldfinger's massive manservant Oddjob and no that's not a euphemism. Thirdly the choice of girl's from the stoic but double entendre named Pussy Galore - "I Must be dreaming" Bond murmurs when introduced to her. Goldfinger's pilot played by ex Avengers girl Honor Blackman - is that another entendre? Who eventually and inevitably falls for Bond and is the key to foiling Goldfinger's master plan, `Operation Grandslam' to render Fort Knox's gold stock radioactive and thereby increasing the value of his personal stash. Also there are the Masterson sisters Jill and Tilly, the former Bond steals from his nemesis at the beginning of the film and gives us one of the most indelible Bond images a dead naked woman painted entirely gold, the price you pay for crossing Goldfinger. The fan mail actress Shirley Eaton must have got after doing that scene. Both her and her ineffectual revenge-seeking sister played by Tania Mallet don't bring out the best in Goldfinger. Roll on the gadgets and `Q' first shows his irritable grumpiness towards Bond while showing him his latest field gadgets that will inevitably not return unscathed, the most notable of which is the gadget laden Austin Martin, complete with machine guns, ejector seat and bullet proof shields among other things. Richard Maibaum returned to adapt the 1959 Ian Fleming novel into the screenplay, with a few additions by screenwriter Paul Dehn and kept a lot of key passages, such as the golf game between the two main adversaries, the laser beam torture - a buzzsaw in the novel and the final showdown at Fort Knox. Guy Hamilton takes over the directing on this one and keeps original director Terence Young's style but makes everything seem bigger and bolder and the pace never let's up from the pre credits sequence where Bond blows up a heroin factory in South America, through Miami, England, Switzerland and Kentucky for the Fort Knox set piece at the film's climax. Credit to designer Ken Adam for making up the interior of Fort Knox from his pure imagination. Three of the most memorable James Bond moments come out of this movie, the gold painted Shirley Eaton, Bond and Oddjob's fist fight locked in the vaults of Fort Knox with a bomb (special mention to Harold Sakata, former Japanese American Pro Wrestler as Goldfinger's mute and menacing Manservant Oddjob complete with razor edged bowler hat perhaps the only foe Connery's Bond ever looked totally incapable of beating) and of course there's Goldfinger's immortal line as prone and tied James watches as a laser beam wends toward his nether regions and asks "Do you expect me to talk?", "No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die". Tie these moments up in a package with a title song composed by John Barry sung by Shirley Bassey, who nearly passed out while recording the never ending final note and you have pure gold. Niggles? Ok, a couple - the drawling, clich���d American gangsters and Cec Linder who relaces Jack Lord as Felix Leiter and turns the character into "Unca Felix", a curse on Jack Lord for wanting too much cash to reprise it.
Still the transfer of picture was clear enough on the first DVD release and it improves upon each subsequent edition to become lusher, deeper and crisper from colours to contrasts reaching a zenith in this Ultimate edition. The dark parts look damn good too, black as black. John Barry's rich and occasional heavy handed score also really benefits from the 5.1 DTS sound mix, this is one Bond film that should've never premiered in mono sound on it's first release. Plus the usual wealth of extra's from the making of Goldfinger to an extra documentary, `The Goldfinger Phenomenon' which features how Bond's popularity on screen was matching that of the Beatles in music charts for `twas this picture that transformed the Bond series into a worldwide box office action blockbuster series and the star into a household name all the way back in 1964. How could they top Gold?