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I'm surprise that Roger Ackroyd adaptation was mention in the dishonorable one, mainly because the form in which they decided to narrate the story truly kill a lot of the mystery, or at least for me. Also the thing of making the sister discover everything and then try to help his brother was just strange for me.
Also, I do agree with you that Sarah do tend to put to much "edgyness" in to her adaptation to a point were this movies just don't work anymore
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I adore the Margaret Rutherford films!
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"Frank Stallone is the best part of nothing." 😂😂😂
Appreciate the list. Now I know which ones to avoid but I know me, I'd probably watch them anyway. It feels like you drank the glass of cyanide so we didn't have to. Great video.
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I don't like it when they insert Poirot or Miss Marple into stories in which they didn't appear in the first place. Also when they try to stretch out a short story into a full-length show. I can read some stories faster than they can put them on the screen. Some of the old-time radio shows did them justice without adding extra previously non-existent flourishes.
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My least favorite adaptation is and always will be 'Cards on the Table'. The novel is just brilliant, and the film— well, is just not, despite the cast, despite the very decent first act. But the ending killed everything for me, especially the fact that someone believed it was a good idea to add some more suspects thus killing THE THING of the book. ITV's 'Murder is Easy' is a close second, but mostly because I was really disgusted by the fact that they replaced a killed bird with a murdered boy.
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I might have put the Anthony Andrews Sparkling Cyanide on the list (terrible choice of Rosemary) and have long held that the worst thing Angela Lansbury ever did was when Miss Marple smoked a cigarette. A DM for The Pale Horse feels about right; Pauline Collins might have been just enough to save it.
Of all the novels into which Miss Marple was inserted, why did they leave out Crooked House, which would have been a nearly seamless fit making Miss de Haviland an old gardening chum?
I wondered whether it would be Sleeping Murder or Nemesis on the list as soon as you mentioned The Secret of Chimneys. Maybe having both would have been overkill.
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Hello was waiting for this!😊
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I , unfortunately, sadly, saw the Kenneth Branagh adaption of Death on the Nile. The problems with the film are many; here are two examples. The spectacular overuse of obvious CGI and the fact that the boat seems to be the size of large luxury liner!!
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The only Joan Hickson Marple adaptation I have issues with is "Pocketful of Rye". NOT because of Joan Hickson, but because they decided they needed to make the ending more formula "exciting".
The later adaptation with Julia McKenzie leaves the original book ending in place, and it's very satisfying. Though not as satisfying as it would have been with Joan Hickson if they had stayed with the real ending, of course. :)
There's just something so delicious about the murderer getting trapped by a photo his victim secretly snapped of him...rather than killed by a silly auto crash.
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Great analysis! The only one of the films on your list that I've seen is the garbage Ordeal by Innocence adaptation. I was so frustrated by it and you are honestly much more forgiving than I was. Worse, I had watched it right after watching the excellent 2015 And Then There Were None series, and it really felt like that's what they were trying to make Ordeal by Innocence, but it just felt so flat. One of my funniest memories of that series is when they tried to make Mickey sexy so they could play up Tina's attraction to him, and they have him lifting his arm in slo-mo with this derpy look on his face 😂
But to me, changing the murderer is an absolute cardinal sin. You don't get to do that in an adaptation, period. The characters in this book and the overall story were written and portrayed perfectly in the book. There was no need to ruin basically every single one of them just because you wanted to make a twist. MAN did they do Gwenda dirty in this one!!
I'm really surprised you didn't give the 2018 ABC Murders at least a Dishonorable Mention. The creepy sex stuff they did with Cust just grossed me out. 🤢 that's the only part of the whole thing I even remember: Lily stepping on Cust's back. They could have done so many interesting things, but no, they went dark and edgy like they always do, and it resulted in a mess that is 'meh' at best and abominable at worst.
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Thanks for the video. It's funny because I actually enjoyed Sparkling Cyanide, Why didn't they ask Evans? and Nemesis as stand alones if u ignore the books. I think any ones that change the murderer really get my goat though
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Here’s a topic suggestion for a future video…. Why do you think the recent adaptations have been so mid? Suchet was a high point but with everything since it seems like the essence of Christie was lost; guilty pleasures at best. It’s not like we forgot how to make mysteries, original Horowitz books are quite good, and the mid-20th century setting is still popular (I’m partial to Stephen Spotswood). Arguably the best Christie adaptation recently was the meta-modern See How They Run, which of course she didn’t write.
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"Frank Stallone is not the best part of anything" genuinely made me burst out laughing.
I think both Geraldine McEwan and Juliet McKenzie are terrible Miss Marples (maybe the shadow of Joan Hickson is just too deep for those like me who imprinted on those Marples), but I feel SORRY for Juliet McKenzie in a way I don't McEwan. Nemesis aside, it's just that McKenzie is given so much CRAP. I mean, what the hell is anyone to do with the "quality" of material she got? At least McEwan didn't get the tranche of "We're out of Marple stories, so let's just shoehorn her in to some of the standalones" McKenzie was burdened with.
The Suchet Appointment with Death is just so nasty. Even Poirot is nasty and almost hateful at times. I really, really hated it.
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I, for one, did enjoy the ITV Miss Marple adaptation of Nemesis, somehow 😅 Maybe it was seeing Raymond and his aunt partnering up for once? It's a cringey episode for sure, but it charmes me in a way. I really hate their adaptation of Murder is Easy, though. It feels unneccessarily hostile towards people with disabilities, sexual abuse victims and women in general.
That being said, though I don't agree with everything, I genuinely enjoyed this video! :)
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It’s nice to see the list topper isn’t one of the recent adaptations. Never seen it but if it’s worse than Nemesis I’ll take a pass.
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The "adaptation" of The Pale Horse was god awful! Not even "bad that is almost funny", like the Stalone movie, but just dry, nonsensical and completely off the mark.
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"Frank Stallone is the best part of nothing." Ouch.
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Excellent and fun! The other version of “Why Didn’t They Ask Evans” (with James Warwick and John Gielgud) is excellent imho.
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While I have lots of contenders for the this list, there isn't an adaptation on here that I would remove. There really are a lot of stinkers out there. And as far as your number one goes, I could not agree more. I grew up watching Tony Randall on "The Odd Couple" and have always loved him, so when I saw he was in an adaptation of the 'ABC Murders' I just had to watch it. Wow, what a disappointment. Thanks for the list, I really enjoyed the video.
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@kenallen768
2 weeks ago
The best miss marple was Joan hickson
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