10 Complex Movie Schemes That Actually Make No Sense

10. Goldfinger Doesn't Understand The Economy

The first great James Bond film has one of the best, most sensational villain's plots this side of Moonraker: Auric Goldfinger aims to break into Fort Knox - with the aid of his diminutive, mute hat-throwing butler and an all-female flying circus - so that he can set off a nuclear pulse which will irradiate all of the US government's gold, thus causing the price of the gold standard and thus, the world economy, to collapse. That is, unless all the major world powers get in bed with Goldfinger, who will control the majority of the planet's gold and, thus, all said powers will be in thrall to his evil wishes. Which...well, it's not clear where they extend past gold. He loves only gold, after all. So not only is the ultimate endgame of Operation Grand Slam a little hazy, but the whole thing seems built on some fairly unsteady foundations. For one thing, the US economy wasn't based on the gold standard so much in 1964 (when the film was made), and it was eliminated entirely by 1969. His plan might've affected the economy a little, but not to the point that he would have some considerable pull over what the world's governments do. If he wanted to do that, he probably should've been mucking around with America's oil supplies - except that's what Quantum Of Solace was about and, honestly, that didn't make a whole lot of sense either.