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Old 12-29-2011, 06:26 AM
 
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I guess I'm to much of a Basil Rathbone traditionalist to wrap my head around Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock. I like it that the Sherlock stories are sturdy enough to play to a new audience but the liberties that have been taken to keep it 'fresh" are simply to much for me. I see Sir Arthur rolling in his grave.

The new Sherlock Holmes is not entertaining to me at all. How disappointing.........
I am a Rathbone purist myself. However, Rathbone never did much of the things on a physical level that I've always heard Holmes was capable of. I love how they show how his mind works ....his powers of observation.

I have officially made room for Downey next to Rathbone.
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Old 12-29-2011, 08:27 AM
 
Location: Crooklyn, New York
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Every hero needs tragedy. That's why I think she's dead. And the fact that Moriarty did it, makes it better. This movie was even better than the first! Just saw it last night!
I don't think she's dead. It was too undramatic. I heard that McAdams didn't want to do the second movie and that Guy Ritchie essentially had to twist her arm to get those two scenes out of her. I think Ritchie designed it be sort of open-ended; remember, we're really just taking Moriarty's word that she's dead. I wouldn't be surprised if she becomes a major focal point in the third movie.
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Old 12-29-2011, 10:41 AM
 
Location: SCW, AZ
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I guess I'm to much of a Basil Rathbone traditionalist to wrap my head around Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock. I like it that the Sherlock stories are sturdy enough to play to a new audience but the liberties that have been taken to keep it 'fresh" are simply to much for me. I see Sir Arthur rolling in his grave.

The new Sherlock Holmes is not entertaining to me at all. How disappointing.........
I felt the same way when I saw this movie. It was almost like they were trying too hard to outdo the first one that this one became a huge commotion of special effects with not much of the old school SH style and substance I expected. Robert Downey's SH seems like a mischievous clown with good observation skills. How he always sees the entire fight moves ahead and how they get executed to the last detail, is far from plausible in my book.
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Old 12-29-2011, 06:12 PM
 
Location: Birmingham
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It was almost like they were trying too hard to outdo the first one that this one became a huge commotion of special effects with not much of the old school SH style and substance I expected.
I totally agree. Although I enjoyed the film, I felt some seems were overwrought. I did find it very silly that all of them, heroes and villains, were not obliterated when the large mortar hit them. Or that is was used with such precision in the first place along with total disdain for the people chasing them.

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How he always sees the entire fight moves ahead and how they get executed to the last detail, is far from plausible in my book.
Yeah, they took that too far.
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Old 04-16-2012, 08:46 AM
 
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Good movie on an intellectual scale but the movie falls short for me since I was expecting more action like the first movie.
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