SHERLOCK HOLMES trailer now online!
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Looks like "Wild Wild West goes to London" will Moriarty have spider legs and attack London in a mechanized tarantula?
Not the first time an action-packed sherlock holmes movie has been released. Remember "Young Sherlock Holmes?"
I don't mind the action or humor but I don't think Robert Downey Jr. has the right look for Holmes. The face just isn't at all what I would imagine for the character.
I would have cast Hugh Laurie and Ray Winstone
That was brilliant.
Eh. Doesn't really do much for me, as a fan of the Jeremy Brett series and the original novels. Yes, Holmes was more active than many adaptations make him out to be, but jumping-out-of-a-window-into-the-Thames active? Not really...
Plus, Holmes was a smart-ass, yes, but not really the wisecracking one-liner sort. Maybe it's just what they put in the trailer, but the tone of it just feels wrong.
Plus, Holmes was a smart-ass, yes, but not really the wisecracking one-liner sort. Maybe it's just what they put in the trailer, but the tone of it just feels wrong.
It looks like a pretty decent Victorian/semi-steampunk action flick, better than Shanghai Knights.
They just really needed to name the character something else.
(Unless, as someone said elsewhere, there's a closing scene where Samuel L Jackson turns up as Allan Quatermain, to invite Sherlock to join the League....)
Having said that, it's not *totally* un-Holmesian, as people forget that Conan Doyle's Holmes was a bit of a manic weirdo supposedly into Eastern martial arts, and didn't dress up in a deerstalker etc...
And if it leads Guy Ritchie to try something different instead of remaking Lock Stock a fourth time, then why criticise the ambition?
They just really needed to name the character something else.
(Unless, as someone said elsewhere, there's a closing scene where Samuel L Jackson turns up as Allan Quatermain, to invite Sherlock to join the League....)
Having said that, it's not *totally* un-Holmesian, as people forget that Conan Doyle's Holmes was a bit of a manic weirdo supposedly into Eastern martial arts, and didn't dress up in a deerstalker etc...
And if it leads Guy Ritchie to try something different instead of remaking Lock Stock a fourth time, then why criticise the ambition?
Well, it's not Holmes as I know it, exactly... but it DOES look like fun.
There've been so many different adaptations already, some truer to the books, some less so, that I don't really care about accuracy to the source material all that much for Holmes any more. What I do want is a fun period story and this looks like it should deliver. Plus, Rachel McAdams looked very fine!
There've been so many different adaptations already, some truer to the books, some less so, that I don't really care about accuracy to the source material all that much for Holmes any more. What I do want is a fun period story and this looks like it should deliver. Plus, Rachel McAdams looked very fine!
I've been looking forward to this since it was first announced about a year or so ago...and Mark Strong is in it! I loved him in Rock N' Rolla! I'll be dragging my friends out to see this on Christmas Day...with regards with the action oriented direction I'm assuming that with all modern movies that are adaptaions or "reboots" or reimaginings or whatever you want to call them that Ritchie and company are making this with an eye towards a general audience. If this movie perks interest in Sherlock Holmes because people see this movie then I don't get what the problem is. I've been a big fan of Holmes since I was a kid so I'm intrigued by this newer modern version.
One would hope so!
No, haven't seen it. Come to think of it, I've never really watched a Holmes movie in its entirety, though I've read nearly all of the stories.
The movie looks interesting but the trailer lacks a Holmes feel, in my opinion. Holmes seems to be a bit out of character. Might just be the trailer, though.
Sorry to offend you so much, but when I see Holmes in a scene with a Victorian-lingerie-clad hottie who kisses him, ties him up and leaves him naked...please don't expect my reaction to be any different.
Sorry to offend you so much, but when I see Holmes in a scene with a Victorian-lingerie-clad hottie who kisses him, ties him up and leaves him naked...please don't expect my reaction to be any different.
Sorry to offend you so much, but when I see Holmes in a scene with a Victorian-lingerie-clad hottie who kisses him, ties him up and leaves him naked...please don't expect my reaction to be any different.
Are you ever going to counter his argument intelligently or just succumb to emoticons every time?
Are you ever going to counter his argument intelligently or just succumb to emoticons every time?
His argument, if you can call it that, is too weak to counter with anything of substance.
He judges a whole movie based on the trailer. Is that how he chooses his books? His friends?
I'm sorry, but his position was devoid of anything intelligent to "counter" with anything but a
or personal attacks. Rules say that I can't attack the poster just the post, so I went with the . It was the logical choice.
To be fair, the purpose of a trailer is to entice potential viewers. If this trailer left him with the impression that he will not like the film... then he likely won't.
I judge movies based on the trailers all the time. Hell, I judge movies without even seeing a trailer.
That said, I'm looking forward to this one.
I judge movies based on the trailers all the time. Hell, I judge movies without even seeing a trailer.
That said, I'm looking forward to this one.
Are you ever going to counter his argument intelligently or just succumb to emoticons every time?
His argument, if you can call it that, is too weak to counter with anything of substance.
He judges a whole movie based on the trailer. Is that how he chooses his books? His friends?
I'm sorry, but his position was devoid of anything intelligent to "counter" with anything but a
People change their opinions all the time. I know S. Gomez decently well. I know he's well-versed in literature and has probably read most if not all existing Sherlock Holmes reading material that there is. If he doesn't like something based on a trailer -- which can be at times highly indicative of the final result -- then I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt.
