# Your favorite movie countdowns **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 23, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-countdowns/741217 "2015-12-23T21:45:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-countdowns/741217/8 "2015-12-24T01:11:34Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The first thing I thought of was the bomb countdown in Galaxy Quest. There was a good one in Goldfinger as well. Most of them are cheesy as Hell. But so what? What can you expect from a movie made in 1963? Another topic that you might like to start are those so-called “explanations” the bad guy gives to the hero before killing them and the time it takes to deliver that explanation results in the hero finding a way to escape their fate. Goldfinger contains another excellent example. I just love that film. It was so well done for a film made in 1963. “My name is Bond … James Bond.” “I’d like a vodka martini - shaken - not stirred.” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie-countdowns/741217)._