Murder on the orient express

what's the verdict?
just came back from the local kinoplex and saw it. daisy ridley shows her teeth a lot and is cute. also, shitload of decent actors there.

Im seeing it Sunday probably. looking forward to it

Forced, unnecessary race mixing agenda near the beginning. Other than that, pretty standard adaptation.

seeing it tomorrow. not expecting anything great but hopefully something solid enough

I liked enjoyed it very much. Don't know how it matches with the book yet, plan to read it this weekend

So this features Poirot, right?

Yes

The two of them are secretly fucking. I honestly wouldn't really care if they left it at that, but the film features this weird, out of place scene where Willem Dafoe says how races need to stay separate to preserve their purity and essence and compares it to daisy mixing her red and white wine. She proceeds to pour one glass into the other, ironically only turning the red wine a slightly lighter shade of red and says "i prefer a nice rosé anyway"

It's never really brought up much again and just felt like propaganda.

he saves the movie, literally. And its a 6 being generous

it was so weird and out of place, he was like "im a cold creepy german nazi and race mixing is bad!" and then she defiantly is all like "heh, oh yeah? well I love it so take that!" it was embarrassing and bizarre

It was nice and incredibly comfy, though snowtimes and murder go hand in hand for me so I’m biased.

The “genius detective” archetype is always fun (that opening scene was gold). The others were pretty great too, but damn if some of them didn’t get shafted. None of them in particular, but I really wanted to see more of Josh Gad putting in a surprisingly good performance. Ol’ boi’s got range.

I liked how they made the climax emotional rather than surprising. Branagh understood that everyone in the audience knew the ending already (a couple people actually whispered it under their breath in my theater), so instead he focuses on the impact of this, and how it forces Poirot to reconsider his “right-and-wrong” stance on crime. The obvious downside is that there’s really no tension to a whodunnit when you already know the answer.

Also that teaser for Death On The Nile was quite frankly even more embarrasing than the racemixing gag.

Embarrassing and bizarre is a great way to describe it. I sat there with a perplexed look on my face.

Branagh is worst Poirot, though. Even Peter Ustinov was better.

>It's never really brought up much again and just felt like propaganda.
Well, given that, in the source material, the black doctor isn't black (or a doctor, for that matter), and Hardman isn't German (he's American), that's exactly what it is: shoehorned in SJW drivel.

Penelope Cruz's character was Swedish in the novel, too.

If you haven't already seen(or ideally read) one of the greatest mysteries ever, you have no taste and your opinion is worthless and if you spend your time watching mysteries you already know the answer to, your opinion is worthless.

>so instead he focuses on the impact of this, and how it forces Poirot to reconsider his “right-and-wrong” stance on crime.
The only problem with this approach is that the David Suchet TV series already explored this angle far more effectively when it adapted the novel back in 2010.

Okay can you guys be serious.
Is this fucking satire? It reads like a raimi-post

just saw it tonight
he described it exactly

I liked the movie but that’s exactly how that scene went down and it was purely for tumblr points.

how come we keep letting them get away with their liberal jewish bullshit agenda?

That was in 2010? Huh, neat.

My grandpa fucking loves Suchet’s version of Poirot, and it’s the one I sort of grew up on. That being said I liked what Branagh brought to the character.

My mother is big into Christie, so I grew up on it as well. I'm also old enough to remember when about all we had for Poirot was the 1974 Orient Express movie with Albert Finney (who was pretty good), and the 1978 Death on the Nile with Peter Ustinov (who was a good actor, but totally miscast). There were actually several others with Ustinov, but those two were the only ones that seemed to occasionally be shown on TV, and were easy to find at the library or video store on tape.

When Suchet came along, he was a revelation. I can still watch the Albert Finney movie and enjoy it, but Suchet IS Poirot to me, in the same way that I can never see anyone other than Joan Hickson as Miss Marple.

I like Branagh as an actor, and have enjoyed some of his Shakespeare adaptations (his Henry V is one of my all time favorites), but to me he's all wrong for the role, and his interpretation of the character is flawed. Just an example: they made a big deal about how much attention they paid to the details of Poirot's mustache, but they completely missed the major detail that Poirot's vanity would never allow him to be seen to be greying. In the books, he dyes his hair and mustache jet black, right up to the end. Similarly, he's an immaculate (if somewhat old-fashioned) dresser, to the point of being a dandy, but that point is neglected here and so he appears positively disheveled (by Poirot standards). These little quirks underscore his attitude of superiority.