Comments | my_daroga: Film Review: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)

my_daroga

Film Review: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)

Mar 15, 2006 10:57

It may be unfair of me to review Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking. Not only did I fall under the spell of Mr. Jeremy Brett in PBS’s previous Holmesian offerings, but I’ve actually read the stories they’re based on.

I’m going to anyway.
( drugs and boredom )

sherlock holmes, films

Comments 11

filmnoir6 March 15 2006, 19:05:08 UTC

Good review, L. I sensed that this film would not be worthy of seeing or of upholding the Holmesean tradition of mystery story. It does seem quite "cheap" to make an expensive film exploiting the Sherlock Holmes name in ways it wouldn't have been in the first place.

my_daroga March 15 2006, 19:21:46 UTC

Thanks. I resisted it for some time, until a co-worker rather pointedly put it on my desk. I then relented, as I usually do, in the spirit of inquiry. After all, this is the very subject my undergrad thesis was about--the appropriation of Holmes for cultural use. More or less.

It was worth it, in the sense that I got to write this review and think about these issues. Not as a film in and of itself.

nemo_griffen March 15 2006, 19:26:57 UTC

*puts on his sad gryphony face*

Jeremy Brett is dead? oh-noes! We didn't know that.

I must make a point of forcing my mummy to let me hangout in the living room on Sherlock days. I haven't seen enough episodes of Brett Sherlock. My grandmommy loves Rathbone Sherlock, but we prefer the who drugged-out-of-his-skull-effeat-obsessive-ness of Brett. Rather like the polar of the drugged-out-of-his-skull-obsessive to House.

my_daroga March 15 2006, 19:34:46 UTC

They are very similar! I think whoever created House was definitely thinking about Brett!Holmes. Who's my favorite, totally.

Yup, Mr. Brett died in 1995 or thereabouts. I wore black--seriously, I was very distraught! I'd written him a letter not two weeks before he died, about how important he was to me as Holmes, etc etc, and I will never know if he got it.

I can't believe it's been that long since my angsty teenage black phase. My goodness.

ladyrazorsharp March 15 2006, 20:27:35 UTC

You're certainly not alone; I didn't care for this either. I reviewed it at my journal when it was shown a few months ago.

my_daroga March 15 2006, 20:33:36 UTC

Awww, it won't let me see it! I'm not authorized! It must be very delicate.

But thanks for answering/not liking the movie.

ladyrazorsharp March 15 2006, 22:15:39 UTC

Woops, that would be because it's a friends-only post. I'll go unlock it. There's nothing really secret about it--I just didn't think my non-Sherlock friends would care to hear me blathering on. ^_^

lizbee March 15 2006, 22:25:15 UTC

I had Ian Hart's porn star moustache as an LJ interest for a couple of years, after I saw the adaptation of Hound of the Baskervilles. It's pretty special.

my_daroga March 15 2006, 22:27:38 UTC

porn star moustache

That's so true. I *need* to see that Baskerville thing...

lizbee March 15 2006, 22:47:49 UTC

Baskervilles is pretty special all around. Very, very gay, for instance. And Richard Roxburgh, whom I adore, brings to Holmes the dignity and masculinity of a ferret, which is charming.

my_daroga March 15 2006, 23:04:23 UTC

Sounds unmissable. But you know, Colin Jeavons, Lestrade on the Granada eps, never reminded me of anything so much as a weasel. It will be interesting to see these fine qualities grafted onto Holmes.