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Robert Downey Jr. Is an Impostor

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Earthling

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Movie discussion and eventual spoilers to follow...

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I for one am outraged at the barbaric attempt to portray dear Sherlock in the film due this upcoming holiday season. The inaccurate and fictitious Sherlock Holmes depicted therein is an insult to everything the man held dear. Undoubtedly we shall be presented with a lowbrow character who lacks all of Sherlocks' sophisticated intelligence and would clearly have fallen, for good, to the devious Moriarty. This isn't even to begin to mention the anachronisms and absurd happenstances likely to occur in this ridiculous sortie of Hollywood's culture of meaningless violence and explosions, yet I am outraged enough. Opinions of yours in mutual anticipation of this travesty?

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I have it on good confidence that you organisms might enjoy "cookies." The sharpest among you may merit one.
 
I tend to agree with you, but if they put him in a robot suit, I'd forgive everything. Not because it really fixes the problem, but because that would be SO COOL!
 
If you go to this movie expecting a Sherlock Holmes novel, you will be sorely disappointed. Imagine this as a movie where the main character is named something else, and it might be enjoyable.

I must admit, when I first saw the trailer in theaters, I was sorely disappointed by the explosion at the end. I read the original 12 Sherlock Holmes stories, and I loved them. No way is this movie going to stick true to that Holmes.
 
I think most of the people who are complaining about Downey's Holmes being a man of action haven't actually read the stories. Dude knew bartitsu, spent a good portion of that Peter Carey case flinging harpoons around, and in Study in Scarlet Watson made a note of his boxing abilities...
 
To be fair to the producers, Holmes was a martial artist, an skilled pistoleer, and sometimes freakishly strong. Still, I can't say I approve of this turn.

Part of the problem for film-makers I think is that Holmes always acts so bi-polar. And even in that manic phrase, it's generally more intellectual.

Is is wrong to say I'm more concerned with trailers showing him being seduced by a woman than I am by the fight scenes?
 
Miles Teg said:
Is is wrong to say I'm more concerned with trailers showing him being seduced by a woman than I am by the fight scenes?
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Nah, that's what got me too. Then I figured what the hell, if I cared about literary integrity I'd read the goddamn books.
 
It's definitely a film designed to make fans of Conan-Doyle cry. I was personally won over by the scene in which Holmes dives out of the Houses of Parliament into the Thames. I can't wait. :D
 
If I was making a Sherlock Holmes movie I'd do the same thing. If you want the original, read the book. A reimagining like this is more fun.
 
This film looks excellent.
 
Oh, dear. My dear Watson, would you kindly hand me my revolver?
 
Oh, dear. My dear Watson, would you kindly hand me my twin uzis?
 
Earthling said:
Movie discussion and eventual spoilers to follow...

http://sherlock-holmes-movie.warnerbros.com/

I for one am outraged at the barbaric attempt to portray dear Sherlock in the film due this upcoming holiday season. The inaccurate and fictitious Sherlock Holmes depicted therein is an insult to everything the man held dear.
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You do know that Sherlock Holmes is about as real as Batman or Sonic the Hedgehog right?
 
I don't see the big problem. Profanation of Sherlock Holmes isn't exactly anything new, and the definitive Holmes & Watson already exist in the BBC serial starring the most excellent gentlemen Jeremy Brett and David Burke.
This one seems to be quite an entertaining romp, with athmospheric Victorian London, nice action scenes and a by Hollywood standards unusually attractive woman in some very interesting underwear thrown in for good measure. So it seems to be a case of purists aware, the rest of us enjoy then.
Also,Anyway, I prefer Sergeant Cribb by far. Could be interesting to see Hollywood's take on "The Tick of Death"...
PS: Long time since I read those Doyle stories, and can't really remember Holmes flinging that many harpoons in the story about Black Pete. But it is true that he on many occasions proved that he while perhaps not being an action hero, was fully capable of holding his own also in physical combat.
 
Truronian said:
It's definitely a film designed to make fans of Conan-Doyle cry. I was personally won over by the scene in which Holmes dives out of the Houses of Parliament into the Thames. I can't wait. :D
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Unfortunately if that was truely the Thames in the 19th Century that might be the last we see of poor old Holmes.

I'm personally looking forward to the film. I've read some of the books and enjoyed them but I'm fully aware that the film won't be an exact copy of a book, it'll probably steal little bits from different stories. It's got quite a good cast and I'm hoping Ritchie can at least come good again. Here's hoping anyway.
 
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