Making a comedy of Sherlock Holmes is a crime.................
Stranger Than Fiction is the only movie I have ever seen him in that I liked.
It wasn’t a comedy but then again most of his comedies aren’t that funny.
How the hell is making a bad movie even possible? You would think if the script is crap you don’t make it, especially when we’re talking an investment of millions of dollars. These people are beyond stupid which comes as no surprise being that most of them are leftists.
It appears that unlike everyone else posting here... I like slapstick comedy. I do not go to the movies to be taught leftist social lessons. I just want them to make me laugh and forget about our daily trials and tribulations.
My wife and I watched this movie on Christmas. It was not a great movie, in fact we went to a theater with fancy recliners and my wife had to wake me up at one point after I started snoring. But there were parts that did make us laugh. Most of the best scenes are in the trailers for the movie and we commented to each other that we had already seen most of the highlights before watching the movie. However, unlike nearly every other movie currently out, there was not any nudity or foul language that I remember.
The absolute worst part of the movie were the absolutely awful trailers for other movies that were played for a full half after the movie was suppose to have started. The movie was suppose to start at 3:45 and the trailers didn’t end until 4:15. Those trailers included horrific and repeated graphic murders and deaths along with foul language and pornographic scenes in front of an audience of mostly teenagers and young adults. I spent 25 years working in a big city fire department and saw more than my share of real situations that I try not to think about, but this stuff was shocking. Why aren’t all the people here whining and complaining about this mostly innocuous movie, complaining about that those filthy and hideous movies???
The series with Jeremy Brett was probably the best ever.
Actually Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were the best actors. I have a short video of Conan Doyle and his mannerisms etc. are very close to Bruce. That is as it should be as Watson was clearly an alter ego of Sir Arthur.
Unfortunately for Rathbone and Bruce their movies were what they called “Quota Quickies”. They were still pretty good despite the low amount of money used in making them.
He’s mildly amusing when there are absolutely no other options. Fortunately there are lots of options these days.
Sherlock Holmes is an open copyright, I forget what they call it, public domain? Meaning you can write a Sherlock Holmes story and you don’t have to pay for the rights.
So what I was thinking, for all you writers out there, can someone write a story called “Sherlock Holmes and the case of Seth Rich”?
“Dear God Watson, how can the police show up mere seconds after the shooting and not catch the killer?”
“Have you ever heard of the Clinton crime family Holmes?”
I pretty much won’t go see any movies these days. I haven’t been in a theater for several years.
The comedies these days all seem to be full of fart or bathroom jokes. I’ll pass.
The dramas all seem to spew some PC crap. Pass on that, too.
The action films are all remakes or sequels. Pass.
The only thing that seems to be original are the family oriented stories (not animated) on very small budgets.
Time for Hollywood to be swept out into the Pacific.
Agreed. Why is it that almost all Hollywood comedic actors are not funny?
Jim Carrey, Will Farrell, Steve Carrell, Ben Stiller, etc. These are supposed to be the hot "funny guys" in Hollywood but almost all their comedic efforts are not only decidedly unfunny but cringe-worthy.
Ditto that...Farrell is funny only for lazy liberals.
I found Gotti on Amazon Prime. I watched it, being a big mob movie buff, even knowing that it wouldn't be good. It was worse than I thought. Travolta was so stunningly bad he should be embarrassed.
El Diablo and the Magic Man. They were finny in Talladega Nights and Stepbrothers.
I won’t pay to see it but will watch it when it hits the TV screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brjkpRBpFnc
The trailer. Sure isn’t what I’d pay to go see, but then, VERY few movies are.
It should be a crime against humanity for Will Ferrell to make movies ... even home videos.
There are so many bad movies. Can’t they tell the movie is a bomb by just reading the scripts?
Rotten tomatoes were made for Ferrell.
“Making a comedy of Sherlock Holmes is a crime.................”
I don’t know about that, this one’s pretty funny.
And the Razzie goes to....
I have long wondered how people viewed Will Farrell as funny. Basically the guy’s whole schtick is to run around acting like a semi-retarded middle school kid. Okay, maybe that’s funny for a single movie, but it’s now just pathetically stupid.
The best review I saw on IMDB. Lot’s of fun scrolling thru them:
“A film for the ages
torbrowsingthomas28 December 2018
Will Ferrell is a beautiful and amazing transgender actor who does not deserve the hate she is currently recieving. We are living in 2018 and it is time for Christianity to finally hault on all its hate. Yes I understand a lot of you are less progressive than myself but in the future is it my kind which will be known for creating the positive future of tomorrow. Not you people. And in that future the entire works of Will Ferrell will be our Bible and great leaders will carry around USB sticks with our beautiful transgender God to signify his importance.”