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Trailer now up. The trailer should also be showing on all prints of Terminator. So far it seems like the only reason to see this is to watch Robert Downey Jr. be Robert Downey Jr..
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It looks like League of Extraordinary Hellboy Detectives. But I still want to see it.
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NowhereMan
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I missed the book where Holmes went from being a semi-autistic up-himself genius detective and became a suave, Kun Fuing vampire killer. All it really needs is Moriarty in steam punk Robo-exoskeleton to be truly  |
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I'd have to be drunk to sit through this. Badly.
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I just saw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, so I think I'll be looking forward to this
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Sherlock Holmes! BY MICHAEL BAY
BABABASPLOOOOMMMM!!!!!!!
Ok, so it's not that bad. I actually think I'll enjoy this. But it'll be cheesy as hell.
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Michael Bay?
Worse than that - it's Guy Ritchie.
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Worse than that - it's Guy Ritchie.
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This is an utter goddamn fucking travesty.
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NowhereMan
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I could have lived with this if they'd really gone for it. Like I said Moriarty in steampunk exo-skeleton and Holmes being the fucking batman I'd have gone to see purely for ridiculousness. This looks like they just made Holmes a sexy man who knows Karate and threw in a few saucy jokes. What's the fucking point of making a Sherlock Holmes movie if you don't want to make a Sherlock Holmes movie or even really make fun of Sherlock Holmes?
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This looks like they just made Holmes a sexy man who knows Karate and threw in a few saucy jokes.
Doesn't look like they made Holmes all that sexy. Also, in the books he apparently did have some talent as a boxer and was familiar with at least one kind of martial art. |
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C. Auguste Dupin > Sherlock Holmes Been a long time since i have read any Holmes i cant recall him kicking any ass. What's the fucking point of making a Sherlock Holmes movie if you don't want to make a Sherlock Holmes movie or even really make fun of Sherlock Holmes? Name recognition, its not like a substantial amount of people who will go see the movie have read any of the books. |
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They're rebooting the franchise. Just go with it.  |
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C. Auguste Dupin > Sherlock Holmes
Been a long time since i have read any Holmes i cant recall him kicking any ass. In one story this guys came in rages at Holmes and to rienforce the point, picked up a poker and bent it. Holmes picked up the poker and simply straightened it. But he wasn't really into physical confrontation as a rule, but he wasn't shy of bringing on a revolver id need be. This is going to be a travesty of literary proportions. |
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What's sad is that it'll probably be good.
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Didn't the studio force re-shoots because execs felt it was awful?
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Jackpot!
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Didn't the studio force re-shoots because execs felt it was awful?
I'm not sure how that's relevant. You trust what studios think qualifies as awful or awesome? |
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I have a feeling they have no idea what this project really is. Once Downey and Law were on board, I doubt they took the time to consider how erratic Ritchie is. Picture a room full of execs watching the dailies and wondering what the heck is going on in front of them, then freaking out when the lights are undimmed.
I read some more about the reshoots. Many reports are conflicting. Whatever the case, Rachel McAdams is rockin' hot.
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Dear Diary,
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Venkman
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What's sad is that it'll probably be good.
Be good or do good? Trailer was up during Terminator. I didn't hate it. And yea, they're rebooting the franchise. Just how many people know anything about Holmes beyond the name? And then how many of those people know anything beyond Young Sherlock Holmes  Source material doesn't survive transition to the 21st century  |
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This could rival Van Helsing in terms of pure, anadulterated awful.
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Be good or do good? Be good. I fully trust Ritchie. His worst job was that madonna flick, and even his second worst job, Revolver, is way above average. |
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Saw the trailer, looked good in a "I've never read any of Doyle's books" sense. I don't get the Ritchie hate. Lock Stock and Snatch were both . |
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Lock, Stock was great. Snatch was entertaining but not as fantastic as everyone seems to think it is. Revolver was a piece of predictable, self-important, hackneyed old crap. Less said about Swept Away, the better. By all accounts, Rocknrolla is not bad but not outstanding but I haven't seen it so can't comment.
Basically, Ritchie has so far proved himself to only know a one note song and seems incapable of diversity. Compare Matthew Vaughn who was his producer on Lock, Stock and Snatch (the two good films in his repertoire) and then went on to direct Layer Cake and the wildly different but no less good Stardust. I'd like for Sherlock Holmes to be good and could care less for how much it sticks to the source material - no-one gave two shits when Neil Gaiman wrote the short story "A Study In Emerald" which mixed up Holmes with the Cthulhu mythos. I just don't think it's actually going to be very good and nothing in the trailer (which reminded me a lot of Hudson Hawk for some reason) gave me reason to think otherwise.
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Hindenburg
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Snatch was entertaining but not as fantastic as everyone seems to think it is. Actually, it is every bit as fantastic as everyone seems to think, oddly enough. And yes, I had seen LS2SB before seeing snatch. |
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In fairness Gaiman mixed up the Cthulu mythos and Holmes but didn't actually change any of the characters, in the sense that Holmes from Study in Emerald seems like the sort of thing the character might do in that situation. Part of a good franchise reboot shouldn't be radically altering the characters to fit in with some random archetype you think will sell i.e. making Kirk into a hard ass by the book leader with a somewhat impetuous Spock he needs to keep reeling in would have made the new Trek not Trek. Like others have said, this is probably going to be a forgettable semi-action flick with lots of Ritchie stuff. The only reason it makes me unhappy is because I think Holmes could be used to make much better movies. People love thrillers, why can't a good Holme film be a period mystery thriller? (Probably because studio execs anyone tried to pitch that to would go into coniptions at the genre).
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And yea, they're rebooting the franchise. Just how many people know anything about Holmes beyond the name? And then how many of those people know anything beyond Young Sherlock Holmes Source material doesn't survive transition to the 21st century It broke my heart a sequel to young Sherlock Holmes was never made.  Grisom from CSI is the modern day Holmes. But Holmes already being a plagiarized character makes me indifferent to its rape. |
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