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Hi all. I was just wondering who has seen the movies with Ian McShane in them. What did you think of them?
I saw them on Quickflix and got them out, watched In The Frame last night. What a travesty! I know you can't fit all the intricacies of a Dick Francis novel into a 90 minute movie, but seriously. I felt the whole story was wrecked. I will have to go re-read the book just to get the awfulness of the movie out of my head!
The disc also has Twice Shy on it, I wonder how bad that is?
Wow, I didn't know there had been another movies done, besides those couple of Sid Halley ones. I haven't seen any of these but I'm next on the list to get them from the library. In The Frame seems like a fairly complex one to start with, especially with all the traveling.
I hadn't heard of the Sid Halley ones. Are they any good?The Ian McShane ones were a series, I've now seen 3 of them and they are pretty awful. They all have the same central character, David Cleveland. And the settings of the stories have all changed, everything has been simplified.
They were really bad, but I had to watch them anyway just to see all the things they had done wrong.
Were they any good? Well, they were done in the late 70s which right there tells you they are extremely dated. But beyond that I'm actually having trouble remembering. After looking back, the Sid Halley ones weren't so much movies as 6 hour long episodes in what appears to be a short miniseries. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078675/
I'm going to have to watch the Ian McShane ones now as well, as you say to see how wrong they went.
You should get a few laughs from the car chase scene in In The Frame.At least the Sid Halley ones look like they were kept in England!
I also have a copy of the movie Dead Cert on video that I bought a few years ago. It wasn't all that memorable, even though it has Judi Dench in it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071394/
Well, I watched two of the Ian McShane movies this week - In the Frame and Twice Shy. They were pretty bad. Although in their defense, had I not know they were Dick Francis adaptation, I might have thought they were ok movies from the early nineties. Twice Shy was the worst of the two I saw. They completely butchered that wonderful double generation book idea and did away with all the clever math stuff.
I've seen parts of the Ian McShane films. Ick. Sorry, I like Ian McShane, but those films were awful. Blood Sport is my first favorite of DF's, and McShane made a film of that. /shiver/ Ruined it IMO.
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