I have to agree with you about Rachel McAdams. Another character that no one has mentioned yet was Mrs. Watson. She seemed to maybe be spunkier than she lets on. I was half expecting her to show up in a fight scene.
One thing that I found interesting was the "Holmes fu." His fighting style was very martial arts like rather than British fisticuffs and Wrassling styles of the day. On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > I thought they were overplaying Holmes as the crazy man-of-action at the > beginning. The "cage match" and the unkempt Holmes were a bit much at first, > and I was seriously missing the deductive reasoning parts. But later in, the > movie settled in to give us more of Holmes the detective--and of course, the > point was to show how incredibly out of sorts he was without a challenging > case to focus his vast mental energies. Once he started doing some sleuthing > I was pleasantly surprised too. It was paced well, I liked the way they > reproduced England, the action was good, the villain good, the music was > very impressive. And Law as Watson is probably closer to the book than the > more aged, sidekicks of the movie. > > My only slight complaint was that Rachel McAdams seemed just a tad too > young and slight of personality to play Holmes' untrustworthy lover. I'd > have preferred a slightly older, stronger actress in the role. But no real > big issue there. > My wife and I both liked it, moreso as we discussed it this past weekend. > Indeed, I wouldn't mind seeing it again. And boy did they leave things open > for a sequel! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 4:39:27 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Sherlock Holmes > > > > That was my first thoughts too. Now I'm glad that I saw it. > > I just hope that they don't try to take two different actors and turn it > into a tv show. > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:04 AM, B Smith <daikaij...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> The reviews were pretty good. It was more griping from "true" fans over >> Ritchie's take. Turns out it was the fans of the movie Sherlock Holmes >> series and not the Holmes of the books. They thought his style and >> storytelling didn't mesh with Sherlock Holmes. Boy were they wrong. Ritchie >> did his homework by going to the source material and delivered an >> entertaining and exciting film. >> >> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Tracey de Morsella" <tdli...@...> >> wrote: >> > >> > I read all good reviews. I'm dying to see it. What did you hear? >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On >> > Behalf Of B Smith >> > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 8:56 AM >> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com >> > Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Sherlock Holmes >> > >> > I don't know why this movie got so much flack at first. It's was very >> good >> > and Downey and Law were excellent. >> > >> > Guy Ritchie has his golden ticket to A list status now. >> >> > >> > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf" <HelloMahogany@> wrote: >> > > >> > > Just saw the movie, and I enjoyed it. Lots of authentic looking eye >> candy. >> > > Interesting plot. Robert Downey's Sherlock seemed right on target. I >> was >> > > leery that they would somehow over do it but it felt right. >> > > >> > > Dr. Watson got a bit of an upgrade which made his character more >> enjoyable >> > > than previous incarnations. Jude Law made a believable counterpart to >> > > Sherlock. >> > > >> > > Bonus points for the Steampunk gadgetry. >> >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >> > > Mahogany at: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >> >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------ >> > >> > Post your SciFiNoir Profile at >> > >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYa >> > hoo! Groups Links >> > >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Post your SciFiNoir Profile at >> >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! >> Groups Links >> >> >> >> (Yahoo! ID required) >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
