I did a few days as medic on the film in Chatham and Greenwich. It looks like a good film, but don't go thinking it will be like the old fashion type of story line!
Jesus that looks awful. If Conan-Doyle had wanted to write a shit action-buddy-romp he'd probably have come up with a ye olde Tango and Cash. Guy Ritchie has done some awful things to cinema, after Snatch.
Very much in the spirit of Conan-Doyle's characters as well. In the books, which I love, Holmes is portrayed as an expert fighter, swordsman and shot but subject to long depressions and drug abuse when not working which is how he is in this film.
There is also a lot of humour in the relationship between Holmes and Watson as in the books.
Lots of sly references to the books as well,(Mycroft, the scratches on the fob watch, etc) and Victorian London is well imagined.
No, not hight art but a good film with a sequel promised in the closing scene.
PS saw a trailer for the new Robin Hood film. Think Gladiator in green and you've got it.
[quote][cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Really enjoyed it.
PS saw a trailer for the new Robin Hood film. Think Gladiator in green and you've got it.[/quote]
I was due to do some work on the production of Robin Hood, but couldn't.
Some of the filming involved something like 400 men fighting and about 40 horses on Freshwater Beach in Wales. It was a big production, and looked to be a blockbuster!
Fun Fact: Arthur Conan Doyle is from my town, and the council seem to have seized on it as some way to market a no-mark town like Crowborough.
In reality he was born in Edinburgh and I think he just lived (and died) here at some later point in his life, yet we have a statue of him in the town centre and a cafe called 'Sherlocks'. It's all slightly embaressing. I'd be extremely amused if someone came to Crowborough to visit their idol's 'hometown'.
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Hard to think it's a Guy Ritchie film until you get glimpses of slowed down fight scenes a la Snatch.
Very much in the spirit of Conan-Doyle's characters as well. In the books, which I love, Holmes is portrayed as an expert fighter, swordsman and shot but subject to long depressions and drug abuse when not working which is how he is in this film.
There is also a lot of humour in the relationship between Holmes and Watson as in the books.
Lots of sly references to the books as well,(Mycroft, the scratches on the fob watch, etc) and Victorian London is well imagined.
No, not hight art but a good film with a sequel promised in the closing scene.
PS saw a trailer for the new Robin Hood film. Think Gladiator in green and you've got it.
Very enjoyable, good knock around. I didn't hear Holmes say "elementary" at any point which was pleasing.
A good story and the denouement was all you would want from Holmes.
Excellent relationship between Holmes and Watson and set up nicely for a sequel.
As Henry says, not high art but a good rollicking tale. Yes its unmistakably Richiesque but not in a bad way.
Go see!
PS saw a trailer for the new Robin Hood film. Think Gladiator in green and you've got it.[/quote]
I was due to do some work on the production of Robin Hood, but couldn't.
Some of the filming involved something like 400 men fighting and about 40 horses on Freshwater Beach in Wales. It was a big production, and looked to be a blockbuster!
In reality he was born in Edinburgh and I think he just lived (and died) here at some later point in his life, yet we have a statue of him in the town centre and a cafe called 'Sherlocks'. It's all slightly embaressing. I'd be extremely amused if someone came to Crowborough to visit their idol's 'hometown'.