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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-14 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:05:39 -0700
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On 4/15/24 6:42 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

> On 4/15/2024 4:04 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>>> On 4/15/2024 6:06 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>
>>> I watched:
>>>
>>>
>>> The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (HBO) 2014 spy movie based on the TV show
>>> directed by Guy Ritchie.  Set in the 1960s Henry Cavill stars as a
>>> smooth talking Gentleman/con artist who works for the CIA and is
>>> assigned to rescue a kidnapped scientist's daughter (Alicia Vikander)
>>> from East Berlin.  Armie Hammer also stars as a Russian KGB agent who is
>>> assigned to stop him.  But soon the two are forced by their governments
>>> to team up and work together to stop a new rival group from developing a
>>> new type of nuclear bomb.  Hugh Grant also pops up as a British MI6
>>> agent who runs to the two agents.  This was my first time watching it
>>> since seeing it in the theater.  I guess it was OK.
>>
>> How much of a fan of the TV show were you?
> 
> Not much of one.  I don't recall watching reruns when I was a kid. 

FTR, I don't think either this, or "Wild, Wild West" was being rerun 
when I was a kid (a few years before you!). WWW may have been, rarely. 
But I don't think "Man from UNCLE" ever was - if it was, I have no 
recollection of it at all

> Although I'm sure I must have watched one or two episodes at some point. 
>   Much like Mission Impossible, I knew the show existed but never went 
> out of my way to watch reruns of it.  Also keep in mind my ability to 
> even watch was extremely limited given the show was canceled nearly a 
> decade before I was even born... :-)

MI may have been rerun when I was a kid. But I really wasn't exposed to 
it until the 80s writers strike, when ABC just remade old episodes.

> Was the movie like the original show?  I was actually curious if 
> Cavill's counterpart in the show was also a thief blackmailed by the CIA 
> into working for them.