Just tried to watch the new Death on the Nile

[RozHuntleysLeftHand]

What the fuck have they done to it?!

I really really wanted to enjoy it, huge fan of Agatha Christie, love French and Saunders.

From the start it's just too....... Sexy?.... For a Poirot?

None of it felt right.

I'm gonna try again later because I had to turn it off after about half an hour......but jesus.

Maybe Branagh didn't have to act TOO hard when he played Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter.

Maybe Branagh didn't have to act TOO hard when he played Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter

He didn’t know the cameras were rolling

Do any of the streaming services have all the AC films or tv shows?

@EnjoyingTheSilence

Do any of the streaming services have all the AC films or tv shows?

Britbox has the David Suchet Poirot series.

@Iwasfeelingepic

I wasn't overly impressed with Death on the Orient Express, so I am in no rush to watch this. I will have the Evans one. David Suchet was the best Poirot for me. I would love to see another remake of Then there were none, it is my favourite Christie book and the only book that has genuinely left me feeling a bit scared. Though if they did remake it, I'd be worried they will ruin it.

Me too. Loved it and it did make me feel a little bit scared. Very clever. It would be great to see it as a film… but only if it stays true to the original story.

@CharityShopChic

Maybe Branagh didn't have to act TOO hard when he played Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter.

@EnjoyingTheSilence

Do any of the streaming services have all the AC films or tv shows?

Britbox has Poirot and Miss Marple. It also has the new adaptation of Why Didn't They Ask Evans? which is worth watching.

Not AC but Magpie Murders is also on there and that's really good too.

Now trying to work out how to sell to my DH that we totally need a Brit box subscription to go with all the others we already have

Just finished it. Obviously another vanity project for KB and presume there'll be more albeit without Bouc. Agree that Russell Brand was the best, the rest were poor characterisations. Such dull photography! Can't bear all the moodiness especially somewhere bright like Egypt!
Love the end where they showed Simon Doyle shoot himself in the knee, stagger to the window and throw the gun out then stagger back to the settee without leaving a trail of blood. Mate, you'd be rolling around the floor in agony!

@Arucanafeather

Now trying to work out how to sell to my DH that we totally need a Brit box subscription to go with all the others we already have

I really enjoy the shows on there. I am not British btw, but am a confirmed Anglophile. British TV is marvellous, for the most part.

I would love to see another remake of Then there were none, it is my favourite Christie book and the only book that has genuinely left me feeling a bit scared.

That’s a great idea - I actually think Kenneth Branagh would be really good as the judge in that. Or Blore. He could make a role his own and plenty of other meaty parts for his celebrity mates. It could be a cracking film, rather than messing up the perfection that is Poirot….

The David Suchet version of Murder on the Orient Express was excellent. You saw Poirot struggle with the dilemma of telling the truth or telling a lie. Great acting

@WimpoleHat

I would love to see another remake of Then there were none, it is my favourite Christie book and the only book that has genuinely left me feeling a bit scared.

That’s a great idea - I actually think Kenneth Branagh would be really good as the judge in that. Or Blore. He could make a role his own and plenty of other meaty parts for his celebrity mates. It could be a cracking film, rather than messing up the perfection that is Poirot….

The BBC did And Then There Were None a few years ago at Christmas with Aiden Turner. I thought it was a good adaptation but it's been years since I read the book so I can't remember if they made lots of changes.

The Sarah Phelps adaptation of ATTWN with Charles Dance as the judge was only 7 years ago and it stuck very closely to the text so I don't think we need another one yet.

I'd prefer a remake of Ordeal By Innocence which stuck to the original ending.

Top Kenneth Branagh fact: he's the only person ever to be nominated for Oscars in 7 different categories.

Ooh - must look up those versions of And Then There Were None. Thanks for the tips!

Absolutely awful. Modern mores imposed on a period piece, wholesale replacement of characters, Poirot's backstory trashed. Wasn't even filmed in Egypt.

I stopped watching the latest BBC adaptations by Sophie Phelps after she messed about similarly and lost the period charm.

The ending of the film is preposterous.

Beautiful sets despite it all being CGI. I can't see French and Saunders without seeing them as the gossipy extras. I don't know what Bouc and his mother brought that Colonel Race didn't. And I found Gal Gadot to be painfully weak and lacking the capricious cruelty of Linette.

Why didn't they ask Evans stuck almost 100% to the book. The chemistry between Bobby and Lady Frances was sparkling. Emma Thomson was wasted in a tiny cameo though. It was probably 30 mins too long though

Thanks @mum2jakie not sure I can do another streaming service. Will have to hunt them down elsewhere

@EnjoyingTheSilence

Thanks *@mum2jakie* not sure I can do another streaming service. Will have to hunt them down elsewhere

Some of the Miss Marple and Poirot episodes are on ITV3 and Drama channels

@Clarinet1

Oops - dotty old lady, not dirty!

Murder She Wrote fan here….. laughing a LOT at AL as a dirty old lady…