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Saw Sherlock Holmes with Jude Law and the other guy. Not my favorite actor but of course, very good.
In this role he plays Dr. Watson.. perfectly.
It's alot more like the paperbacks, unlike the serials with Basil Rathbone where you see the villain crouching around the corners during the pursuit the whole show and then he's caught, and the reveal comes down like "this is what occurred when you were at the lady's house, and how the knife was blue and because the sky is blue you did it - arrest him" kinda end-of-story assembly.
This is a great movie: people died, people got stabbed and shot, but not like gore-for-gores'-sake kinda thing (see my review of that shitty Avatar flick).
I'm not the one for gratuitous violence, and in this pic sure there's explosions and fighting and all that but it's sensible and I don't recall any fucking filthy language, so this pic gets high ratings on the GAR meter for date-freindly movies!
Okay, now for those naysayers who might think, Hey waitaminnit, I know the story from the Rathbone serials on TV, or we had to read some of that in school.. well, those flicks weren't in color for one. Two, this is more 19th century London than you really wished to know so it's period-heavy: great visuals done really well and with todays modern special effects, it blows DOORS off Avatar.
We go to movies to enjoy a story, not for tech-gaping at some BlueNAKED's fucking blue BUNGHOLES dancing around.. compared to Sherlock Holmes side-by-side, Avatar sucks I give it a 3 of 10.
[x] XLNT script, well-drawn out drama, appropriate character dialogues
[x] XLNT cast, not that this flick really needed hidollar name-recognition at this point (who's heard of Jude Law and the other guy, compared to Sherlock Holmes?)
[x] XLNT direction, either going back to work initiated Madonna kicking director Guy Ritchie out of the nest, or she give him the boot and now he's working again - who knows - but he did a really good job.
Maybe being the house-hubby of a lunatic gave him enough time to think up exactly how to set this thing up and move it thru the story, cuz it shows alot of thought and it's a killer flick. Go see!
8 of 10 IMO, not perfect but closer to the book than previously done.
In this role he plays Dr. Watson.. perfectly.
It's alot more like the paperbacks, unlike the serials with Basil Rathbone where you see the villain crouching around the corners during the pursuit the whole show and then he's caught, and the reveal comes down like "this is what occurred when you were at the lady's house, and how the knife was blue and because the sky is blue you did it - arrest him" kinda end-of-story assembly.
This is a great movie: people died, people got stabbed and shot, but not like gore-for-gores'-sake kinda thing (see my review of that shitty Avatar flick).
I'm not the one for gratuitous violence, and in this pic sure there's explosions and fighting and all that but it's sensible and I don't recall any fucking filthy language, so this pic gets high ratings on the GAR meter for date-freindly movies!
Okay, now for those naysayers who might think, Hey waitaminnit, I know the story from the Rathbone serials on TV, or we had to read some of that in school.. well, those flicks weren't in color for one. Two, this is more 19th century London than you really wished to know so it's period-heavy: great visuals done really well and with todays modern special effects, it blows DOORS off Avatar.
We go to movies to enjoy a story, not for tech-gaping at some BlueNAKED's fucking blue BUNGHOLES dancing around.. compared to Sherlock Holmes side-by-side, Avatar sucks I give it a 3 of 10.
[x] XLNT script, well-drawn out drama, appropriate character dialogues
[x] XLNT cast, not that this flick really needed hidollar name-recognition at this point (who's heard of Jude Law and the other guy, compared to Sherlock Holmes?)
[x] XLNT direction, either going back to work initiated Madonna kicking director Guy Ritchie out of the nest, or she give him the boot and now he's working again - who knows - but he did a really good job.
Maybe being the house-hubby of a lunatic gave him enough time to think up exactly how to set this thing up and move it thru the story, cuz it shows alot of thought and it's a killer flick. Go see!
8 of 10 IMO, not perfect but closer to the book than previously done.
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