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Dec. 17th, 2011 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyThe latest Sherlock Holmes movie is over two hours of solid fanservice. My one critique is that they [spoilered] [spoiler] at the beginning (if/when you see it, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about) but the rest of the movie is just one awesome bit after another.
(It is apparently the weekend of "hey, there are movies in the theater that I actually want to see," go figure.)
(It is apparently the weekend of "hey, there are movies in the theater that I actually want to see," go figure.)
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Date: 2011-12-17 02:43 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-12-17 02:57 pm (UTC)also, HE HAD A GRENADE CONCEALED UNDER HIS SKIRT
HE WAS PACKING A CROTCH BOMB
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Date: 2011-12-17 02:59 pm (UTC)GOD I THINK I JUST WANT AN ENTIRE MOVIE OF HOLMES IN DRAG BEING A BADASS WITH FEMININE THINGS
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:06 pm (UTC)OTHER THAN TO AMUSE ME
IT WORKED
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:07 pm (UTC)AND YOU KNOW
USEFUL FOR JAMMING GUNS AT OPPORTUNE MOMENTS
:DDDDD
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:09 pm (UTC)THEY USED LIPSTICK BECAUSE IT'S MORE AWESOME
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-17 03:16 pm (UTC)Also there is a pony and explosions and dancing and you see a lot of Stephen Fry and I don't actually want to say much more until you see it.
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:19 pm (UTC)I eagerly await your commentary on the "Jack the Ripper was a Mason" angle. That aside, I would instantly proclaim James MASON (oh the irony) the best Watson of all time if I could think of another one.
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-17 03:31 pm (UTC)I will however mention that the film should be rated ICC for Interminable Courtroom Climax.
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:35 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:38 pm (UTC)in this one he drinks embalming fluid, is that an acceptable substitute?
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Date: 2011-12-17 04:49 pm (UTC)Formaldehyde, methanol waitwaitwaitWHAT?!
Methanol can cause destruction of the optic nerve in quantities as low as 10mL, and is potentially fatal at doses of 30mL (and "usually fatal" at doses of 80-150mL). My dad the chemical engineer tells the story of a chemical plant in Russia that used to wash its pipes at night with ethanol. The night-shift drunks figured this out and would secretly siphon off and drink some of it. One night, the plant was out of ethanol, so they used methanol. Five people died.
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Date: 2011-12-17 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-12-17 05:34 pm (UTC)I mean not that I know what formaldehyde actually looks like
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Date: 2011-12-17 05:40 pm (UTC)*for extremely small values of "everlasting"
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Date: 2011-12-17 05:43 pm (UTC)so clearly he was just playing along and the whole scene was a joke on all o us XD
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Date: 2011-12-17 04:53 pm (UTC)there is no limit to what Sherlock Holmes will do to fuck with watson
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Date: 2011-12-19 01:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-17 03:45 pm (UTC)cokecoca leaf bender at the beginning.no subject
Date: 2011-12-17 03:46 pm (UTC)it was best
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Date: 2011-12-17 03:49 pm (UTC)He goes on a coke binge and then there is a jungle in his flat with a goat and a snake.
Which begs the question: Exactly how long did this coke binge last?
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Date: 2011-12-17 04:01 pm (UTC)...also, in retrospect, you know what I love? I love how Watson obviously hadn't seen Holmes's rooms since before the coke-and-jungle episode began, but he took the whole thing in stride complete with Holmes firing arrows at him from behind a pillar. Because they know each other THAT WELL.
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Date: 2011-12-17 04:03 pm (UTC)I love Watson.
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Date: 2011-12-17 04:04 pm (UTC)me toooooooooo
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Date: 2011-12-17 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-12-17 04:38 pm (UTC)(also, still not sure what the [spoilered] [spoiler] is, despite having seen the second one yesterday)
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Date: 2011-12-17 05:38 pm (UTC)Movie the second.
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Date: 2011-12-17 05:41 pm (UTC)maybe I was too busy giggling???
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Date: 2011-12-17 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-18 11:23 am (UTC)I am even more excited about the Nenedict Cumberbatch episodes coming out soon.
I have not re read Sherlock Holmes stories for some years, so much of the fan bitties will escape my notice. I like forgetting them enough to be able to reread them all excitedly.
I have been watching some of the Jeremy Brett series on tv over the last few months, though. I had a signed photo of him somewhere, but I don't know where it has gone.
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Date: 2011-12-18 01:54 pm (UTC)I am also psyched about there being more BBC Sherlock. Although I feel that after Stephen Fry in this latest adaptation, and much as I like what's-his-name in the BBC series, no one else can properly play Mycroft.
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Date: 2011-12-18 06:17 pm (UTC)So I have gone from massive, MASSIVE crush in my teens (I have signed photo of him somewhere too) to just thinking very fondly of him and wishing he'd wisen up a little.
But really he should always have been the one to play Mycroft. He just had to age into the part.
I'm sure it won't matter if he aint in the Cumberbatch ones (maybe he is...) as they are so very different anyway and so good in their own way. I find they are completely different but still so incredibly faithful to the feel that it is as if Victorian times have been brought to life by being updated. I don't mind their not being my picture of Sherlock Holmes, as the Jeremy Brett ones are that and they are so unlike each other.
My school was by Baker Street and my friend (LJ user) Cdaae and I used to be pretty obsessive fans. I had prints of all the Sidney Paget illustrations on my wall at college but they eventually fell to pieces.
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Date: 2011-12-18 11:59 pm (UTC)The guy in BBC Sherlock who plays Mycroft is great and I <3 him, but now there is a definitive Mycroft for me. Weirdly, I don't have a definitive Holmes or Watson. (But Cumberbatch, as of today, is the definite Peter Guillam from Le Carré's Smiley/Karla series and no one else should ever play him.)
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Date: 2011-12-19 12:24 pm (UTC)I think Stephen Fry is probably sexist without being an arsehole. I have always felt he is so much the prep-public schoolboy he hasn't the worldly experience or depth that could come from it he would need to be the genius everyone claims he is. He is still adorable and funny (and annoyingly brainy), though. I think his sexism probably comes from utter thoughtlessness on the topic, which is very irritating, but then so many of his contemporaries from similar backgrounds are so very much worse that I find it forgivable. Or maybe I just still have that crush.
It was quite ridiculous, the men-bigger-sex-drives thing. I think it was on Twitter about a year ago. He said lots about how awful it is being as a male so sex-driven you can barely think of anything else. When people complained of his sexism he just didn't get the point (clearly had no inkling of the entire history and context behind the issue) and "apologised" by saying that he didn't understand why women would envy being so overwhelmed by sexual desire all the time...
...particularly characteristically lacking in self-awareness, I think, considering he spend years in his 30s claiming to have no sex drive and to be celibate, and considering his newly discovered sexual overdrive is presumably the result of his middle-aged acceptance and embracing of his sexuality. But there you go. I see it as part of his sweet bumbling more than arseholiness.