Watson, lie down with me!
I just got back from seeing Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows with cute_regena. No spoilers.
This was every bit as good as the first one. Not to knock Lord Blackwood the Snaggletooth, but Moriarty is a great villain. He's pretty much the first supervillain ever. Moriarty is The One Who Came Before Lex, and they used that to the utmost advantage. Dude knows what's going on and he and Holmes are playing the game so hard that all others who play the game after will be filled with self-loathing at their inability to match that shit. And besides being evil and a genius, Moriarty's a pretty normal guy. No weird fetishes or obsessions, no disfigurements. Just a beardy math professor with high ambitions. That's refreshing.
They worked some suspense into the plot, I tell you what. Good enough so that I didn't call what was coming by the end of the first act (except for the one part, 'cause come on. It was published 118 years ago), and I was all "now how will Holmes counter that dastardly fiend?!". Sure, they moved technology up by ten, twenty years, but they did that in the first movie too and it's not like they were musketeers flying airships or anything. I'll let slide a gun here or there.
I loved the fight scenes. None featured shirtless men bare-knuckle fighting in a barn, so well done Guy Ritchie. Way to break the habit. But still, Holmes was killin' dudes and Watson caned some guys with his cane, and I actually admired the way guns were used in a shoot-out. They added interest(!) instead of just indicating in the script that a fight is occurring, like in some movies. Also: throwing knives. Always a plus.
But when you look past the awesome villain and the plot and the suspense and the really cool fight scenes, at its most basic level, the movie was a lot like a two-hour kinkmeme fill. I don't think they missed a one. I imagine that one of the writers was wandering through the internet and stumbled on the Sherlock Holmes kinkmeme and had their eyes opened to a whole new kinky world. Or else Michele and Kieran Mulroney have a closet in their bedroom they keep locked at all times, 'cause damn. There was more hoyay than the first movie, and you saw the first movie. I mean damn. I'm not sure anyone even needs to write fic, because the subtext was text was a flashing marquee and a crawl at the bottom saying FANGIRLS STOP SCREAMING, THE REST OF THE AUDIENCE CAN'T HEAR and FOOT FETISHISTS STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT SCENE. Is there a master list of kinks somewhere on the internet? Say, the 100 most-common kink gathered from various fandoms? I'd love to compare SH:AGOS to this hypothetical list, or perhaps use it to start such a list. 'Cause damn.
Oh, and also Mycroft! Mycroft was in it! Yaaaay!
movie haiku:
Mycroft, Stephen Fry
who is playing who in this?
there's too much greatness
This was every bit as good as the first one. Not to knock Lord Blackwood the Snaggletooth, but Moriarty is a great villain. He's pretty much the first supervillain ever. Moriarty is The One Who Came Before Lex, and they used that to the utmost advantage. Dude knows what's going on and he and Holmes are playing the game so hard that all others who play the game after will be filled with self-loathing at their inability to match that shit. And besides being evil and a genius, Moriarty's a pretty normal guy. No weird fetishes or obsessions, no disfigurements. Just a beardy math professor with high ambitions. That's refreshing.
They worked some suspense into the plot, I tell you what. Good enough so that I didn't call what was coming by the end of the first act (except for the one part, 'cause come on. It was published 118 years ago), and I was all "now how will Holmes counter that dastardly fiend?!". Sure, they moved technology up by ten, twenty years, but they did that in the first movie too and it's not like they were musketeers flying airships or anything. I'll let slide a gun here or there.
I loved the fight scenes. None featured shirtless men bare-knuckle fighting in a barn, so well done Guy Ritchie. Way to break the habit. But still, Holmes was killin' dudes and Watson caned some guys with his cane, and I actually admired the way guns were used in a shoot-out. They added interest(!) instead of just indicating in the script that a fight is occurring, like in some movies. Also: throwing knives. Always a plus.
But when you look past the awesome villain and the plot and the suspense and the really cool fight scenes, at its most basic level, the movie was a lot like a two-hour kinkmeme fill. I don't think they missed a one. I imagine that one of the writers was wandering through the internet and stumbled on the Sherlock Holmes kinkmeme and had their eyes opened to a whole new kinky world. Or else Michele and Kieran Mulroney have a closet in their bedroom they keep locked at all times, 'cause damn. There was more hoyay than the first movie, and you saw the first movie. I mean damn. I'm not sure anyone even needs to write fic, because the subtext was text was a flashing marquee and a crawl at the bottom saying FANGIRLS STOP SCREAMING, THE REST OF THE AUDIENCE CAN'T HEAR and FOOT FETISHISTS STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT SCENE. Is there a master list of kinks somewhere on the internet? Say, the 100 most-common kink gathered from various fandoms? I'd love to compare SH:AGOS to this hypothetical list, or perhaps use it to start such a list. 'Cause damn.
Oh, and also Mycroft! Mycroft was in it! Yaaaay!
movie haiku:
Mycroft, Stephen Fry
who is playing who in this?
there's too much greatness