Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows

[scotrace]

Saw this last night. Most fun was seeing Jeeves! Naked!

 

[bond]

Agree with DJD. Well done movie if your looking for simple escapism for two hours, I was polite and stayed off my I phone with exception to eBay bidding. Maybe as I get older I have less tolerance for
"dumbed down tripe" and expect more from movies, but the acting was good at least and it did succeed in taking me away to a place of fantasy for a couple of hours.

 

[Dubya]

Took my boys to see this film a couple of weeks ago. I really loved the first one, and this one was brilliant too in my (and my boys) opinion!!
If you're looking for cerebral, then don't bother. It's not meant to be cerebral, it's meant to entertain, and it does that in spades!
And as for unintelligible, I can only think that is a 'lost in translation' accent problem for cinema viewers 'across the pond'.

Oh, and I too was brought up on Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, with his bumbling assistant Watson. I loved (and still love) those films. And as for reading the Sherlock Holmes books, well everyone will form their own subconscious image of how Holmes and Watson would be.

Go see the flick! It's great!

 

[Bugguy]

Saw this with my daughter and son-in-law this week. Great fun! We'll worth paying real money to see (vs. renting).

Big jump from Basil Rathbone to Robert Downey Jr., but if you suspend judgement for a while and get into the movie, keep it in its current context, its really entertaining. Noomi Rapace was excellent in her role - that's twice I've seen her this week (Swedish version of Dragon Tattoo) - I wish I could buy stock in her career, it'd do wonders for my pension funds.

 

[filfoster]

Good God, another movie to drain my patience and wallet with suit recreations. I am in the camp that very much enjoys Mr. Ritchie's take on these characters. I think the casting is fine and the costumes may not be entirely period correct but they are fun and close enough.

Ditto on Rapace, at least in the "Girl who.." trilogy movies.

 

[Sam Diamond]

I just saw this and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think Downey did a good job. I was raised on the Basil Rathbone Holmes, and I love those! I think the Jeremy Brent series is closer to the actual books and those are very good also. I do like seeing a Watson that is not a bumbling goof.

 

[Doctor Damage]

I'm glad this sequel has been well received because I liked the first movie and have been looking forward to seeing this one. I have never seen the Rathbone versions and I detest the new television series, so the Brett television series has been my only exposure to Holmes on the screen other than these new feature films.

I'm puzzled by the common references to Watson being portrayed as a bumbler: in what serious versions of Holmes has that been the case?

 

[Doctor Damage]

I watched this movie last night with a friend and we both enjoyed it, although I enjoyed it a lot more. It was definitely a 100% action film and I thought it had a lot of the old Bond-style "full speed ahead" pacing. I think some of the scenes extremely well realized by Guy Ritchie and as a fan of his I'm delighted to see him improving all the time. As Sherlock Holmes it's pretty far off the reservation, which surprisingly I didn't mind. I was pleased with the level of humour, too (Stephen Fry was an excellent choice as Mycroft). I think this was a well-balanced, exciting film of a level of quality which we don't see much these days.

 

[MisterCairo]

I can't believe it was seven years ago that my wife and I were desperate to see this in the theatre together - and then my wife goes and shatters her ankle on a sleigh ride (don't ask). I ended up seeing it with my mum.

Here we are, seven years later, and it is announced earlier this year that, finally, Sherlock 3 is coming out.

In December.

2020.

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/robert-downey-jr-sherlock-holmes-3-2020-1202802265/

 

[MisterCairo]

I can't believe it was seven years ago that my wife and I were desperate to see this in the theatre together - and then my wife goes and shatters her ankle on a sleigh ride (don't ask). I ended up seeing it with my mum.

Here we are, seven years later, and it is announced earlier this year that, finally, Sherlock 3 is coming out.

In December.

2020.

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/robert-downey-jr-sherlock-holmes-3-2020-1202802265/

Aaaaaaaaand..... it is pushed back a whole year. To 2021.

TEN years after the last one. Which I saw. When my girls, soon to be 14 and 12, were 5 and 3.

And they'll be 15 and 13.

F@#$.

 

[Worf]

#@!#!****()!#@!@#!!!!! Ah hates this virus!!!!!! Thanks for the update. Sigh...

Worf

 

[MisterCairo]

#@!#!****()!#@!@#!!!!! Ah hates this virus!!!!!! Thanks for the update. Sigh...

Worf

Another update - Guy Ritchie is not directing. One of his Lock, Stock actors turned directors, the great Dexter Fletcher, is directing the third installment.

He was Soap in the first GR film. "Guns for show. Knives for a pro...".

 

[Edward]

It's a lonh time since the Junior Gazette...