Spies-R-Us (the covert thread)
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Saturday, January 16, 2010 23:56
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List/discuss your favourite spy stuff here.
Me first:
CHUCK- my favourite, funny, exciting, but most importantly, well written & performed characters!!!
Selected Bond- Goldfinger, Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies. Grand entertainment all.
The Constant Gardener- a supreme reality-check. Best realistic spy thing ever put to film IMO.
ALIAS season 5- the best of the series, crazy fun, but restrained & nicely plotted. Great end to a cool show.
Burn Notice- sort of "CHUCK Dark." Love the narration. & Campbell.
The Prisoner- Patrick McGoohan's spy-coda masterpiece. Existential & action-packed.
The Accidental Spy- Jackie Chan's best foray into the genre, but warning: see the Chinese version ONLY; the American cut removed too much important material in response to post 9-11 trauma.
La Femme Nikita (movie)- absolutely kicked ass & sensibilities.
Jack Ryan- the Ford versions are my favourite, although, the might not actually fit into "spy" territory...?
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The laughing Chrisisall
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Almost any book written by Frederick Forsyth (The Day of The Jackal, The Fourth Protocol, Fist of God). Not to be confused with almost any movie made from any book written by Frederick Forsyth (The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War), which generally are horrible. "Day of the Jackal" was a pretty good movie, at least the first time. :)
Forsyth has a knack for writing a story that wraps up so neatly that it COULD be nonfiction, but can never be proved. Neat trick, that. :)
The Bourne movies. They're great fun; I love 'em.
Oh. And the Splinter Cell games from Tom Clancy. Sam Fisher rocks.
Mike
Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde
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Quote:They lost me in the second film when they killed off the excellent chick from "Run Lola, Run."
Originally posted by Kwicko:
The Bourne movies. They're great fun; I love 'em.
to the producers.The laughing Chrisisall
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Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:They lost me in the second film when they killed off the excellent chick from "Run Lola, Run."
Originally posted by Kwicko:
The Bourne movies. They're great fun; I love 'em.
The laughing Chrisisall
I prefer the original novel... nothing at all like the movie
although the movie wasn't bad
Either you Are with the terrorists, or ... you Are with the terrorists
Life is like a jar of Jalapeño peppers.
What you do today, might Burn Your Ass Tomorrow"
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Almost any book written by Frederick Forsyth (The Day of The Jackal, The Fourth Protocol, Fist of God). Not to be confused with almost any movie made from any book written by Frederick Forsyth (The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War), which generally are horrible. "Day of the Jackal" was a pretty good movie, at least the first time. :)
Forsyth has a knack for writing a story that wraps up so neatly that it COULD be nonfiction, but can never be proved. Neat trick, that. :)
The Bourne movies. They're great fun; I love 'em.
Oh. And the Splinter Cell games from Tom Clancy. Sam Fisher rocks.
Mike
Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde
Jack Higgens ... The Eagle has landed / The Eagle has Flown
same sort of thing
Either you Are with the terrorists, or ... you Are with the terrorists
Life is like a jar of Jalapeño peppers.
What you do today, might Burn Your Ass Tomorrow"
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Quote:Oh, the first one was tops, it's the second one I can't get outta my head, and it sorta ruins the Bourne experience for me.
Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni:
I prefer the original novel... nothing at all like the movie
although the movie wasn't bad
I may revisit it later with a new tolerance, though.
The running Lola Chrisisall
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Spies Like Us. Sure, it's a bad movie, but it's still pretty fun. :)
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No love for Garak and Bashir?
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
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It will last exactly sixty seconds. It cannot be traced, it cannot be stopped, and it is the last free voice left in this city.
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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
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If this thread is open to books ( seems to be...), just about anything by John LeCarre. Spy novels written by a guy who was one, who was actually there and did the stuff. Notably different from ALL the TV and movie spy stuff, with an emphasis on the fear and paranoia that spies must have to survive, and notably little adventure, on all the little mundane actions a spy must take for protection.
There isn't a more intense novel written, ever, than his The Night Manager, and yet there isn't a single Harrison Ford/ Jack Bauer scene in it anywhere.
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