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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.141.211.136 |
Well I watched this a few days ago and have to say it was really stunning. Going back to what Craig said, it had to be remade because it was part of the Poirot series and they could hardly not do it... as it is, I think it's the best version. I came away feeling like I'd had a glimpse of hell - I wanted every one of those 12 to pay for what they did, because the justice they metered out was perhaps the most horrible you could imagine. Even my oldest son said 'Nobody deserves that', knowing what the man had done. I have to commend Suchet for making it feel like we were watching him die both spiritually and physically, and show us long term viewers that tragic proof that his days were numbered. (Oh, and Toby Jones played Ratchett superbly. It's like he's really whoever he's playing in whatever he's playing) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.202.102 |
What, 12 did it?! Oh my, what a spoiler! (Just joshing, Tony. If anyone doesn't know the story, they deserve to have it ruined.) | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.6 |
I always felt cheated by the ending of this novel. Not yet seen this adaptation, though I recorded it to watch later. I'd like to see them do a decent tv version of And Then There Were None, using the same production team (which is about as good as ITV gets, in my opinion). I'd love it if they could pull off Christie's original ending, rather than the one that she wrote later for the play (downer endings are my thing). | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
I always thought that between them, Marple and Poirot are the greatest serial killers in literary history... everywhere they go people drop dead and they conveniently find a patsy or 12 to pin it on in a highly convoluted manner. Murder on the Orient express is the best example of this - "It was everyone on the train except me!" says Poirot and everyone believes him... Takes real chutzpah that, even for a fictional killer. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
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| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.180.70.140 |
I know I saw the Suchet one, but I can hardly remember it! So it couldn't have been that bad. I do remember the Branagh version, which I utterly and completely DESPISED and DETESTED... good scenery, but that is it. A film made seemingly by a Russian bot. Does this pass for necromancy?... resurrecting old threads like this?...  |