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lightconductor) wrote2010-01-10 05:23 pm
lightconductor) wrote2010-01-10 05:23 pm
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I have seen it. I have seen it, and I bring back word.
I have just returned from seeing Sherlock Holmes.
Several people have expressed an interest in knowing my thoughts on this movie. Apparently I'm an authority or something? Ah well.
I took a long walk downtown (about an hour's walk, which proved to be a mistake -- I sprained my ankle/foot in early December, not badly, but you can probably put it down to my refusal to either take any time off when I did it or see a doctor that it doesn't appear to have healed yet and still occassionally causes me pain, especially when I've been doing a lot of walking, especially in the snow. By the time I came home I was walking like Watson) to the movie theatre, got there early, bummed around for a while. I appreciate my iPod's decision to randomly entertain me with some composers of the 19th and early 20th century (Rachmaninoff, Holst, and Wagner) to get me in the mood, I guess, while waiting for the theatre to actually open. I appreciate less the decision to sneakily follow my total rocking out to Wagnerian opera with the theme song to the Super Mario Brothers Super Show. Er. I may just be the biggest nerd in the world.
Also, I will defend my use of the word "rocking out" to describe Wagner to the death. My father and I firmly hold the shared opinion that Richard Wagner was the world's first heavy metal musician.
I also appreciate the theatre's decision to mark the appropriate cinema with this particular poster, which as you will note, does not actually have the words "Sherlock Holmes" displayed anywhere on it, except in the teeny website print at the bottom. Yes, I am going to go see the Watson movie. Yes. Awesome.
Let's do this in an orderly fashion, shall we? First, characters.
Irene Adler
I want to get her out of the way. She is honestly the thing I like least about the entire movie. Despite her whole attempt at being a sexy female criminal she comes across as being bland and uninteresting to me, not to mention absolutely nothing like she is in canon. I admit to not really understanding what Irene Adler is in extra-canonical stories, and why she has gone so far beyond the source material to become this... this...
In Scandal in Bohemia, Irene Adler is a highly intelligent woman, an opera singer, an adventuress, and occassional crossdresser. Yes, she appears to be blackmailing the King of Bohemia about their former affair, but after, frankly, he'd been running about with her and talking marriage and then casting her aside because he really had no intention of marrying her. Why would he marry her? He's a king, he can't marry an actress. Besides, after being tracked down and after marrying someone else, she drops the entire blackmailing thing so quickly you almost wonder if she ever was at all, or if the King was simply saying so to get that picture of them both back -- some interpretations take this view. She's a wronged woman, and very possibly holds ideas of revenge which she forgets about after marrying Godfrey Norton, she's morally questionable, but she's also not exactly a hardened criminal, and I wonder why the canonical information is seen as sufficient reason to build this reputation as a con-artist and a crook when, so far as the canon says, she settles down into married life following this.
To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer.
That is the opening of Scandal, where we are told in no uncertain terms that Holmes does not love her. He respects her, certainly, as she gets the better of him, but he does not love her. And really, he can't have spent much more than about half an hour in her presence in the entire story in the first place and I can't see Sherlock Holmes, of all people, being victim to love at first sight. I helplessly, at one point, thought that she is the Catwoman to Holmes's Batman and that seems about right. The dynamic between Adler and Holmes in this movie is exactly what I recall seeing between Julie Newmar and Adam West, which honestly, I thought was really awesome when I was ten and watching reruns, but I'm not sure it works here. Holmes in several ways is a sort of Victorian proto-superhero, but he's not Batman. And he shouldn't be kissing her.
This sort of kills me, because I love the canonical Irene Adler. And really, I didn't mind movie!Adler too much, but she's on screen a lot, and as the movie went on, I wanted her to go away. Because she's boring. And the movie keeps reminding us about oh their impossible Batmanesque love, and trying to put Irene into what should be Watson's role. And I want no part in it. This isn't even the slasher in me speaking; I have never liked this interpretation of this non-existent relationship, and I was a Sherlockian for years before I ever wandered across to dabble playfully in slash.
As an aside, it's not typical for adaptions to pronounce her name the way they do. Most of the time, directors go with the British pronunciation of Irene ("Eye-ree-nee") or occassionally the Germanic pronunciation ("Eye-reh-na"). "Eye-reen" is an American pronuncation. It's very weird for me to hear it said this way. I can let this slide, though. She is from New Jersey.
Mary Morstan
Mary gets my vote as Single Hottest Female Character of the movie.
... oh, right, more than that. I really honestly wanted her to be in the movie more than she was, although this is silly, because it probably wouldn't have worked to do this. She's adorable. She's strong, she's perceptive, she grasps the fact that Watson on some level needs to be able to run off with Holmes and have adventures, even if Watson doesn't really seem to grasp it himself, she even understands Holmes's hostility towards her and its basis in jealousy. And she has freckles. I have a thing about freckles. No, I can't explain it. Although I'll gladly keep Mary company after she's so kindly let her husband run off to risk life and limb playing detective.
What does slightly irk me is the fact that Holmes apparently needs to be introduced to her. He shouldn't; he and Watson meet her at the same time. She's their client. I'm also confused about how her presence would affect the timeline, because if Holmes knows Irene Adler, then clearly this is after Scandal in Bohemia. Except Watson is married in Scandal in Bohemia. There's some question about whether this wife is, in fact, Mary, because the dates on the stories are screwy, but movie!Watson apparently hasn't been married before, leaving the entire thing extremely confused. augh don't think about it
Still. I heart Mary.
Inspector G. Lestrade
I have no idea why, but Lestrade disappoints me. Maybe I just like a little more Colin Jeavons in my Lestrade, more of the ferret and less of the bulldog. Maybe it's just that I can't see this take on the character ever being the same person who, much later in their career, Holmes casually invites to take a nap on the sofa at 221b before we all three of us run off and catch the bad guys.
McMurdo
I fully expect no one else to even know who this is. He is certainly never named in the movie. However, there is a listing in the credits for McMurdo. I know exactly who this is. This is the guy Holmes beats the everloving crap out of in the boxing ring. How do I know this?
In the Sign of Four, Holmes, Watson, the newly-taken-on-as-client Mary Morstan, and Thaddeus Sholto go to pay a visit on Sholto's brother, but are stopped at the door by a porter who will not let strangers in.
"Very sorry, Mr. Thaddeus," said the porter inexorably. "Folk may be friends o' yours, and yet no friend o' the master's. He pays me well to do my duty, and my duty I'll do. I don't know none o' your friends."
"Oh, yes you do, McMurdo," cried Sherlock Holmes genially. "I don't think you can have forgotten me. Don't you remember that amateur who fought three rounds with you at Alison's rooms on the night of your benefit four years back?"
"Not Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" roared the prize-fighter. "God's truth! how could I have mistook you? If instead o' standin' there so quiet you had just stepped up and given me that cross-hit of yours under the jaw, I'd ha' known you without a question. Ah, you're one that has wasted your gifts, you have! You might have aimed high, if you had joined the fancy."
"You see, Watson, if all else fails me, I have still one of the scientific professions open to me," said Holmes, laughing. "Our friend won't keep us out in the cold now, I am sure."
What this does to the timeline, I have no fucking clue. But just know that this fills me with glee. You have no idea.
Professor Moriarty
He's not exactly in the movie so much as he is hinted at and then revealed at the end. Honestly, his presence feels like a blatant attempt at leading in to a sequel. This... bothers me. I hate blatant sequel lead-ins.
Dr. Watson
Jude Law as Watson is, hands down, my favourite part of the movie. He is perfect. He is smart and capable and tougher than he seems. He limps. Nothing is ever said of this limp, but it's there, and it's subtle, and it makes me happy. He acts before thinking, brashly at times. He's been keeping Holmes functional. Despite the fact that he knows that hey, I need to go meet with my fiancée's family and make some pretence at being a good future son-in-law, despite the fact that he's telling himself he needs to have a quiet and respectable life, he's still going to follow after Holmes and make sure the guy doesn't manage to get himself killed.
He is the anti-Nigel-Bruce, and for that I love him.
I love his sword-cane. I mean, madly. This isn't even remotely canon, but I love it so much I don't care. I don't suppose I can possibly retcon it so that my Watson in the hotel has had a sword sneakily hidden in his stick this whole time? No? I didn't think so. Oh well.
Sherlock Holmes
Now, this is what it all comes down to, isn't it?
Robert Downey Jr puts on a good performance. Not as good as Jude Law, I personally think, but good. I really did not want to like him, I admit, but I do. It's not... it's not exactly the Sherlock Holmes of the books. This is ActionMovie!Holmes, though, and for this movie, which is definitely an action movie and not a whodunnit, it works. Holmes in many portrayals tends to be overmuch the proper Victorian gentleman, which he never was in canon. This... possibly swings a little too far the other way, but he's an unconventional Bohemian genius, and he's brilliant, and he's a badass, and I liked it.
What I don't like is (one) his overplayed attraction and affection for Irene Adler, which I will not go into again, and (two) the fact that he does not look like Sherlock Holmes.
An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction. - The Musgrave Ritual
In his tweed suit and cloth cap he looked like any other tourist upon the moor, and he had contrived, with that catlike love of personal cleanliness which was one of his characteristics, that his chin should be as smooth and his linen as perfect as if he were in Baker Street. - Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes is a slob. He is, however, neat in personal appearance. He is a man of many contradictions. That said, I spent about half the movie agonising over RDJ's stubble and unruly mass of hair. Shave, goddammit. And maybe get a haircut? Then we can talk.
The Soundtrack
This is, after Jude Law, my second favourite thing. I love getting totally into an exciting action fight sequence while at the same time I'm totally into the accompanying music.
The Movie as a Whole
Because I need to wrap this up. I've been working on this for well over an hour.
I knew the plot going in, I should say. I read a leaked early version of the script about a year and a half ago, which was the source of a lot of my misgivings, and while a lot apparently changed since that version, lots was still the same.
I enjoyed the movie. It is a great action movie. It is a good adaption of Sherlock Holmes if he were an action hero. Is it the Sherlock Holmes I fell in love with so very very long ago? No, no it's not. There are aspects, definitely, of high action in the stories. Holmes is a boxer, a fencer, and a martial artist, and is capable of exciting fight scenes if necessary, and The Sign of the Four features a high-speed (in Victorian terms, anyway) chase down the river in steamboats, exchanging gunfire and poison darts along the way, but that's not the basis for the stories so much as it is one of many things in them.
This worries me a bit, actually. I have a history of losing interest in literary fandoms after Hollywood makes big blockbuster movies about them, and the focus starts changing from "this is a really great story, with great characters" to "such-and-such is totally hot." There's something I find utterly soul-killing about a character I liked for many and myriad reasons suddenly being reduced in the eyes of so many fangirls to being mere eyecandy. I'm praying this doesn't happen here.
I had the thought at one point that "This is a comic book movie." And it is; I'm well aware that the recent rash of comic book superhero movies don't play close to the canon. They are, instead, more along the line of independent storylines featuring characters from the comics. And this is exactly what this movie is. It reads like a sort of Greatest Hits album. There is a scene where Holmes and Watson, walking down the street, inspect and deduce clues about the owner of a pocket watch, who was recently found dead. The contents of this conversation are pretty much lifted from the first chapter of The Sign of the Four, where Watson, in an attempt to prevent another dose of cocaine, challenges Holmes to deduce facts about the previous owner of his new pocketwatch: namely, that it belonged to his brother, who was an alcoholic (as shown by the scratch marks around the keyhole) with frequent money problems (as shown by the marks from various pawnbrokers on the inside). Hearing this exact sequence of deductions in an entirely different context is... weird for me, somehow. It's not right. It's not where that conversation should be. There are quite a few lines in the movie that strike me that way, but that's the most blatant.
But don't get me wrong, I did honestly enjoy it. If they make a sequel, I'll probably go see that, too. I enjoyed it in the same way I enjoyed the recent Star Trek movie. Is that movie Star Trek? No. No, it's not. It's trying to be Star Trek and is instead a Star Trek-themed action movie. Star Trek is capable of much more. Sherlock Holmes is capable of much more, and this is merely a Sherlock Holmes-themed action movie. But it's a good action movie and I'll like it for that.
Several people have expressed an interest in knowing my thoughts on this movie. Apparently I'm an authority or something? Ah well.
I took a long walk downtown (about an hour's walk, which proved to be a mistake -- I sprained my ankle/foot in early December, not badly, but you can probably put it down to my refusal to either take any time off when I did it or see a doctor that it doesn't appear to have healed yet and still occassionally causes me pain, especially when I've been doing a lot of walking, especially in the snow. By the time I came home I was walking like Watson) to the movie theatre, got there early, bummed around for a while. I appreciate my iPod's decision to randomly entertain me with some composers of the 19th and early 20th century (Rachmaninoff, Holst, and Wagner) to get me in the mood, I guess, while waiting for the theatre to actually open. I appreciate less the decision to sneakily follow my total rocking out to Wagnerian opera with the theme song to the Super Mario Brothers Super Show. Er. I may just be the biggest nerd in the world.
Also, I will defend my use of the word "rocking out" to describe Wagner to the death. My father and I firmly hold the shared opinion that Richard Wagner was the world's first heavy metal musician.
I also appreciate the theatre's decision to mark the appropriate cinema with this particular poster, which as you will note, does not actually have the words "Sherlock Holmes" displayed anywhere on it, except in the teeny website print at the bottom. Yes, I am going to go see the Watson movie. Yes. Awesome.
Let's do this in an orderly fashion, shall we? First, characters.
Irene Adler
I want to get her out of the way. She is honestly the thing I like least about the entire movie. Despite her whole attempt at being a sexy female criminal she comes across as being bland and uninteresting to me, not to mention absolutely nothing like she is in canon. I admit to not really understanding what Irene Adler is in extra-canonical stories, and why she has gone so far beyond the source material to become this... this...
In Scandal in Bohemia, Irene Adler is a highly intelligent woman, an opera singer, an adventuress, and occassional crossdresser. Yes, she appears to be blackmailing the King of Bohemia about their former affair, but after, frankly, he'd been running about with her and talking marriage and then casting her aside because he really had no intention of marrying her. Why would he marry her? He's a king, he can't marry an actress. Besides, after being tracked down and after marrying someone else, she drops the entire blackmailing thing so quickly you almost wonder if she ever was at all, or if the King was simply saying so to get that picture of them both back -- some interpretations take this view. She's a wronged woman, and very possibly holds ideas of revenge which she forgets about after marrying Godfrey Norton, she's morally questionable, but she's also not exactly a hardened criminal, and I wonder why the canonical information is seen as sufficient reason to build this reputation as a con-artist and a crook when, so far as the canon says, she settles down into married life following this.
To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer.
That is the opening of Scandal, where we are told in no uncertain terms that Holmes does not love her. He respects her, certainly, as she gets the better of him, but he does not love her. And really, he can't have spent much more than about half an hour in her presence in the entire story in the first place and I can't see Sherlock Holmes, of all people, being victim to love at first sight. I helplessly, at one point, thought that she is the Catwoman to Holmes's Batman and that seems about right. The dynamic between Adler and Holmes in this movie is exactly what I recall seeing between Julie Newmar and Adam West, which honestly, I thought was really awesome when I was ten and watching reruns, but I'm not sure it works here. Holmes in several ways is a sort of Victorian proto-superhero, but he's not Batman. And he shouldn't be kissing her.
This sort of kills me, because I love the canonical Irene Adler. And really, I didn't mind movie!Adler too much, but she's on screen a lot, and as the movie went on, I wanted her to go away. Because she's boring. And the movie keeps reminding us about oh their impossible Batmanesque love, and trying to put Irene into what should be Watson's role. And I want no part in it. This isn't even the slasher in me speaking; I have never liked this interpretation of this non-existent relationship, and I was a Sherlockian for years before I ever wandered across to dabble playfully in slash.
As an aside, it's not typical for adaptions to pronounce her name the way they do. Most of the time, directors go with the British pronunciation of Irene ("Eye-ree-nee") or occassionally the Germanic pronunciation ("Eye-reh-na"). "Eye-reen" is an American pronuncation. It's very weird for me to hear it said this way. I can let this slide, though. She is from New Jersey.
Mary Morstan
Mary gets my vote as Single Hottest Female Character of the movie.
... oh, right, more than that. I really honestly wanted her to be in the movie more than she was, although this is silly, because it probably wouldn't have worked to do this. She's adorable. She's strong, she's perceptive, she grasps the fact that Watson on some level needs to be able to run off with Holmes and have adventures, even if Watson doesn't really seem to grasp it himself, she even understands Holmes's hostility towards her and its basis in jealousy. And she has freckles. I have a thing about freckles. No, I can't explain it. Although I'll gladly keep Mary company after she's so kindly let her husband run off to risk life and limb playing detective.
What does slightly irk me is the fact that Holmes apparently needs to be introduced to her. He shouldn't; he and Watson meet her at the same time. She's their client. I'm also confused about how her presence would affect the timeline, because if Holmes knows Irene Adler, then clearly this is after Scandal in Bohemia. Except Watson is married in Scandal in Bohemia. There's some question about whether this wife is, in fact, Mary, because the dates on the stories are screwy, but movie!Watson apparently hasn't been married before, leaving the entire thing extremely confused. augh don't think about it
Still. I heart Mary.
Inspector G. Lestrade
I have no idea why, but Lestrade disappoints me. Maybe I just like a little more Colin Jeavons in my Lestrade, more of the ferret and less of the bulldog. Maybe it's just that I can't see this take on the character ever being the same person who, much later in their career, Holmes casually invites to take a nap on the sofa at 221b before we all three of us run off and catch the bad guys.
McMurdo
I fully expect no one else to even know who this is. He is certainly never named in the movie. However, there is a listing in the credits for McMurdo. I know exactly who this is. This is the guy Holmes beats the everloving crap out of in the boxing ring. How do I know this?
In the Sign of Four, Holmes, Watson, the newly-taken-on-as-client Mary Morstan, and Thaddeus Sholto go to pay a visit on Sholto's brother, but are stopped at the door by a porter who will not let strangers in.
"Very sorry, Mr. Thaddeus," said the porter inexorably. "Folk may be friends o' yours, and yet no friend o' the master's. He pays me well to do my duty, and my duty I'll do. I don't know none o' your friends."
"Oh, yes you do, McMurdo," cried Sherlock Holmes genially. "I don't think you can have forgotten me. Don't you remember that amateur who fought three rounds with you at Alison's rooms on the night of your benefit four years back?"
"Not Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" roared the prize-fighter. "God's truth! how could I have mistook you? If instead o' standin' there so quiet you had just stepped up and given me that cross-hit of yours under the jaw, I'd ha' known you without a question. Ah, you're one that has wasted your gifts, you have! You might have aimed high, if you had joined the fancy."
"You see, Watson, if all else fails me, I have still one of the scientific professions open to me," said Holmes, laughing. "Our friend won't keep us out in the cold now, I am sure."
What this does to the timeline, I have no fucking clue. But just know that this fills me with glee. You have no idea.
Professor Moriarty
He's not exactly in the movie so much as he is hinted at and then revealed at the end. Honestly, his presence feels like a blatant attempt at leading in to a sequel. This... bothers me. I hate blatant sequel lead-ins.
Dr. Watson
Jude Law as Watson is, hands down, my favourite part of the movie. He is perfect. He is smart and capable and tougher than he seems. He limps. Nothing is ever said of this limp, but it's there, and it's subtle, and it makes me happy. He acts before thinking, brashly at times. He's been keeping Holmes functional. Despite the fact that he knows that hey, I need to go meet with my fiancée's family and make some pretence at being a good future son-in-law, despite the fact that he's telling himself he needs to have a quiet and respectable life, he's still going to follow after Holmes and make sure the guy doesn't manage to get himself killed.
He is the anti-Nigel-Bruce, and for that I love him.
I love his sword-cane. I mean, madly. This isn't even remotely canon, but I love it so much I don't care. I don't suppose I can possibly retcon it so that my Watson in the hotel has had a sword sneakily hidden in his stick this whole time? No? I didn't think so. Oh well.
Sherlock Holmes
Now, this is what it all comes down to, isn't it?
Robert Downey Jr puts on a good performance. Not as good as Jude Law, I personally think, but good. I really did not want to like him, I admit, but I do. It's not... it's not exactly the Sherlock Holmes of the books. This is ActionMovie!Holmes, though, and for this movie, which is definitely an action movie and not a whodunnit, it works. Holmes in many portrayals tends to be overmuch the proper Victorian gentleman, which he never was in canon. This... possibly swings a little too far the other way, but he's an unconventional Bohemian genius, and he's brilliant, and he's a badass, and I liked it.
What I don't like is (one) his overplayed attraction and affection for Irene Adler, which I will not go into again, and (two) the fact that he does not look like Sherlock Holmes.
An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction. - The Musgrave Ritual
In his tweed suit and cloth cap he looked like any other tourist upon the moor, and he had contrived, with that catlike love of personal cleanliness which was one of his characteristics, that his chin should be as smooth and his linen as perfect as if he were in Baker Street. - Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes is a slob. He is, however, neat in personal appearance. He is a man of many contradictions. That said, I spent about half the movie agonising over RDJ's stubble and unruly mass of hair. Shave, goddammit. And maybe get a haircut? Then we can talk.
The Soundtrack
This is, after Jude Law, my second favourite thing. I love getting totally into an exciting action fight sequence while at the same time I'm totally into the accompanying music.
The Movie as a Whole
Because I need to wrap this up. I've been working on this for well over an hour.
I knew the plot going in, I should say. I read a leaked early version of the script about a year and a half ago, which was the source of a lot of my misgivings, and while a lot apparently changed since that version, lots was still the same.
I enjoyed the movie. It is a great action movie. It is a good adaption of Sherlock Holmes if he were an action hero. Is it the Sherlock Holmes I fell in love with so very very long ago? No, no it's not. There are aspects, definitely, of high action in the stories. Holmes is a boxer, a fencer, and a martial artist, and is capable of exciting fight scenes if necessary, and The Sign of the Four features a high-speed (in Victorian terms, anyway) chase down the river in steamboats, exchanging gunfire and poison darts along the way, but that's not the basis for the stories so much as it is one of many things in them.
This worries me a bit, actually. I have a history of losing interest in literary fandoms after Hollywood makes big blockbuster movies about them, and the focus starts changing from "this is a really great story, with great characters" to "such-and-such is totally hot." There's something I find utterly soul-killing about a character I liked for many and myriad reasons suddenly being reduced in the eyes of so many fangirls to being mere eyecandy. I'm praying this doesn't happen here.
I had the thought at one point that "This is a comic book movie." And it is; I'm well aware that the recent rash of comic book superhero movies don't play close to the canon. They are, instead, more along the line of independent storylines featuring characters from the comics. And this is exactly what this movie is. It reads like a sort of Greatest Hits album. There is a scene where Holmes and Watson, walking down the street, inspect and deduce clues about the owner of a pocket watch, who was recently found dead. The contents of this conversation are pretty much lifted from the first chapter of The Sign of the Four, where Watson, in an attempt to prevent another dose of cocaine, challenges Holmes to deduce facts about the previous owner of his new pocketwatch: namely, that it belonged to his brother, who was an alcoholic (as shown by the scratch marks around the keyhole) with frequent money problems (as shown by the marks from various pawnbrokers on the inside). Hearing this exact sequence of deductions in an entirely different context is... weird for me, somehow. It's not right. It's not where that conversation should be. There are quite a few lines in the movie that strike me that way, but that's the most blatant.
But don't get me wrong, I did honestly enjoy it. If they make a sequel, I'll probably go see that, too. I enjoyed it in the same way I enjoyed the recent Star Trek movie. Is that movie Star Trek? No. No, it's not. It's trying to be Star Trek and is instead a Star Trek-themed action movie. Star Trek is capable of much more. Sherlock Holmes is capable of much more, and this is merely a Sherlock Holmes-themed action movie. But it's a good action movie and I'll like it for that.
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I've planned on seeing it, but probably not until I can rent it since the nearest theater here is about 15/20 miles away and I don't want to go alone. :(
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No one will go with you? Sadness and woe. :( Although I did see it by myself, but I didn't mind that. Well, I don't think renting will hurt the movie any.
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