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Just saw the Sherlock Holmes trailer

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{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-21 07:52:32
August 21 2009 07:40 GMT
#1
With Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes, and I have to say it looks like crap. As one user said on the Comments, "is this Sherlock Holmes or James Bond?". Why does Hollywood have to fuck with everything nowadays, that is not what makes a good movie. Especially classic characters like that of Sherlock Holmes.




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Licmyobelisk
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Philippines3682 Posts
August 21 2009 07:43 GMT
#2
is there any movie nowadays that did came from an original idea?
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Profile Blog Joined September 2004
13196 Posts
August 21 2009 07:43 GMT
#3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_holmes#Weapons_and_martial_arts

not so bad :D
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Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21244 Posts
August 21 2009 07:48 GMT
#4
It looks like an abomination and makes me rage.

Sadly, this will probably become the new image of Sherlock Holmes in the mind of the ignorant people who have up until now only heard the name :S
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genwar
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada537 Posts
August 21 2009 08:57 GMT
#5
How in gods fucking name was that even remotely related to the detective Sherlock Holmes. What the fuck was that?
zerotol
Profile Joined August 2009
Belgium508 Posts
August 21 2009 09:05 GMT
#6
Terrible terrible damage to Sherlock Holmes.
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Profile Joined December 2008
Singapore6164 Posts
August 21 2009 09:44 GMT
#7
whattttttttttttttttttttttt
Sherlock Holmes was about sitting down and thinking over a problem for days. And then hearing him monologue about his powers of deduction
Not this crap
Klive5ive
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom6056 Posts
August 21 2009 09:53 GMT
#8
Obviously they can't make a film just like the Sherlock Holmes books.
This is just another Hollywood remake, it might even be watchable.
It's stupid to get worked up over it. If you don't like the Hollywood style; don't watch it.
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Garnet
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
Vietnam9033 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-21 11:39:25
August 21 2009 10:02 GMT
#9
The only 2009 movie I'm anticipating for... nooo....
Daigomi
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
South Africa4316 Posts
August 21 2009 10:18 GMT
#10
I think the best way to understand wtf is going on in this film is to realise that it's directed by Guy Ritchie. Everything he touches is like 90% attitude, 10% content, which is what makes it as much fun to watch.

That said, I can't get over Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes. He's got a proper American accent, he's way too buff to be Sherlock, he looks like he just moved from the Iron Man set to the Sherlock set, and he never looks intelligent, much less like a genius. Jude Law would have made a better Sherlock, as would someone like Christian Bale, or perhaps even a cleaned up Hugh Laurie.

Other than that, I think the movie looks like fun
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Profile Joined September 2003
Germany2819 Posts
August 21 2009 11:14 GMT
#11
On August 21 2009 19:18 Daigomi wrote:
I think the best way to understand wtf is going on in this film is to realise that it's directed by Guy Ritchie. Everything he touches is like 90% attitude, 10% content, which is what makes it as much fun to watch.

That said, I can't get over Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes. He's got a proper American accent, he's way too buff to be Sherlock, he looks like he just moved from the Iron Man set to the Sherlock set, and he never looks intelligent, much less like a genius. Jude Law would have made a better Sherlock, as would someone like Christian Bale, or perhaps even a cleaned up Hugh Laurie.

Other than that, I think the movie looks like fun


To me, a neat physical reflection of Sherlock would be Johnny Depp. Maybe even a little bit like he played in "the ninth gate" / "from hell". Sleek, smart looking, not buff at all but still managing to pull through every time.

There are prolly other good actors who could resemble Sherlock accurately too but seeing as it is a Guy Ritchie movie, this is most likely not the focus of the movie. :O
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Valhalla18444 Posts
August 21 2009 12:02 GMT
#12
its not supposed to be a faithful adaptation of the books

hes like a drug-abusing pitfighter slash detective hobbyist in this movie and its looks like fun
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madnessman
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States1581 Posts
August 21 2009 12:42 GMT
#13
Sherlock Holmes wasn't meant to be the stuffy old detective that most people conceive him as. I think it's interesting that Ritchie is trying to break the "victorian stereotype" of Holmes.

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Holmes himself was a morphine and cocaine addict, a formidable martial artist and a self-proclaimed bohemian who'd gladly stay up all night to puzzle out a case.

As described in Conan Doyle's 56 stories and four short novels -- written mostly between the 1880s and 1910s -- the sleuth also played by his own rules. "I generally have chemicals about, and occasionally do experiments," Holmes says to Watson while auditioning him as a potential roommate. "Would that annoy you?"

But he's been domesticated by the years and come to be seen as what Roden calls "a Victorian fuddy-duddy." As Michael Chabon points out in his essay "Fan Fictions: On Sherlock Holmes," Conan Doyle's stories have been met with condescension for more than 100 years, the suspicion that their popularity came not from quality but from "the bourgeois thirst for a tidy adventure, or nostalgia for a vanished age (Victorian, or adolescent)."
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Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Sexico5880 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-04 19:26:38
September 04 2009 11:54 GMT
#14
Heh i dont get why everyone is so upset abiout this. Theres plenty of acton in the books. Ive read 2 novels and 3 short stories and so far it has been implied that hes an expert fencer, a boxer, knows japanese wrestling, is an expert fighter with the short stick, etc. Then you have stuff like the villain going through a window or holmes and watson emptying their guns on some indian native.

There are no monologues, he just explains his reasoning to watson who is considerably dumber and gets praised for it. He is a cocaine, morphine addict, although at a time when those were legal. Those saying this is a crap hollywood version of holmes, have not read the actual stories or have seen too many old movies where theres almost no action and probably no hint at his vices.
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Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Portugal918 Posts
September 04 2009 13:15 GMT
#15
First this:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/187269

And now hollywood raped sherlock too?

Srsly:
It's just an hollywood style production bro, what did you expect?
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Athos
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2484 Posts
September 04 2009 15:53 GMT
#16
Looks like a fun movie, I approve of Robert Downey Jr. even though I haven't read the books.
SwEEt[TearS]
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1575 Posts
September 04 2009 15:59 GMT
#17
obvious fake british accent is obvious t_t

RDJr is so not the right guy for this role, even if he's good.

but somehow stop the hate on how the movie will turn out, guy ritchie is brilliant ~_~
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Profile Blog Joined July 2004
USA29055 Posts
September 04 2009 16:08 GMT
#18
yeah not sherlock holmes but a fucking good movie imo
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9107 Posts
September 04 2009 19:18 GMT
#19
I agree with some others that I pictured Holmes as being a bit more nerdy but their approach looks like it might be fun, and at least entertaining.
Achromic
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
773 Posts
September 04 2009 19:23 GMT
#20
This trailer (to me anyways) looks good... I admit, it is very hollywood-ish, but still...
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