Pretty much any movie you watch that's set somewhere you're familiar with the geography you're going to find something that doesn't make any sense.
Coppola's Dracula.
Although it's not like Stoker's book was stunningly accurate.
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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Volans - May 19, 2009 3:35:32 pm PDT #1555 of 30000
move out and draw fire
Jesse - May 19, 2009 3:39:48 pm PDT #1556 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There is so much I want to get behind in that Holmes movie, but I don't know. Maybe if I can pretend they are saying different names, and not Holmes/Watson.
dcp - May 19, 2009 3:43:45 pm PDT #1557 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Seska, wrt your t spoilerfont "Romulan-related canon should not be messed with." t /spoilerfont
I liked
Diane Duane's Romulans (My Enemy, My Ally) and John M. Ford's Klingons (The Final Reflection) much better than anything in TNG and DS9 canon. Have you read them?
§ ita § - May 19, 2009 3:46:16 pm PDT #1558 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Maybe if I can pretend they are saying different names, and not Holmes/Watson.
While I have no doubt Ritchie made it as actiony as he remotely could, I'm on board with beefing Watson and Holmes up more, like the books seem to have them. If that means they need to indulge in some man-loving, well, these things do happen.
tommyrot - May 19, 2009 3:47:25 pm PDT #1559 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If that means they need to indulge in some man-loving, well, these things do happen.
'Specially with all the cocaine Holmes did.
Volans - May 19, 2009 3:49:28 pm PDT #1560 of 30000
move out and draw fire
I don't know. I want to like it, but I get a whole "Van Helsing" vibe from the trailer.
Amy - May 19, 2009 3:53:12 pm PDT #1561 of 30000
Because books.
If that means they need to indulge in some man-loving, well, these things do happen.
INDEED. And the boyfriend bickering in the clip I saw was PERFECT.
Although I sort of wish it was Paul Bettany playing Watson instead of Jude Law.
Barb - May 19, 2009 3:57:04 pm PDT #1562 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Although I sort of wish it was Paul Bettany playing Watson instead of Jude Law.
Ugh. No. Not that I'm any big fan of Jude, but Bettany skeeves the hell out of me. I would have loved to have seen Julian Rhind-Tutt as Watson.
§ ita § - May 19, 2009 4:05:27 pm PDT #1563 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ha! I love Paul Bettany, but my sister just Skyped me (she's the one that gave me the trailer URL) that she'd only want him in as a hound of Baskerville.
K-razy people!
(I love Rhind-Tutt, but he is funny looking).
Polter-Cow - May 19, 2009 4:14:10 pm PDT #1564 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
There is so much I want to get behind in that Holmes movie, but I don't know. Maybe if I can pretend they are saying different names, and not Holmes/Watson.
Yeah, that looks like a fun movie, but it doesn't seem like Sherlock Holmes to me.