Nope, not the only one. Mr. Bandersnatch leaves me cold and I found the writing below par for Moffat and Gatiss. I agree about Martin Freeman, though--likely the best conception of Watson ever.
My take on the Lock Stock and Two Smoking Victorian Hotties version is that you have to squint to make it look like Conan Doyle, but they've effectively created their own universe and it works within that, and I'm okay with it.
I, too, am not a fan of the BBC "Sherlock." (To be fair, I've never watched an episode -- but that is because I seriously just have no interest in this program, it may be fantastic but I just don't want to watch it, oh please all my fellow-dork friends stop nagging me to watch it, it's nothing personal, I just _am not interested_, so please please stop already about it, pleaseI am a MAJOR fan of the Downey/Law version,* and while please understand that I love the first movie to bits and have rewatched it many times and love what they did and consider it a favorite ... I love "Game of Shadows" like ten times more. It's just ... AWESOME. It's bigger and funnier and darker and ... and _clearer_. The vision they have for it seems clearer to me this time out. And there's like half a dozen images and moments of symbolism that just leaped out of the screen at me, moments that really _resonated_ with me. (Not that there wasn't some character development stuff from the first film that really resonated with me, too, don't get me wrong. It's
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Don't forget this other movie, Haywire, which I saw the trailer for in front of two different movies this week. Seriously, there are only movies you have not found him in yet.
In her book The History of Hell, Alice K. Turner drew parallels between Ripley going back to save Newt and "Inanna's Descent into the Underworld" if I remember correctly... describing the Queen Xenomorph as "a monstrous Ereshkigal."
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ETA: At the moment my ship is The Oh FFS Just Stop And Ask For Directions.
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A list of said names includes things like "Poke It With A Stick", "Funny, It Worked Last Time", and "You'll Clean That Up Before You Leave".
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My take on the Lock Stock and Two Smoking Victorian Hotties version is that you have to squint to make it look like Conan Doyle, but they've effectively created their own universe and it works within that, and I'm okay with it.
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