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Sherlock Holmes - What has Richie done?

All of the high speed sequences, including some featured in this trailer, were shot using the Phantom HD.
 
This has nothing to do with the Holmes I knew growing up reading the books and watching the old Masterpiece Theater version. Ritchie's career has been going downhill since Snatch. This trailer is a major "WTF" moment.
 
Tom said:
This has nothing to do with the Holmes I knew growing up reading the books and watching the old Masterpiece Theater version. Ritchie's career has been going downhill since Snatch. This trailer is a major "WTF" moment.
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Agreed. I thought Holmes was the master of deductive reasoning and investigation, not shirtless boxing and diving out of buildings into the River Thames.
 
Blasphemy! Hehe... I likes watching a good train wreck, though.

Tim Burton turned Ichabod Crane from a schoolmaster to a private investigator with action-hero elements for his Sleepy Hollow creation. I actually enjoyed that one for a quirky film. So maybe this one will be alright. Looks like a good "grab your bucket of popcorn and check your brain at the door" sort of film.

BTW, there was that one film in the late '80s with Michael Cane and Ben Kingsly. Good idea, Watson being the brains behind the operation and Holmes being a bumbling idiot that took all the credit to keep Watson out of the spotlight. Unfortunately the story itself, welll, zzzzzzz....
 
Tom said:
This has nothing to do with the Holmes I knew growing up reading the books and watching the old Masterpiece Theater version. Ritchie's career has been going downhill since Snatch. This trailer is a major "WTF" moment.
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totally! I think the less we say about the Madonna film the better.
It is a major change of pace for Holmes, but it might just be the trailer.

Checked on IMDB and nobody is majorly credited as Prof. Moriarty so thats one saving grace.
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
Blasphemy! Hehe... I likes watching a good train wreck, though.

Tim Burton turned Ichabod Crane from a schoolmaster to a private investigator with action-hero elements for his Sleepy Hollow creation. I actually enjoyed that one for a quirky film. So maybe this one will be alright. Looks like a good "grab your bucket of popcorn and check your brain at the door" sort of film.

BTW, there was that one film in the late '80s with Michael Cane and Ben Kingsly. Good idea, Watson being the brains behind the operation and Holmes being a bumbling idiot that took all the credit to keep Watson out of the spotlight. Unfortunately the story itself, welll, zzzzzzz....
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Yes, Kingsley and Caine in "Without a Clue". Very entertaining actually. The both of them made it work. I can suspend my "purist" Sherlock Holmes for a fanciful tale so am looking forward to seeing the new one.
 
It seems it would make more sense to portray Holmes and Watson lovers these days then this. Not that there's anything wrong with that. :nopity:
 
Officially starting the petition to rename to "Xmen Origins: Sherlock Holmes"

What is up with the 5 story dive into the river and those pit fighting sequences...lol?

In all seriousness, I always try to reserve as much judgment as possible when viewing trailers...but yes Guy Ritchie directing has worried me from the beginning.
 
I think there was a lot of "wouldn't it be cool if..." talk going on during the development. In answer...no it wouldn't be cool! maybe for some other Victorian ero hero that you could quite easily just conjur into existence. Don't dredge the name of Holmes through the crap of the Thames.
 
Well, if I remember correctly, Holmes was a pretty good amateur boxer. Who was addicted to cocaine. Maybe that explains the pit fights and casting choice?

I keed, I keed. Robert Downey is the MAN! :D
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I think if you look at the original stories you will find that Ritchie might not be stretching things so far. Just because other filmmakers went in a different direction doesn't mean they're more "accurate." Who knows? It could be a decent movie.
 
Considering Guy Ritchie is a Brit, It feels wrong, very wrong indeed.

Degrading Holmes to a mere action hero. :head_explode:

Is Ritchie lapdancing for a certain audience? I wonder which one?!:cool:
 
Could this be based on the Holmes action comic? Warner owns DC comics afterall...
 
The Guy has done his homework.

The fisticuffs fight scene is a reference to Sherlock being proficient in the mixed martial art of Bartitsu practised by English gentleman around the early 1900s.

Bartitsu is named after William Barton who was a jujitsu student.

The Adventure Of The Empty House is the story in which Sherlock practices Baritsu (misspelled by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).

Richie may deliver us a Victorian James Bond.
 
Actually Sherlock Holmes was a fist fighter and took Cocaine... Seriously I kid you not. I'm not taking the piss. I remember this from years ago but had to check on Wikipedia (So it must be true lol) but something rang true when I read the thread, to Quote:

Fist-fighting Holmes is described as a formidable fist-fighter. In The Sign of the Four, Holmes introduces himself to a prize-fighter as:
“ "The amateur who fought three rounds with you at Alison's rooms on the night of your benefit four years back." McMurdo responds by saying, "Ah, you're one that has wasted your gifts, you have! You might have aimed high, if you had joined the fancy." ” Holmes engages in hand to hand combat with his adversaries on several occasions throughout the stories, inevitably emerging as the victor.[28]

Paul
 
Jag Sandhu said:
The Guy has done his homework.

The fisticuffs fight scene is a reference to Sherlock being proficient in the mixed martial art of Bartitsu practised by English gentleman around the early 1900s.

Bartitsu is named after William Barton who was a jujitsu student.

The Adventure Of The Empty House is the story in which Sherlock practices Baritsu (misspelled by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).

Richie may deliver us a Victorian James Bond.
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Lol... this was the quote underneath the last quote:

Martial arts "The Adventure of the Empty House", Holmes recounts to Watson how he used martial arts to overcome Professor Moriarty and fling his adversary to his death at the Reichenbach Falls. He states that "I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me.""Baritsu" was a drafting error on the author's part who meant to refer to the real martial art of Bartitsu.
 
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