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Holmes: Jeremy Brett. I didn't like the Granada series much, but I think Brett did the best job of capturing what a crazy bastard Holmes is.
Movie: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
...Hm, I can't seem to muster up any opinions about casting Watson.
Kinda' interesting: You Missed It: Most Unfairly Overlooked Movies Of The Decade
About half of those are "movies which have a lot of nudity in them but I swear that's not why I put them on this list."
Heh.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Lookout definitely fit the bill, though. I also liked Grindhouse and Stardust and have heard good things about various other movies on the list.
I know! I have seen about half, too. Which is really why I love Netflix, because I live in a very "New Moon on four million screens!1" kind of city, despite how big we are.
I really liked "The Woodsman" too.
Fave Holmes: Basil Rathbone!
Haven't seen "Blacksnake Moan". But a movie where a guy decides the best help he can give an assault victim is to keep her chained (semi-nude) to a radiator? Maybe something more than prudishness keeping people away. If that is not problematic or if it deals well with the problematic issue, you need to explain before I'll lend it my eyeballs. And no "deeply spiritual" is not enough of an explaination.
Fave Holmes: Basil Rathbone!
I always got the distinct feeling that Rathbone thought he was smarter than Holmes. That combined with Bruce's painfully bumbling Watson makes it difficult for me to watch any of those.