"Sherlock Holmes: A Generic Sequel Subtitle."

[w_a_i_d]

WELL I LIKED IT.

Not to say it wasn't daft. But it was genial and energetic and had the best Moriarty I've seen in ages, despite his unpromising beard.

In fact, here, in detail, are my reactions...

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[w_a_i_d]

Oh, well, the plot in my one is merely a support for the massive quantities of angst I propose to employ, so yes, I still mean to finish it when I can.

[enname]

Successful skin grafting was invented in WWI, but they had been muddling around with plastic surgery since at least the beginning of the 19th century (Well earlier, but that was even less successful). They just could not work out how to make grafting work and well, the risk of infection was always high and work could be clumsy. Not to mention injecting wax under the skin to remould the face just brings me out in hives.

[cleito]

Remember how when the first film came out, they kept playing with the gay during the press interviews? And then the Doyle people were threatening to not let Richie make a second film?

It's like the entire crew took it as a personal challenge...

Somebody posted a picture from a cut scene where Holmes is getting kissed by Sim. Too het for Richie? And the bit about the Blue Eyes as he falls? Yeah.

[w_a_i_d]

Oh... yes, I remember seeing that clip of Holmes and Sim kissing in a trailer. I almost wonder if they only filmed it for the studio --or maybe I'm being ridiculous, but it's hard to see how that relationship ever COULD have gone there. I wouldn't have believed it of Sim either. Apart from anything else, they knew each other such a short time. The hints of something between Holmes and Irene -- and the glaring importance of the something between Holmes and Watson -- work because there was a sense of history there. Not to say I didn't like Sim and Holmes as colleagues of sorts who cared about each other's welfare.

And the bit about the Blue Eyes as he falls?

I am not quite sure what you mean here?

[dracutgrl]

I went with several friends - all of whom are very aware of my slash!love (TM)- there were many, many moments when one (or more or all) leaned over and whispered "I can hear the keyboard keys flailing all over the world."

As much as the slashgirl in me loved the H/W dance, the one who has been edumicated about what things were like back then was all, UH...Guy?? Did you not do any research? Sigh.

Overall, I liked this one better than the first and RDJ and Judsie are just too gorgeous for words.

[w_a_i_d]

I liked it better than the first one too, which was the opposite of what I'd been led to expect. The plot was such a significant step up on the original.

[dracutgrl]

Maybe b/c it was Moriarty and Moran instead of (sigh) Blackwood. And it felt closer to the canon...not completely, of course - but closer.

[enname]

*snorts a brandy and dry whilst reading your summary*

Ow, fizzy stuff hurts when up one's nostril.

So, it sounds like when I need something to go see to get out of the heat of summer that this would be a good and entertaining option. Just as long as I can get my brain to go LALALALALA at various sections. Good thing I like trains.

See, you have to continue writing Antidote to Sorrow because we need the researched, accurate, subtle version that is filled with actual relationship exploration and entire mountains of angst and canon. Also no moments of 'why is Holmes dead?!?' and scenes that are not just Greenwich, no matter how much I love Greenwhich.

[w_a_i_d]

So, it sounds like when I need something to go see to get out of the heat of summer that this would be a good and entertaining option. Just as long as I can get my brain to go LALALALALA at various sections. Good thing I like trains.

Absolutely! And there's nothing wrong with the trains! They're just... enthusiastic.

Hee. Yes, I suppose, when I get back to AtS I can try and package the similarities as a positive: "...now available with ANGST!!"

[anonymous]

MORIARTY: You all know I’m supposed to be a scary motherfucker. For once, let me illustrate that I can in fact be a SCARY MOTHERFUCKER. *plays Schubert* *instigates carnage* *terrorises Europe* *remains plausible as a genius mathematics professor*

I think this, along with the fact that they actually explored Moran's character as the stunningly-badass, tiger-wrestling, expert-sniper Dark Watson, made up a good 50% of why I loved the movie.

It actually makes mountains of sense that Holmes "dies" on the train. If I remember right, near the end of the MeatHookOfHorror scene he has blood running down his arm and pooling in his palm, and then he goes dashing through a forest, which would get his heart pumping even more blood out through the hole in his shoulder as well as lower his blood volume even further by sweating. HOLY HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK, BATMAN. Of course, as you pointed out, the bizarre anachronistic CPR...doesn't make quite as much sense.

Glad you liked it, your review made me giggle so hard. :)

[w_a_i_d]

Do you think? Because while he was certainly in convincingly bad shape, he didn't seem to have lost THAT much blood (there wasn't much on his clothes), and besides, you REALLY can't cure hypovolemic shock with a shot of anything to the heart (or anywhere else), so I was trying to work out if he'd somehow been poisoned like Gladstone at the beginning and I had missed it. But still, I loved the scene anyway. And I almost did a small dance in my seat when they were bringing out the Moran-Watson parallels.

[anonymous]

Well, I'd have to see it again to be sure, but I remember a brief shot of his hand at the very end of the torture scene and that there was a little puddle of blood in his palm. If he's bleeding enough that it's running down his arm and pooling like that (rather than just sticking to his arm or absorbing into his clothes), he's bleeding A LOT. There wasn't ENOUGH blood on his clothes, but there was a quite fair bit of it - most of the chest and shoulder of his shirt and waistcoat were black with it, and it was smeared all up the side of his face. Plus, with a PG-13 movie I tend to suspect that they are showing less blood than there actually is. In real life, a wound like that would certainly bleed a lot, even if the meat hook missed the big artery that it was dangerously close to.

And yeah, as you say, the fixing-Holmes part was a lot dodgier than the getting-Holmes-in-terrible-shape part. The best explanation I can come up with is that he's got hypovolemic shock that's not quite enough to kill him on its own, but triggers cardiac

[w_a_i_d]

Hmm, okay: “Trashed his body recently with self-neglect and drugs” + “a thoroughly nasty wound” + “exhaustion” = “too much” ... I can go with that, I guess.

Dammit, now you've got me wanting to see the silly thing again.