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.
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Connie Neil - Dec 07, 2009 10:10:18 am PST #5371 of 30000
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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?
Polter-Cow - Dec 07, 2009 10:31:16 am PST #5378 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But I remember more about the poison darts and the ongoing bear riddle than anything about Holmes and Watson.
I mostly remember the food hallucination.
erikaj - Dec 07, 2009 10:36:49 am PST #5379 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
yeah, that was pretty trippy. Since I know from somewhere you're a Cupid fan(not sure how; we've never discussed it) you'd probably like They May Be Giants as well.
Scrappy - Dec 07, 2009 10:38:50 am PST #5380 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Brett, with a close second of Nicol Williamson's Holmes in Seven Percent Solution, which also has a scrumptious Alan Arkin as Freud. If you ignore the HORRIBLE drug sequence, it's a fabulous movie.