Ladies, do you like this new Sherlock?

[Siphorous]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-10725501

Personally, I'm looking forward to a decent Sherlock - even if it is a mini series

 

[freakofnature]

He's got nothing on Robert Downey Jr.


:ninja

 

[Siphorous]

He's got nothing on Robert Downey Jr.


:ninja

I was hoping the coffee eyes would come out :thumbup

 

[Thornless]

Underneath this pillow lies the key to my release :ninja

ORY!

 

[freakofnature]

:willy_nilly: I love that movie. I think I'll bring it with me tomorrow and watch it again.

 

[Thornless]

Siphykins, I need a voice clip of you doing that line... :ninja

 

[Siphorous]

Siphykins, I need a voice clip of you doing that line... :ninja

If anyone other than *him* had said it, I might be inclined. I like him - but hated him in that movie

There's the small matter of no more snapvine too :/

 

[freakofnature]

If anyone other than *him* had said it, I might be inclined. I like him - but hated him in that movie

There's the small matter of no more snapvine too :/

There's always YouTube.

 

[darkangel]

He's got nothing on Robert Downey Jr.


:ninja

:homo:ette! :ninja

 

[satinbutterfly]

He's got nothing on Robert Downey Jr.


:ninja

:homo:

Underneath this pillow lies the key to my release :ninja

ORY!

One of those situations where you certainly wouldn't run from the room screaming... :ninja

 

[AnitaBeer]

He's got nothing on Robert Downey Jr.


:ninja

:homo:

 

[Peter Parka]

He's got nothing on Robert Downey Jr.


:ninja

Well he hasn't got a terrible English accent...

 

[freakofnature]

Well he hasn't got a terrible English accent...

Ah, but Robert Downey Jr. has SO much more. It's easy to forgive the fake accent. It seems that most of the females here agree with me.

 

[Ryder]

Ahh mini series. Some are very good. Sherlock Holmes? Hmm. Who the hell knows.

 

[Abcinthia]

I think the guy looks alright. And I'm looking forward to the start of the mini series, hopefully it'll be good.

 

[Zorak]

Can't be much worse than the film.

But you never know what BBC will produce - that Robin Hood series springs to mind as another literary adaptation they tried that went horribley wrong.

 

[Minor Axis]

He's got nothing on Robert Downey Jr.


:ninja

I'm not a lady, but I was disappointed in his Sherlock Holmes, but I attribute that more to the director than the actor.

 

[Codrus]

2 names
1) Basil Rathbone
2) Peter Cushing


that is all

 

[darkangel]

I'm not a lady, but I was disappointed in his Sherlock Holmes, but I attribute that more to the director than the actor.

I thought he was great as Sherlock and I loved the movie. What was so disappointing in it?

 

[Minor Axis]

I thought he was great as Sherlock and I loved the movie. What was so disappointing in it?

My standard is Basil Rathbone both as an actor faithfully portraying the character and those movies as the perfect atmosphere and representation of the original stories. This does not mean I can't accept a different portrayal, I can. But there is a structural and formulamatic choice made by Guy Ritchie that turned me off.

In the SH movies I like, the clues are revealed slowly and steadily until you can see what Holmes sees. It's hard to explain, but the original movies had warmth. This approach was also carried forward in the Sherlock Holmes Star Trek Next Generation episodes that I also loved.

In contrast, Ritchie's movie is freezing cold. Additionally the character of the nemesis was evil carried to a level above what I associate with the Holmes stories. Finally the clues of what Holmes sees were tumbled into the story as if they got in the way of the action. It's a personal preference.