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Never watched The Prisoner. I can never forgive that white blob for what it did to Moleman.
It's been a while since I saw them, but I enjoyed watching Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People with Alec Guinness.
Love these series, I managed to find grainy copies a few years back and get them out every now and then.
RED with Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Brian Cox, Morgan Freeman and Richard Dreyfuss was equally entertaining.
RED (retired extremely dangerous) is terrific fun. I've never heard of The Worricker Trilogy but will see if I can find a copy as it's pretty hard to go wrong with Bill Nighy.
If you haven't seen it yet Nobody, is a fun but darker play on the retired spy angle. Well worth a look.
Turns out that Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People are both on Amazon Prime Video (the streaming service). For those that are interested.
Turns out that Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People are both on Amazon Prime Video (the streaming service). For those that are interested.
I tried watching the Gary oldman version of "Tinker." I really did. But holy frijoles, that movie is *dull.* Who would have ever imagined that "Gary Oldman" and "dull" would be used together, but here we are.
Le Carré created Smiley as an intentional foil to James Bond, a character who he believed depicted an inaccurate and damaging version of espionage life...
...The character is held in high esteem in Britain, where he has become a pop-culture icon on par with Bond. The Guardian has called him "the sort of spy [Britain] believes it ought to have: a bit shabby, academic, basically loyal, and skeptical of the enthusiasms of his political masters."
The TV series was closer to I Claudius than to 007.
Le Carré cited the series as his favourite film adaptation of his work, attributing this to his experience collaborating with Guinness.
In a retrospective review in The New York Times, Mike Hale lauded Guinness's performance, ("It’s conventional wisdom that Guinness’s performance is a landmark in TV history, and you won’t get an argument here, though if you’re watching it for the first time, you may wonder at the start what all the fuss is about.") and cited the production's pacing versus current techniques; "Audiences used to the pace of the modern TV crime or espionage drama will need to reorientate themselves." Retrospective reviewers favourably compared the series with the 2011 film version, also citing le Carre's praise of the original and referring to Guinness's performance.
Ghostbusters 2016 provides the blueprint for how to respond to istophobic haters...Regarding the above, I'd like to say: bleh... Double bleh...
But... you just used it. I see it right there.istophobic. Another addition to my words to never use list.
To be just this 2CV was rigged with a 4-cylinder engine of GS ... 60 hp are more classy than 29 ...Vous vous souvenez du Bond de Roger Moore descendant une côte dans une Citroën 2CV ? Rien que pour vos yeux?
It would be fair to say that all those horrible "Spanish" peasants who dedicated their miserable existence to picking olives were actually Greek actors. The bus of the fifties had to be taken out of some museum.To be just this 2CV was rigged with a 4-cylinder engine of GS ... 60 hp are more classy than 29 ...Vous vous souvenez du Bond de Roger Moore descendant une côte dans une Citroën 2CV ? Rien que pour vos yeux?![]()
It's obvious that James Bond is a Time Lord. Hence the constant changes of appearance which his employers, HMSS (*cough* UNIT) are too blase to notice. Moreover, Timothy Dalton has played both Bond and Rasilon. I think the next Bond should regenerate as a Dalek. Now try to imagine "Bond, JAAAAMES BOND" in that voice.The idea of a gender changed Bond which I satyrised above might be a change too far in 2021. But who is to say where things might be in 2031.
In left column I read: "His 2 man, eating hot dogs"...And the American Bond...
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The Daleks always lose, though. On the other hand, a 007/Doctor Who mashup could be oodles of fun...It's obvious that James Bond is a Time Lord. Hence the constant changes of appearance which his employers, HMSS (*cough* UNIT) are too blase to notice. Moreover, Timothy Dalton has played both Bond and Rasilon. I think the next Bond should regenerate as a Dalek. Now try to imagine "Bond, JAAAAMES BOND" in that voice.The idea of a gender changed Bond which I satyrised above might be a change too far in 2021. But who is to say where things might be in 2031.
We need this!
Aah, yes. The novel's Bond Girl was also quite a lot more powerful than the BondTangential, IIRC, Stross ("The Laundry") did a wry deconstruction of Bond & Co etc etc...
Afterword to 'The Jennifer Morgue', the semi-retired Ernst Blofeld insists that SPECTRE is actually an acronym for, 'Société professionelle et éthique du capital technologique réinvesti par les experts', a non-profit charity based in Paris...
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(Apologies if misplaced accents...)
OMG, I wrote in Spanish.El "padre" de la franquicia cinematográfica de J.Bond fue Cubby Broccoli, un ex "asistente" de H.Hughes. La inspiración para la actitud de "rompecorazones" (o hijo de puta) fue Hughes y su larga lista de actrices perseguidas.
En Los diamantes son para siempre, el personaje de W. White era un claro homenaje al exjefe de Broccoli: Rico, prisionero, viviendo en Las Vegas En lo alto de un Hotel. As real Hughes