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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 4800656" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>I am still reading this, and the movie certainly may not suck -- for some of you. Unfortunately, a Sherlock Holmes movie that depicts him as having poor personal hygiene and not only visiting a prostitute but also <em>getting outsmarted by one</em> has already crossed my own personal "this is going to suck" line. The rest of the movie may be fantastic, but to me, those interpretations alone have guaranteed that I, for one, am not going to enjoy it.</p><p></p><p>And for the record, I have no problem with different actors emphasizing different aspects of the Holmes persona. Had they decided to play up the physical aspect and make a more "summer blockbuster" film than is traditional for a Holmes movie, I'd have been fine with it. But here's the important distinction: I don't mind emphasizing some aspects and de-emphasizing others, but I won't stand by and have other, non-canonical aspects grafted onto the Holmes character. When you've done that - as this movie certainly has, even judging by "just a trailer" - then that character has stopped being Sherlock Holmes, and has become something else entirely.</p><p></p><p>Again, had they made the changes they did to Holmes' character and made a movie about that character - without insisting that this was still Sherlock Holmes - I'd have been fine with it. Robert Downey Jr. plays a smelly, Victorian Age detective who gets outsmarted by prostitutes when he's "thinking with other body parts than his brain" - sounds fine. I might even enjoy it. But insist that this is still Sherlock Holmes? No. <em>Emphatically</em> no.</p><p></p><p>I enjoy the TV shows <em>Monk</em> and <em>House MD</em>. Each took Sherlock Holmes - or rather, various aspects of him - made some changes, switched some stuff around, and came up with a very enjoyable character that I can really get behind. I just wish this movie had done the same, rather than using the approach they did, which I find insulting to the character of Holmes.</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 4800656, member: 508"] I am still reading this, and the movie certainly may not suck -- for some of you. Unfortunately, a Sherlock Holmes movie that depicts him as having poor personal hygiene and not only visiting a prostitute but also [i]getting outsmarted by one[/i] has already crossed my own personal "this is going to suck" line. The rest of the movie may be fantastic, but to me, those interpretations alone have guaranteed that I, for one, am not going to enjoy it. And for the record, I have no problem with different actors emphasizing different aspects of the Holmes persona. Had they decided to play up the physical aspect and make a more "summer blockbuster" film than is traditional for a Holmes movie, I'd have been fine with it. But here's the important distinction: I don't mind emphasizing some aspects and de-emphasizing others, but I won't stand by and have other, non-canonical aspects grafted onto the Holmes character. When you've done that - as this movie certainly has, even judging by "just a trailer" - then that character has stopped being Sherlock Holmes, and has become something else entirely. Again, had they made the changes they did to Holmes' character and made a movie about that character - without insisting that this was still Sherlock Holmes - I'd have been fine with it. Robert Downey Jr. plays a smelly, Victorian Age detective who gets outsmarted by prostitutes when he's "thinking with other body parts than his brain" - sounds fine. I might even enjoy it. But insist that this is still Sherlock Holmes? No. [i]Emphatically[/i] no. I enjoy the TV shows [i]Monk[/i] and [i]House MD[/i]. Each took Sherlock Holmes - or rather, various aspects of him - made some changes, switched some stuff around, and came up with a very enjoyable character that I can really get behind. I just wish this movie had done the same, rather than using the approach they did, which I find insulting to the character of Holmes. Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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