The Day of the Jackal | Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch

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I "think" he might've let them go after crossing into Montenegro, but once grandma got to literally back stabbing....all bets were off.
I love the writing when they had the dialogue during the cigarette smoking scene. He said if your parents were so great what happened to you? And the look on his face afterwards was priceless.
 

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I guess I’m the only one that appreciated Bianca, and her addiction to the hunt and the fight….

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Especially episode 8 or 9 when they finally had the shape of her ass and thighs on full display, or episode 10 when she’s in her house in those thin ass pants.

Overall I loved the story the show told. The only annoying parts were the Jackals in-laws, and Lashana’s bytch ass husband.
 

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I've been thinking about watching this but

1. I have a copy of the original book and I've been procrastinating to read it for years now

2. Lashana Lynch's face is unsettling to me and she plays very unlikeable characters

But it does look like it can satisfy my spy thriller cravings:wow:


Whatever order in which you absorb both of these...prepare yourself for the falloff of your opinion of this show once you've read the book. The difference in levels of basic professionalism between the two is night and day.
 

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Loved it but i im a sucker for series/movies like this . There is a lot of room for improvement. I hope they can make it happen in seaon 2.
I love that the "serious spy movies" are coming back with this, The Agency. I rly hope those goofy "buddy cop" spy movies like the man from uncle, the gray man, red notice :camby::camby:
 

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Loved it but i im a sucker for series/movies like this . There is a lot of room for improvement. I hope they can make it happen in seaon 2.
I love that the "serious spy movies" are coming back with this, The Agency. I rly hope those goofy "buddy cop" spy movies like the man from uncle, the gray man, red notice :camby::camby:

Those are the absolute worst man.
 

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i rly think that spy movies and westerns are the only genres that Hollywood didnt ruin... yet. They came close with spy movies tho.

It's one thing to completely spoof it you know like the Austin Powers series or Get Smart. Those are really just comedies.

But I 💯 agree , that a tongue and cheek spy movie that has a serious tone to it but likes to wink at itself at the same time is absolutely unbearable. There's just way too many serious overturns to have it be "cute".
 

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It's one thing to completely spoof it you know like the Austin Powers series or Get Smart. Those are really just comedies.

But I 💯 agree , that a tongue and cheek spy movie that has a serious tone to it but likes to wink at itself at the same time is absolutely unbearable. There's just way too many serious overturns to have it be "cute".
Austin Powers is a comedy.
The old Bond movies are like that tho, goofy AF. The Craig ones are more serious but still, they are more action movies than spy movies.
Operation fortune was another Guy Ritchie stinker. He didn learn his lesson with The man from UNCLE
Not everything has to be a comedy
 

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Austin Powers is a comedy.
The old Bond movies are like that tho, goofy AF. The Craig ones are more serious but still, they are more action movies than spy movies.
Operation fortune was another Guy Ritchie stinker. He didn learn his lesson with The man from UNCLE
Not everything has to be a comedy

That's what made everything after Goldeneye by Pierce Brosnan an absolute chore to watch they were terrible
 

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Im guessing all these "action packed, quirky" spy movies came after Kingsman. Kingsman worked because it went all out and didnt take itself serious at all. It was just pure fukkery from start to finish
 
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