Am I a demographic now?
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: 2011-12-18 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.