Sherlock Holmes (2009 version)

[Darth Shoju]

elizabeth r.: Has thou noticed our will hath become most plump in the mid region and his brow more full?
Sir walter raleigh: And his flesh hath become slightly more ebony in hue.
Elizabeth r.: Perchance some moorish blood doth run through his veins?

and sometime later in the future...
captain picard: Odd. I never noticed before that the dramatis personae of macbeth lists actual names for the three witches - lursa, b'etor and mara! Mr. Crusher, have you been hacking into the main computer again?!?


b-)

lol

 

[Goodsport]

It turns out that Jimmy Fallon was originally cast as Sherlock Holmes for this film and he actually did some screen tests for it, but scheduling conflicts caused him to eventually back out of the project and Robert Downey, Jr. was chosen to replace him.

You can see the screen tests here.


-G

 

[Felon]

I want to make some cynical comment about a kick-boxing, trigger-happy Sherlock Holmes in a Guy Ritchie film, but then I must remind myself that if Coyote Ugly taught us just one thing, it's that we must not underestimate a trailer's power to deceive.

 

[Krug]

Gosh this... just didn't work. It was all flourish and flair, but with very little substance. The action scenes were frequently confusing and dull, and the characters so thin I never felt much for them.

 

[Crothian]

Ya, it wasn't all that great. I should have seen Avatar.

 

[Goodsport]

I just returned from watching this movie in the theater.


-G

 

[Mark]

I'm on board with those who are willing to give this imagining of Sherlock Holmes a shot.

Gosh this... just didn't work. It was all flourish and flair, but with very little substance. The action scenes were frequently confusing and dull, and the characters so thin I never felt much for them.

Ya, it wasn't all that great. I should have seen Avatar.

I just returned from watching this movie in the theater.


-G

And . . . we're done here. Unless I see some stellar opinons to offset these, I am officially considering this as its "shot" and will catch it on DVD.

 

[Mouseferatu]

I thought it worked just fine.

It wasn't a perfect movie, by any means. I thought it dragged in a few places, and while I enjoy convoluted plotlines, this one felt a bit convoluted in the wrong ways. Not hard to understand at all, just unnecessarily padded.

But I enjoyed the movie as a whole, enough to want the DVD, and I thought the performances--and yes, the portrayal of Holmes--were the high points.

 

[Goodsport]

I liked it.

The production values were very good (there's no doubting that it's set in late Victorian-era London), Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law did very well in their roles (this version's Sherlock Holmes was a bit more disheveled than past film versions and maybe even in the books, though this version's Dr. John Watson was more the former army surgeon from the books rather than the bumbler of past film versions), and Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler was absolutely stunning!

The story was pretty good and the immediate story arc was completed by film's end, though a few loose ends remained and it's obvious at the end that a sequel toward the "bigger picture" of the arc is implied (though whether said sequel will happen depends on this film's box office returns, I'm sure).

It certainly would've been worth the regular price of admission or even the discounted price of most early showings, but it was totally worth the price for me since I got to use the first of my two pre-paid movie passes I received at my work's Secret Santa party last week, so all I had to pay for today was my popcorn and drink.


-G

 

[frankthedm]

Plenty of laughs, and the added females rounded out what otherwise would have been quite the sausage fest. True Watson's girl was just window dressing and doomed in the sequal, but Holmes's girl was quite entertaining, reminding me greatly of Lupin III's Fujiko