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GOLDFINGER (1964) watch along

🕑 Added 2025-06-04 12:35:01 +0000 UTC

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MikeLL

When I was a kid, the youngest of five children, my father took my three older brothers to see Goldfinger in the theater. Why wasn't I allowed to go? Because my father thought the whole affair was too expensive. For while normal ticket prices at the time were around $1, the movie theater jacked up the price of the Goldfinger tickets to an astronomical $3! (Even though it was a large city, there weren't as many theaters as today, only one screen to a theater and only one theater in town had Bond.) So sadly, my sister and I stayed home. (I must have been in just first or second grade!) The James Bond movies were the most popular of the time!

Lana Gorgeous

I am so happy that you enjoyed the James Bond movie Goldfinger. Believe it or not I watched this in the movies as a kid. I must have been 9 or 10. Although it was rated PG they weren’t seriously caring about anyone’s age. As a child when I saw Goldfinger, OMG it just blew my mind. I had never viewed any movie so incredible and such a spectacle, adventurous and intriguing. But then I saw Thunderball the next year and it was incredible I thought at the time as a 4th or 5th grader. I think it held up pretty well over the years. Adjusting for inflation it was the 2nd most profitable James Bond movie of all time only behind Skyfall. At the time this movie Hollywood tried to capitalize on it and created TV series such as The Men from Uncle , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM5gbwUrIgw and The Avengers , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjQRwMtae5g and Comedies like Get Smart, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ6gdRfBW6c, and even a hit song called Secret Agent Man that peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 100 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iaR3WO71j4, and the toy of the day all boys wanted and even girls like me next to Barbie were secret agent attaché cases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t6Bd0MwEh8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eRpfa04I9c All this due to the popularity of James Bond. 😊

Reggie

Great reaction to my favorite Bond film! This is the (pardon me) "gold standard" of all Bond movies :) I think it has the best mix of sly humor and drama of the series. Watching it also reminds me of how my Dad was stationed at Ft. Knox in the early 1950s when he was in the Army. He drove a tank and said that he and the other drivers would actually get bored and sometimes see who could knock over the biggest tree with their tank!