Preview Trailer Released For Movie - Murder on the Orient Express - 11/10/17

I dunno...  David Suchet is going to be a tough act to follow.

Rusty

there was a pretty cool Doctor Who episode titled "Mummy on the Orient Express"

Did any of those scenes remind you of the "Polar Express"? Were you expecting the dancing waiters to come prancing through with hot choc-o-latte? Did you look into their eyes and think "They look too weird for me"? Ah ha ha ha...

Spoiler Alert.  They all did it.

Well the sleeper and diner were central locations in the plot.  And this is the OE.  I would expect that the diner was a place that made Downton Abbey food look like something from the Golden Arches.

And if it takes PE and current SHERLOCK type filming to get people involved with one of the best English writers of all time, so be it.  BTW AG had trains involved in, I think, THREE of her works.  But off hand I do knot know the names of them.

I'll pass, thanks. The one from the 70's can't be beat: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Richard Widmark, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, and MORE !  Great film, absolutely PERFECT.

The locomotive looks like something from Lionel's Battle Trains.  Will somebody make a set?

Dominic Mazoch posted:

The locomotive looks like something from Lionel's Battle Trains.  Will somebody make a set?

The locomotive is a French 241A mountain type and is correct for the Orient Express (but only on the French part of the trip of course). MTH has made this type before and has announced a rerun which I am waiting on for years already (http://mthtrains.com/20-3606-1); maybe because of the Orient Express movie MTH will now make this loco. And the correct types of coaches are also made by MTH.

Regards

Fred

sncf231e posted:

Dominic Mazoch posted:

The locomotive looks like something from Lionel's Battle Trains.  Will somebody make a set?

The locomotive is a French 241A mountain type and is correct for the Orient Express (but only on the French part of the trip of course). MTH has made this type before and has announced a rerun which I am waiting on for years already (http://mthtrains.com/20-3606-1); maybe because of the Orient Express movie MTH will now make this loco. And the correct types of coaches are also made by MTH.

Regards

Fred

231E? Class of French Pacifics? Nord type, with all the piping?  Used on OE?

Dominic Mazoch posted:

sncf231e posted:

Dominic Mazoch posted:

The locomotive looks like something from Lionel's Battle Trains.  Will somebody make a set?

The locomotive is a French 241A mountain type and is correct for the Orient Express (but only on the French part of the trip of course). MTH has made this type before and has announced a rerun which I am waiting on for years already (http://mthtrains.com/20-3606-1); maybe because of the Orient Express movie MTH will now make this loco. And the correct types of coaches are also made by MTH.

Regards

Fred

231E? Class of French Pacifics? Nord type, with all the piping?  Used on OE?

No, not a 231E pacific but a 241A mountain. My membername on the forum is SNCF231E but that has nothing to do with it.

Regards

Fred

The only mystery in this weak film adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1934 novel is, why?  Did the producers honestly believe they can improve upon the 1974 film? Were they successful in assembling a superior cast? Did they secure a John Williams to out-score Richard Bennett? All doubtful. Viewing the trailer, one can only assume that the production designer was completely MIA. Then again, perhaps that role was fulfilled with a visual pygmy. Compare these interior shots from the '74 film against the 2017 trailer...

Note the period appropriate, Rene Lalique, glass panels.

This looks like a first class diner car of the 1930's Orient Express. The set dressers didn't miss a beat with the table accoutrements. Again, note the fine marqueterie enhanced with mother of pearl.

What incredible detail. We could go on and on...

The trailer lends promise that the current film's shortcomings will be overshadowed with endless overwrought CGI beauty shots. Truly, the only mystery left in this retelling of the classic mystery is why this future bomb didn't go direct to DVD.

All I know it it's waaaay too much mustache:

I'm sure Hercule would agree:

Rusty

Too much mustache, indeed...

I will probably go see it, but not due to the trains, but because Agatha Christie.  I've enjoyed all her works that I have read.

Put Inspector Clouseau on the train and I will gladly watch. For some reason I have reached a stage in my life where the only films that can hold my attention are comedies. Everything else bores me to death.

Mill City posted:

Too much mustache, indeed...

Maybe Lyft, the ride sharing service is a sponsor.