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This is not Sherlock Holmes.

No, no, ten thousand times no!

*makes the sign of the cross and throws garlic at the nearest Cinemark*

What is wrong with these people?????



UPDATE: It's worse than I feared. Much, much, much worse.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Date: 2009-04-01 02:18 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] marginaliana
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Ugh, I know. I've been dreading this stupid thing ever since I saw that fucking Borat is in it, and it just looks so sexed up, so ridiculously faux-noir. Bleh.

Date: 2009-04-01 02:27 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ellid.livejournal.com
Um...that's actually Robert Downey Jr., who played Iron Man. He's actually a very good actor.

Unfortunately, he looks as much like Sherlock (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Sherlock_Holmes_-_The_Man_with_the_Twisted_Lip.jpg) Holmes (http://www.perkydesigns.com/SHERLOCK_HOLMES_-_07.jpg) as he does like Sophia Smith (http://www.nwhm.org/images/newsletters/sophia%20smithcropped.jpg).....

Date: 2009-04-01 02:54 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] marginaliana
marginaliana: Buddy the dog carries Bobo the toy (Default)
No, I know, but I mean isn't the guy who did Borat in it as well? Robert Downey Jr isn't bad, though I don't see him as Sherlock Holmes, but I remember there being other casting weirdnesses that really put me off.

Upon investigation, my bad, I was thinking of this other poorly thought-out Sherlock Holmes project. Somehow I didn't realize there were two Sherlock Holmes movies in the works. Nevermind!

Date: 2009-04-01 02:26 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] psyfic.livejournal.com
Please let that be an April Fools joke.

Date: 2009-04-01 02:27 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ellid.livejournal.com
It's the official movie poster.

Date: 2009-04-04 07:26 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] bookuniverse.livejournal.com
...and it's not an incredibly over-the-top studio April Fool's gag? Please?

I thought Downey was great (if a bit type-cast ) as "Iron Man", and wouldn't mind at all seeing him doing a "period-piece" action movie with an intelligent hero... but he is NOT Holmes! *sigh*

Date: 2009-04-01 02:35 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] lherelenfeline.livejournal.com
bleurgh

Date: 2009-04-01 02:36 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] kaiz.livejournal.com
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Well. He's definitely not what I imagined Holmes to look like, but he does have a very nice six pack at least! :-)

*fixed typo*
Edited Date: 2009-04-01 02:36 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-04-01 02:41 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] fitzw.livejournal.com
What, exactly, is your complaint? The fact that Downey doesn't have a distinctive nose?

Although I must admit, he shouldn't be wearing a fedora -- that was a woman's hat in the Victorian period, AFAIK.

Date: 2009-04-01 02:58 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ellid.livejournal.com
The nose, this being a buddy comedy, Jude Law as Watson, the smoked glasses, the *beard*....

Date: 2009-04-01 03:22 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] fitzw.livejournal.com
Can't do much about the nose (well, they could have...)

Beard could be part of a disguise (that was [livejournal.com profile] helwen's generous take on it).

Sherlock Holmes comedy's been done, several times.

Watson taller than Holmes, OK, well, maybe not.

But there is nothing wrong with the glasses. I have a pair of those (dark green tint, almost as dark as welder's goggles).

The fedora, though, has got to go. ;-)

Date: 2009-04-01 03:25 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] gmonkey42.livejournal.com
...the nudity, the love interest (the girl from MEAN GIRLS WTF), the extreme stunts, the fact that the character has nothing in common with Holmes apart from the name...

Date: 2009-04-01 03:25 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] helwen.livejournal.com
And also apparently a lady's man.... ?!?!

Date: 2009-04-01 03:22 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] semyaza.livejournal.com
I've been dreading this from the get-go and trying very hard to ignore the enthusiasm on my f-list. It's so many kinds of wrong.

Date: 2009-04-01 03:23 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] gmonkey42.livejournal.com
Ohhh dear oh dear. You know South Park's reaction to Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? That sums up how I feel about this. Except this is actually so much worse than what they did to Indy.

Date: 2009-04-01 09:52 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] samantha-vimes.livejournal.com
Holmes boxing? Yes. Holmes dressed like a 1940s pimp... nojustnogodsnowhatareyouthinkingNO!
Holmes tied naked to a bed? Possibly, just possibly, if it actually has nothing to do with him having a sex life. An experiment on how much sunburn the human body can stand? Moriarty is now going to pour honey on him and release the red ants? A professional blackmailer hopes to compromise his ability to put them out of business? Very small maybe.

Date: 2009-04-01 10:48 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ellid.livejournal.com
Moriarty is now going to pour honey on him and release the red ants?

WHAT???????

Oh God. Are they SERIOUS?


And yes. The hat has got to go. As someone over on Aintitcool.com pointed out, the poster bears an unfortunate resemblance to the publicity for the Notorious B.I.G. biopic.... (http://images.fandango.com/r80.6/ImageRenderer/375/375/nox.jpg/30967/images/masterrepository/fandango/30967/notorious-ps-10.jpg)

Date: 2009-04-01 03:38 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] samantha-vimes.livejournal.com
I was giving that as an example of a possible reason for him to be in such a situation without it involving sex. I don't know anything about this upcoming piece of crap than the links showed. But I'm not only familiar with Canon, but much of the classic pastiches. Moriarty was portrayed kind of melodrama villain at times.

Date: 2009-04-01 12:28 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] varianor.livejournal.com
I suspect this will either quickly languish, or it will be so different that it will inspire a generation of readers to go check out the real Sherlock Holmes. Clearly, as off as this adaptation seems, Holmes has passed into the realm of myth and legend. Such figures do see changes to their legend, or attempted changes.

Date: 2009-04-01 02:45 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] briony530.livejournal.com
Wasn't the literary Holmes a cocaine user? That would be one bit of artisitic justice at least...
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