The Basic Plot:Goldfinger likes gold, and he has this plan to set off an atomic bomb in Fort Knox to render the US gold reserve radioactive, and his supply will be worth bunches of money. But, since this is a James Bond movie, it ain't gonna work.
My Rambling Thoughts: I've said this before, I'll say it again - what sort of crack were Mr. and Mrs. Galore on, to name their child Pussy? Can you imagine the HELL she went through in Junior High? (Or if it was a stage name, what was she thinking?)
Thinking more about the parents of characters, imagine how pissed off the Masterson family is at James. "Gee," they'd say. "It's bad enough that you got our first daughter suffocated with gold paint. But then you had to go and get our other daughter decapitated by that guy with the hat. Thanks, Bond. Say, we got some more kids...you wanna go get them killed too?"
Wouldn't it be ironic if Auric Goldfinger had a penchant for silver?
I find it very hard to believe that sixty thousand troops could be instructed to fall on cue and not move an inch until a given moment. But then again, they're military. Maybe they get up at 0400 hours to practice things like that.
Here is my impression of the first part of the theme song: BWAH-BWAH! (bwa-bwah-bwah) BWAH-BWAH! (bwa-bwah-bwah) GOLD-FINGAH! (do-do-do-do-do). I have the "30th Anniversary James Bond" CD extravaganza, and one of the bonus tracks is Anthony Newley singing this theme song. Quite a riot. (as opposed to Quiet Riot, which was an early 80's heavy metal glam band.)
After the movie, Cathy and I discussed what we wanted for Christmas: gold-covered tables with the Crotch-O-Matic-Laser attachment. Jeff and Chris didn't seem to go for that. I also asked Chris if he would buy me an Aston-Martin like Bond's. He said that after he bought one for himself, and bought himself a '71 Mustang Mach 1 Starsky & Hutch car, I could have his '93 Mercury Tracer. What a guy.
Slug Bug Factor: Two. I got Chris on one, he got one on me.