Mary Poppins film age rating raised

VimFuego

BillDL said:

Were there any Hottentots, or people dressed up to resemble Hottentots, in Murder on the Orient Express?

We are veering dangerously away from the original topic 

yeah, we need to get back on track.

darthed1981

Philly_Q said:

One more thing about Murder on the Orient Express... in a way it's my least favourite Christie because once you know whodunnit, there's no way you could ever forget.  Whereas with most of her other stories, the killer's identity is so completely random that I could watch them once every few years and still be surprised. 

Apparently - that's how she wrote books.

She wrote most of the book, decided who was least likely to have done it, and then went back and re-wrote the book so that it made sense that they did it!!

Orient Express, I'd say, is the second best detective story ever, behind the Hound of the Baskervilles.

Poirot and Holmes have a lot in common...

Definitive TV version that will never be bettered (Brett/Suchet).

Famous classic series of movies (Rathbone and Bruce/Finney to Ustinov)

darthed1981

Sporky said:

Finney will never be un-bettered as Poirot. He went past ham and into a pork-based eldritch nightmare of gargantuan proportions. Worst Poirot ever, including all the ones yet to be cast. 

I love the original OE film, including Finney gnawing on the sets.

EricTheWeary

Sporky said:

I think it's a shame that such a lovely word was used for being racist. 

A Hottentot is also a type of seabream, so you have that @Sporky ; Although as it's found off the southern African coast I worry that if you look into why it's called that you may again lose your lovely word (but I don't know, might just be coincidence). 

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Timcito said:

Hercule Poirot is, let's say, "eccentrically Gallic"; is that permissible?

Yes.

dano

People getting offended by this will cry fowl about Government wokeism putting dihydrogen oxide into the water supply.

Stratavarious

dano said:

People getting offended by this will cry fowl about Government wokeism putting dihydrogen oxide into the water supply.

Bloody scientists… thinking they know what is good fo us.  

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dano said:

People getting offended by this will cry fowl about Government wokeism putting dihydrogen oxide into the water supply.

What's sauce for the goose...

Sporky

I'd go for something fruitier with goose. 

BillDL

Plums?

Kittyfrisk

dano said:

People getting offended by this will cry fowl about Government wokeism putting dihydrogen oxide into the water supply.

Duck!

Sporky

Raspberry for duck. 

Kittyfrisk

Yeah, they'll eat all sorts of stuff.