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Thank you Dustin for posting this. I enjoyed it.

There aren't enough generic comments around nowadays, I find.

That cast. THAT CAST. (The music doesn't hurt in getting me interested either.) Gary Oldman supposedly doing understated brilliantly? Tom Hardy and that hair and those lips and the leather jacket? Cumberbatch who deserves adoration for his name alone, nevermind that he's totally in love with Colin Firth? THAT. CAST.

That trailer makes me long for the good old days of the Cold War. Yeah, I know the people of the former eastern bloc have a modicum of a chance at a better life now and depending on where they're living they may not even be thrown in a gulag for dissent at the whim of a despotic leader (emphasis on the "may", see: Putin, Vladimir). But gosh darn it, we Westerners liked our intrigue when it was served up Cold War style in 2-D. There was just something so beautifully sinister about that trailer.
Good times! Good times!

Dustin, watch the miniseries already. I promise you'll still want to see the movie.

I'm going to watch the BBC miniseries first. For the idontrememberhowmanny time. I know it's uncomparable. That's why I do eenjoy the trailer. It's got the style, class and actors to make it great. The story is superbe anyway.

Just in the middle of reading the book at the moment and pondering to myself how difficult it would be to successfully reduce an incredly layered, complex plot into two hours of exciting celluloid. Hopefully the scriptwriters have done the source material justice. They have got a decent director and a Who's Who of great British acting talent so fingers crossed

I always prefer Oldham when he is constrained by his costuming. I find him a bit self-indulgent as an actor, so it's best when he's reined in on some level.

Tom Hardy and Daniel Craig's management need to talk to their men about the detrimental de-sex-on-a-stickifying impact of sporting longer hair. It's the reverse Kravitz-Hutchence effect.

By the way, leaving Simon McBurney out of the list of the stellar cast in inexcusable. He makes everything better.

If/when I see this, it's for Tom Hardy. (And maybe the Cumberbatch.) Idgaf about anything else about it.

Sue me; I'm shallow.

"WHITE TRASH FIGHT IN THE FRONT YARD."

Um, I am not a stupid hick who married his cousin, I am just an average middle-class white guy who grew up in the 'burbs. WHAT THE FUCK IS A WHITE TRASH FIGHT???

Now, if you would kindly answer while I sip my pinot grigio, that would be lovely .....

Do You Love the New Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Trailer Because It's Great? Or Because You Think You Should Love It?

Sort of both, really. It looks like it'll be an entertaining movie, but if that cast wasn't involved, I probably wouldn't be. Who knows. It's just sort of an unspoken rule that whenever that many awesome actors are in something, you sort of HAVE to like it.

"White trash fight in the front yard" is sorta redundant. White trash fights are ALWAYS in the front yard. Or at Walmart. Or a wedding. Or a kid's birthday party. Or a graduation ceremony. Basically, anywhere you'd expect normal people to be on their best, civil behavior, white trash people see it as an opportunity to even a score or express their disapproval of the way someone just looked at or talked to them.

BOOM! Slash knows what I'm talking about!

Also, for a proper white trash fight you need gravel-voiced women in their early twenties who look like they're forty (because they have been smoking, drinking and avoiding sunscreen since they were old enough to walk) and a Mama that refuses to remove the Marlboro butt dangling from her crusty lips before telling the State Trooper to kiss her fat white ass for interrupting the "family meetin'." All of this sprinkled liberally with toddlers waving curdled-milk bottles and dressed in nothing but diapers so laden with excrement that the crotch hangs down to their knees, forcing them to walk like crabs as they struggle to retrieve their pacifiers from wraithlike, mangy mutts that pause intermittently to lick their scrotums or butts (whichever itches first).

Oh, yeah, very exciting trailer. Almost as good as watching a white trash fight in the front yard.

Okay, someone pull out the kiddie pool and fill it with jello, drag up your lawn chair to the edge of the astro turf and corral the stray cats, I'm about to throw down:

That trailer was deathly dull.

Had it gone on for any longer with its murky men in suits snapping off oh-so-terribly-important lines in British accents (be honest- would you think it so worthy and weighty if they were Alabama-accented? I would've probably enjoyed it far more) I would be picking my head up off the kitchen counter here and mopping up the pool of drool.

I don't need kabooms galore to get my kicks, but there is just something so tiresome about that trailer and the concept ferreting out a mole, to mix my creatures- it strikes me as the pseudo-intellectual version of Scream-type flicks..."it's one of us, but which one?!"...I find that waiting to see who gets stabbed/who is doing the stabbing game exhausting.

The music was the only part of the trailer that gave it any kind of sheen of panache. I hope they scored the hell out of every scene, with a special Nicotine Theme for the Important Pause smoking parts, just to gloss over the unbearable dullness.

Then they should've rammed this one through the system so it wouldn't be mistaken for an imitation for those not entirely interested in the book pedigree- as a movie, it now seems derivative.

I just realized that my comment about the trailer sounded sarcastic, which was the opposite of what I intended. I love spy movies; in fact, one of my many fantasy professions is spy, so it's a thrill to live vicariously through movies. I got carried away by all the talk about white trash fights. Now, THAT is performance art at its most visceral, scintillating best.

it's got gary in it! if the movie around him is good, well that's just frosting.

I am sorry to disappoint you all, but this movie will not be happening. I happen to have both Mr. Firth and Mr. Cumberbatch permanently installed in my home and I have not given them permission to leave the house to make this movie. Any images that imply otherwise are obviously CGI'd and not to be trusted.

This will no doubt be a really good movie. But I hate it when bad wigs are used. It is the only thing that I can look at. I love wigs, they are for Halloween, but bad hair in any movie is absolutely unacceptable. I assume this is based in the 60/70's when most men wore their hair longer, but if you can't find someone willing to grow their hair out, or a good hairdresser/wig-handler surely there's got to be a way to make it look more natural. I mean hell, somehow Nic Cage and Matthew McConaughey have managed to steal some hair from corpses, if that is possible then a realistic wig shouldn't be too hard.