Frasier wrote:DHP wrote:Frasier wrote:I wonder if the poll will reflect this assertion
This is kind of my point. I'm happy to vote for Peter Sellers, but I feel the poll is a bit redundant as I can't imagine anyone else voting for any of the other guys. To me, it's like a poll trying to establish favourite beverages, with the options being orange juice, urine, or pulverised worms.
Again though, I may well be wrong. That's just how I see it.
Well I wouldn't go that far, Steve Martin is not worthy of that. Nevertheless, I do see your point.
I thought maybe the kind of person who prefers Steve Martin would have seen that version first as opposed to the Peter Sellers series.
It's not the kind of film I imagine anyone going to see who isn't familiar with the earlier films. The posters and trailers were designed to appeal largely to fans of the earlier films, and I think would have come across as too weird to draw in a new audience. And let's face it, putting Steve Martin in a film nowadays doesn't exactly guarantee bums on seats these days. I don't mean any disrespect to him there, I really enjoy many of his films. Just recently he's made stuff that's been mediocre at best.
I daresay most people who saw the Steve Martin film were able to make a comparison between his film and the better ones of Peter Sellers.
Also, I wasn't attempting to say that watching Steve Martin's version is like drinking urine, just that there's a very stark comparison between his version and those by Peter Sellers, which to me makes a poll to establish that a bit unnecessary.
Again though, I may be wrong and perhaps there are fans of his film over the earlier ones.