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I'll admit that I was pleasantly surprised at how good the new Sherlock Holmes movie was. Robert Downey Jr. may not have been THE Sherlock Holmes to me, but he did play the character in a new light that we aren't used to. As for Jude Law playing Dr. John Watson I thought he was spot on. Jude Law really redeemed Watson's character after so many years of people showing Watson as some bumbling fool.

The relationship shared between Holmes and Watson was absolutely perfect and I loved ever moment of their bantering...

Even the relationship between Irene Adler and Holmes worked out, which I had been very skeptical about.

But this was just my opinion of the movie, what was yours?

It might have been the audio at the cinemas where I live, it might be possible I have horrible hearing, it could even be true that just the sound itself was projecting properly, but I couldn't hear a single word that Holmes was saying.

And that made me internally sad. I was so locked to the screen that I was waiting to hear what smart remark he would say, but I couldn't hear it. And I also think some of the fault may sit on Robert Downey Jr. - I think he is too quiet.

Oh, well, maybe that's just me.

However, I immensely enjoyed the movie and it re-made Sherlock Holmes as a more action-orientated hero than we would have previously thought.

9.5/10 :p

Ooh, I loved the new film. I was worried it would be like a victorian James Bond or somehting, from the trailers, but it worked really well and it was well paced. I wasn't bored for one moment. Some of the detective bits were a little too easy to figure out (like how the bad guy survived hanging and the bits after) but it was still a greta film. The scenery was awesome, the script was great, and the action was different and not how I expected it to be. I loved the shipyard scene. xD

I liked the way they used a lot of little things from the books, rather than basing it off the older films/telly productions. In the books, Holmes is a great bareknuckles fighter and he also uses his cane/a sword to fight, but you never really see that in the other films - he would probabaly have been taught to fence if he was raised in the middle class.

Oh, and LightDevil, it sounded fine when I went and watched it - did anyone else have problems hearing it, too? If they did, it was probabaly a sound problem of the cinema itself. When I went and saw Harry Potter in the summer, for the second time, the cinema I saw it in didn't turn the lights off and the projection had a greta big fingerprint in the middle. xD Loads of people complained.

Maybe it was the cinema. I died inside watching it and not hearing anything he was saying. . And yes, everyone in my row were all leaning forward to listen closely. And LOL - to the fingerprint. That would have been horrible!

Oh I would have been miserable with the the fingerprint. The sound would have just been annoying. Lol. At the cinema I went to they had a large black swirly in the top left corner... I couldn't stop looking at it.

I loved this movie! I agree that Holmes and Watson had great chemistry working together, and Robert Downey Jr. did such an excellent job! I've found as I've watched more movies that I really like that brilliant yet eccentric personality in a character (like Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow) and Downey did a great job portraying Holmes as that way.

Hahaha the sound was good for me, it was the hurried speech that made it kind of hard to understand. But I totally sympathize with you about that fingerprint; I was in Washington D.C. one year when I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean, the third one, and the theater we went to was pretty disgusting, and as the movie started I became aware of a dark thing in the movie that never seemed to move. I later realized that it was a large dent in the screen. Nothing like a quality viewing.

Haha.
What I hate even more then there being something wrong with the screen or sound is when there is somebody in the audience who keeps talking during the movie.
That's what happened when I went and saw Sherlock Holmes and I getting ready to punch the guy.

I'd like to watch it, although the above words, 'action-orientated hero' fill me with dread. So, instead, interesting trivia!
-Sherlock Holmes probably had one of the first fanclubs of a fictional character.
-Sherlock Holmes was technically A.C. Doyle's franchise. Isn't there a book in which he's killed off, but, in order to make more money, Doyle wrote another book in which he is revived? Blimey.

That's all I can remember.

Interesting...
Yes in 'the Final Problem' Doyle kills off Sherlock Holmes because he was bored with him but I heard that because his fans requested it so much that he wrote another story called 'The Empty House' where three years have passed since Holmes's "death" and he comes back to London to see Watson and to go back to living at Baker Street. *breathes out*
Whoo that was a lot typing.

Just watched it last night, I thought it was awesome. I was skeptical when I first saw the trailers, since it seemed kind of out place to have Sherlock Holmes in such over the top action and all, but the fight scenes were actually really well down and it was a clever idea of mixing his "genius" with physical ability. Plus, the chemistry between the leads was great, the villain was good, and of course Rachel McAdams is FREAKING GORGEOUS.

My sister obsessed to me about it for forever and I just watched it on DVD this morning.

Now I understand why, it was GREAT!

I can't wait to see it. -Bugs mom about taking me to Blockbuster-
Did you know that the author that wrote the S.H novels was a satanist?

I can't wait to see it either.

LPR, Arthur Conan Doyle wasn't a Satanist. He just believed in fairies and ghosts.

The ghosts were because his son, brother, brothers-in-law, and his nephews all died in WWI, I think, which led him to joining the Spiritualist movement that said you could talk to dead people. In fact, he joined the Christian Spiritualism club or something, which advocated following Jesus's teachings strictly.

The fairies was part of this big case on a picture of these little girls (9 and 12) playing with fairies. It turned out to be a hoax, but there was a big craze on whether the photos were real or not. Anyway, Doyle really believed it was real; apparently, it was kind of humiliating for him when they were debunked.

So, yeah. None of that involved believing in Satan. I think you've mixed Satanism with New Age Spiritualism, a different thing entirely (not that the ultra-conservatives of America seem to realize that).

Yeah. I'd love to see the film, and will do so... soon... soon...

Supposedly there's rumors that Brad Pitt is in talks to play Moriarty in the already planned sequel. I think Brad Pitt is awesome, he's one of my favorite actors, but I can't really see him as brilliant British Professor? Then again I also couldn't see Heath Ledger as the Joker when I first heard about it, and look how wrong I was about that.