Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) - Upcoming spy thriller from the director of "Let the right one in"
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So did none of you end up watching this? >:(
also there's been some talk of Oldman getting an Academy Award for this. That'd be so fucking awesome. And not just because that'd mean The Dark Knight Rises would then be staring yet another Academy Award winner.
The movie sounds interesting, but i think it has a dumb title..
[QUOTE]Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Egg;32377261]The movie sounds interesting, but i think it has a dumb title..[/QUOTE]
I like it, it sounds like a nursery rhyme.
[QUOTE=Egg;32377261]The movie sounds interesting, but i think it has a dumb title..[/QUOTE]
Obviously its going to have some significance.
The film is great. Go See it now!
[QUOTE=Egg;32377261]The movie sounds interesting, but i think it has a dumb title..[/QUOTE]
In my country, translators just left "Spy". And that sounds really dumb.
^Of course in Poland.
[QUOTE=Egg;32377261]The movie sounds interesting, but i think it has a dumb title..[/QUOTE]
It's the title of the book, and a play on the old nursery rhyme
[quote]Tinker, Tailor,
Soldier, Sailor,
Rich Man, Poor Man,
Beggar Man, Thief.[/quote]
It's also a plot device in the film/book.
I'll be seeing this next weekend probably
I really want to see this movie, but I don't think its coming to any theaters here.
I'm dumb
[QUOTE=UnidentifiedFlyingTard;32447703]No theaters are playing it around here, not even the local independent theater.
dammit.[/QUOTE][QUOTE=postal;32253124]
USA Release date: December 9th[/QUOTE]
Saw this a week ago, I really liked it. Probably one of, if not the best film of they year so far. I should read more of John Le Carre's books, I read The Spy Who Came in From the Cold but nothing else.
Gary Oldman is one of my favorite actors of all time, and I've been looking forward to seeing this movie for quite a while now. I find it awesome as well to see two key people, (oldman and Hardy) bound for the next potential "blockbuster/movie of the year" (in TDKR) staring together here as well.
Oldman and Hardy will also be seen together in the upcoming film, John Hillcoat's The Wettest County in the World, which should also be pretty great. Awesome stuff, indeed.
I watched this on Tuesday.
I liked it. Gary Oldman doesn't really...do much. He seemed to me almost like a narrator or a chorus in a Shakespeare play - only there to advance the plot. And the final 5 minutes are a jaw dropping, misguided mistake. I won't give it away but it's a horrible, horrible misuse of incidental music. And you'll also need a serious thinking hat on. While the plot is technically standard spy thriller fare, the style is disjointed and almost abstract. It's not a slick 60s spy thriller like the Ipcress File or the early Bonds. It is brought forward to the slightly less lavish 1970s, with close, grainy photography and sets mostly inside ugly concrete monstrosities. This makes the way in which it keeps the audience involved with its admittedly convoluted narrative even more bewilderingly and defiantly effective - there's no 'beauty' as in The Godfather sense.
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