Category: Things That Are Not Sherlock Holmes

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Trailer for the new RDJ Sherlock Holmes movie coming out in December:

As action movies go, it looks good; as a part of the Sherlock Holmes canon? Uh, no no no... (I'm still going to see it, natch.)

So, what does everyone think? Should they even bother to use the Holmes name for this franchise anymore? (Or am I Wrong and Need To Be Told?)

Comments

[seramercury.livejournal.com]

Yeah I can agree with that. I was telling my roommate (scarletsherlock -- she's cool ^_~) about your comments and she said she just cringed watching the trailer. She thinks even Jude Law with his Watson-y look seems more like a Holmes than RDJ.

I love RDJ so it doesn't matter to me if he looks like Holmes or not. LOL!!

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Anyone who loves Sherlock enough to adopt his name as their own must be cool! ;)

Yep, Jude Law definitely looks more Holmesian in the trailers, but that isn't saying very much! As I said, I think the character RDJ plays in the movies is really fun and likeable, but Holmes is such an iconic image...well, yeah! I agree with your roomie. :P

[seramercury.livejournal.com]

Haha. That's how I knew we'd be friends. It was hard when I first joined LJ to find Sherlock fans. :D

I get where you're both coming from. I also didn't get the stories and old movies/episodes rained on me as a kid so I think I have a bit of different spin on what I can go for as SH. It's all good, though. She's shown me A LOT in the past three years I've known her. :)