From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Mack A. Damia  wrote:   
   >On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 17:04:03 -0600, George  wrote:   
   >>"Adam H. Kerman"  wrote:   
   >>>super70s  wrote:   
   >>>>Mack A. Damia  wrote:   
      
   >>>>>"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (2011)   
      
   >>>>>Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War spy thriller film   
   >>>>>directed by Tomas Alfredson. [...]   
      
   >>>>>Oldman is outstanding as George Smiley.  You have to be on your toes   
   >>>>>for this one.   
      
   >>Yes, Oldman is good in this role, but he's not quite the   
   >>unassuming time server described in the novel.  And he's not Alec   
   >>Guiness.   
      
   >>>>A little too much boring British political discourse for me, many think   
   >>>>it's inferior to the TV version. But yeah Oldman never disappoints.   
      
   >>It's a good effort - if you know the either novel or the 1979 BBC   
   >>miniseries (the gold standard).   
      
   >>>Excellent cast but the directing is plodding. Oldman is terrific.   
      
   >>>Aargh. The tv miniseries never turns up on tv!   
      
   >>But it is still available on Amazon.   
      
   >Got the Alec Guinness six-hour BBC version on Tuesday.  Although   
   >Guinness is marvelous, I thought the first disk was a bit tedious   
   >until the last half of the second installment.  I haven't gone   
   >further, yet.   
      
   >Watched "The Good Shepherd" starring Matt Damon, too. Rather long and   
   >has been accused of being tedious. It held my interest.  I enjoy the   
   >spy genre.   
      
   I've seen that on tv. It takes a while to develop the plot and   
   characters. I liked the deliberate pacing.   
      
   I suppose anything can be ordered these days. Game, Set, and Match was   
   quite excellent, a 13 episode series produced for ITV from three decades   
   back. Ian Holm as Bernard Samson was brilliant, best role of his career   
   and one of the few times he got to star in something. Alas, ITV didn't   
   get the ratings they were looking for and they never adapted the rest of   
   the novels in the Berlin series.   
      
   Len Deighton was at the top of his game, and stopped writing novels   
   after completing the Berlin series. The prequel novel Winter is part of   
   the series.   
      
   There's some repetition in the novels and I don't think there was quite   
   enough for nine novels, but I enjoyed them at the time. Winter was   
   particularly good.   
      
   >Both films (Damon and Oldman) were nothing like James Bond.  Rather   
   >refreshing.   
      
   There's no need to compare. Bond movies are a separate genre.   
      
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