Yes, exactly. He keeps Bond alive for no reason only to tell him his plans and have him save the day at the end. Also the score is jarring, the song is nothing like the fat sod himself, and Pussy Galore isn't attractive at all.
A View to a Kill on the other hand, there's a Bond film I absolutely love and yet isn't very popular. Indeed, everything I said was wrong with Goldfinger is right with it. It's my favourite.
Has anyone mentioned The Shawshank Redemption? If I have to hear one more person call it the best film ever, I'll...roll my eyes. So some man is wrongly imprisoned, gets buggered, stops getting buggered, manages to escape unfeasibly and unfeasibly manages to set up a happy life for himself from the inside for when he gets out. In contrast, very few people any more have seen The Birdman of Alcatraz, and yet I think that's exponentially better and more moving.
