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Elementary, my dear Watson aka Sherlock Holmes - The Movie

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Ikrik:
Watched this a while ago, glad someone else here posted in here again. 

I hated it.  Every time I tried looking at it I hated it.  As a Sherlock Holmes film it's stupid, so very, very stupid.  It completely destroys the relationship between Holmes and Watson and the characters themselves.  Why the hell does Watson have gambling problems, when was he a womanizer?  It bothered me so much that after a while I tried viewing it as something else, just a generic action film.

And generic it was.  It has so many generic action bits that the entire film was completely boring to me.  I won't spoil any of the major things but the execution of their actions ALWAYS saves them just in the nick of time.  When he pre-conceived all of his violent actions I was incredibly impressed and it was executed well but for every one of those moments there was another predictable action scene. 

In the end it felt to me much more like a scooby-doo movie than something that should befit the name of Sherlock Holmes.

DarkAvenger:
Your post is understandable, I quite enjoyed the movie but I can see how someone would dislike it. However this line stood out to me.


--- Quote from: Ikrik on 06 Feb 2010, 22:34 ---when was he a womanizer?

--- End quote ---

When was he a womanizer in this? Do you mean his engagement to Mary? The same woman he married in the actual canon? Minus an extremely heightened sense of deduction I felt that his portrayal (also ignoring the gambling addiction, something I never noticed if it was in the stories) was much more spot on than a certain Nigel Bruce's portrayal.

Lines:
Watson was never a womanizer from what I remember from the books. I don't remember a gambling problem either, but really that was a common problem in that time period and maybe they wanted to give Watson a flaw so he wasn't a perfect person when compared to Holmes, who is chock full of issues.

E. Spaceman:
I saw this. It was entertaining but also kinda dumb. The slow motion seemed completely out of place but meh. RDJ can still carry pretty much any role given to him. It is comforting to see Jude Law is still clinically unable to act. It did not feel like a Guy Ritchie film. The score was pretty good.

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