It's a creative re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes
but it's the same sort of creative re-imagining that leaves you walking funny for a week and too tender to wipe your bottom properly.

I wouldn't mind hearing about a freak accident with a pneumatic drill and an 18" strap on with herpes creatively re-imagining Guy Ritchie.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Tue 4 May 2010, 0:59, 1 reply)

You have actually read the books, haven't you?
There's not that much creative re-imagining going on. A lot of it is all there to begin with.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Tue 4 May 2010, 6:51, closed)

I was thinking that as well
Anyway, complaining that a filum isn't the same as the book shows a artistic immaturity in the complainer rather than a fault in the movie.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Tue 4 May 2010, 7:39, closed)

Perhaps I was being a bit vehement
But my problem wasn't that it didn't slavishly follow the story and characters of the books, I'm aware two different media should do their own things, but for me it just didn't have the same sort of feel of what made the books enjoyable. I mean, it wasn't a disastrous film, it just wasn't what the title promised either.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Tue 4 May 2010, 10:31, closed)

Hardly.
Imagine if they made a version of Romeo and Juliet where at the end they pulled out their madd ninja skillz and Mercutio joined them (because he secretly had on armor under his clothes and was waiting for the right moment to re-emerge) in an epic battle against those who opposed the star-crossed lovers, and maybe threw in a plot involving a strange looking bomb under the Vatican that they had to defuse. I tend to think that people who were familiar with the original would be rather disgusted by that.

The same applies to making Holmes into a fighting machine who plans out his blows about seven moves in advance and then pulls of a martial arts move to take down his opponent. Doyle said that he was skilled in boxing and made a reference to something called "baritsu" to explain how he defeated Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls (Doyle only brought Holmes back from the dead because of public outcry, so he had to come up with something), but otherwise he never uses his fists.

I still say that the resulting film was crap. Even taken on its own it was irritating to watch.
( Wanderer, Tue 4 May 2010, 16:12, closed)

This.
Sherlock Holmes is meant to be a bit mad and live on the fringes of society. He wears fucking dearstalker in the middle of a city for God's sake; that's not the behaviour of someone who is taken into the bosom of polite society. He was meant to be a rogue and a bit of a scoundrel. If he were the kind of erudite gentleman that actors usually portray him as, he'd be a police officer not a private detective. Private detective has never been what you'd call a respectable profession in any era.
(Vlad the Inhaler forgot his password, Tue 4 May 2010, 8:01, closed)

Did you know
the deerstalker was never explicitly mentioned in the stories? It was just an illustrator later decided that might be the sort of hat he wears - I don't mean that to sound condescending, I just found it interesting when I found out.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Tue 4 May 2010, 10:39, closed)