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  1. 07-10-2008, 04:51 AM #1
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    Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009)

    now has a star in RDJr.

    http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=10&cs=1

    my interest has shot up astronomically
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  2. 07-10-2008, 04:55 AM #2
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    Man, talk about crap in one hand and gold in the other.



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  3. 07-10-2008, 05:22 AM #3
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    Huh, Downey is a very good actor, but he can't do Sherlock Holmes. At least not playing it straight.

    He's not even British. It's not a question of accent, it's a question of tradition.

    This is the best Holmes that ever lived:



    Jeremy Brett (1933-1995).
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  4. 07-10-2008, 05:29 AM #4
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    I've seen and enjoyed two Ritchie movies (Snatch and Revolver), so I'm hoping for the best.
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  5. 07-10-2008, 05:35 AM #5
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    Quote Quoting Rowland (view post)
    I've seen and enjoyed two Ritchie movies (Snatch and Revolver), so I'm hoping for the best.
    I liked Lock Stock and Snatch when I saw them in my teens but this year I've watched the starts of both movies and found them seriously irritating.
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  6. 07-10-2008, 09:34 AM #6
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    Quote Quoting Daniel Davis (view post)
    Man, talk about crap in one hand and gold in the other.
    This.
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    I was actually just reading about Matt Damon and he’s like, ‘There’s a culture of outrage.’ I’m like, ‘Well, they have a reason to be outraged.’ I think it’s a lot of dudes just being scared. They’re like, ‘What if I did something and I didn’t realize it?’ I’m like, ‘Deal with it.’
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  7. 09-02-2008, 07:43 PM #7
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    Russell Crowe is playing Watson.
    "All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"

    "Rick...it's a flamethrower."
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  8. 09-02-2008, 07:59 PM #8
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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    Russell Crowe is playing Watson.
    I like this as it hopefully means we'll have an adept, intelligent Watson as opposed to the Nigel Bruce bumbling fool.
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  9. 09-02-2008, 08:10 PM #9
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    I just think this whole project sounds retarded.

    A high-flying kung fu Sherlock Holmes movie starring an American actor in the title role, and directed by Guy Ritchie?

    'Cause, you know, having a Sherlock Holmes detective mystery would just be too old-hat...it's not like being a detective is a defining characteristic of Holmes or anything, right? Making him a kung-fu badass will totally fly!

    I mean, I'm totally willing to accept a pleasant surprise, but I'm not expecting it in the least.
    "All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"

    "Rick...it's a flamethrower."
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    I think Sherlock Holmes as a kung-fu flying badass sounds awesome.

    I just wish the director was different.
    Sure why not?

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    Hopefully this will derail the Bill Hicks biopic.
    Quote Quoting Donald Glover
    I was actually just reading about Matt Damon and he’s like, ‘There’s a culture of outrage.’ I’m like, ‘Well, they have a reason to be outraged.’ I think it’s a lot of dudes just being scared. They’re like, ‘What if I did something and I didn’t realize it?’ I’m like, ‘Deal with it.’
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  12. 09-03-2008, 05:02 AM #12
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    Quote Quoting number8 (view post)
    Hopefully this will derail the Bill Hicks biopic.
    That's called looking at the glass half-filled.

    If number8 saw a tsunami coming towards him, he'd say "well, at least the water is free".
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  13. 09-04-2008, 01:25 AM #13
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    Fo' sho. I was watching this Gustav crap on the news and thought, "At least it's here before the city's fully recovered." Woulda been much shittier if New Orleans finally got back on its feet and the levees break again.
    Quote Quoting Donald Glover
    I was actually just reading about Matt Damon and he’s like, ‘There’s a culture of outrage.’ I’m like, ‘Well, they have a reason to be outraged.’ I think it’s a lot of dudes just being scared. They’re like, ‘What if I did something and I didn’t realize it?’ I’m like, ‘Deal with it.’
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  14. 12-16-2008, 11:10 PM #14
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    Looks like Fight Club.
    "All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"

    "Rick...it's a flamethrower."
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    ...or Snatch.
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    Quote Quoting Rowland (view post)
    I've seen and enjoyed two Ritchie movies (Snatch and Revolver), so I'm hoping for the best.
    Well you should get on Lock Stock then.
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    Quote Quoting Raiders (view post)
    I like this as it hopefully means we'll have an adept, intelligent Watson as opposed to the Nigel Bruce bumbling fool.
    When I think Russell Crowe I don't think adept or intelligent.
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    Quote Quoting Winston* (view post)
    ...or Snatch.
    thats what i thought of
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  19. 12-17-2008, 04:00 AM #19
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    Quote Quoting Qrazy (view post)
    When I think Russell Crowe I don't think adept or intelligent.
    Crowe's out, Jude Law's in.
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    Quote Quoting Russ (view post)
    Crowe's out, Jude Law's in.
    Neither make me think Watson but alrighty.
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    [+] closer to next rating / [-] closer to previous rating

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  22. 03-30-2009, 09:23 PM #22
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    i'm torn. on one hand, i should raise hell about its being unfaithful to the source material. (which book do they base the movie on?) on the other hand, as a christie's fan, i am compelled to say the baker st. sleuth finally get a deserving treatment. :twisted:
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  23. 03-30-2009, 10:04 PM #23
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    So... ditching the period entirely? Because he's dressed about, what, 50 years ahead of his time?
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  24. 03-30-2009, 10:08 PM #24
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    Guys, I want to watch this movie.

    tl;dr: DO WANT
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  25. 03-31-2009, 02:43 AM #25
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    Quote Quoting [ETM] (view post)
    So... ditching the period entirely? Because he's dressed about, what, 50 years ahead of his time?
    It looks vaguely 1890's to me. What do you mean?
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