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| Joe Vitus |
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| I really liked it. That inability to know who is lying to you when or why. Can't say the movie was great, but the idea worked for me. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 8:55 pm |
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| I've never seen it either, Joe. But I'm going to look it up and see if it's available. The idea intrigues me too. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:15 pm |
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| Hmm. That's odd. It's out on DVD but Netflix doesn't have it. Oh, well. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:04 am |
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| That is odd, but you can put in a request. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:04 am |
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marantzo wrote: Never saw The Little Drummer Girl. Almost hated the book so had no desire to see the movie.
I hate (not almost but completely) hate all of John le Carre. At least what I've attempted to read. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:30 am |
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| I've read a lot of Le Carre and there are ups and downs. Loved "A Perfect Spy." Didn't care for "The Tailor of Panama," at least the second half. Mostly I like him enough to read whatever comes out next, though there are a couple I have on the stack that I haven't gotten around to. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:37 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: marantzo wrote: Never saw The Little Drummer Girl. Almost hated the book so had no desire to see the movie.
I hate (not almost but completely) hate all of John le Carre. At least what I've attempted to read.
After The Little Drummer Girl, I didn't bother with any other le Carre book. One was more than enough. I read Vengeance shortly after TLDG and that was a good book (changed to fit Spielberg's and mostly Kutchner's (sp?) bleeding heart liberalism in the movie Munich, and insulting it). Coincidently the movie Walk On Water, like V to TLDG, was a much better work than Munich, covering a similar subject. Spielberg has a bad habit of tacking on drippy endings that stain a good movie.
The Tailor of Panama was a stinky movie. Never read the book of course. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:58 pm |
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billyweeds wrote:
I hate (not almost but completely) hate all of John le Carre. At least what I've attempted to read.
Agree. I was amazed that such a respected writer had such an unappealing style. I gave up on him a long time ago. |
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| yambu |
| Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:00 pm |
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| I'm not a spy novel reader, so maybe that's why Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy enthralled me so. BBC made a most faithful version, starring Sir Alec Guinness. Worth checking out. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:28 am |
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yambu wrote: I'm not a spy novel reader, so maybe that's why Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy enthralled me so. BBC made a most faithful version, starring Sir Alec Guinness. Worth checking out.
Guinness is one of my two or three favorite actors, and yet I found TTSS unwatchable. I blame le Carre. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:30 am |
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| I remember enjoying the film adaptation of TSWCIFTC, with Burton -- haven't looked it up, but I think it was early 60s, B/W. LeCarre...his writing reflects the fact that he didn't start out as a writer, but working in intelligence. |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:18 am |
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| Ahem... I need some input on a current film. I'm thinking of playing hooky and seeing a film this aft. Solitary Man, The Kids Are All Right, The Expendables? Suggestions...? |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:38 am |
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lshap wrote: Ahem... I need some input on a current film. I'm thinking of playing hooky and seeing a film this aft. Solitary Man, The Kids Are All Right, The Expendables? Suggestions...?
Smoke some pot ash and see Scott Pilgrim vs. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:40 am |
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lshap wrote: Ahem... I need some input on a current film. I'm thinking of playing hooky and seeing a film this aft. Solitary Man, The Kids Are All Right, The Expendables? Suggestions...?
I've seen Solitary Man and The Kids Are All Right, not The Expendables. Solitary Man is my favorite movie of the year so far, with a marvelous Michael Douglas. All Right is just all right, but with excellent acting. The Expendables sounds like entertaining cheese. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:02 am |
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was funny and inventive. I thought the whole video-gamish atmosphere really worked in this case. It probably won't get Joe over his Michael Cera aversion, but the female characters are especially well done, and this is one of the times I was glad to see Jason Schwartzman's name in the credits because I wanted to see him get the crap beat out of him. I was alarmed for a while because one of Scott's exes is named Knives, which sounds like the name of a girl you really don't want to have pissed at you.
I look forward to Ramona Flowers Conquers the World, because, you know she could. |
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