Just finished the 1979 British tv mini-series version and found it boring and very badly filmed (more then half the show is done in the dark and you can't see shit, plus, holy shit the UK is a rundown grubby shithole) and I'm about to watch the 2011 movie, which I hope will be a lot better.
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Sorry, but I'm 5mins into the movie and it's already light years better then the surprisingly dated tv show
I think this just confirms the previous anon's point
Son, I grew up in the 70s and the fact is that tv show is badly dated.
Also, what's up with opening a pack of cigarets like this, is it a British thing?
Those cigarettes are like this TV show, apparently: they have a king-size filter
Oh hey, it's Lady Edith from Downton Abbey.
>he watches Downton Abbey
Yeah, that figures. Totally realistic, btw. Totally.
Yeah, it's not for you, mate. Le Carré loved it and it captures the era perfectly, so if you didn't enjoy it... Maybe the last Bond with the sheboon 007 would be more your speed.
>Le Carré loved it
Then he clearly didn't have an eye for film because the cinematography is straight up terrible.
It's a British TV show from the late 70s - what the frick did you expect: Lawrence of Arabia?
>what the frick did you expect
It's ridiculously amateurish, the acting in the tv series is fine (albeit boring) but the sets, locations and cinematography are just badly done.
You're an idiot, mate. Or you're just lying about having watched the series, and this thread is just an excuse to shit on bongs.
You found it boring and yet you stuck with it for 5+ hours? That doesn't scan.
>you can't see shit
Then either you were watching in 240p or you need to get your eyes checked.
>holy shit the UK is a rundown grubby shithole
Uh, yeah. It's set and was made in the UK in the 70s. The Three-Day Week? Endless strikes? Rubbish going uncollected for weeks? The most powerful person in the country (trade unionist Jack Jones) being a literal Soviet agent? NO FRICKING SHIT it's run-down and grubby.
>(albeit boring)
Yeah, this just isn't for you. It's as if you're watching a horse race and complaining the horses aren't going round the track at 200mph. Why the frick would you want to watch a faithful adaptation of a grimy, slow-paced, realistic spy novel? Just watch fricking Kingsman or some other flashy slop like that. And Alec Guinness and Ian Richardson are merely "fine"? You're a troll, and I've wasted too much time on you.
>Uh, yeah. It's set and was made in the UK in the 70s.
This was supposed to be the highest echelons of British intelligence but every set was a dumpy slum apartment, even the conference room where the highest echelons of British intelligence meet everyday looked like a backroom office at some mom & pop dry cleaners.
I just looked up the cinematographer for the tv series and holy shit, they actually gave him an _award_ for his slap-dash work!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Pierce-Roberts
rather tipped your hand there i'm afraid old sport
>This was supposed to be the highest echelons of British intelligence but every set was a dumpy slum apartment
Again, uh, yeah. And not to go all "my uncle works at Nintendo" on you, but a relative of a friend of mine worked in that field, so to speak, and from I gather, the settings in Tinker, Tinker are a lot closer to what it was actually like than whatever you're imagining. Some shiny Apple Store interior? God knows.
You're a guy who hates the idea of a grimy, realistic, slow-paced spy series who (allegedly) spent 5+ hours watching a grimy, realistic, slow-paced spy series. I dunno what to tell you.
>every set was a dumpy slum apartment, even the conference room where the highest echelons of British intelligence meet everyday looked like a backroom office at some mom & pop dry cleaners
This was a realistic portrayal of the UK at the time. The movie looks too trendy and clean with all the actors wearing expensive fashionable well tailored suits, which I doubt real govt workers wear.
>all the actors wearing expensive fashionable well tailored suits,
that was literally 1 actor, who was a actual poof in the movie.
i mean it's kind of the point? the entire thing is to show what "real" intelligence work is like, boring, grey, ugly, and rarely getting a payoff.
it is a brilliant adaptation, one of the best adaptations of a book i have ever seen.
the movie is ok tho
>5mins into the movie
that's where all the cool stuff happens
UK in the late 70s and early 80s was like that, check out The Final Option. Centuries of coal burning had covered great European buildings with layers of soot.
There's really no point to it.
I couldn't make it through the tv show but I enjoyed the movie. I'm pretty bad with slow paced stuff, the movie was fairly slow but not so much I couldn't watch it, the show is painfully slow.
I did a book report for this in high school, but I was too lazy to even watch the movie, let alone read the book.
What the frick was in that report?
I let the teacher molest me for a B-
Watching the movie was so interesting to me for the first time because despite not understanding what was happening for most of it, I still enjoyed it quite a lot. I especially LOVE the final sequence set to La Mer.
OP here and I just finished the 2011 movie and it's pretty good and WAY better then the 1979 tv mini-series.
The movie is great, the tv series is also fantastic but a different beast altogether.
The 2011 movie has nice production design and is well filmed but it is a shit boring movie
Never watched the series but the 2011 movie did nothing for me. I like Le Carre's other adaptations from the 1960s-2010s