New Sherlock Holmes movie....looks good or bad? Discuss.

Classic mystery with a modern action twist.

I think that the base of Sherlock Holmes is cool enough. It looks like it was directed by the same guy who did Bad Boys 2. But who knows, it could be great.

I'll wait for it to hit RedBox so I can rent it for a dollar.

So I'll go in watching the DVD with optimism.

Not even Victorian-era detective novels are safe from their soulless grasp.

I'm going to quote that.

:shrug:

And I am sure I shouldn't humor you in all of your charmingly obtuse glory, but it wasn't an either/or proposition I offered.

CGI has its place - it's a useful tool to make fantasy worlds (and characters) come to life quite beautifully. But I am one of those pesky curmudgeons who gives a shit about WRITING, and PLOT, and CHARACTERIZATION. So fuck me sideways for having an opinion about soulless moviemaking.

These kinds of action movies are plotless eye candy, with flat characters, and turgid scripts. They're damn near fascist in their ethos. It's all spectacle, with a sense of wonder being crushed under the weight of a credo which screams: "ISN'T TECHNOLOGY WONDERFUL?? THIS KICKS ASS!!! WHAT A ROLLER COASTER!!". It's the kind of movies one expects when gamers and fanboys learn the ropes of animation, and want to bulldoze the rest of us into submission. Fuck them.

Many movies have made decent use of CGI. But nowadays it is being used as a bludgeoning device instead of part of an artist's pallette. Just because something CAN be done, doesn't mean it SHOULD be.

I am sure you will want the last word, and be even more obtuse and contrarian with your reply.

CGI shouldn't be used to make fantasy worlds like Avatar or Jar Jar Binks. That looks like shit.

CGI should be subtle. Like removing contrails from a period piece. Or to get a dog to stop looking at the camera.

That said, I haven't seen a use of CGI in the Sherlock Holmes trailer, except for possibly where he uses the talc powder to discover the draft leading him to a secret door. And that's the kind of CGI I can approve of.

I watch entertainment for what it tries to offer. If it's a great plot or characterization, I'll enjoy it for that. If it's CGI punnery, I'll enjoy it for that. How is having a more open mind contrarian? To me the contrarians are the ones who hate everything, who start every thread with the implied "People will love this so I will prove my superiority by hating it on principle."

Fuck principle. Life's too short. I can enjoy bubble gum as well as truffles.

My only point was that there are a lot of movies made, so why worry about the ones you don't like? The rest came from you, not me.

pure schlock.

I predict it will be one of those films that is so bad it becomes a hit with a certain crowd.

I saw the trailer ages ago, when Ritchies was still cutting furiously because previews were blowing. Even back then I thought to myself, "You have GOT to be fucking kidding me!"

Guy Ritchie, Robert Downie, Amy Adams, corny smack talk with a fake British accent? Sure beats the hell out of Lord of the Rings. Probably not as good as Shakespeare in Love, though.

I love LOTR. Great film making.

I'm a so-so fan of Guy Ritchie.

38 of the most boring hours of film I've ever seen. The actors were good, but the directing was so formulaic I couldn't bear it. I know, I know, I'm in a minority.

Guy Ritchie is fun, not much else. Too cutsie to be really great, but he's good for a 90 minutes of chuckling, at his best.

:rofl:

It'll probably beat "Young Sherlock Holmes," at least.

To me, he plays the same role over and over and, for that matter, so do John Cusack and Bill Murray.

But from the trailer it looks like Holmes/Watson slashfic.

"Watson, 7-Eleven Coffee Is Extraordinary!"

"No shit, Sherlock."

EXPLOSION!!!!!!

Man, is this movie going to suck. I saw a preview and what Guy Ritchie evidently thought is he knew better than anybody else how to make Van Helsing. Gah.