Discussion: The Adaptations • The Agathytes • BookLikes

#1 by: Abandoned by user date: 6 years ago discussions stats

If you want to discuss one of the film/movie/television adaptations, this is the place. Complaints about Kenneth Branagh's mustache are properly levied below.

#2 by: BrokenTune date: 6 years ago discussions stats

I heartily approve of this discussion thread. :D #Suchetrulez

#3 by: Abandoned by Booklikes date: 6 years ago discussions stats

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I am still mad about the ABC Murders that I just watched via Amazon Prime. It was awful.

#4 by: Locus Amoenus: All By My Shelf date: 6 years ago discussions stats

Oh geez, don't even get me started on Branagh. I watched Orient Express on and off during (of all things) a train journey last summer, and I had to stop because it was making me so ragey. He turned Poirot into an obsessive buffoon.

#5 by: Obi date: 6 years ago discussions stats

Why did he (Branagh)needed to run about with a gun? And why did it not start in Istanbul?

#6 by: BrokenTune date: 6 years ago discussions stats

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It should have started in Aleppo. Now, I get that the filming could not be done in Aleppo - obviously - but that is what studios are for...or other locations! Still, the story should have started in Aleppo!

#7 by: BrokenTune date: 6 years ago discussions stats

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It was truly awful, wasn't it? :(

#8 by: BrokenTune date: 6 years ago discussions stats

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All, I'm saying - Poirot in a gun fight! It's just wrong. There were many things wrong with that film, but Poirot in a gun fight just topped everything else.

#9 by: Lillelara date: 6 years ago discussions stats

I love how everyone is trashing the Branagh movie :). Not a fan either. The depiction of Poirot in that movie was atrocious.

#10 by: Abandoned by user date: 6 years ago discussions stats

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I cringed with the gun fight part. Like, physically shrunk down in my chair and made this face:

So, so bad.

#11 by: Obi date: 6 years ago discussions stats

Mind you,Branagh his moustache looked more authentic than Malkovich his goatee ...

#12 by: Abandoned by user date: 6 years ago discussions stats

Also, can I just add how terrible the whole "unrequited love" subplot was? Ergh.

#13 by: Abandoned by Booklikes date: 6 years ago discussions stats

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That sucked!

#14 by: Abandoned by Booklikes date: 6 years ago discussions stats

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I had issues with Murder on The Orient Express too, but like you said, at least he had the moustache.