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Jul-30-2009 18:39

Did you know there is a new movie about ole Sherlock coming out some time with in the next year? Yep its gonna have Robert Downey Jr. as the main character and Judd Law as Dr. Watson. Its supposed to be base on a graphic novel version of the detective who changed literary sleuthing. Its gonna focus on Holmes's martial abilities. I hope its gonna be good. I have been hoping for a good mystery movie for sometime. If anyone has any referals it would be greatly appreciated. Although my selection is quite thin for the time being I can always have my wife ship them to me.

Dec-30-2009 06:06

Oh, a person without a face... Hmm.... Could it be, that person.... No? (I bloody know who it is xD).

Well,have to see the movie yet, but judging by it, it must be a well known person for SH (just love SH, all the games + books. Can't stay away from them. xD)

Dec-30-2009 07:30

I actually saw the movie Saturday night. I must say it was an awesome move. I'd reccomend watching it, Charlie. I just finished reading A Scandal in Bohemia. And after watching the movie, you can see a good comparason between Robert Downey Jr. and the novel character.

Dec-30-2009 08:50

Im so jealous right now....oh I hope its still playing when I get home.

Dec-30-2009 12:12

As I was banging on before my post was deleted for mention about He Who Must Not Be Named, or He With the Chalk Smudge, etc etc. DONT YOU DARE DELETE THIS, CHALK SMUDGE IS NOT A SPOILER. IF YOU THINK THATS A SPOILER I WILL DROPKICK YOU IN PLACES WHERE NO FOOT SHOULD CONNECT.

Anywhoo. I absolutely love Robert Downey Jrs approach. His characters are all quite unique and creatively constructed. Jude Law is also fantastic, I've seen him in almost everything and have never been disappointed. I also think Rachel McAdams is proving herself quite well, if you think about the scope of characters she has portrayed. I think Mean Girls could have easily been a stereotype for her, but she broke that mold with ease and graduated onto far more complex characters. *bangs on*

Anywhoo, I loved the acting. I will buy the movie just for the acting, I swear. And JZ, I havent read them either I have them, but I havent got around to reading them, Im still in Rex Stout and Dorothy Griffin!

Dec-30-2009 12:32

I saw in on Christmas Day and I adored it! It was such an enjoyable movie!

I haven't read them either, but I've been wanting to for awhile and Google Books has almost all of them online for free. And you can read all the Google Books on the Barnes & Nobles Nook (that I really want) for free. :)

Jan-1-2010 23:14

I saw it last night and thought it was terrific - except for one thing. The music.

Dear Heavens.

Anyway, I loved that Watson was actually intelligent, and not a bumbler or unable to keep up with Holmes. I loved that Holmes was portrayed as a genius, with all the high intelligence and social impairments that go with it. Neither of them was perfect, but neither of them was so badly flawed as to be a parody. And Marsan's Lestrade was perfect!

Sadly, I must admit that my favourite character was Constable Clark. I know, I'm pathetic.

Jan-8-2010 14:52

Funny. I liked the music.. kinda. Hans Zimmer is quite the composer. And the little irish folksongs and stuff they'd put in there. In my personal opinion they manage to give the feeling of early twentieth century England more than Mr Doyle did. But the music was only part of that.

Let me review it:

It's clearly (as they've marketed it) not "my grandfather's Sherlock Holmes". Having read many (even if not all) of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories and through all these years whinced at the different portrayals in the visual media of them (and even watched the series based on Doyle's life of working with the doctor he allegedly based Sherlock Holmes on) I have to say this ain't half bad. For example I strongly dislike Hollywood's love for turning someone into a comical sidekick all of the time. If it's not Dr Watson who's incorrectly portrayed as a daft, stumbling fool it's Gimli or Ron Weasley. In this new Sherlock Holmes carnation it's clear that they've picked A LOT from Doyles stories. But only bits and pieces that they liked, and then extrapolated. It makes for one heck of a good movie. It's not the Sherlock Holmes, but it's A Sherlock Holmes. The things in the movie that people will go "Hay that's not how Doyle wrote it" over is actually just as Doyle wrote it. Only they've chosed to flesh them out. Call it artistic freedom or mockery. It's still all in Doyle's stories for the reaping.

After all, Sherlock Holmes is an excentric drug user and a fighter, who plays the violin. The new movie is an interesting take on the character and his closest friends, and can't be deemed "false".

(If you have seen the movie "Zero Effect" with Bill Pullman you might recall the scene in the beginning where he is found high on drugs, jumping up and down in his bed and slamming on an acoustic guitar. I thought "Well heck if that ain't Sherlock Holmes.)

Jan-8-2010 22:25

I think my biggest problem with the music was that it was at times SO LOUD, and at time SO FRENETIC, it really took away a lot of my enjoyment. I didn't go there to get a pounding headache. Had it been lower in volume, I would have enjoyed it a lot more.

Jan-9-2010 08:40

"I strongly dislike Hollywood's love for turning someone into a comical sidekick all of the time. If it's not Dr Watson who's incorrectly portrayed as a daft, stumbling fool it's Gimli or Ron Weasley."

Couldn't agree more, Encyclopedia Zero, well said!

Jan-10-2010 06:39

I gotta add something, or possibly revise my "review" here:

The more and more I think of the movie (which I will be revisiting the theatre to watch at least once more before it's out on DVD) the more I like it. The movie is a great, thrilling adventure and as such it succeeds. But it succeeds EVEN MORE as an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

I should add that from what I hear from far bigger fans than myself that they consider the movie close to perfect, and that they are sorry that so many people claim to be fans and know the character and complain about the movie being inaccurate. This just makes me want to find all the stories I have not yet read and study the character even more. At least I appear to be "getting it" which is a relief.

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Anikka, I see. But that would be a problem at the local theatre and not an unsolvable problem with the film. If that happens again ask them to turn the volume down a bit. Or perhaps watch it over again on DVD when it comes out. ;)