Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Shelock Holmes retooled for the Batman generation, with six pack abs as an action hero in a Gotham like London.
Sherlock stock and two smoking barrels?
ok so Guy Ritchie has got hold of.. Sherlock Holmes
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Sherlock stock and two smoking barrels?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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Saoirse don Phalaistín!
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love is the answer
My thoughts exactly.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
scifisam
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Nah, cocaine. And lots of tobacco, of course. The books were quite gritty, really - showing the good and bad sides of drugs, which is more than can be said for many modern stories.
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
I love Mark Strong (he was great in The Long Firm), and the thought of him as Moriarity almost made me excited about this. Hence my dismay upon learning that Moriarity isn't even the villain and that Strong is playing some bizarre Crowleyesque baddie. They must be saving Moriarity for the inevitable sequels. Gah.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
I heard an interview with Downey and Law a couple of weeks ago and, after the usual "oh of course we respect the original holmes entirely and we've done so much research but you know you're always going to offend some purists" bit (which is said every time anything is adapted and means nothing) it then sounded like they'd been camping it up massively, which is just lazy.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Guess what ???...........
It isn't that great surprise surprise. Far too much violent action which isn't in keeping with the book's spirit at all. The plot is Dan Brown meets Seven meets V 4 Vendetta or something. The conjuring up of the dirty victorian london streets and vistas is magnificent. Presumably Richey had less to do with that
It isn't that great surprise surprise. Far too much violent action which isn't in keeping with the book's spirit at all. The plot is Dan Brown meets Seven meets V 4 Vendetta or something. The conjuring up of the dirty victorian london streets and vistas is magnificent. Presumably Richey had less to do with that
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Guess what ???...........
It isn't that great surprise surprise. Far too much violent action which isn't in keeping with the book's spirit at all. The plot is Dan Brown meets Seven meets V 4 Vendetta or something. The conjuring up of the dirty victorian london streets and vistas is magnificent. Presumably Richey had less to do with that
I read some reviews in which it is claimed this Holmes is in fact far more faithful to the books than all previous incarnations- in particular the physical aspect of the character, apparently.
I haven't seen this film but Downey is not how I imagine Holmes to look at all from the books.
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
Saw this last night and it was actually pretty good. I was expecting to be annoyed by Jude Law but he was decent. Whatshisname who played the lead was good except he seemed to be speaking too quickly quite often, which was a bit tricky to follow in places.
Victorian London looked great and aside from a couple of exaggerated fight scenes it didn't seem far too 'Guy Richie' really.
Clearly set up for sequels which is a bit annoying. I don't mind sequels if they stand alone, but if you start setting them up before the end of the previous film it's basically a feature length soap.
Victorian London looked great and aside from a couple of exaggerated fight scenes it didn't seem far too 'Guy Richie' really.
Clearly set up for sequels which is a bit annoying. I don't mind sequels if they stand alone, but if you start setting them up before the end of the previous film it's basically a feature length soap.
Prince Rhyus
Spokesman of King Antonio
Good sound track, excellent chemistry between RDJ and Law, and liked the recreation of London during the 19th Century - sort of makes me wonder what was destroyed during the war. That said:
- Baker Street is much wider than is portrayed in the film (the old buildings are still there but could you fit three double deckers along side each other and have wide pavements?)
- It is not possible to sprint from the sewers underneath Parliament all the way to Tower Bridge! That's eight stops on the district and circle line which is AGES - even more so if you don't know where you're going and are half hunched over in the process
- Parliament would not look nearly as pristine as it did due to the effects of pollution in smokey London
- Too much time was wasted on over-complicated fight scenes, but hey, that's what the mass market likes.
Well...the above is just me being picky. It was quite a good romp of a film. I just get sensitive and protective as a history geek in and around areas I've lived in and work in.
- Baker Street is much wider than is portrayed in the film (the old buildings are still there but could you fit three double deckers along side each other and have wide pavements?)
- It is not possible to sprint from the sewers underneath Parliament all the way to Tower Bridge! That's eight stops on the district and circle line which is AGES - even more so if you don't know where you're going and are half hunched over in the process
- Parliament would not look nearly as pristine as it did due to the effects of pollution in smokey London
- Too much time was wasted on over-complicated fight scenes, but hey, that's what the mass market likes.
Well...the above is just me being picky. It was quite a good romp of a film. I just get sensitive and protective as a history geek in and around areas I've lived in and work in.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
yeh? you missed pentonville prison being depicted not as it was, quite a modern prison in those times, but a bloody sewer of a prison out of the middle ages. but you missed the biggest fuck-ups, on which the entire plot rests.
it's all there in the history books and indeed in oscar wilde's 'ballad of reading gaol'.
basically, when someone was condemned to hang, two warders sat with him until the execution lest the hangman be cheated. and when they were hanged their bodies remained within the prison, as per sir roger casement, in a bed of lime. which means no body to resurrect.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
It was a really good idea made garbled and confusing by Guy Ritchie.
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
That did annoy me a bit, but not enough to spoil the film really.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
Something that confused me. When we first see the bridge under construction, it's right near the prison.
When we see it again, it's basically right beside the houses of parliament.
When we see it again, it's basically right beside the houses of parliament.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I saw it and managed to fall asleep halfway through. It looked like they were pulling in all sorts of Steampunk elements into the art direction. They managed to drag everything interesting about Sherlock Holmes into a back alley and ass-rape it repeatedly
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
the prison is referred to as pentonville, which is a good mile or two from parliament and further from tower bridge
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
In 2012 they destroyed the Eiffel Tower three separate times and I liked that movie.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
mary morstan appears in 'the sign of four', in which holmes acts for her. so it is rather surprising to find that in the movie they have not been introduced.
