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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Harry" data-source="post: 5999536" data-attributes="member: 5468">Media v. MediaWell, I stand by my sig file, but for me the movie is best suited for people who have already read the book, as the substantial amount of information and build up has to be sacrificed for time.&nbsp; This is not to say that I thought that the movie was bad, or that the actors were bad; there is a scene in the movie narrated as a flashback by Smiley (Oldman) that was phneomenally good.&nbsp; I much prefered the miniseries because with several hours there is time for suspense to build, and I felt that the enivornment in the movie was too clean, too antiseptic, when the grimy, gritty, dirty feel of the 70's in the miniseries reflected the moral grimy, gritty, dirty imperfection of any side perfectly.When I read the book now, Smiley is Alec Guinness, although Peter Guillem looks like Benedict Cumberbatch.I wonder what the eprson recommending the movie was seeing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr. Harry, post: 5999536, member: 5468"] [b]Media v. Media[/b] Well, I stand by my sig file, but for me the movie is best suited for people who have already read the book, as the substantial amount of information and build up has to be sacrificed for time. This is not to say that I thought that the movie was bad, or that the actors were bad; there is a scene in the movie narrated as a flashback by Smiley (Oldman) that was phneomenally good. I much prefered the miniseries because with several hours there is time for suspense to build, and I felt that the enivornment in the movie was too clean, too antiseptic, when the grimy, gritty, dirty feel of the 70's in the miniseries reflected the moral grimy, gritty, dirty imperfection of any side perfectly. When I read the book now, Smiley is Alec Guinness, although Peter Guillem looks like Benedict Cumberbatch. I wonder what the eprson recommending the movie was seeing. [/QUOTE]

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