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

[copper-season.livejournal.com]

OMG!

*flails

I'm am so looking forward to this movie! Yay!

[seramercury.livejournal.com]

My roommate would tell you they probably shouldn't use the Holmes name for the franchise. I say go ahead, though, because it's a way to get other people into the fandom either old movies and episodes with Basil Rathbone and into the books.

[creativeaminot.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what's going on (Sherlock apparently doesn't need canon...) but i will watch it because:

-shirtless! Downey
- I love Guy Ritchie films

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

I didn't even like the first installment of this, fwiw.

Btw, when I was in London last year, there was a film crew shooting background shots of London, and they said it was for this new Holmes movie. I feel like I'm part of it now, lol.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Is there a version of the fifth amendment that guarantees someone their right to avoid saying things that will make them sound like a pretentious jerkface?
In as few of my own words as possible: (from this New York Times article about the first one.) One of the producers says (in regards to the books): "I never agreed with the idea of the fairly stuffy Edwardian-type gentleman...It wasn’t my idea of Sherlock Holmes." And there's also this perplexing assertion: "So many of the ideas that Conan Doyle had took place offstage in his books," Ms. Downey said. "We have the technology, the budget and the means to carry them out."

That pretty much sums up what's gone on here, I think.

[jacknjill270.livejournal.com]

I love the RDJ movie as a fun action movie about a Victorian detective...but it's not Holmes. As long as I keep the two separate I like it, but when I start thinking about the fact that it's supposed to be Sherlock Holmes dressed in drag I start to twitch and foam at the mouth. AGH. SO WRONG. However I do think Jude Law was a pretty awesome Watson in the first movie. At least they didn't make him some fat, bumbling old guy again. Jude Law should really be in more movies. And in me. ;)