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British spy films

  • 02-02-2014 10:13pm
    #1
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭


    I have been trying to take in "Thinker Tailor Soldier Spy" the latest version. Why do they fook up so much in trying to tell the story. Or is there a story there at all.


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  • #2
    Arthur Beesley
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    Try the BBC mini Series from the 80's.


  • #3
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Busted Flat. wrote: »
    I have been trying to take in "Thinker Tailor Soldier Spy" the latest version. Why do they fook up so much in trying to tell the story. Or is there a story there at all.
    Dad! I didn't know you were on Boards!


  • #4
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Dad! I didn't know you were on Boards!

    Jaysus is that ewe.

    (just thought about it while making a hot Jemmy)


  • #5
    Mariasofia
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    Youre not supposed to give it much thought you see its "tinker" not "thinker".....; :-D


  • #6
    Links234
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    Busted Flat. wrote: »
    Or is there a story there at all.

    Of course there is. I didn't think it was so hard to follow? :confused:


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  • #7
    Red Kev
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    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    Try the BBC mini Series from the 80's.

    The only way to watch it, saw the film but it's too much to fit into a film. Alec Guinness is excellent in it. If you don't want to buy it then it might be in your local library.


  • #8
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    Mariasofia wrote: »
    Youre not supposed to give it much thought you see its "tinker" not "thinker".....; :-D

    Should have started with K.


  • #9
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    Red Kev wrote: »
    The only way to watch it, saw the film but it's too much to fit into a film. Alec Guinness is excellent in it. If you don't want to buy it then it might be in your local library.

    Alec Guinness is not in this version, but they still make a baiis of it.


  • #10
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    What a top notch filmic experience.


  • #11
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Busted Flat. wrote: »
    Alec Guinness is not in this version, but they still make a baiis of it.

    He was responding to a post that refers to the BBC mini series from the 80's, which Alec Guinness was in...


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  • #12
    Busted Flat.
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    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    He was responding to a post that refers to the BBC mini series from the 80's, which Alec Guinness was in...

    My sincere apologies, for the misunderstanding.


  • #13
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Busted Flat. wrote: »
    My sincere apologies, for the misunderstanding.

    Read the books instead.


  • #14
    Busted Flat.
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    Arthur Beesley wrote: »
    Read the books instead.

    I like films, if I wanted to read a book I would do so. I am talking about the inability of the Brits to make a film about the traitors in their mist some years ago,by making there films so complicated.


  • #15
    BlurstMonkey
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    Excellent film, brilliant cast. Made perfectly fine sense too. You have to pay attention, that's all.


  • #16
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    BlurstMonkey wrote: »
    Excellent film, brilliant cast. Made perfectly fine sense too. You have to pay attention, that's all.

    The sort of film you put head phones on, and lock the wife out of the room.


  • #17
    Yamanoto
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    It's all there on Youtube.

    I came at the 1979 BBC adaptation having seen the Gary Oldman film and really liked the feel of it. With Alec Guinness, Ian Richardson, Patrick Stewart & Ian Bannen, it's little wonder it's such an enjoyable watch.

    No surprise that Guinness in particular is superb as Smiley.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZgTRl3lj78


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