Sherlock Holmes

[lynette]

Jul 19, 2009 18:03:44 GMT 8 scarredsoul said:

that's my mother for you....

Thousands of people, a thousand flavors ..

[scarredsoul]

LOL

[lynette]

It's so, everyone has a different taste.

[Virgil Reality]

Please try and stay on-topic and keeps personal discussions to private messages or the general discussion section.

Sorry guys, I stuffed up the admin functions and lost the comments I was trying to move to a new thread in the General section. Feel free to discuss it there.

No, about Sherlock Holmes

Lots of negativity on the IMDb boards and generally around the various comment sections of the trailer sites etc. Is Guy Ritchie really that despised or is a case of one strike and you're out.

Or is it just that "different tastes" thing?

[Gg]

If you look closely at the trailer (2 I think is what they are using in the theaters now) you can see the room with all the smoke and Hans' back turned to camera center. Is that a gun he's messing with? perhaps.


Seems the die hard fans are less of a concern to Warner Bros than the regular movie theater public wandering out in the snow for the Christmas holidays movie entertainment. Seems the "die hards" are skeptical about "Clash" too, but really, I'm less worried about authenticity (as crazy as that seems to fictional characters, though I get the point, but frackly Doyle's vision of Holmes might not be considered blockbuster level entertainment) than competition...

[lynette]

Jul 22, 2009 7:48:02 GMT 8 Virgil Reality said:

Please try and stay on-topic and keeps personal discussions to private messages or the general discussion section.

Sorry guys, I stuffed up the admin functions and lost the comments I was trying to move to a new thread in the General section. Feel free to discuss it there.

No, about Sherlock Holmes

Lots of negativity on the IMDb boards and generally around the various comment sections of the trailer sites etc. Is Guy Ritchie really that despised or is a case of one strike and you're out.

Or is it just that "different tastes" thing?

"Different tastes" - This was my response regarding the beauty of HM, I did not react to the film, it was on the topic, which was deleted between me and ScarredSoul.

[lynette]

Jul 22, 2009 8:47:26 GMT 8 Gg said:

If you look closely at the trailer (2 I think is what they are using in the theaters now) you can see the room with all the smoke and Hans' back turned to camera center. Is that a gun he's messing with? perhaps.


Seems the die hard fans are less of a concern to Warner Bros than the regular movie theater public wandering out in the snow for the Christmas holidays movie entertainment. Seems the "die hards" are skeptical about "Clash" too, but really, I'm less worried about authenticity (as crazy as that seems to fictional characters, though I get the point, but frackly Doyle's vision of Holmes might not be considered blockbuster level entertainment) than competition...

It is a weapon.

[Virgil Reality]

Some stuff about the script from one of the writers

30ninjas.com/blog/interview-sherlock-holmes-and-x-men-writer-simon-kinberg-part-1

Some excerpts

30 NINJAS: I just finished watching a 1939 Basil Rathbone film, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and those films had that element already. People think of Sherlock Holmes as an egghead, but at least in the early movie versions, those were action films for those days. The characters were shooting, they were doing fisticuffs, there were bolos being hurled around, there were murders, and Holmes was physically active.

SK: Yeah, he was, and he was in the books, too. In the stories he actually is not an egghead; he’s somebody that’s trained in various martial arts and shoots a gun. Those books in their time were genre stories.

30 NINJAS: Yes, Holmes is a real Victorian kind of oddball aesthete, who’s interested in every little thing. Science wasn’t geeky then; science was about exploration and going to the edge of what we know already.

SK: Yes, at a time when it was both a physical edge and a sort of internal, a biological edge. He was somebody that was interested in both. He knew everything about the human body and the geography of the world. They called me up and said, “Will you do a few weeks on the film?,” and I said, “Sure.” I really liked Guy Ritchie’s movies, and I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, and I knew that Robert Downey was playing Holmes, which was kind of irresistible.

[scarredsoul]

I FOUND HANS! Again...in the trailer. I'm not entirely sure that it's him in the room full of smoke however..and I found it online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCEyxESYXfg

@
:40 - :41 sec (his hand on the gun)
And right at :46 you see him behind the old guy talking to Holmes
And I saw him somewhere else but I can't remember exactly where

[lynette]

Jul 24, 2009 8:04:45 GMT 8 Virgil Reality said:

Some stuff about the script from one of the writers

30ninjas.com/blog/interview-sherlock-holmes-and-x-men-writer-simon-kinberg-part-1

Some excerpts

30 NINJAS: I just finished watching a 1939 Basil Rathbone film, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and those films had that element already. People think of Sherlock Holmes as an egghead, but at least in the early movie versions, those were action films for those days. The characters were shooting, they were doing fisticuffs, there were bolos being hurled around, there were murders, and Holmes was physically active.

SK: Yeah, he was, and he was in the books, too. In the stories he actually is not an egghead; he’s somebody that’s trained in various martial arts and shoots a gun. Those books in their time were genre stories.

30 NINJAS: Yes, Holmes is a real Victorian kind of oddball aesthete, who’s interested in every little thing. Science wasn’t geeky then; science was about exploration and going to the edge of what we know already.

SK: Yes, at a time when it was both a physical edge and a sort of internal, a biological edge. He was somebody that was interested in both. He knew everything about the human body and the geography of the world. They called me up and said, “Will you do a few weeks on the film?,” and I said, “Sure.” I really liked Guy Ritchie’s movies, and I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, and I knew that Robert Downey was playing Holmes, which was kind of irresistible.

Who is 30 NINJAS and SK?

[lynette]

Jul 24, 2009 13:22:23 GMT 8 scarredsoul said:

I FOUND HANS! Again...in the trailer. I'm not entirely sure that it's him in the room full of smoke however..and I found it online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCEyxESYXfg

@
:40 - :41 sec (his hand on the gun)
And right at :46 you see him behind the old guy talking to Holmes
And I saw him somewhere else but I can't remember exactly where

I think this trailer here gave Virgil earlier.

[Gg]

Seems to me that NINJA Guy is the blogger who is interviewing SK who is one of the writers on Guy Ritchies SHERLOCK HOLMES

[lynette]

Jul 25, 2009 4:35:46 GMT 8 Gg said:

Seems to me that NINJA Guy is the blogger who is interviewing SK who is one of the writers on Guy Ritchies SHERLOCK HOLMES

Thanks, Gg!

[Virgil Reality]

Some links regarding the promotion at Comic Con

www.etonline.com/news/2009/07/76829/

latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/07/comiccon-sherlock-holmes.html

screencrave.com/2009-07-24/comic-con-robert-downey-jr-rachel-mcadams-talk-sherlock-holmes/

nerdworld.blogs.time.com/2009/07/24/san-diego-comic-con-join-us-its-bliss/

www.hitfix.com/articles/2009-7-24-comic-con-robert-downey-rachel-mcadams-take-pride-in-a-more-real-sherlock-holmes

[scarredsoul]

Jul 24, 2009 18:42:09 GMT 8 lynette said:

Jul 24, 2009 13:22:23 GMT 8 scarredsoul said:

I FOUND HANS! Again...in the trailer. I'm not entirely sure that it's him in the room full of smoke however..and I found it online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCEyxESYXfg

@
:40 - :41 sec (his hand on the gun)
And right at :46 you see him behind the old guy talking to Holmes
And I saw him somewhere else but I can't remember exactly where

I think this trailer here gave Virgil earlier.

Yeah I think it might be, I was just trying to point out where I'd seen Hans

Thanks for the links Virgil, appreciate it!