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katranna

Up in the Air, Sherlock Holmes, holiday recap

Dec 31, 2009 06:58

I keep intending to update this journal more comprehensively, and yet never quite getting around to it. The corners of my mind are crowded with half-constructed, time-discarded malformed little lj-entry ideas that were never allowed to develop. They scritch with their little fingernails at me from the darkness, reminding me that I promised myself I ( Read more... )

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bluepixystix December 31 2009, 16:47:10 UTC

The icon you used for this post - where's it from? It's pretty!

katranna December 31 2009, 17:47:46 UTC

Well, it's by staticlost, but it's from the show Pushing Daisies. :-)

thegreatmissjj December 31 2009, 17:46:09 UTC

Just saw Sherlock Holmes last night. I too, thought it was merely "entertaining", and I swear Jude Law almost stole the movie from under Robert Downey, Jr. of all people.

I rather liked RDJ's interpretation of Holmes, mostly because I always read Holmes as a titchy cocaine addict who may or may not have an eating disorder. Calm mien? Not in my mental image of the character (but then I've never seen movie interpretations of Doyle's books--except for The Great Mouse Detective). I got the sense that Holmes' brain was always working, always deducing, not quite revealing, as I thought was appropriate.

I seriously think Jude Law was the best part of the movie. Words cannot express how much I loved his take on Watson. (Especially in that he wasn't a good-natured dufus.)

Personally, I didn't like Irene Adler. As a character, she was fine, but poor Rachel McAdams was so wrongly cast for the role it made me cringe and I simply couldn't get past that. Femme fatale she is not.

katranna December 31 2009, 17:54:08 UTC

That's the thing--Rachel McAdams.... did not do well with Irene. But I liked how Irene was written, at least.

I definitely think Holmes was both calm AND twitchy--just underneath. He was very clinical. An eccentric scientist, yes, but British after all. And as you say "always working, not quite revealing"--while as Downey's Holmes' brain is always going AND it all comes through on the surface.

You should watch The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/46175/the-private-life-of-sherlock-holmes

it's campy but (and?) I think does a very good job with what it sets out for. That's the kind of twitchy-but-calm Sherlock I mean, although he could, in fact, stand to fisticuff a bit more.