Fave Holmes: Basil Rathbone!
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Glamcookie - Dec 07, 2009 10:04:40 am PST #5368 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Typo Boy - Dec 07, 2009 10:06:09 am PST #5369 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
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.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 07, 2009 10:06:57 am PST #5370 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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.
Connie Neil - Dec 07, 2009 10:10:18 am PST #5371 of 30000
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Saw 9 over the weekend. While the short wins for evocative storytelling, the movie wasn't too bad. The use of "Over the Rainbow" was interestingly twisted.
erikaj - Dec 07, 2009 10:11:48 am PST #5372 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
My favorite from the Missed it list was definitely "The Lookout" but I like most of the ones I saw. I think that Jeremy Brett was the Holmes I remember best although I also liked that movie with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward(wonder if Rob Thomas saw it as it was fairly close to a Holmesy "Cupid")
-t - Dec 07, 2009 10:14:26 am PST #5373 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Without a Clue might be my favorite Holmes movie. Though Young Sherlock Holmes is probably the one that sticks in my memory the best.
I'm looking forward to the new one.
Jessica - Dec 07, 2009 10:14:31 am PST #5374 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In all seriousness, the thing I want most out of a Sherlock Holmes movie is one that doesn't treat Watson like he's stupid. I have optimism for this one.
I think you will not be disappointed. The Holmes/Watson relationship (and wow it's hard not to type House/Wilson) is easily the best thing about the movie.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 07, 2009 10:17:25 am PST #5375 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I also liked that movie with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward(wonder if Rob Thomas saw it as it was fairly close to a Holmesy "Cupid")
They Might Be Giants (and I believe that's where the band got the name).
I do love that movie. I'm not sure it counts as an official Holmes story, though the end of the movie is certainly ambiguous.
Polter-Cow - Dec 07, 2009 10:19:30 am PST #5376 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Though Young Sherlock Holmes is probably the one that sticks in my memory the best.
Yeah, I think this is pretty much the only Holmes I've ever seen, come to think of it.
erikaj - Dec 07, 2009 10:24:46 am PST #5377 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I think it was, which made me happy cause I loved it as a teenager and when I brought up to other people I usually got Crazy Woman Face. But you're right; not really much with the canon-respecting. I enjoyed YSH also, though. But I remember more about the poison darts and the ongoing bear riddle than anything about Holmes and Watson. Joanne Woodward played everyone's shrink for a while there, didn't she?