"Hollywood, STFU." reviews "Sherlock Holmes"

Hollywood, STFU ^ | 2009/12/27 | Hollywood, STFU

[ct_libertarian]

        Part big budget Hollywood Action/Adventure, part Victorian Period Piece, part Buddy Movie, there is one thing which “Sherlock Holmes” is not, a screed. The absence of any “message” beyond the story stood out to me as more memorable than even the fantastic interplay between Downey and Law as Holmes and Watson. While some might argue that the pervasive atmosphere of decay and filth portrayed in “Sherlock Holmes” might be a negative statement on industrialization, I would argue back that “The Good Old Days” had manure in the streets.

[ct_libertarian]

"Hollywood, STFU." is a movie review blog.
They rate a movie based on how much left-wing bias it has.
They really liked the movie, "Sherlock Holmes".

[mylife]

Moriarty doesn’t care what the reviews say. Nor does Holmes.

[TheConservativeParty]

Thanks for the link to the review site. I checked on how this guy liked “The Blind Side” and agree with his review. It was a surprisingly good movie. I will take a chance on Sherlock Holmes too.

[ElayneJ]

This is good to know - thanks!

[dynachrome]

Thanks. I’ll take achance on this one.

(I did not like seeing Holmes dishevelled in the previews. Alwys figured him for a natty dreser)

[libertarian27]

Neat site - they gave Avatar 5 hammer and sickles! LOL

5 Hammer and Sickles: Reserved for the blatant offerings of The Obama Administration Ministry of Truth.

[mylife]

Naw. Holmes abode was a mess

That is Why Mrs Hudson was always exasperated with him.

[GeronL]

So he isn’t a drug using womanizer in the film?

[Lancey Howard]

Heh... I watched ‘Sherlock Holmes - Dressed to Kill’ starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce last night on TCM. I grew up watching the Basil Rathbone movies and have seen every one of his Sherlock Holmes movies a dozen times. To me there can never be another Sherlock Holmes. Watching anybody else try to portray Holmes is like watching Steve Martin portray Inspector Clouseau. Just can’t do it.

[CaptainK]

I saw it but feel asleep for an hour (due to Christmas Day fatigue)

But the hour I saw was good.

And for me, any movie with Robert Downey Jr. automatically starts with a 2 1/2 star handicap.

[Captain Kirk]

No, he isn’t really a womanizer in the film. The drug thing isn’t played up but it is not new. It is referenced in one of the early Basil Rathbone films. I

[dynachrome]

The abode, yes, but Holmes himself, I think of Jeremy Brett’s portrayal

[Mmogamer]

Hate to disagree but this actor IS Sherlock Holmes. Period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Brett

[TriGirl]

I saw it yesterday. Entertaining movie. We spent the rest of the day trying to figure out who we would have cast differently....

[My Favorite Headache]

Hearing a lot of good things about this film.

[StormEye]

Best portrayals of Sherlock Holmes:
1) Jeremy Brett
2) Basil Rathbone
3) ?????

[mylife]

A fine Sherlock Holmes series, yet there is that underlying sloth in his personal life and attention to detail of the case.

I think a lot of the film noir detective is rooted in this juxtaposition.

Its not really spelled out in the Jeremy Brett series but Holmes had to have a intimate familiarity with a lot of seedy stuff to be so expert as to see the details.

[Sans-Culotte]

Heh... I watched ‘Sherlock Holmes - Dressed to Kill’ starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce last night on TCM. I grew up watching the Basil Rathbone movies and have seen every one of his Sherlock Holmes movies a dozen times. To me there can never be another Sherlock Holmes. Watching anybody else try to portray Holmes is like watching Steve Martin portray Inspector Clouseau. Just can’t do it.

I think you will find that many (myself included) find Jeremy Brett to be the best. Before Brett's health declined, Granada TV filmed accurate episodes of 24 or so of Doyle's original stories. I like Rathbone in the part, but Nigel Bruce's Watson is an imbecile. I really only cared for Rathbone's first two films (Ratbone's Hound of the Baskervilles is still the best version of that story, IMO). Didn't care for modernizing the stories and setting them in WW2, etc.

Brett's episodes were scrupulously set in Victorian/Edwardian England, and they went to a lot of effort to dress Holmes and Watson as they looked in the Sidney Paget illustrations.

Peter Cushing was a good, authentic Holmes, too. Not looking forward to the new film, which looks like some sort of spoof.

[skimask]

I prefer Basil Rathbone as the super sleuth.

[denydenydeny]

I liked it very much. Robert Downey is all charisma (as he usually is) and Jude Law is very good. Rachel McAdams is horribly miscast; she’s supposed to be this woman of mystery and intrigue but she comes off as a dewy ingénue. But it looks like the filmmakers realized this and largely edited her out of the movie.

Guy Ritchie is one of the best directors in the world as long as Madonna isn’t anywhere around.