Help needed: Rec episodes for mfu newbie

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Hi! I've watched this community for a while but just joined now for need some help.
I mean, I have a favor to ask.
Would you kindly help me to choose 5 or 6 episodes/movies as a starter for a fandom newbie?

After the release of the movie (I mean, Guy Ritchie's one), a friend of mine asked if she want to try to start watch the old tv series, which episodes do I recommend as a starter? (Because she knows that I was a die-hard fan of the tv series.)
But it's been a while since last time I watched the series, my memory is kind of blur and I can't decide which episodes/movies are ones to hook her.

All tv episodes and movies sit on my shelf. I can let her watch any of them.

Apologize if I'm asking the same old question. In that case, would you let me know the url of the rec-list or thread or...something, anything?

I posted this to mfu_canteen, also.

Comments

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OMG, please excuse my typos! I didn't have my glasses on why I replied to you. Yikes!

I think they stuck with the 60's because the concept of a beginning secret organization like UNCLE would be considered sort of ineffective in today's age of modern tech. Communicators .. there'd be cell phones.

Keeping it in the 60's allowed for more kitsch, and fashion etc.

I wasn't a big fan of the movie.

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>Keeping it in the 60's allowed for more kitsch, and fashion etc.

If that's all the reason they set it at 60s, that's very disappointing!
Anyway, it's one of my many failings that I tend to look at everything from Sociological aspect since I was a sociology major at school :p

>I wasn't a big fan of the movie.

Okay! I'll less talk about it in here from now.
Many people in here don't care about the movie, right? Also, I know it's really off-topic in here.

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There are plenty of people around who liked the movie. I was disappointed in it and thought it could have been so much better. The fact that the movie was not a success says a lot. The original fans of the show were looking for new actors to take up the gauntlet of UNCLE and it just didn't happen. No nod to the original series, and the fact they made Solo and art thief and Illya a near sociopath with anger issues was to me, big mistakes.

I think Guy Ritchie made a major error with his target audience, as it wasn't the original fans from UNCLE. Still I would like to see a sequel where they actually have UNCLE exist, and they correct the mistakes of the first movie.

IF you saw the movie "The Kingsman: the Secret Service," That was more what the UNCLE movie should have been like...and was an homage not only to UNCLE but other spy movies as well. The director was Matthew Vaughn, who Robert Vaughn was led to believe for many years was his illegitimate son... Matthew ended up not being his though.

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Ah, possibly, one of the reason I liked it was I had a real low expectation, because I didn't like any previous films by Guy Ritchie. (When I heard the change of the director, my exact reaction was "Darn! It's over!")
And yeah, I laughed out loud about the character differences when I watched it at cinema. I never thought "Volatile personality disorder" can describe Illya Kuryakin before even in any altanative univers! And "Art thief" setting remind me Albert of Hustle (though he wasn't a young Albert at all).
Strangely, their far from the original characters relieved me. What I was afraid most was to see shrunk versions of the original. You know, the movie couldn't break my first love, it just remind me how much I loved the original.

I didn't like The Kingsman, because my expectation was too high...well, actually not. You know, when I watched the trailer, my brain screamed "OMG! It's Del Floria's Tailor Shop! This is U.N.C.L.E. movie!" and my brain just expected MFU instead of Kingsman. And I'm disappointed. It's mot the movies's fail, my fail. Haha!

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I guess I liked Kingsman because I watched the movie with no expectations and simply took delight in the sublet references and hints at UNCLE and other spy shows.

I knew the new movie was going to be AU, but I supposed I still went in with hopeful expectations that it would be like our beloved UNCLE. Having watched the DVD now several times, I enjoyed the movie more after the fact.
(though I was still annoyed at the characterizations of Napoleon and Illya. I felt they were so off the mark)

Really if you changed their names to Bill and Bob...the movie would have still been the same. They just weren't Solo and Kuryakin. Guy Ritchie should have thrown a bone to the original fans, since the UNCLE fandom is still so alive and active even after 50 years.

I remember seeing MFU when I was just a kid and fell in love with Illya...my first crush (like so many other girls in the 1960s). sigh.

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>(though I was still annoyed at the characterizations of Napoleon and Illya. I felt they were so off the mark)

I'm feeling like, since I'm back to the original fandom, and gonna rediscover them, I might be change my mind, forget the first impression and dislike the movie later! you'll see!

>Really if you changed their names to Bill and Bob...

I think I can understand what you're saying.
There was always this rumor of the revival movie but it never happened before, right? And I imagined if it really gonna happen, it could be with another names...maybe Illya isn't even from Russia. Well, from Islam (or anywhere else), maybe?
Then they announced the cast and 60s setting. I was surprised!

>I remember seeing MFU when I was just a kid and fell in love with Illya...my first crush (like so many other girls in the 1960s). sigh.

Yes, same here. Illya was my first crash. (Though I wanted to be him, instead of his girlfriend...)