Comments | aspidites: It's a Technicolor Christmas...

aspidites

It's a Technicolor Christmas...

Dec 26, 2011 21:48

After a lovely smoked-turkey Christmas dinner, Bhil and I went to the local theater to watch Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Now, I love me some Robert Downey, Jr., and I think he's managed to capture to some extent exactly how difficult a person Holmes would have been to be around, but I don't remember the literary Holmes being quite so ADHD, ( Read more... )

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shuttergal December 27 2011, 05:13:22 UTC

That seems to me to be an irrefutable review. Agreed.

aspidites December 31 2011, 03:35:58 UTC

Thanks! It was better than the first one by a mile.

shuttergal December 31 2011, 04:06:38 UTC

Agreed once more!

media_junkie December 30 2011, 21:42:16 UTC

That is a perfect review of the new Sherlock Holmes. It was like you were reading my mind! - MJ

sharrainchains December 30 2011, 22:22:51 UTC

OTOH, the first paragraph sounds as if it could be describing the first Downey SH movie.

::wondering if she wants to know the answer to whether she wants to find out how much of the [much-adored] Stephen Fry the movie contains::

aspidites December 31 2011, 03:34:42 UTC

Well, the character is much the same, but I had far fewer kind things to say about Downey's first outing as Holmes. This film has a stronger storyline, with no black magic or mystical societies - just a relatively straight historically-based thriller. Jared Harris is nicely menacing as Moriarty and a stronger lynchpin for the plot to turn on than Mark Strong was in the first film.

As for Stephen Fry's appearance as Mycroft Holmes, let's just say the movie is very *ahem!* revealing. Strategically-placed furniture lets the film keep its PG-13 rating.

media_junkie December 31 2011, 16:38:27 UTC

Well, my eyes didn't QUITE bleed but you do see MUCH more skin than you'd like.

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