Or you could, you know, take that giant stick out of your ass submitter...

I can't read books and see movies? Well, f*ck me, what have I been doing all this time?

I'd rather take my wife to a nice movie and go out to eat good Italian food. Or, I could read a book. Or, I could do both! Seriously, that's allowed!

/the movie wasn't great, but pretty darn good

The movie was fun and not all that incorrect. Go back and enjoy your furry movie.

davidphogan: Boo hoo. Someone made a movie out of a book.

I've never heard of such a thing!

Oh grow up submitter.

You know subby, I don't necessarily know if I'm going to see this movie. But if I do, it's because it will be a fun movie that will provide me with entertainment.

Don't worry, I'll go see Precious too, so I can feel smug and superior, just like you.

I devoured every bit of Sherlock Holmes I could get when I was a kid. I've also enjoyed the various film/TV adaptations of him.

One mark of good literature is how often the characters and/or stories can survive being reimagined. Richie's take on Holmes was fun; a lot more action than anyone else ever tried heaping on him.

Anyway, I join the chorus of those wondering why you can't read books and also watch movies.

Oh shut up subby. It was a good movie. Granted, it was like watching a Victorian episode of House, but it was still good.

BTW most Sherlock Holmes adaptations are bastardizations on a big scale. Including the much beloved ones featuring Basil Rathbone. Indeed the truest to the original writings have been the series featuring the late Jeremy Brett. Who not only acted as Holmes was described to act, but looked like Holmes in the original illustrations





/links, like Brett's performances, are hot

Mentat: Victorian episode of House

Apt description since House in many ways is a modern day Holmes, not particularly social, drug addicted, smart as hell, quick witted though doesn't say much and so on.

Mentat: Victorian episode of House

That was my thought too. I swear that there were a couple of things that Downey did that either he got from Laurie or they both got from the same place.

Having just now looked at the actual link, I'm surprised how close Avatar came to holding on to #1. Something about James Cameron gives his movies freaky longevity at the box office.

DamnYankees: Something about James Cameron gives his movies

I believe that something is called not sucking.

GAT_00: That was my thought too. I swear that there were a couple of things that Downey did that either he got from Laurie or they both got from the same place.

The relationship between Holmes and Watson reminded me a lot of House and Wilson.

WhyteRaven74: BTW most Sherlock Holmes adaptations are bastardizations on a big scale. Including the much beloved ones featuring Basil Rathbone. Indeed the truest to the original writings have been the series featuring the late Jeremy Brett. Who not only acted as Holmes was described to act, but looked like Holmes in the original illustrations

Jeremy Brett was amazing as Holmes. Loved his performance of "The Speckled Band", which to this day remains my favorite Holmes story.

WhyteRaven74: Apt description since House in many ways is a modern day Holmes, not particularly social, drug addicted, smart as hell, quick witted though doesn't say much and so on.

deliberate, I think. House, Holmes (home), plays a musical instrument (violin, guitar), rude, arrogant... If I remember correctly, House's apartment was even 221B.

SilentStrider: WhyteRaven74: Apt description since House in many ways is a modern day Holmes, not particularly social, drug addicted, smart as hell, quick witted though doesn't say much and so on.

deliberate, I think. House, Holmes (home), plays a musical instrument (violin, guitar), rude, arrogant... If I remember correctly, House's apartment was even 221B.

The creators of the show have said that its a modern incarnation of Sherlock Holmes. They don't mean it to be a secret or a subtlety.

Guy Richie's Sherlock Holmes bastardization set a new record for biggest movie opening on Christmas. Goddammit, read a book, America

Hmmm...

Submitter has an obvious distaste for modern America, yet can't spell a foreigner's name correctly, placing *him* probably on the west coast... dare I say the northwest, around the Seattle area.

Submitter also voices his yearning for standard use of an older media (ironically, I might add) on a new, incredibly popular, and still-developing new media, suggesting he has read at most *one* of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tales of Sherlock Holmes, my guess being "The Red-Headed League".

/It's elementary.
//I do have a pipe. That helps with the thinking.
///So does the New Belgium

SilentStrider: Jeremy Brett was amazing as Holmes. Loved his performance of "The Speckled Band", which to this day remains my favorite Holmes story.

It's hard for me to pick out a favorite from all the ones Brett did. I remember watching them when they first art what 20 years ago or so?

WhyteRaven74: art

art = aired

WhyteRaven74: I remember watching them when they first art what 20 years ago or so?

sounds about right. My dad probably has them all recorded on VHS from when they first aired. I remember that used to be something we'd do together, sit down and watch Sherlock Holmes. That, or spend saturday afternoons watching Doctor Who.

I'm reading Carlin's memoir Last Words right now, hopefully that counts.

I don't get it...

Our "classic lit" books were a form of entertainment. All of Shakespeare's plays were not written as a form of "high art," but rather for entertainment. I assume the Holmes books were also considered entertainment, instead of "high art."

So, if a book that was originally written for entertainment values is remade into a new medium for entertainment values, is it really a bastardization?

If you want to make "artsy movies", don't use material that was considered entertainment in the first place!

GAT_00: The movie was fun and not all that incorrect. Go back and enjoy your furry movie.

Seriously? I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, but it was a far cry from the Sherlock Holmes that I know and love. Sherlock Holmes doesn't need a girl. Sherlock Holmes doesn't want a girl (Greek Translator as reference. Holmes' older brother asks Sherlock if he still hates women, in fact.)! Sherlock Holmes does not care about a girl.

But it was a fun movie. Did anyone else think that Lord Blackwell looked like Jeremy Brett? I was tired when I went and saw it, and that gave me a shock. The voice was completely different, though, so it kept weirding me out every time he spoke.

/rewatching the Brett series now
//grew up watching the Brett series