As the title says, I do not care much for 007 Goldfinger. It’s not awful, better than like Thunderball, but it’s a very strange film. It’s got this weird car crusher scene, James does like nothing in the third act, and he’s a freakin creep. I mean, more than usual. He gets so freaking lucky, again, more than usual. I do like Goldfinger as a villian, and Oddjob is pretty cool. But I just think this movie has a very weird tone and at the same time, is kind of bland.
Bonus opinion: I really like On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. The tone and atmosphere are top notch, and I really like George Lazenby as James.
Goldeneye proved this. M calling Bond a dinosaur, a relic of the cold war, was so self aware and apt to set the movie off. And I think that was the ‘last’ Bond that ‘worked’ for thebreason you described.
And that setting is also what made The Man From UNCLE work, including the unlikely alliance against the remnants of the Nazis…
Better times.
Goldeneye is definitely one of the best.
But I do like casino royale and skyfall a lot. They work, in my opinion, because they tell much more personal stories and have less classic spy-action.
I don’t think I have seen Skyfall, but I remember watching Casino Royale and thinking ‘Why did this have to be James Bond though?’ It felt like a liability more than anything.
I mean, I agree, that the story would also work within a different franchise but Craig-Bond still works well, imo. At least in Casino Royale and Skyfall.
Casino Royale was the first ever book (and thus the starting point for the reboot series).