TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY

[williamlayton]

I am a lover of the PBS version of this good spy thriller.
I saw the Hollywood version and was almost driven to ask for my money back.
It was pporly acted, poorly (written is not even the word I want to use) written and was a piece of trash.
I have the DVD of the PBS version and have read the book.
These folks need to be kicked out of whatever guild they belong to.
Piece of trash.
Blessings

 

[W.E.G.]

I thought it was terrible too.

Plot - if you could call it that - was almost impossible to follow, and believe me, I tried.

I got two things from it.
1. Writer wanted to point out that a lot of the intelligence-types are gay - which I suppose got the movie two of the two-and-a-half stars from the movie critics.
2. Most "intelligence" is about as intelligent as the label on a bag of kitty litter.

From the "gun issues" end of it, the usual foolishness.
Head shots at considerable distance from the offhand shooting position are guaranteed.
Any person who is shot dies instantly - I mean, without so much as a gasp.

 

[hannstv]

I just saw the movie today and enjoyed it. I did like the BBC version better. There did seem to be a lot of fellows that batted from the other side of the plate.

 

[Marshwheeling]

I saw the movie the other day and thoroughly enjoyed it. I loved the book, (and the rest of the George Smiley cycle), as well as the PBS mini-series. But given the time constraints imposed by the movie format, I thought they did a good job of telling a very complex story. I guess I am clueless, as the only "other team" I was aware of was the Rooskies.

It was only the next day, when I went to see "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", that I discovered that the multiplex offered amplified headsets for us old guys with dodgy hearing. Had I known on Saturday what I learned on Sunday, I might have picked up on some of the epicene undertones. Or maybe if I had remembered some detail from the book, which I read some 35 years ago.