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There have been so many successful takes on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ace deducer (like most, I'm partial to Jeremy Brett) that there's no reason to get up in arms about Guy Ritchie's brawny, action-packed SHERLOCK HOLMES. Starring Robert Downey Jr. as a decidedly more cavalier Holmes than we're used to (with Jude Law as his dashing Watson), the film looks flashy in somewhat familiar ways (I won't be heartbroken if the speed ramping is just a trailer effect), and fetching in delightfully unexpected ways (hey there, Rachel McAdams!).
We're still more than half a year away from SHERLOCK HOLMES' December 25th release, so if you're wondering why the trailer draws heavily from two or three sequences, that's why. I like that Downey's Holmes appears to be a manic, unshaven mess for most of the movie. Also nice to see the great Mark Strong in the mix as the nefarious Lord Blackwood. And, yeah, McAdams.
Head on over to Yahoo! Movies to see the trailer in fabulous HD for yourself!
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been there done that
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Haven't read the books, but the mere fact that it looks completely different from every other take is a good sign. If anybody made a Frankenstein movie that wasn't based directly on James Whale's version people would start shouting "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT" within moments.
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Have to say, looks extremely good.
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Seriously. Fucking GI Joe looks better than this shite. And that's pretty bad.
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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here!!!! I'm not even going to argue about how badly they're fucking up the character. I'm just saying as a pure movie, Sherlock Holmes or not, it looks bad.
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I'll see it.
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...as a non Sherlock Holmes expert or purist this looks like it could be good fun. Or not.
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Just kidding, I actually like what I'm seeing quite a lot. I am an unabashed Guy Ritchie fan (Swept Away doesn't count) and RDJ is pretty encapable of being shitty. That's all the double does I need. I just wish they hadn't omitted Holme's cocaine addiction, but considering the actor I'm not surprised.
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Great actor, wrong part. Mark Strong should have been Sherlock. And Guy Ritchie hasnt made a good movie since snatch
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Looks pretty dull honestly.
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I'm not a Wandering_Prophet
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but its not sherlock holmes
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...while planning on paying for Transformers 2 this Summer, can GO FUCK THEMSELVES.The end.
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Downey does look like he's in over his head.
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May 18, 2009 8:05:46 PM CDT
Sherlock Holmes and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
by stereotypical evil archer
Looks like it.
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RDJ has been in a bomb already this year.
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May 18, 2009 8:06:58 PM CDT
Sherlock Holmes and the Attack of the Pirate Clones
by stereotypical evil archer
Hell yeah, Pirate Clones!
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Hello, I am new member. The trailer looks good
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May 18, 2009 8:11:31 PM CDT
Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Nanny Seducer
by stereotypical evil archer
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May 18, 2009 8:12:18 PM CDT
It's just making him a transient, anti-hero, cad seems so cliche
by industrykiller!
Especially with the casting of Downey Jr., whom I love. But it all seems the obvious way to make him EDGY and EXTREME! I would think it would be much more surprising and cool to watch him play it straight and STILL be charismatic without falling back on his strengths. He could totally do it. This just looks a bit like Pirates in Victorian England. Probably well directed and acting, but predictable.
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You're a fucking professional for being here. If you need anything, give me a call, I'm up late.(818) 997-3665
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I can say my interest is sparked on that phrase alone.
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Let me say that looked bad.
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was pretty lame. just saw it.
only good thing was young spock. and his badarse use of the vulcan death grip.
i've never seen such a retarded use of time travel/eric bana/ old leonard nimoy/ beastie boys.
best nimoy=monorail.
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May 18, 2009 8:16:13 PM CDT
Sherlock Holmes and the mystery of DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
by stereotypical evil archer
Spoiler! Sherlock loses.
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Fun. I can definitely see the "Withnail & I" vibe they said they were going for. The trailer's a bit fast for me. If the next one shows more character stuff it could be interesting!
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that ran before the movie looked like horse shit...that includes transformers...um...the Smithsonian/stiller flick....day one....GI Joe looks really fucking awful...i mean beyond bad...
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May 18, 2009 8:19:31 PM CDT
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Hobbit Massage
by stereotypical evil archer
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You nailed it. The other problem I had with that trailer is they try to paint Sherlock Holmes as an adventurer/spy like character, and not the master detective/master of deduction that he is. Its like they feel that having him being smart and observant wouldn't be "sexy" enough for the audience.
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...in a real theater in so long that if I sat down in a piss smelling multi-plex amidst an ocean of twittering teenagers and saw THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING FUCKING TROUSERS I would probably piddle myself and weep in hysterical hyperventilating excitement.
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They wake up beneath a beautiful blanket of stars.
Sherlock asks "What does this tell you, old friend?"
"Well..", says Watson, "Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful and that we are a small and insignificant part of the universe. Why? What does it tell you Holmes, old chap?"
"Some fucker's stolen our tent."
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I was hoping this would be a modern film but with its roots in the original characters and texts, a faithful but updated Holmes story. Instead it's just an action romp that cares nothing for its characters' provenance. Still, with that in mind it might be fun.
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do the world a favor and kick the kid into a deep body of water. and go so see ghosts of girlfriends past. movie fucking pwns. plus get a bag of skittles and stuff your lil fun mouth to the teeth.
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I thought you were going to go into "Brokeback Mountain" territory with that story.
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it feels like every other big name movie this year. Good action for the popcorn crowd and good enough character for the nerds (which I am). No one can really critique it since there's 'something for everyone'. I saw some true Holmes moments and I saw some gratuitous money moments.
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Infinitely, even in a romp.
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Whats with the phone number? You want us to talk with your mom and sister????
WOW all the hate... Reminds me a bit of the old carry on films,, but with guns... and fighting... and action... and a yanquee... Fuck it, it will still jizz all over Tintin jumper... -
That looks like they could have just invented some English detective/action star. The Holmes tales I read didn't have him like some Martin Riggs type with his cliche action buddy along for the ride. What a crock. Holmes is dark, forbodeing, calculating. Great actors and I like the director but that script, clearly, looks as formulaic as H20. (Water, not Halloween, you know, the formula?)
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Nice one Continentalop!
Actually, I fucked it up. I forgot to make a new paragraph for the punchline. You can see it before you get to it.
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I too have had too resist the urge to be that guy who brought their screaming kid to the movie. I saw 4 movies last summer. Alone and at like noon.
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when you say ' do the world a favor and kick the kid into a deep body of water' are you really trying to sound like a stupid cunt, because if you are then well done!! Cunt...
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Fox's 'House' has been doing a modern day Holmes, and damn well, since the first episode some five years ago.
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I mean, okay, right? Fine. They must know what they're doing. I'll get excited when they do The List of 7, though.
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There's really nothing of Holmes to be seen in the character in the trailer. This is more akin to the tragic LXG movie.
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He would make a good Holmes but House has a few tendencies that Holmes would view with utter disdain.
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go give money to UNICEF or Save the Children and stop being so decent, you twat nose.
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twat nose?? Interesting...
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I;m not trying to be an asshole, I'm genuinely interested. What do you think Holmes would dislike about House (other than the general aversion both seemed to view all other people with)?
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and Hulk, and Hellboy 2, and Dark Knight. At least it was opening day.
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you jerk! he has a membership to a country club! he's got a lease for a ford explorer! he has a six handicap! he can do a one and a half off a diving board! he has a decent amount of chest hair! he keeps his head down through his backswing, eye on the ball! he is genuinely interested in what my mom has to say about politics!
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If you don't like it, you can squeeze my dick.
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Starring Brendan Frasier as Adrian Brody!
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Holmes likes Opium.
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im a little iffy on Guy Ritchie but come on, as long as the script is halfway decent this should be charismatic fun.
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RDJ can act... now is this script great, etc.? I don't know.
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Guy Ritchie hasn't blown me away lately.
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Can some Sherlock explain to me how to do line breaks in TalkBack?
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fun is never charismatic.
only my church is.
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in college seeing symbols that must mean something!
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mind of our generation?
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the Mencia of our generation?
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Except without the spaces.
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how yummy rachel mcadams looked in that little costume...my word.
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Holy shit. I can't stand up now.
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"Your girlfriend looks a bit young Holmes!"
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a blood spurting boner and tie a grindstone to his thigh!
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is onthe comeback trail? is this correct?does sherlock take his shirt off a lot in the hemingway version?is carlos mencia the mencia of our generation?
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May 18, 2009 8:59:51 PM CDT
With some random guy walking down the street as Dr. Watson!
by castlemonster
Thanks Jimmay
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While the trailer was a bit too fast, I'm completely sold on this movie because it takes a fresh (and actually true to source) take on the characters. Looks like pulp bliss if you ask me.
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and harry knowles pre-bitch surgery before i would even consider holding hands with rachel "swineflu" mcadams!
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Was looking forward to this...not so much anymore...
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You're on your own there, man!
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Seriously.
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Guy Ritchie is irrelevant and RDJ as Sherlock Holmes? LMAO.
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We've always got Brett as the definitive version...this looks way better then expected.
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there's a big explosion at the end of this one!
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All good movies have crop circles.
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Why is Michael Phelps attacking Sherlock Holmes with a sledgehammer?
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Looks alright, Rachael McAdams scantly clad is always a plus.
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maitlanr, you need help!
I'm not sold on Richie-Holmes. I would prefer Bourne-Holmes, with genuine period detail - accents, speech, behaviour, etc. Downey's accent sounds pretty bad. -
Is it just me are does this have a mildly lean to a Wild Wild West with English Accents? Still looks like a hell of a lot of fun. Wonders about Holmes cocaine tweeks and gay undertones that Doyle added. Having read once that Sir Arthur grew tired of the popularity of the character and tried to make his as unpleasant as possible. Of course making him even more a must read for its time.
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Great, a Sherlock Holmes for dumb people. Arthur Conan Doyle is spinning in his grave.
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...but it looks more like Shanghai Nights than Sherlock Holmes. Downey looks and sounds a bit...wrong as well. Won't be rivalling Brett anytime soon.
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The woman is incredible. So sexy. Otherwise, that doesn't quite look like what I expected, and not in the best way. Looks pretty dumb. Guy Ritchie has gone wayyyy downhill since Snatch. Consistently bad.
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actually lowers my excitement for a movie. The trailer reminds me of Shanghai Knights, which I admit was a guilty pleasure, but still, I was hoping for more than Shanghai Knights from this flick.
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Downey, however he seems miscast in this film. I think they should have taken their cue visually and thematically from the Jeremy Brett series.
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about any movie, I don't care what (even if it's the Spirit 2), deserves to have their balls shoved up their ass. It's the dumbest, most cliche thing you can ever type.
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is ben "swineflu" garza when you need him?!?!?!??!??!?!?!
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my Watson.
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perhaps Sherlock can solve tis mystery?
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Having never seen a Guy Ritchie movie, I don't know what to expect from him. Are his movies always this jokey? Wasn't expecting that. The trailer didn't give off the cerebral vibe that is an absolute necessity for a Holmes movie. But I'm not going to write off the movie just yet. I've waited my whole adult life for Holmes to return to the big screen. It's been too long since Young Sherlock Holmes.
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As with most classical literary characters, there's room for interpretation (Dracula, Romeo & Juliet, etc). I like that they're NOT straight-adapting a Doyle story (we've seen most of them ad nauseam). Giving it they're own spin is what makes it interesting for me.
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Click the link, stupid.
Anyway...looks tarded. Old timey boxing in slo-mo? An unidentifiable accent for Sherlock (seriously what part of England was he supposed to be from there? He sounds like Frasier). Some seriously bland shit and I'm a huge Guy Ritchie fan. Ah well. -
Best Holmes pastiche ever.
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...in glorious Snyder-Vision!
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They're just putting Action and Comedy and scantily clad McAdams in the Trailer to put asses in seats. What did you expect, a long trailer length Holmes monologue about what he can tell about Watson based on the condition of his shoes?
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This doesn't appear to have anything in common with Sherlock Holmes apart from the name.
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Reading The Complete Holmes now, and I admit I can't envision this slam-bang, quip-a-minute movie vision. I love the look, but I can't get my head around Downey and Law. Plus, I doubt Holmes would be seduced by Rachel McAdams refugee from Moulin Rouge when Irene Alder (Cate Blanchett, in my head) is running around out there.
Now, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry for Holmes and Watson and I'd practically live at the movie theater. But then that's my pick. Right now, I think this will be a good holiday film to take the in-laws to.
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Game over man, game over!
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I seriously thought LXG when I saw this shitty trailer!
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There's a film (a comedy) from the 80's (I think) with Michael Caine as Holmes and Ben Kingsley as Watson called "Witout a Clue". Dumb title but a funny film. Whod'a thunk that Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley would make a great comic team. The comedy is pretty low-brow slapstick stuff but the way Caine and Sir Kingsley play off of each other make it worthwhile.
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Agree with you there, Aversion, but not with your reading of the film. Having read several in depth chats with Downey & co, i get the impression they're sticking close to the story and characters. They're just focusing more on the action, which is apparently mentioned but only briefly in the books.
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I hope you're right that the finished product will showcase more detective work than the trailer. I understand the audience the producers are trying to reach with their advertising tactics. But in a summer filled with loud movies, more explosion and bon mots just seem like white noise to me. And I'm sure a good editor could have spliced together a nice 10 second montage for the trailer using quick cuts of Holmes making a series of deductions. Done right, it could have conveyed plenty of attitude while showing that Holmes' mind is even faster than his fists.
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May 18, 2009 10:27:17 PM CDT
so did Rachel McAdams just steal all of Jennifer Garner's roles?
by bmacsmith
McAdams is basically a prettier version of Garner. Seems like Garner's career tanked right around the time McAdams showed up.
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His House character is based on Holmes, as is the whole show.
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This looks entertaining.
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I'm confused by the exchanged between Watson and Holmes--Watson: "Does your depravity know no bounds?" Holmes: "No." So Holmes is admitting it does, by the double negative then?
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Even while updating the material, Star Trek maintained a certain reverence for its past. Holmes will be successful if it can strike the right balance. I didn't see enough from the trailer to make a definitive judgment.
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This looks like it will be a fun movie to see. Plus, McAdams, she is one of Hollywood's most beautiful actresses.
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May 18, 2009 10:48:58 PM CDT
Why do the same old shit when you have Brett
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
Unless this movie magically deletes all instances of the Brett tv show in existence I don't see what people are fucking crying over. We have the adaptation that's all accurate and shit already, move on you assholes. Anyway I'm excited for this, the books are mostly pretty fucking dull honestly. Holmes was always more interesting in theory than in practice to me.
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Honestly, if it was just made like a dramatic thriller, it would be a massive bore. As engaging as the books are, that shit does not translate unless you amp it up a bit. That was fine back in the day, but come on.
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I would still think so had the trailer not put his name next to his face...Guy Ritchie is sort of "I don't mind him" for me. I loved Snatch for the fun it was, but I didn't find it particularly implicating of a "great" director.but the cast of this looks great, and if the thing can remain FUN throughout, who could really fault this? it's certainly not going to be super faithful, but then again, it's Guy Ritchie doing Sherlock Holmes with Iron Man...I mean, seriously? what were you expecting?and I agree with Danny, if Transformers is your action ideal, and you can't let some 19th century hammer fights up in there, you're a doofus.I'm sure he used a filthier word, but I'm a lady and I didn't read that far...
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Isn't funny how we see a trailer..like it, and say that's the movie I want to see. Then we go see it, it dissapoints, but yet we point again at the screen during another trailer and say "Now that's the movie I want to see next." Damn we are some dumb creatures...haha. Damn I do that shit and it sucks
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thought LSATSB and Snatch were entertaining but not amazing, while revolver and swept away were both god-afwul. I think this at least looks good. However aside from wether Ritchie's flashy style suits the source material, my big concern is that i recognized every scene in that trailer from the script I read (a supposed earlier draft thats circulating the internet). And thats not a good thing.
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Tough enough to stomach the character changes without the bathroom humor.
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if this turns out to be a turd, I'm gonna blame it on the heatstroke/egregious sunburn I got yesterday...soccer game + 9 holes of golf + double header softball game = 10 hours in the sun =
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big fan of Downey and Strong. But this looks terrible. Absolutely terrible. Bears no resemblance to Holmes what-so-ever (and I'm not talking just looks).
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May be onto something if the character's names were simply NOT Sherlock and Watson but still in the same universe. The cast, atmosphere and attitude does not seem to gel otherwise. I await with bated breath to see if one is wrong.It's just a trailer after all...
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It's physically impossible for any human being to do a better Holmes than Brett. Cosmically good.So the only thing left to do is something harmlessly somewhat stupid like this. Because there's no way they're making a Hollywood film half as smart as Brett's TV series.Like Star Trek, we'll enjoy this zero-calorie version, forget it minutes later, and then go back to admiring the past masters.
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...nomination, probably.
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I guess this won't be a droll, witty puzzlebox of a story, huh?
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better, and i certainly hope so, though it does nt appear to have been changed much at all based on that trailer. The story/mystery is as obvious as the one in Angels and Demons...for fucks sake i could figure it out before Holmes in the script, which makes the audiance 2 steps ahead of Holmes...not a good thing. The villain (mark strong character) is a complete saterday morning cartoon villain...no motivation or character at all. And his plan is something we have seen so many times...think the villains plan in Shangai Knights...
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..."wow, this could be pretty bad." Like the cast but the trailer did nothing for me...
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manages to overcome its really dumb script, and still be really entertaining even if you cant think too hard about it...
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this movie and the real Sherlock Holmes is purely coincidental"
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The trailer makes me fear for the worst, though I know it will appeal to the masses and get them in the seats. Downey looks like he'll turn in an awesome performance as always. There seems to be a lot of action/comedy "moments" that they're hitting like John Henry, and that sends up the red flag for me. I'll hold on to hope just a little while longer, but my grip is shaky and slipping.
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I don't care what any of you say. Most of you are being typical AICN posters. hmm... let's see who can be the most sarcastic and mean spirited? All I know is this movie looks fun and different. Why remake the same old Sherlock we have seen over and over? I will be there on Christmas evening to see it with my ass firmly planted in the theater seat. I hope you all have a pleasant evening at home nodding off on your sofas after stuffing your faces all day. You all get really tiresome with the same old negative comments over and over.
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Trailer looks fun though... can't imagine even Ritchie would put speed ramped fights in a period piece!
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This is pretty much exactly what I was hoping for. Fuck a BBC miniseries in the cinema. And fuck Iron Man - this is the Robert Downey Jr. action picture I want to see.
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it was ok, but wtf was up with that lameass punch? imo Brad Pitt's fight scene at the end of Snatch was so badass and for Ritchie to film such a puss punch is so much the polar extreme of the Snatch fight scene. But I am looking forward to this, we need to support Guy Ritchie to show he doesn't need that gap-tooth thundercunt exwife of his. Plus it's got RACHEL MCADAMS.
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Sherlock Holmes isnt action? it suspense and some sweet ass detective work. In other words, this looks kinda like the wrong idea. And I always thought watson and holmes would be older...they kidna look like a gay couple in this one.
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I read the short stories, and I liked this trailer. Quite a bit...
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Since when is Sherlock Holmes an action hero? They've turned him into a super hero blockbuster movie character. This is absurd!, and I'm dumb enough to go see it.
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May 19, 2009 12:19:42 AM CDT
Looks like Law should be Sherlock & Downey, Watson
by gibsonusa returns
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People, people, people; you could release a completely faithful Sherlock Holmes movie that looked similarly glossy, but with much more intellect than punch. But then it would be this "interesting" movie that ended up on the art house circuit and if it did make it to the multiplexes it'd be dead in the water.
This was the only way to do it and have it be successful in America. From the first still I saw of Downey, Jr. I wasn't hopeful. They've def. turned him into something that plays to Downey's strengths. Which sucks. I feel bad for all involved. Like many of you say, it seems to have elements of a great film, but it's too action-buddy-flick oriented.
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Was that directed at The Soloist if it was who ever wrote that is a moron. Why is it that so many people judge movies not even big summer movies or tent pole films by the box office. So let me get this straight a movie starring RDJ playing a journalist befriending a mentally challenged musical artist didn't make 100 million dollars in the BO. How is that surprising that movie did not cost like anything to make and it made a decent amount for a drama like that. Some people are idiots. Anyway this trailer left me going "meh" but I really don't have any deep connection to the character. It looks better than TF2 but that is not saying much.
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reads, its Holmes as an action hero, and its really dumbed down. Its definatly Holmes done to appeal to the mainstream audiance. Personally I still liked the footage though, and I hope its as fun as it looks. As i ve said im just worried about that very mediocre script. But then Trek worked despite a seriously dumb script....
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paying to see TF2..if that helps at all...
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That was Sherlock Holmes? Well, I must admit I am intrigued
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kung fu stick fights and holmes pit fighting!!! r u fucking seriouse!!!!!!!!! He smacks of Alan Partridge
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Looks like a much less good YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES.
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We have had many films and tv programs portraying holmes in the original style.I am glad they are making a different version.
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... I was worried for a bit that Guy Richie was making a Sherlock Holmes movie. It seems he hasn't after all. Thankfully my version of Holmes is intact, because this film has NOTHING TO DO WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES!
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Truly this will be a craptastic film of Superman Returns proportions! As well cast as Downey was for Iron Man, he's as ILL-cast here as Sherlock Holmes. NOTHING about his looks, manners or actions in this trailer resemble Holmes, except the fact that several cast members actually call him "Holmes."This will be a painfully bad movie not even worth downloading off bittorrent. Truly SHINO!!! >:P
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Dont get the fascination. Sure shes cute, but that's about it.
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How cool was he in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang? So they injected some Harry Lockhart into Holmes, it happens.
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I must have read a different series. I though Holmes was a detective, not a whiz bang quip a second guns blazing douchebag. This looks as bad as TF2.
I can't wait to not watch the scene where Holmes thinks he's getting laid...but ends up handcuffed in bed. It's so funny because he thought he was going to have sex and now he has to explain to the maid why he's there.
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You don't think she's hot? Do you put your dick in a jar of olives? You krazy!
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made one semi-watchable movie.
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that trailer was wowza.
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but I kinda liked it.
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Never cared for her til I saw Red Eye and her as a brunette, since I had only seen her as a blonde, since then I have been a fan. I've said it before and I'll say it again STATE OF PLAY > everything else right now.
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...that, despite loving almost everything RDJ has been in, despite thinking Rachel McAdams is not only talented but jaw-droppingly attractive, despite enjoying most of Guy Ritchie's ouevre (even Swept Away rates as a diverting-self-indulgent-slightly-weird-watch-my-wife-hump-a-stranger kinda flick), despite appreciating much of what Jude Law has thrown my way via the cinema scren over the past decade and despite the fact that they are appearing in a film involving one of the major 'brand' names in literature that this is going to be under-whelming.There's something so "The Mummy meets any one of Owen Wilson's buddy movies" about this.But it's only a trailer - how bad can it realy be. LPus Rachel McAdams in lingerie is well worth ten quid. And my bird will be pacified by the Downey Jnr/Law one-two...
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Jeremy Brett!! Jeremy Brett!! Jeremy Brett!! Jeremy Brett!! Jeremy Brett!! Jeremy Brett!! Jeremy Brett!! Jeremy Brett!! Jeremy Brett!! Jeremy Brett!! Jeremy Brett!! Jeremy Brett!! Jeremy Brett!!
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And from what they showed, it looks great. I love the way the character is re-imagined. It's like an anime take on the character.
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I never thought I'd type these words, but -- I want to see this Sherlock Holmes action movie.
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How much people here hate movies that include cleanly shot action sequences and witty banter, as well as some good physical comedy and sexuality. Basically, anything entertaining that came after 1989. Can we just TRY to enjoy something?
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He's the greatest Holmes by a long, long way. I've grown up with Holmes. I first loved Rathbone's version as a child watching old black and white films on a Sunday afternoon on BBC2. A bit older, I read the books, then Brett came on the scene, in a medium that after the books, was the best way to enjoy Holmes, serialised television. Here Brett could use his considerable skill to display the many facets, both flawed and peerless, of the greatest literary hero of modern times. And then we come to this......... I think I have just said enough about my love of all things Sherlockian. But even I recognise that the stories, as good as they are and told as well as they were by Rathbone then Brett, if made in the ways of the past would horribly bomb at the box office with the current batch of ADD riddled youth we seem plagued with today. Does this trailer and maybe the film contain one more explosion than I remember in all the books. Yes. Does Irene Adler seem more sexual and kinky than the one I first read, Yes. Is this trailer what is needed to get a new generation interested in Holmes. You bet your arse it is. I love Homes but I'm not to prissy about the liberties they've taken with this telling. It seems that they have got many of the flaws present in the character in the film and many of the little known aspects too. Holmes was an proficient fighter, he was messy, he was curt with people at times and easily bored. Watson was a former soldier, a crack-shot with a pistol, formidably intelligent in his own way and more than once provided Holmes with much needed backup in tight situations. AND the trailer made me laugh more than once. If after watching this just a handful of people pick up a Holmes book for the first time and get lost in the world Doyle created, then its done it's job. I enjoyed the trailer, I may or may not enjoy the film. But I wont dismiss it purely on this.
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Complete with Obligatory shouting of title at the end.
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Loved the stories. Loved the Jermemy Brett/Granada series. But I'm not dismissing this movie because it may have deviated from the source material slightly. I'll most likely watch it and enjoy it.
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May 19, 2009 4:06:08 AM CDT
Guy Ritchie shat the bed assuming he could
by wolverines_leaky_workprint
make a summer tent pole movie. 'of course i can make a big budget hollywood actioner, im guy ritchie!' well looks like he just shat the bed throwing loud horns and strings at something does not a summer tentpole make.
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looks just like what I thought a guy richie holmes would be like. It's nothing but what they have been saying it will be. Knowing that I think it looks a lot of fun.
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Downey is the only attraction here, well him and McAdams of course.
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This one won't even make it to my Netfix list.
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that's going to dent the box office takings a fair bit. you are going to see terminator though right? Sure it will bomb if you are not there, bud.
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If Ritchie was so determined to make an action movie he should probably have adapted the first Holmes story, 'A Study in Scarlet', given that much of it plays like a western (and is set in Utah). Plus there'd be the added bonus of pissing of the LDS (the story features a very unsympathetic, though arguably accurate, portrayal of the Mormons and the Mountain Meadows massacre). This thing looks like 'Young Sherlock Holmes: The Cappuccino Years'.
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Never read holmes so guess I don't mind the casting or character changes. There's so much shit movie making going on at the mo, at least this looks like it might entertain rather than just fill my eyes and ears with noise for 2 hours (I'm looking at you Bay)
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I'm sold!
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and ritchie hasn't made an enjoyable movie since snatch. but what the hell, might be fun...
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Why are there so many people complaining that it isn't like other Holmes films?
Most depictions of Holmes in TV and film are just wrong, this looks much more faithful to the original books.
Don't forgot Holmes was a drug addict with mental problems who liked a fight. -
MONKEY.
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Hollywood 2009 treatment of this story: A fit, slick Sherlock Holmes with the fighting skills of Chuck Norris goes up against evil genius Moriarty who also happens to be an exemplary swordsman, his signature move being a corkscrew leap through the air with both blades slashing, his cape rippling stylishly around him. Watson, lovable chump around the ladies, blessed with nothing but good looks and a prodigious talent for codebreaking, saves the day by knocking Holmes to the ground just before he steps on the exploding flagstone, its location given away by the angle of the sun, the twitch under the right eye of Mr Dobbs the greengrocer, and the appearance of the mysterious stranger in the pinstripe suit.
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Christ, I wasn't far off.
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I do like the way it presents Holmesy as an unwashed, thieving drug addict. Nice.
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I'm just not a fan of Sherlock Holmes and this trailer put me to sleep.
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Okay, he's dead, but so's Bogey and he starred in a "Tales from the Crypt" in the 90's! Or was it Orson Welles? But it was definitely one of them.
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Rachel McAdams is hot.
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May 19, 2009 7:15:02 AM CDT
So, this is some person named Sherlock Holmes but not the real o
by photoman
Kind of like that cartoon called "Ghostbusters" that really had nothing to do with the movie "Ghostbuster" and when they made a cartoon about that, they had to call it "The Real Ghostbusters". So this is just called Sherlock Holmes but has not a shred of anything to do with the Arthur Conan Doyle version. I get it now. They just use the name, but nothing else.
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Big fan of Holmes - and I realise that this will stray a lot from the source. However it looks like it could be a lot of fun. Hated the idea of Law as Watson - but the trailer makes me think that it could work.
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hehe
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Looked interesting as a film (although there were some obviously fake edit conversations in the trailer) ... but there was more action in the trailer than in any Holmes story. I hereby dub the film: LXSH
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Looks like Archie has a new job! Speaking of Archie, I REALLY hope Ritchie does a follow up to RocknRolla... one of the best movies of 2008!
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got a bit of a Zorro vibe happening. the first one- not the sequel
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http://wbads-34.vo.llnwd.net/e1/wbmovies/sherlock/SherlockHolmes_TRL1_LL.mov
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So looks more like a "comedy" ala "Love at first bite" or "Zorro: The Gay Blade". Does that mean the goofy comedy version of Sherlock Holmes will actually be a serious action movie
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Which, predictably, means a hefty $70 million opening weekend. Fun for the masses, not so much for actual Sherlock Holmes fans.
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I actually say 'I want to go see a Guy Ritchie directed movie'. That looks great. And for the record, I'm a Sherlock fan but I don't see the point in merely recreating past stories. I'm glad they went the Star Trek route and reinvented it. Holmes is a great character and Downey is perfect. I'm so glad he turned his career around.
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In what year did Guy Ritchie last make a good movie?
No, I'm sorry, it is in fact a trick question - Guy Ritchie has NEVER made a good movie.
Anyway, maybe this will be the first, in a long long time if nothing else. Christmas Day? RDJ? Hype starting already, 6 months early? This is going to be BIG. And it looks like it is going to be a ton of fun. -
The one from the studio that said "Ten Modern Movie Stupidities That Have To Be In Your Sherlock Holmes Movie If We're Going To Pay For It." Really, this is like a parody on That Mitchell and Webb Look or something.
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So I can't really judge if this is faithful to the material or not. But as a newcomer, it certainly LOOKS entertaining. One can only hope that they keep the thinking and deductive stuff in there. Since Holmes is a detective and all, and not a vigilante fighting crime.
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I always thought it was a bit unfair the way Doyle offhandedly mentioned Holmes' talents for boxing, single-stick, fencing and Baritsu without ever putting them to use in his stories. I'm excited to see Holmes kick ass...as long as the fight scenes contribute to a good detective story. It will all be meaningless if there isn't a mental challenge on par with all the stunt work. I'm hoping that's the case.
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Nothing about that trailer says "Sherlock Holmes" to me.It says "Victorian-era action movie starring Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams."But it doesn't say "Sherlock Holmes".They would have been better off just making a Victorian-era action movie starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams and left the Holmes trappings on the cutting-room floor.
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I understand, but since I'm a bit more open of how my characters are reimagined, I thought it was funny. It's not going to be David Dobkin's Shanghai Knights, it's going to be Guy Ritchie's Shanghai Knights. :)
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Even if you're not a SH aficionado like me.
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you people are crazy.
this looks the bee's knees
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You saw the script to Star Trek before release?! How are you getting this stuff? Anyway, Robert Downey Jr was white-hot when cast for Sherlock Holmes and so he guarantees a certain amount of boxoffice return. Mark Strong would've been better, but the film wouldn't have made as much money. Simple as...
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First, I'm a big Sherlock fan and I have been for the better part of my life. I have even read a couple of the books (lol). But as I was watching the preview clip I had feelings of dread as my mind wondered back to that afternoon I sat in the theater watching that embarrassing "Hollywood" debacle, the (re-booted) "Wild,wild west". I'm not saying that "Hollywood" is incapable of "up-dating" the much loved, venerated traditions of our shared past...BUT making Victorian England exciting WITHOUT inviting the MTV camera man into the time machine would make me "more confident" in the future of this picture... -
but Chuck wasn't interested. Chuck would have carried this film straight to the fucking box office! FACT!!
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Not really getting the haters here. Sherlock die hard fans?? WTF! you must be the smallest of small fanbases anyway no one cares what you think. Guy's going to shit all over your shitty SH cannon
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May 19, 2009 11:34:16 AM CDT
first rule of Sherlock Holmes: you don't talk about Sherlock Hol
by zooch
What's the Fight Club style fight scene?
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When someone says "Hey, we are making a Sherlock Holmes movie" I expect to see a SHERLOCK HOLMES movie. However, when this trailer I don't see anything that says "Sherlock Holmes." This isn't a re-imagining or a reboot like Star Trek or Batman Begins, this is an apparently completely different character whom they have slapped the Sherlock Holmes name on. This has the same feeling of being off that Frank Miller's All-Star Batman and Robin had.
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You're just wrong if you don't think that looks entertaining as heck. And heck is very, very entertaining.
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Welcome to hell.
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It's really good. I'm looking forward.
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. . . this was more of a "Sherlock Holmes Begins" sort of story. Imagine Sherlock at Oxford, a genius who has no passion for academic pursuits because they come too easy for him, so he takes up sleuthing. Then something horrible happens to him and he becomes the dry, pedantic sunuvabitch that we all know and love.
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So I normally hate fanboy bitching but that was sad. Looks like a generic action movie. Bleh. And who know Holmes was a man-whore?
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Iron Man would have been a generic action movie
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I can understand that it may be a good movie. May be a great action movie with sex and violence and great fight scenes...but this isn't about Sherlock purists getting up and arms about it. Just from the trailer itself it doesn't look anything like Sherlock Holmes. This isn't like a re-imagining of the franchise...it's taking the name of some character and then making a movie that has nothing to do with the character. This is Yahoo Serious and "Young Einstein" all over gain!
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May 19, 2009 12:38:25 PM CDT
The TRAILER was CUT to make it look like an action movie.
by themarinebiologist
And even the action that we saw in the trailer is very reminiscent of the stuff in the short stories. Anyone who says otherwise clearly has not read them.
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makes you my all time favourite dude from the Interwebs. I fucking love you man. Brett was awesome.
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Ewan McGregor is Watson
Chris Nolan the director
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"I gotta admit I always wanted to get Edgar Allan Poe in a headlock. That thing is like a pumpkin!"
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It's not often I feel moved to post a comment in the Talkback but after seeing that trailer I feel everyone deserves to know that I feel the new Sherlock Holmes trailer is a steaming pile.
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more - my eyes, my ears.or my soul. changed my mind about McAdams - dumb bitch.
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I think I've seen hundreds of different of Sherlock Holmes so the Guy Ritchie version isn't going to be that of a change.
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Holmes is Moriarty and a good boxer? Team that with the super slo-mo in the trailer and you have a Victorian era Fight Club!
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May 19, 2009 1:10:12 PM CDT
I'd better get busy reading Sherlock Holmes to my kids.
by skeletonparty
So they don't think this crap is actually Sherlock Holmes.
Honestly,this looks like they bought the name Sherlock Holmes and decided to make the "In No Way Sherlock Holmes" movie.
Isn't Robert Downey Jr. supposed to be in prison or rehab or something? And why is Gigolo Joe in this? Has anyone, ever, once, at any point watched Jude Law on screen and even for a second find themselves mesmerized by a character he's portraying? He's always played exactly himself.
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Wow. This is painfully bad.
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It might be a really good Victorian-era action movie starring Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams.
It might be rip-roaring good fun.
But it will be forever dragged down because they chose to use the Sherlock Holmes branding.
If they made the exact same movie and changed the names of the characters, I bet it would be hailed as a really fun summer blockbuster.
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Every shit laden, stinking, pus ridden one of them.
This, as many have said, is not Sherlock Holmes. Worse than that I don't see a single inventive moment in that trailer. And talk about insult your audience, does House and the Mentalist not show that there is a decent audience for intelligent escapist fun without going all Lethal Weapon/Shanghai Noon/Wild Wild West on us? -
I am a Sherlock Holmes fan - I have read all the shorts stories, novels, seen most of the existing movies, tv episodes etc. However I am not so precious about Holmes that I am too bothered when the characters stray from Doyle's originals - I happen to like the bumbling qualities of Nigel Bruce. But this film just looks bad - terrible even. Total shit.
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I agree with you. I love all the Holmes stories but purists would probably not like the fact that I think that Rathbone and Bruce were the most entertaining Holmes and Watson. Yep Brett was great but, once you've read the books, I find his literal interpretation means that all we are seeing is a playback of the books.
The difference with Rathbone and Bruce is that, whilst they may not be entirely true to the books they honoured the characters and the essential spirit of them was there for all to see. Unlike this vacuous crap. -
It's not the fighting. It's not the action. It's not the explosions. Like others have pointed out, the short stories have all these things.
The problem is that RDJ's Sherlock Holmes is too frenetic. He's too jittery. He doesn't seem comfortable in his own skin.
You could say many things about Sherlock Holmes, but "jittery" isn't one of them.He's like James Bond that way. He could be in a burning warehouse with the roof caving in on him and he'd still be cool as a cucumber.
The shot that really gives it away is when RDJ jumps out the window of the House of Commons into the Thames. The look on his face is one of panic.
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Why don't the fools who hate this trailer NOT watch the movie...and those that liked it - well they SHOULD watch it....what do you say...it's radical...but it may just work! What's wrong with you haters? It looks like an action movie to me...it looks like it could be fun...and that's why I'll be watching it. This is someone's interpretation of Holmes - that's all. If Nick Fury can be an African American, if Starbuck can be a woman, if Lex Luthor of the movies can be a whiney little jester of a bitch, RDJ's Holmes can be jittery. Sheesh!
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. . . you don't NEED to read the Talkbacks.
Isn't it neat the way that works? -
just shut the fuck up and enjoy yourselves
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. . . is HOW I enjoy myself! That's the essence of the being a nitpicky movie geek.
It's the whole reason Al Gore invented the Internet! -
Talking about cliches I am really getting bored with anybody who has a negative comment to say about something being called a hater.
You'll note that I don't have a go at anybody who likes it, I just state my opinion. You state yours and leave me out of it.
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...by including one brief shot of RDJ with a clean-shaven face in a nice suit LOOKING like Sherlock Holmes. Sure he's all gruff and dirty and stuff when he's on the job and having fun, but when the moment calls for it he knows enough to clean up nicely. You know, for PR purposes. How else is he gonna attract more rich clients?
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...I freakin' loved Star Trek, and I even liked the guy who played James T. Kirk. So there.
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People are complaining that this looks nothing like Sherlock Holmes and that the (excellent mind you) Brett version of the character is the "true" Holmes. Seems like folks haven't really read their Holmes. Yes, this trailer is pumped up to look more action like, and yes this is a more sly take on the character, but many of the things being complained about are straight from the stories:
Holmes and Watson both carried pistols at various points. Watson mentions that they used them on at least seven separate occasions.
Holmes notes that he is an expert in "singlestick" martial arts and uses his cane as a weapon in the stories.
Watson has described Holmes as being an expert swordsman.
In one story Holmes makes a comment that suggests that he was a more than competent boxer and in several other he winds up in fist fights (and emerges the winner).
Holmes ultimate kills Moriarty by using a throw he learned while training in a Japanese wrestling martial art.
Holmes doesn't seem to enjoy realtionships with women very much as he finds them too emotionally driven, but he does admire their beauty and finds the problems the bring to him interesting. This has led some people to decide that Holmes was gay, but making him a cad works as well. He doesn't respect women because they are flighty, so he uses them like he does his drugs, simply for pleasure. All women except Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams in the movie) whom intrigues him at an intellectual level as she is nearly as (if not more) crafty as he is.
Sure the movie looks like a radical departure from the caricature of Holmes that we've come to know, but it seems to be taking a lot of inspiration from elements of the stories that the books mention, but rarely took advantage of.
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The trailer made me all nostalgic!
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Don't disagree with you.
However these facets were more in the background for the Holmes stories. He wouldn't have survived in the London of the times without being a bit hard!!
They weren't however the essence of the character and he certainly didn't go about his business with the cheerful bonhomie of Bruce Willis in a Die Hard movie. -
. . . that you can base the entire movie on two minutes of footage. If you don't want to see the movie, then that's fine. It is your choice and your money and I commend you on your bold choices and decisions. But for some talkbackers to offer such criticisms as "it looks shit" gets my goat. Oh and I can't have any positive views on someone called a 'hater'...I can only have a negative view on 'haters'...cliched as you may think it is...because hate is negative...right?
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Agreed. I just don't mind them playing up the background bits. So long as the entire movie isn't about explosions and fist fights and has some real deduction in it (hinted at in the scene from the trailer with RDJ using the perfume spray to find a secret passage) I'll be happy.
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I've really only complained about the "vibe" that RDJ gives off in that particular trailer. His vision of Holmes doesn't seem very composed to me.
Yes, Sherlock Holmes always had a "fuck you" attitude towards the world. But he didn't have a "fuck you" attitude just because he THOUGHT he was better than everybody else. He had that attitude because he WAS better than everybody else.
No matter what vices Holmes may have had, he was always a character to be admired. Downey's Holmes "seems" to be missing that element.
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...I haven't once mentioned Jeremy Brett. I'm just sayin'.
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Jobeswar, is your real name Esau?
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I haven't seen the movie so can't say that I hate it. This trailer however doesn't leave a great deal of positive for me to say about it. So I'm not.
Whilst I take your point that it could be a decent action movie that folk will like, I have to say that I'd be nervous for the fact that there isn't really anything in there that we haven't seen before. Hero handcuffed naked to a bed. Bare knuckle fist fights. Its all a tad been there done that. Visigoths point re the perfume spray is a good one and one can only hope.
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This could be really bad.....
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Rather than see the movie, just go to a dirty strip club. That way you can be CERTAIN that you'll hate yourself afterwards!
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...since I last went to a strip club.
It was great though !!!....well except for the danger of being crushed by the stampede of little bespectacled men in raincoats trying to get to the front when each act came on and the overwhelming smell of sweat and semen.
Oh and the fact that thats were I first met the wife. She was fending off a couple of punters with a combination of her wooden leg that she was waving manically whilst firing ping pong balls strategically at another.
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by the looks of this it has surpassed my deepest fears.
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... I am offended.
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As much as I'm against this idea and find everything about the trailer almost despicably contrary to everything about Holmes and the body of fiction and popular culture he inhabits... this trailer made me chuckle. I don't think I can really hate it, although I do kind of wish they had just called Downy's character something else and been done with it.
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May 19, 2009 4:54:03 PM CDT
Modern Hollywood: Dumb down, dumb down, dumb down...
by fa_tass_dinomolester
And dig into their wallet. Really pathetic, and fucking annoying.
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That was not Sherlock Holmes. But it looks like it could be fun nonetheless.
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This doesn't bode well for the oncoming movie.... at all!
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as it's an overlooked martial art. The rest looks pretty ludicrous. Why do so many movies think Holmes needs more action than a few punches swung and shots fired? It's about the brains, for heaven's sake. One fight/chase scene will suffice, thank you.
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I write this as a possessor and multiple reader of "The Annotated Sherlock Holmes." Yes, I'm a true geek.
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RDJ's perforance will be terrific fun, and the film itself shit. Kind've like Ironman.
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Somebody needs to give this guy a leading part.
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Actors were already taking liberties with Holmes' character while ACD was still alive...and he even approved of some of their efforts. When William Gillette staged the first (authorized) Holmes play, he asked Doyle's permission to have ole Sherlock get married. Such a relationship would be heresy in the stories, but Doyle was tickled by Gillette's performance. The public loved it too. But to modern sensibilities, Gillette's version of the character probably seems LESS like Holmes than what little I've seen from the Downey trailer.
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Really?
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From Hell,
Another movie that could have potentially been great, yeah--yeah I know its six months from release but I'm just saying..... -
The trailer's quality aside... I'm enjoying the mini Holmes revival going on right now. We've got a major motion picture coming out at Christmas. The latest entry in the Laurie King series came out last month. And Dynamite Entertainment has a new Holmes comic book series on the stands. It's a fun time to be a fan!
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Young Sherlock Holmes has been on DVD in the U.S. for years now. Check Amazon, you'll definitely find it. Peace.
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I guess he took the red pill...
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Yes he knows baritsu (a misspelling of Bartistu which was a mixed martial art featuring a lot of judo and jujitsu), stick-fighting, and was a expert fencer and marksman. He was also a skilled boxer, and one of his ex-opponents mentioned in The Sign of the Four that he thought Holmes was wasting his talent and should have gone pro.
BUT, despite being a good fighter, Doyle's stories very rarely dealt with him in any kind of fights and/or violent confrontations. Why? Because they are DETECTIVE stories, and first and foremost Holmes is a detective, a master of deduction. That is what I don't see in this trailer, anything that shows Holmes using his intelligence and powers of observation to fight crime.
Now I don’t mind adding action and a little more thrills to a Holmes movie, but I still want him to be essentially the same character: a man who uses cold logic and observation to solve crimes instead of his fists or a gun. Here we just see a Victorian adventurer who could be a young Alain Quartermain, AJ Raffles, Arséne Lupin or even Nick Carter. There is nothing in this trailer that says this is Holmes other than people calling him by that name and the fact he has a sidekick named Watson except for the use of powder to find a secret passage (I admit, that showed some cleverness) but even that could have been done by a number of other characters I mentioned earlier.
And for those of you saying us Holmes purist and diehards don’t know what we are talking about, let me just say that if you are going to put out a movie that says Sherlock Holmes in the title us Holmes fans want to see the actual character and not some bastardized version. You guys would be going nuts for this is it was Guy Ritchie directing RDJ as C. Augustus Dupin, Monsieur Lecoq or Sexton Blake. You don’t care about the character, you just care that you like what you see. Well, that is fair and I can’t blame you for what you like, but don’t get upset at the rest of us for getting mad when the tell us it is a Rolls-Royce but we call them out and say, no that is a Mustang.
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With our current, ahem, generation, there is no way that we can cut a trailer to showcase a detective story and expect people to go see it. It has to be marketed as an action-adventure.
Keep in mind that the trailers sometimes don't accurately convey what the movie is about. I am definitely willing to give the movie the benefit of the doubt and assume that they just drew scenes from the action sequences to put into the trailer, rather than the exposition scenes in which the true deduction takes place.
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May 20, 2009 12:26:46 AM CDT
And, also, Continentalop, I am rather offended...
by themarinebiologist
I am a HUGE Holmes fan, and I am rather excited for this. If it was RDJ as any other fictional character, I certainly wouldn't give a damn about this movie.
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that looks like a mr.show sketch lampooning hollywood boardroom meetings and how horrendous stuff gets made. can't wait!
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The Sherlock Holmes character was just a ripoff of Edgar Allen Poe's Parisian detective, C Auguste Dupin. Doyle even has Watson remark "You remind me of Edgar Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist outside of the stories."
So spare me the whole "Doyle is rolling over in his grave" bit.
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RDJ is just Holmes in the Matrix. I look forward when he takes on the agents and watch him struggle to make Matrix Revolutions work... Spolier alert: He fails.
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and LaVar Burton as Watson.
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wet themselves. Might've been cool if it didn't look so cartoonish.
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Like to see him square off against M. Zenith.
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I have no idea if the flick will be any good or not, but it really does remind me of those fake trailers in front of Tropic Thunder or The Kentucky Fried Movie... then again, most trailers remind me of that these days...
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This trailter does indeed dash opes of a good Sherlock holmes movie. My only hope is that the trailer, like the one for The Road, is very misleading to the true nature of the movie. But this being Guy Ritchie, master of the over-styling (which can have it's piorposes on his own stories, but on such a detective period piece about Holmes?) i stoped being optimistic. I'm now rather skeptical, to tell you the truth.
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Since it already is "Van Holmesing", let it be half as successful as that one was.
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not sure about this trailer at all, think it looks pretty shit
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read the script? If so what did you think?
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Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
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You can't get mad when a hack destroys another hack's work. Doyle is a hack that was lucky enough to ripoff the right author.
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Thanks for the offer, but i'll have to decline. You see, i rather not have the movie spoiled before i watch it. And i think that even bad movies shouldn't be spoiled. I read scripts of movies i have alreadt seen, so i can compare the finished product with the script. It's quite a learning experience.
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If i'm not too mistaken, Holmes' drug of choice was shooting cocaine. Yes, cocaine, injected.
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in that it changes a bunch of stuff and tries to bring in a younger, cooler audience? but you know what - as long as its a good film - something which trek didnt manage at all - i can overlook any changes and enjoy it for what it is.
snatch and lock, stock are really good films, everything else ritchie's done is rubbish, but maybe he can pull this off, that joke at the end made me laugh. LAUGH. i never laugh at trailer gags. -
above me in future... you've all said the same thing, except you thought trek was good. this site would work better with a poll in each talkback - no posts at all - the original poster can post his review/trailer/rumours and include choices like 'YES! NO! WTF?! SHIT! BALE! WHERE'S DICKBLOOD? ' etc and we'll save masses of time and bandwidth. whaddya think?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOj-Is2ylA0
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the Smith/Kline flick...but hopefully better. Honestly it looks fun but I doubt it'll be great. I dont have much faith in Ritchie any longer. When we first heard about the casting of Downey and Law I was so psyched we'd get a truly great Holmes film that took itself, you know, seriously. So the comedy and over the top action in the trailer was disappointing to me. I'll still see it, but I'll probably constantly be thinking about the Jeremy Brett films while I'm watching it.
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It was cocaine via a syringe.
And no, this trailter has yet to dash my opes. I am still rather excited for this. Do I believe it to be a definitive Sherlock Holmes movie? No. However, I do think it is going to be rather entertaining. -
"you've all said the same thing, except you thought trek was good."I'm insulted, dear sir! Me mistaking the new Star Dreck for a good movie? That's certainly some mistake!
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That would be The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (TV series) starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes. That show was not only the definite adaptations of the famous detective's stories into an audio-visual medium, it also had the definitive portait of the character via the actor Jeremy Brett. That show was pure telivised awesomeness and Jeremy Brett was the man.
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May 21, 2009 12:44:51 PM CDT
Basically this is Holmes as Hollywood thinks is better for $$$
by johnno
Elementary, my dear talkbackers...
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...who is forced to think of the bare knuckle-fights in snatch by the scene where downey jr. punches that guy in the face?
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