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See Downey Jr. As Guy Ritchie's SHERLOCK HOLMES!! And Jude Law As Guy Ritchie's John Watson!!
Merrick here...
These pics started hitting the Nets late Friday afternoon...an easy time to fall through the cracks...but I thought I'd call your attention to it regardless.
Just Jared has a few behind-the-scenes images revealing Robert Downey Jr. as the title character in Guy Ritchie's SHERLOCK HOLMES.
Just Jared has also nabbed some images of Jude Law looking like a surprisingly bad ass Watson. CLICK THE PIC to see more!
The film should hit screens next year.
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Otherwise these look cool..
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Downey Jr. looks like Oliver! all grown up, and Jude Law might be uttering "I'm your huckleberry." I always liked the weird casting of "The 7% Solution," featuring Nicol Williamson as Holmes (he'd later play Merlin in Excalibur, and bears an uncanny resemblance to Kevin McKidd), Robert Duvall (!) as Watson, and Alan Arkin as Sigmund Freud, who tries to cure Holmes of his cocaine addiction.
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it's going to be hard to top Jeremy Brett for me.
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Maybe he will be Holmes muscle....
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Kneel before Law!!!
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He better be disguised as a street urchin there!
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Holmes looks more like a rough house Bill Sykes, unless he's gone undercover Serpico 1800s style ;-)
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that would be kind of cool
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RDjr looks more like Wiggins the street urchin. My faith in RDjr is unshakable, so I'm still optimistic...but...
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would have made a good Watson.
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...the unfortunate offspring of Charlie Chaplin's tramp and Heath Ledger's Joker.
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he looks more Shurlock like there.
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But Downey looks so haggard, he looks like he could be a British homeless person (no pun intended).
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in that photo of Law? Law and Stamp should play father and son someday. That would be worth seeing.
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..didn't see your post there.
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And Law looks like The Master.
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the paper-boy days.
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That was added by the artist Sidney Paget who drew the illustrations for the stories.
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(Young Sherlock)? After all, he was in Lock, Stock ...
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I'm sorry I think RDj is great but that photo reminds me of him in Chaplin. I will remain optimistic and hope that in the scene Holmes is undercover and a soup station or something, hence the sartorial style...
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As soon as I saw those images I immediately thought of Chaplin. Anyway those images look crap without the special effects.
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Ministry of Silly Walk members.
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seriously..... Law looks way more collected than Downey does...
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which is a good thing.
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As much as I enjoy Robert Downey Jr. in all his movies, I just can't see him as Sherlock Holmes. In these pix, Jude Law looks more fitting as Holmes than Downey. I am sure this is going to be a fun movie, and that I will enjoy it. But the characters have always been portrayed as Holmes being tall and impressive looking and Watson being short and rotund.
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Holmes is well-known for going into disguise, and I'm guessing that is the reason for his rumpled appearance.
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Maybe this flick will have a Hong Kong Phoey vibe, where Watson is actually the genius crime buster and Holmes the bumbling foil...
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...he was well known for it.
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to release the other Sherlock Holmes movie next year at the same time as this one?
The one with Sasha Baron Cohen as Holmes and Will Ferrell as Watson? -
Right down to Watson's signature wife-beater!!!
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in more respectable costumes. Click the link.
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i thought Watson was the one who wore the bowler in the relationship.
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Holmes is evidently in deep cover there, posing as - shock horror! A working class person! All the better to blend in with the villainous cockneys and Lascars of the East End.
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He looks good wit the 'tache. He should keep it, it adds gravitas. Otherwise he looks like a 1980s square-jawed shop window mannequin.
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There was a movie with just that plot with Michael Caine as Holmes and Ben Kingsley as Watson.
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I'm sure the performances will be fine, but Law does look more like Holmes than Downey does. Ah, what could have been...* SIGH *
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Christ, someone put a bullet in Richie's career.
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Oct 13, 2008 11:50:15 AM CDT
Look at original drawings of Holmes, not the cliche de-teck-a-ti
by terry1978
Downey's look is pretty accurate to them.
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Whose cock did he suck to get this gig?
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Oct 13, 2008 11:55:21 AM CDT
I wish it all the success of "Revolver" and "King Arthur"
by jackpumpkinhead
Unfortunately, it will make money, and moronic teenagers will think this is Holmes.
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That SNL sketch where Irons played Holmes was great. Kept ruining his own surprise party. Excellent.
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With that line of thinking, Downey shouldn't have been in Iron Man or Tropic Thunder. It's called acting and not modeling for a reason.
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So none of it matters. Seriously though, just by the law of averages you'd think he'd be in a hit eventually.
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Or is it one of them wheer the hero character is a bit shit and Watson is the real clever dick in which case this would work having Downey Jnr as Watson and Jude as a pretty thick Holmes.Just Sayin...
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and your knowledge is not purely based on previous movies you will know that Holmes is clearly in disguise here...he used to regularly disguise himself and hang out in the slums to get information in opium dens and the like. Law looks great as Watson.
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Holmes is theatrical. Watson is quiet and contemplative, something Law does fairly well. The idea that Law could ever hold a candle to Downey as a Holmes type comes off as completely ignorant of the novels or the strengths of the actors.
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Watson of the early stories is supposed to be sort of ruddy-colored ("brown as a nut" was the author's description), and look a bit beat-up ("as thin as a lath"), because of his military service, illness, and injury in Afghanistan.
This looks fine for a later (middle years) Watson, but not as an early years (first meeting Holmes) version. In later years, he was supposed to have gotten a bit thick.
Of course, everything I read about this project says it's a "re-invention" of Holmes, which means all canon and lore is off the table in favor of whatever the author/director want. I haven't read the book this is based on (also a "re-invention" of Holmes) but I think it's madness to fuck with a character as iconic as Sherlock Holmes. It's been tried before, and the original always stands head & shoulders above the re-invented version.
Oh, and SpyGuy, you're wrong. Holmes was a bit bedraggled (he was a drug addict, and worked himself near to death), and in his prime Watson was a strapping, well-built, handsome man. I'd say they have it about right in terms of casting, although I'm surprised by Downey-- He's not exactly the Holmes archetype. He's not even British. The average Briton is going take issue with their most iconic character being portrayed by a Yank. -
Yeah I always wished that they had made a movie starring him back when he was in his 30's - would have been perfect casting! And Jeremy Brett will NEVER be topped in his portrayal.
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The movies kept casting a pudgy middle-aged man as John Watson, but the books make it clear he was a well-built, good-looking man who served as a field medic in Afghanistan. He didn't get rotund until the last of the books, when he had been married for a while and had aged quite a few years.
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Hopefully Downey won't do a redux of The Singing Detective fiasco, but I'm hard pressed to think of many choices that would be better for a major studio movie. And at the least, Downey's acting style and past project choices have at least indicated he probably wishes he were British.
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Are they going to make Holmes and Watson equals in this movie?
Maybe that's what they are going for here. I really can't see Jude Law playing the dumb, bumbling sidekick convincingly.
If they are equals, as far as their detective work, it could actually be pretty cool, although, it's not the definitive Sherlock Holmes and Watson as written by A.C. Doyle. -
I did, but so many years ago I don't remember any more. My mind is blurred between the movies and the books.
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Never was.
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Does AICN seem to be not getting the exclusives like they used to? Now, images and scoops are from different websites, telling us to click for more information. I remember when AICN was the place other sites linked to. Those days are long gone, I guess.
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the black Reeboks make me run faster.
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"I haven't read the book this is based on (also a "re-invention" of Holmes..."
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Oct 13, 2008 12:51:42 PM CDT
Enough switch the casting bullshit talk
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
That wouldn't work at all. Watson is supposed to be the tough english gentlemen and also something of a ladies man. Holmes is the eccentric genius with a drug habit. The FUCK are you guys talking about that they need to switch roles? What ass backwards interpretation of holmes are you going by? If it weren't for Guy Ritchie directing I'd think this were the greatest movie ever, still, I don't think it it'll be even close to being a terrible film.
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Forever.
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I couldn't agree more. I love Downey, but Brett will always be the movie/tv Holmes for me.
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He really has the look down, I'm surprised and impressed. I'm hoping Downey is in some kind of disguise though.
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Oct 13, 2008 1:32:02 PM CDT
I didn't know Sherlock Holmes enjoyed some Starbucks tall lattes
by ricarleite
Will he go into his "Chaplin-acting" mode on this film as well?
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He's as short as me. Somehow he manages, with or without the aid of some thick-soled shoes.
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is fine with me. I think he's going to be amazing in this. And Jude Law does look like he could have been an ex-british solider. I'm liking this more and more. The only thing that could top it is if this was the Dracula storyline that came from A study in Scarlet. That comic rocked my world.
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RDJ looks like Hugh Jackman, and Law looks a little like Zulu era Michael Caine, or maybe it was the Sgt from Zulu im thinking of. I agree with those saying RDJ is in costume in the first set he looks much more appropriate in the Law pics.
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I think we're owed this one with Downey doing Holmes.
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I don't mind Downey Jr being cast as Holmes, I don't mind what nationality he actually is as long as he seems British and Downey is an excellent actor and can do Brit as he showed in Chaplin. Actually Holmes is not meant to be typically British. He is strange, mercurial, brilliant, none of whcih were British traits in Victorian England. Watson represents the ideal Brit - not "clever" or intellectual like holmes but manly, brave, loyal and honourable.
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I think it's fair to say that Watson was pretty fucked up when he first met Holmes. He had just left mediacal school and went out to India to join his regiment as a surgeon, got caught up in a battle, got shot and sawe his comrades hacked to pieces before his eyes. He then catches fever and is shipped home and discharged through ill-health. When we first meet him he is living on his tiny pension and looking for a flatmate to live within his means. He is weak and thin, in physical pain and probably traumatised by his experiences. All this when he is in his mid- or late twenties. Later on he regains physical and mental health and becomes a portly fellow in late middle age.
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Holmes is British, very British. He even puts bullet holes in the wall of 221b Baker Street in the shape of VR, after the queen. I think Downey Jr will pull it off, despite him not looking anything like Sidney Paget's traditional representation of Holmes. Downey is a fine actor, and Law looks great as Watson. (I do hope Holmes is undercover in those shots though...)
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I can't think of many directors I would trust less with this property. I bet Madonna's already preparing her notes for hubby. I mean, this is one of the greatest characters ever created. Oh well, at least we know there will always be more Holmes adaptations.
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Jeremy Brett is simply the definitive Sherlock Holmes. I'm not sure if any of his particular TV version made it to the US - if not then you fellas are severely missing out. Not to mention a having a decent Watson as a foil for his brilliance...
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Oct 13, 2008 3:34:34 PM CDT
If you click on Jude's pics, you'll see more Holmes...
by iamjack'suserid
...in attire more appropriate. I think it's safe to say he's undercover in the pics posted here. As far as casting British, I could care either way. As someone else said, as many times as Brits have played Americans I don't think anyone should begrudge us the chance to see the inverse occasionally.
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I thought he was in this?
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Ogre you arsehole! That's exactly what I was going to say (hoping that no one else had yet).Law's resemblance to Lee Van Cleef in that picture is uncanny. But it's only a still, so probably just a one off, the only time Jude Law actually looks like he might be able to punch his way out of a paper bag.
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Robert Downey Jr. wears a hat in this!!!??? This motherfucker is going to be huge!!!!! Remember when we found out Indiana Jones was going to wear a hat!?
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otherwise I may by mildly exited by the project.
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Did anyone else notice that RDJ is wearing sneakers while in costume? I mean Im sure with the Starbucks cup and all its between shots but I really hope they weren't filming him in period costume with what looks like skateboarding sneakers on. I mean unless there 100% certain you'd never see his feet in the given shot.
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Yeah, I only mind non-Brits playing British when the actor is crap and makes no effort, like Kevin Costner in Robin Hood. RDJ is fine. I would still liked to have seen Russell Crowe as Watson but Law looks interesting.
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Since we've already had a perfect interpetation of the Holmes of the stories with Brett, I don't see what's the trouble with changing it up a bit for a movie.
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Boy does he.
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Oct 13, 2008 4:52:34 PM CDT
Can they be better than Michael Cain and Sir Kingsley??
by six demon bag
only time will tell
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Jude Law looks like no incarnation of Watson I'm familiar with, never read the books though.
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that Law is not playing Doc Holiday instead?
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the wrong characters. They should switch roles. Downey is so fey at times but still a great actor no doubt, but I can't help looking at Donwey and seeing Caplin.
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supposed to be fat and old! Get familiar w/ the source material! Terrific reading!
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...or better yet, a youngish Terence Stamp. Maybe this is the role which will get his acting cred back. As for Downey's Sherlock - what's with the bowler hat? He looks like a self-parody of himself in "Chaplin." No deerstalker? If Ritchie wanted to eliminate the hat, why didn't he exchange it for a homburg or a fedora-ish thing? The bowler looks idiotic.
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Jude is Rocking the look !
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But Law actually looks pretty damn cool as Watson. Consider me intrigued by this project.
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The Brits have been playing our American icons for years. Nobody raised a fuss when Bale was cast as Batman. It's only fair we get one of theirs.
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So if you're worried that portrayals do not accurately match the source material, better grow some thick skin.
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So I wouldn't give Jude all the credit.
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...Recast the kids from Young Sherlock Holmes and do it right already.
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Oh wait, that's actually Downey.
I guess either Ritchie or Downey have been watching a lot of DEADWOOD. -
They'd be fuckin' right to do so.
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Wow! He was very close to the source material in a good way. Just looking at these pics I can see that they are going a very different direction for RDJ. I can't say that picture does anything for me, but I'm sure it'll be a though provoking take on the role if nothing else.
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....more like were Deadwood people watching Gangs of New York? Why....because they are greasy and dirty? Oh thats right, Deadwood has a patent on grease and dirt. Fuck off with that mate.
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You know, with a name like that, I gotta mind to think you're into specialty acts. But if you think Gangs of fuckin' New York is privy to the likes of dirt and grime, then you may want to lay off that fuckin' Celestial dope, my cocksuckin' friend.
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It's about time!!! (Fuck!)
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Methinks these walls are about to be covered with a lotta "fucks".
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expect shit. But still I'm sold on Law's appearance. But Downey looks like he's revisiting Chaplin or something.
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This ain't canon, my friends.
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This will be great.
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You're denying Gangs of New York was grimy? I don't even like the fucking movie to tell you the truth. I'm just saying it was grimy as fuck and the wardrobe here is similar. You're either blind, ignorant, or a combination of both-- with a little bit of my semen stuck in your eye just for kicks. Motherfucker name droppin' Deadwood and shit. I can't stand these kids that get all giddy and shit when they mention Deadwood because it can throw around words like CUNT and TWAT. Ooooohhhhh....that makes it good. Its muddy and they cuss up a fucking storm so you somehow feel more knowledgable when you speak of it. Grow a fucking brain-- suck my cock, massage my balls, and tickle the puckered lips of my asshole you stupid shit. P.S. You wouldn't happen to be a Republican would you?
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It doesn't matter what accent Christian Bale uses....he'll always have that lisp from those small as rodent teeth.
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Hey fucknuts, I'm the main character on fuckin' Deadwood. Do the arithmetic. Or are you one of them witless hoopleheads who hasn't actually seen the fuckin' broadcast but likes to run his mouth about it like a know it all cocksucker?Republican? Not fuckin' likely. I'm just a businessman. And the only thing I hate more than a liar is a fuckin' politician.
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grow a fuckin' prick. That way, when you pay for the services of one of my whores, she'll be able to feel a little something.
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The loopy fuckin' cunt stays in perfect character! Oddly enough, Swearengen's the first thought that jumped into my mind when I saw the Watson pics.
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Though, I wish he'd just push his hairline back a bit. I mean, let it start at where the rest of it is. Don't hang onto that little bit in the front. It looks so silly sometimes, even though he's still got a terribly gorgeous face. I like his shirt. Very crisp. And Robert Downey Jr. is going to be... I can't even imagine what kind of a Sherlock Holmes he's going to be. Let this have a good story, please. That's all I hope for. Let it not be about style and what-not, but a good, solid mystery.
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sans hitler stache?? btw fun fact did you know hitler's own mustache was an inspiration from chaplin when he was doing silent films, and who then played hitler in the great dictator in 1940 with a modified stache when he should have just kept it exactly as it was before.
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what the FUCK is jude law doing in this?
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Is a good actor. That's what he's doing in this. Need proof? Gattaca.
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Damn... A mustache gives him so many man points. I hope he'll never shave it.
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This might be good...
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KNEEL!
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Stop wasting time and consume my feces.
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I hope he relapses and destroys his career again
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Is a fun little flick.
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I'll fuckin' pass on your scat. But I appreciate your brushin' up against my prick all the same.
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Daniel Day Lewis as Sherlock Holmes, Russell Crowe as Watson, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
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Stephen Frears to direct.....
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should write the screenplay?
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Ralph Fiennes as Moriarty.
This is getting to feel like a conversation with my wife....one way. -
He'll hand out a flurry of uppercuts to the chin, 1800's-style.
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"Don't mention the War"
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Where is Jason Statham? Isn't he supposed to be in every single Guy Ritchie movie? I thought it was a law of the universe.
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