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5 Second Movie Review: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

January 6, 2012 in 5 Second Movie Review

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Oh, British Intelligence, can't you even let the KGB win just one? Nice suits, by the way.

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  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/militantrubberducky/ MilitantRubberDucky

    Loved the cigarette smoke clouding every possible room filmed. Very authentic 70′s feel to it (was born in 1987 so has no idea what the 70′s are supposed to look like).

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/weegees_bored/ Weegee\’s Bored

    I’m afraid to see this, being one of those Anglophilic Yanks who has worshipped at the shrine of the Alec Guinness miniseries for 35 or 36 years. But being also a Red Diaper Baby and thus acquainted with the Kim Philby mess I certainly will.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/poisonville/ poisonville

    Side note: “Our Man in Havana” (the movie) should by all rights be dynamite, but it’s waterlogged, every damn scene. Stick to the book.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/poisonville/ poisonville

    Just in case you’re looking for an Alec Guinness spy movie, that’s not the one you’re looking for.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/poisonville/ poisonville

    That said, “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” is one of my very favorite movies. The definitive LeCarre movie. Says me.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    @ poisonville: I found the book Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy a little long. There were a lot of scenes describing silence. I liked this movie, but felt like it developed slowly. Have you read The Spy Who Came in From the Cold?

    Also, I will add Our Man in Havana to my list. I love the genre. I used to read my dad’s Len Deighton novels as a teenager.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/poisonville/ poisonville

    @ Chillbear Latrigue: Yes, the book (Spy Who Came into the etc…) is good, too. Haven’t read Tinker, Tailor.

    And yes I grew up on Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Len Deighton, John Le Carre: my dad’s bookshelf. Ken Follet’s Eye of the Needle, both book and Donald Sutherland movie versions, was a good one.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/uncivily-obedient-2-2/ uncivilly obedient

    I want to see this tonight. Either this or War Horse. Also I liked Benedict Cumberbatch in his version of Sherlock Holmes last year.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/berightback/ berightback

    I ended up really liking this movie. It was pure ambience and camera movement (and, yes, silence). Also: super-duper gay! How gay was this movie? So gay.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    @ berightback: It’s about spies. How can that be gay? I think that there may have been maybe three women in the entire movie.