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Elementary, my dear Watson aka Sherlock Holmes - The Movie
JD:
How?
Be My Head:
Ahem, well maybe not so much a scumbag (I was a little drunk when I typed that) but an awful awful director. Rocknrolla was especially terrible. It's just a mess of overly "English" characters with no real personality. The plot makes little in the way of sense either. His movies just feel like they were directed by a 13 year old boy.
Mark Kermode can tell you more eloquently what I'm thinking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxQ0wsDVeJo
His review of the sherlock holmes movie is actually positive (because he thought it was nothing like ritchie's other movies)
but I'm still apprehensive about seeing it, because I'm such a huge Holmes fan, and I think they might have taken a little too much liberty with the script.
Ikrik:
Yeah, that Kermode was seriously, seriously awesome. I couldn't get past 15-20 minutes of Revolver and I think that Guy Ritchie is absolutely horrible.
From what I've been reading Sherlock Holmes is a "buddy cop" movie. I read it in one review and I was like "ok, let's breathe a little bit, this is one dude's opinion." And then I read it another 4-5 and now I'm really angry. Another review said that Law and Downey could switch roles every other scene and no one would notice.
The thing I absolutely hate about this Sherlock Holmes is that there could have been an absolutely INCREDIBLE contemporary film about Holmes that stood completely by the character. Holmes is a great character with some really good flaws that would have translated perfectly to a set piece thriller. You get a really good writer who's passionate who turns in a good script....not difficult.
BUT
What you get is a producer who wants a winter blockbuster so he hires a British director who has a lot of "flash and bang" but can't construct a decent story to save his life. If anyone says that Ritchie can direct a movie that has any amount of depth, you need to grab the nearest heavy object and start hitting them with it. There are people who would direct a much worse Holmes movie, but not that many.
StaedlerMars:
fuck these two guys, this movie was fun to watch.
valley_parade:
I went to see it last night and concur. It's entertaining as hell, and the slow-mo thing during the first three fight scenes somehow manages to not come off and totally corny.
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