{"id":32492,"date":"2013-02-10T22:16:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T05:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/10\/film-review-the-spy-who-loved-me-1977.html"},"modified":"2013-02-10T22:16:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T05:16:28","slug":"film-review-the-spy-who-loved-me-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/10\/film-review-the-spy-who-loved-me-1977.html","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: &quot;The Spy Who Loved Me&quot; (1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, my. One of the low points of the Bond series &#8212; when it&#39;s serious it&#39;s unengaging and when it&#39;s humorous it&#39;s intolerable.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/moon.cf2.letterboxd.com\/assets\/resized\/sm\/upload\/z5\/mu\/qe\/la\/t3LzD4cntRTfGJYtD01jXxaMnd9-0-150-0-222-crop.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-spy-who-loved-me\/'>Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u2605 review of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) on Letterboxd.com<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat can you say about the late 70s, when flared pants legs, synth music, and an inability to take anything seriously (even the Cold War) prevailed. TSWLM is one of the low points in the Bond canon, h&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/6RwmcHnbTVa' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, my. One of the low points of the Bond series &#8212; when it&#39;s serious it&#39;s unengaging and when it&#39;s humorous it&#39;s intolerable. Embedded Link Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u2605 review of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) on Letterboxd.com What can you say about the late 70s, when flared pants legs, synth music, and an inability &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/10\/film-review-the-spy-who-loved-me-1977.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Film Review: &quot;The Spy Who Loved Me&quot; (1977)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49251,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/14\/movie-review-north-by-northwest-1959.html","url_meta":{"origin":32492,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;North by Northwest&quot; (1959)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 14-Jan-15 7:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"Cary Grant plays an urbane everyman, swept up by a mistaken identity into a high-stakes espionage plot. 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