The Single Biggest Mistake Every James Bond Film Has Made

Goldfinger is the quintessential Bond film and it establishes the Bond formula as we know it today: gadgets, Bond Girls, Bond Villains, amazing cars, glamorous escapism and sharp one-liners.

Goldfinger is a mostly brilliant action film and it largely holds up despite its age. That being said, although it gets much of the Bond formula exactly right, there is one major element where it completely drops the ball. That element is the Bond Girls, who are all dull and thinly written.

Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) is a fairly uninteresting character aside from her infamously provocative name and the others are all very forgettable, with the only truly memorable thing about any of them being how they die. As well as this, the scenes involving these characters are ageing about as badly as possible thanks to the rampant sexism running through the whole thing.