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?)

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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.

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Ohhh, I get it: Arthur Conan Doyle is the one who was doing it wrong! It all makes so much more sense now...