Sherlock Holmes 2 (Ritchie)

[Dukefrukem]

I had no idea they were already filming this. I enjoyed the first.

Christmas 2011 release.

http://www.aintitcool.com/images2009/sh2.jpg

[Ezee E]

I don't think I'll even bother with this. The first bored me.

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I want more of the Moffat/Gattis TV version, dammit, not this.

[number8]

;293898']I want more of the Moffat/Gattis TV version, dammit, not this.

If only they don't have that pesky Dr. Who show to do first.

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If only they don't have that pesky Dr. Who show to do first.

I want it all, and I want it NOW.

[MadMan]

I'm down.

[Dukefrukem]

http://www.aintitcool.com/images2009/sherlockholmesii.jpg

[Irish]

;293898']I want more of the Moffat/Gattis TV version, dammit, not this.

^ This.

I was surprised how clever that was, how enjoyable I found the 90 minute format, and how disappointed to find the first series was only 6 episodes.

Thought Moffat's Sherlock was leagues better than Moffat's Who, too.

[number8]

3 episodes, actually.

[Mara]

I keep misreading this title as "Sherlock Holmes 2 (Bitches)."

[Irish]

I keep misreading this title as "Sherlock Holmes 2 (Bitches)."

:lol: Maybe they'll include Tom Sawyer as a character, and he could be like, an American spy working in Britain against the French. Later, Holmes and Sawyer meet Robin Hood's great-great grandson and the three of them team up to spoil the plot by French anarchists who are working to bring an ancient Egyptian curse upon the world.

[kuehnepips]

:lol: Maybe they'll include Tom Sawyer as a character, ...

Brad Pitt in a Ritchie-movie? I'm sold.

[Dukefrukem]

Brad Pitt in a Ritchie-movie? I'm sold.

You mean like Snatch?

[Henry Gale]

Kinda disappointing that McAdams probably isn't going to be in this, especially considering how underused she was in the first one. Weirder and more worrying though, is that she said that the script isn't done and that she still wasn't sure if she was going to appear just a couple of weeks ago, yet the filming looks to be in full swing.

[MadMan]

http://www.aintitcool.com/images2009/sherlockholmesii.jpgWho's the chick? And I imagine whoever she is, she'll be as underused as McAdams was.

[EvilShoe]

Kinda disappointing that McAdams probably isn't going to be in this, especially considering how underused she was in the first one. Weirder and more worrying though, is that she said that the script isn't done and that she still wasn't sure if she was going to appear just a couple of weeks ago, yet the filming looks to be in full swing.
Yeah, starting off with an unfinished script seems to be the standard for big Hollywood movies these days.

Not a trend I applaud.

[Morris Schæffer]

Who's the chick? And I imagine whoever she is, she'll be as underused as McAdams was.

Noomi Rapace, star of the Swedish Millenium trilogy, soon to be remade by David Fincher, but starring Rooney Mara I believe. However, Rapace is rumoured to be the frontrunner in Scott's Alien prequels.

[Ezee E]

Noomi Rapace, star of the Swedish Millenium trilogy, soon to be remade by David Fincher, but starring Rooney Mara I believe. However, Rapace is rumoured to be the frontrunner in Scott's Alien prequels.
Really hope that's what happens.

[Henry Gale]

Yeah, starting off with an unfinished script seems to be the standard for big Hollywood movies these days.

Not a trend I applaud.

The only time I can remember a highly publicized "being written as it was being shot" case actually working out was The Bourne Ultimatum. To a lesser extent, Iron Man 2 as well, but I seem to be in the minority of actually liked that quite a bit.

For most comedies, though, it's usually a different case. Reading bits of things like Apatow scripts, you realize how different and potentially less effective everything would be if they didn't encourage so much improvising and re-working the scenes.

[MadMan]

Noomi Rapace, star of the Swedish Millenium trilogy, soon to be remade by David Fincher, but starring Rooney Mara I believe. However, Rapace is rumoured to be the frontrunner in Scott's Alien prequels.Okay. She doesn't appear to be a bad choice to star in Scott's Alien prequels. Better someone like her than another bland Hollywood actress.

Also thanks to recently renting Dr. Who Season 5 I saw a preview for this Sherlock show (with Freeman) everyone keeps talking about. Its going on my queue.

[Morris Schæffer]

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=30182

[Dukefrukem]

Noomi Rapace, star of the Swedish Millenium trilogy, soon to be remade by David Fincher, but starring Rooney Mara I believe. However, Rapace is rumoured to be the frontrunner in Scott's Alien prequels.

!!! I hadn't seen the Swedish movies before I saw that pic. She's a great choice!!!

[Dukefrukem]

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[TGM]

I loved the first one, if solely for the banter between Watson and Holmes. This can't come soon enough! :D

[Henry Gale]

Saw some of the trailer on Entertainment Tonight (or Access Hollywood, but who cares) while I was eating dinner the other night. It looked basically just like the first, just with slightly more saturated colours, more running (through forests, buildings, streets), and significantly more RDJ in drag.

Even though I thought the first movie was perfectly fine, I'm not sure if I care about this one at all.

[Irish]

Poster of Holmes with a gun in his hand pretty much tells you everything that's wrong with Ritchie's "interpretation" of the source.

[Skitch]

Really enjoyed first, looking forward to the second, but those posters are horrible, especially the RDJ one. Yes, because Sherlock Holmes is a gun toting man of action!

[number8]

Ehh, I dunno, he actually is in the novels often enough. The Sign of Four ends with big shootout during a steamboat chase.

Turning him into an action hero was the least of my problems with the first movie.

[TGM]

Trailer's out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQhfDMLgvKM

Eh, can't say it impresses me too much, though it doesn't deter my interest any either. Still can't wait for this one.

[Morris Schæffer]

Looks like fun, far more swashbuckling than Pirates IV, though actual sleuthing appears to have been eliminated altogether.

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Ehh, I dunno, he actually is in the novels often enough. The Sign of Four ends with big shootout during a steamboat chase.

Yeah, but you most often feel as if the only reason Holmes brings Watson along (other than to chronicle the cases and make it look like Holmes isn't talking to himself) is because he has a revolver.

[D_Davis]

I'd like to see a film adaptation of Manly Wade Wellman's Sherlock Holmes and The War of the Worlds, which is exactly what it sounds like.

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I'd like to see a film adaptation of Manly Wade Wellman's Sherlock Holmes and The War of the Worlds, which is exactly what it sounds like.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?

[number8]

;360637']The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?

Volume 2.

[DavidSeven]

Things go boom. Quip. Things go boom. Quip. Things go boom a lot more.

Exciting stuff.

:|

[D_Davis]

;360637']The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?

Huh, I wonder if Wellman's novel was an inspiration for League?

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Volume 2.

Indeed.

[[ETM]]

Huh, I wonder if Wellman's novel was an inspiration for League?

I don't think so. Seems like just one of those coincidences.
Sherlock himself never appears in LOEG, though.

[number8]

;360649']Sherlock himself never appears in LOEG, though.

Incorrect. The comic showed the Reichenbach incident and how Moriarty survived the fall. I guess it's just a flashback, but still!

[number8]

I do maintain, though, that LoEG Vol 2 is the coolest adaptation of War of the Worlds ever.

[number8]

Speaking of which, D, it astounds me that you never tried to read the LoEG comics, since you're such a literary hound. The number of references to SF works alone should give you ample boners.

[Irish]

;360581']Yeah, but you most often feel as if the only reason Holmes brings Watson along (other than to chronicle the cases and make it look like Holmes isn't talking to himself) is because he has a revolver.

Yep yep. There's a couple of times Holmes has to get physical in the earlier stories, but nothing near the level that Ritchie portrays.

I get the action thing, but c'mon Guy. These movies turn a purely intellectual hero into a barefisted brawler.

[D_Davis]

Speaking of which, D, it astounds me that you never tried to read the LoEG comics, since you're such a literary hound. The number of references to SF works alone should give you ample boners.

Yeah, I'll have to get a copy from the library. Sounds fun.

[D_Davis]

;360649']I don't think so. Seems like just one of those coincidences.
Sherlock himself never appears in LOEG, though.

I don't know....

If there is one thing I've learned through all of my years of reading, it's that the world of genre fiction is seriously incestuous; every time I discover something cool, I almost always discover later that that cool thing was inspired by something 5, 10, 15, 35, etc., years later. You can just keep connecting the dots. And seeing as how popular Wellman was during the heyday of the pulps, it wouldn't surprise me. It doesn't take anything away from LXG, because Wellman was, in turn, influenced by those who came before him. It's one of my favorite things about hanging out in the ghetto.

I'll read both this year, that'll be fun - a double dose of Wells inspired fiction.

[Morris Schæffer]

You know, this looks kinda awesome on this trailer. At least the production looks absolutely spectacular, and although far too explosive, it does look thrilling, exciting.

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[Irish]

Seems closer to Bond than Holmes.

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Seems closer to Bond than Holmes.

To me it's more like Miyazaki's animated series "Sherlock Hound", where Holmes and Watson often defy the laws of physics in stunts against a Moriarty who wields futuristic vehicles, contraptions and doomsday devices.

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[TGM]

This movie was a blast. It was everything that was good about the first, and then some. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law are of course still a joy to see interact, but more than that, the actual plot itself was much more enjoyable to watch this time around as well. This really is the perfect follow up to the first one in every way.

[Kiusagi]

Wow, this is very odd. I remember reading that this was to be shot in 3D, much to my dismay, and never heard anything about it since. So I've been under the assumption this whole time that that was the case. I'm just now discovering that not only was it not shot in 3D, it isn't in 3D at all.

Anyway, looking forward to this. Might even check it out today.

[TGM]

Wow, this is very odd. I remember reading that this was to be shot in 3D, much to my dismay, and never heard anything about it since. So I've been under the assumption this whole time that that was the case. I'm just now discovering that not only was it not shot in 3D, it isn't in 3D at all.

Yeah, there's a couple scenes where you can tell that it was at one point intended to be done in 3D. Nothing too major, and overall, I really can't see how being in 3D would have improved upon anything.

[MadMan]

This was really entertaining, and way better than the first film, which I also liked and enjoyed. The humor was more present and even funnier, and the action sequences worked even great.

Oh and (don't read this if you haven't seen BBC's Sherlock from 2010)

Guy Ritchie's Moriarty>BBC Sherlock's Moriarty. By far. At least in Ritchie's universe Moriarty isn't a lame annoying fake med student. I actually believe that Ritchie's Moriarty, as excellently embodied by Jared Harris, was a great take on the character.

Plus loved that Stephen Fry was in this, as well. Noomi Rapace was given only slightly more to do than Rachel McAdams in the first film, but that was okay in this case since I now accept that Ritchie, much like Christopher Nolan, is awful at directing actresses.

And yes I agree that RDJ and Jude Law have really fantastic chemistry together. Me I'm hoping they make another one.

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I like Moffat's Moriarty. It's perfect that he should be who he is. It's that kind of show.

[MadMan]

;390839']I like Moffat's Moriarty. It's perfect that he should be who he is. It's that kind of show.He's bloody annoying and lame. How Moffat could get Sherlock, Watson, Ms. Hudson, and Mycroft so perfect and screw up with Moriarty I'll never understand. It doesn't make any sense.

[Morris Schæffer]

Siding slightly with etm here, but Moriarty's all too brief appearance in season 1, while nothing earth-shattering, didn't hurt the show either. I didn't have a strong opinion on him either way.

[Wryan]

Thought it was great fun. I'd watch another. It's just an angled take on the character(s). It's Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, fer chrissakes.

[MadMan]

Siding slightly with etm here, but Moriarty's all too brief appearance in season 1, while nothing earth-shattering, didn't hurt the show either. I didn't have a strong opinion on him either way.Well I'm hoping there's more consistency with the character in Series 2, which comes out in 2012.

BTW, when I saw the waterfall I knew instantly what was going to happen. I rather liked that Ritche choose to show what the end fight was supposed to be like, and then just has Sherlock chose to go over the falls. Nice.

The part I laughed the hardest at was poor Watson, completely hung over, stumbling out of the car after Sherlock had driven him to the wedding. Hilarious.

[Sycophant]

Things go boom. Quip. Things go boom. Quip. Things go boom a lot more.

Exciting stuff.

:|

Saw this this afternoon, and had basically this reaction to the film, but without the ":|" face. I thought it was pretty fun!

[Fezzik]

I wasn't a huge fan of the first film, mostly because I couldn't understand some of what Downey was saying.

This film fixed that and the rest of it was markedly better than the original.

I enjoyed it immensely. Watson's walk of shame at the wedding was hilarious, and Stephen Fry makes everything better.

[[ETM]]

I liked it. It's nice how Ritchie found a real purpose for the slow-mo action shots he loves so much, and which were mostly eye candy in the first film. I'm perfectly fine with this "adaptation" of Holmes existing, because it's in a completely different universe to anything else, and when it lifts from the stories, it does well with it (final confrontation, for example).

[Skitch]

Man, that ending was BALLS. WOW. Fun movie. Not redefining anything, but just a fun time.

[lovejuice]

It's fun. Though it troubles me a little that we finally come to embrace the movie called Sherlock Holmes which has rarely anything resemble its namesake.

[Morris Schæffer]

It's fun. Though it troubles me a little that we finally come to embrace the movie called Sherlock Holmes which has rarely anything resemble its namesake.

There's a remedy for that and it starts today in the UK.:)

[megladon8]

Really enjoyed this one.

[MadMan]

Sherlock (BBC) actually ended up having a fantastic Moriarty in Series 2. I still like Jared Harris' take on the character, though.

Oh and here's my review of the film, if anyone is interested: http://madman731.blogspot.com/search?q=Sherlock+Holmes

[Dukefrukem]

Third one has been dated for Christmas 2020. No word if Richie is coming back though.

http://deadline.com/2018/05/warner-bros-dates-sherlock-holmes-3-for-christmas-2020-1202384395/

[MadMan]

Third one has been dated for Christmas 2020. No word if Richie is coming back though.

http://deadline.com/2018/05/warner-bros-dates-sherlock-holmes-3-for-christmas-2020-1202384395/

I hope Ritchie is directing, but if not oh well.