Ditto that. I'm all in.Quoting Sycophant (view post)
Ditto that. I'm all in.Quoting Sycophant (view post)
The Mike
It's very very horrible, sir. It's one of those things we wish we could disinvent.
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I like what Cinematical wrote about the trailer, in an article titled "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the WTF Trailer"...
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
This looks a lot better than I thought it would. And I've read the script.
Also, Doyle's stories were filled with this 'boy's adventure' kind of thing, and it looks like they've carried that over pretty well. Holmes and Watson kicked the hell out of people pretty regularly, so I don't see what the problem is there.
admittedly i am not that familiar with doyle's holmes, but this looks like a ton of fun
The only way I'll see a Guy Ritchie movie again is if its trailer was awesome.
This made me think of Will Smith's Wild Wild West.
Pass. Even with the Rachel McAdams factor.
Well, they kicked the hell out of people all right... but they did it with dignity.Quoting BuffaloWilder (view post)
I'm sorry. I'm too much of a Holmes fanboy to allow this. That shit seriously hurt my eyes.
Quoting BuffaloWilder (view post)
The books weren't exactly "high-flying kung fu epics" as Ritchie has described the film.
I don't want to seem hypocritical, as I've said more than once how much it pisses me off when loyal fans of a story (whether it be book, comic, game, whatever) cannot accept a differing vision from their own.
But really, I saw nothing like Sherlock Holmes in that trailer. Like Live Free or Die Hard, it looks like a generic script with a more well-known license thrown on it to make more money.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
This doesn't seem like one, either. There's no place in the script - that I read, and it may have changed, since then - where Holmes is back-flipping or lip-kicking, or in the trailer, for that matter. I see boxing, and some fist-fighting, but I don't see any kung fu.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
From what I'm reading, what martial arts is in the film is bartitsu, which is mentioned several times in the stories.
There biggest one that really sticks out is the plot centered around a death-cult. That's a hallmark of Doyle.
Back when this was announced it was being reported this was based partially on a Holmes comic book. Has anyone actually read that one, or are we all jumping to conclusions?
The Mike
It's very very horrible, sir. It's one of those things we wish we could disinvent.
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I'm just going by what Ritchie said - what I wrote in quotations were his words describing how the film would be.Quoting BuffaloWilder (view post)
I didn't see backflips in the trailer, either, but it certainly looked like the fight scenes could end up very jumpy and with some wire-fu.
Indeed I caught that, but I'm just not digging the way the movie looks, from that trailer.
I wnat it to be good, I really do. I love Robert Downey Jr., I love the Sherlock Holmes stories...I hope it's better than what I see here.
I didn't see much (if any) of Holmes' trademark skills in the art of deduction on display, but I'm willing to accept that it may have just been a case of this specific trailer being cut to show off the film's action.
And that boxing match lifted right out of Snatch...that didn't sit well with me.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I've never read it, but it seems to be a mishmash of various elements from every-which-where. The plot involving the death-cult is similar to the ones found in The Sign of Four and several other short stories by Doyle and other authors, although this one is less about revenge than it is - sigh, 'world domination,' basically. There's particular emphasis placed on Holmes physical prowess, which is also present in the stories.Quoting The Mike (view post)
And, on and on.
Now you've got me worried.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
If this is present, it will redeem itself only if Holmes, after having run up a wall and punched a guy in the face, stops to light his pipe and says something witty.
Only then.
Eh, I can get with that. It looks like a Guy Ritchie movie.
I spotted a little, here and there. And, it's extremely present in the screenplay, as well - though, the first time we meet Holmes, he's
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I kind of like it; Ritchie at least knows how to make better use of slow-motion than Snyder.
Revolver was actually rock solid. I have yet to dislike a Guy Ritchie movie, but as I said before I'm avoiding Swept Away, which just looked really awful.
That trailer was not very good. Not sure if this will end up being anything but awful. I'd rather have someone making a straightforward adaption of the Holmes' tales instead.
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It was never published. Or at least, not yet. Dude made the comic solely to pitch a movie, which is an alarming trend these days.Quoting The Mike (view post)
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Ewww.Quoting number8 (view post)
Fuck it, I'm still in.
The Mike
It's very very horrible, sir. It's one of those things we wish we could disinvent.
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huh? can you give me an example? i can't claim to know doyle very well, but out of all the shorts and novels i have read, never once have i encounter a magic element, let alone a cult.Quoting BuffaloWilder (view post)
EDIT: i just read your above post. i don't think, the cult in the sign of four is the same as, say, the illuminati though.
"Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0
I think it looks like a lot of fun. The hammer bit, and the bit of dialogue that closes out the trailer, were great. I'll check it out, so long as the buzz after release isn't abysmal.
Let it be known though, I have no faith in Ritchie, and will have low expectations.
Haha, what the goddamn hell was that?
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer
I'm pretty sure the slo-mo fighting will be played for laughs or at least not as gimmicky as the trailer suggests. Most of the other stuff seems to be going for a lighter tone with Holmes but also a much darker one with the villain than I expected. I hope it all balances nicely in the final film. Plus it looks like they're executing somewhat familiar action in some better-than-average ways (like the building dive).
Other than that... I think it looks pretty alright, more or less what I was expecting: Old time-y Tony Stark solves mysteries. If anything, it's Downey's accent that's my only big worry here. Law looks a lot more likable than I imagined (and I realized I haven't seen him in anything in ages) and McAdams has never looked better (too bad she doesn't say a thing in the trailer).
I'll see it.
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
Also, for anyone worrying about the boxing, it only occurs in one scene, at the beginning of the film. From what I read, anyway.
I'm happy to see others didn't think that trailer made the film look facepalmingly awful.
Were the stories this full of explosions and penis jokes?
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Quoting Dead & Messed Up (view post)
Yeah, I don't get why the childish-ness of the humor on display in that trailer is getting such a pass here on MatchCut (hammer shot excluded, because that was kind of cute).
It seems like the type of stuff people here would be cursing vehemently.
All we needed was for Holmes to light one of his farts on fire and it could be National Lampoon's Sherlock Holmes.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
meg, out of curiosity, why do you dislike it so much? since you are a comic book fan, isn't it a swell idea to super-hero-ize sherlock holmes?
"Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0