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    Default Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    There's a bit in it where Trigger (of only fools and horses) is looking at bees so I'm claiming it as relevant

    Brilliant film, I'm a a little too young to remember the original series with Alec Guinness but if you're stuck for something to do once you've put a bit more syrup on then get down to your local flea pit and check this out.

    They've thankfully resisted the urge to try and update or remake the story and it is stunning. The cast is superb, theres a thankful lack of "Daniel Exposition" and it makes you sit back from time to time and think "hang on didn't.... just happen?"

    Proper late 60s early 70s, cold war spy drama.

    And with bees!

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    Saw it on Thursday -- good film, great cast
    Could have had more bees though iMO

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    It's on our must see list but we'll have to see if the Screen Machine gets it. So, Benedict C, Colin F ... and beees! Unmissable.

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    Very disappointed. Cardboard characters and plot incomprehensible due to compressing complex plot into 2 hours..
    I have no wish to see again and felt totally disengaged throughout.

    If they are going to condense a John le Carre novel as complex to such a short time, some rewriting is essential to get the plot understood..

    (Yes I saw the BBC series and read the book. The BBC series was incomprehensible as well but of course it was spread over weeks and you had that time to try to understand it).

    The Cold War was a time for paranoia and fear. I am afraid the film made neither apparent.

    As for Smiley's character, a wooden puppet could have acted it the way it was cast.
    A dreadful waste of lots of fine actors. Some great scenes though.

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    Having listened to the Radio 4 series as a family not so long ago, we should have some idea of what's going on so I'm looking forward to seeing the film ... and the bees!

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    Hi madasafish

    Bit harsh I thought but maybe the hotdog softened up my inner film critic.
    The bees looked like hybrids though (they were very gentle)

    Trog you will love the film

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nellie View Post

    Brilliant film, I'm a a little too young to remember the original series with Alec Guinness
    I've got the opposite problem I've got too OLD to remember the original

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Drone Ranger View Post
    I've got the opposite problem I've got too OLD to remember the original
    LOL

    I remember when the book was published..:-(

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    Quote Originally Posted by madasafish View Post
    LOL

    I remember when the book was published..:-(
    THere was a book ??


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    Quote Originally Posted by The Drone Ranger View Post
    THere was a book ??

    John Le Carre..

    (Author of :The Spy who came in from the cold, The looking Glass War, A small town in Germany, Smiley's People etc)

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