Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Jul. 26th, 2013 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dahlia_moonWhoooo! Got my assignment for troublesfest2013 yesterday. Now it's time to panic. I mean, I do like my assignment, but it's just a matter of catching up with the source material and trying to come up with something that's not terrible.
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I also watched Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows yesterday. I would've loved it as much as I loved the first film had they not killed Irene Adler right from the beginning. I know, from a logical story-line sense, it wouldn't do for Moriarty to let Irene loose when Sherlock kept interfering with his nefarious plots, but Irene Adler is so very awesome and did not deserve to die. That being said, I liked that the TPTB gave Mary Watson a larger role to play this time around (I'm assuming Holmes is the one who tells her to crack Moriarty's code seeing as she had Moriarty's little red book) instead of just being the girl that's taking Watson away from Holmes. Also, I know Ritchie's version of the Holmes & Watson relationship/partnership is to skate toward the gay-for-each-other line, but I honestly read Holmes' character as being more asexual this time around than necessarily gay? Of course, it's a moot point to question as it doesn't really matter what Sherlock's sexuality is if TPTB won't acknowledge it overtly themselves (I mean to say that me just guessing about Sherlock's sexuality is a moot point because Sherlock would be Sherlock whether or not we definitively knew his sexuality or not; I just like to focus on fictional characters' sexuality because that is a thing I like wondering about, not that I can say why exactly).
In addition to Mary Watson being awesome, there was also Madame Simza Heron. I wanted to be Madame Simza so freakin' much after watching this movie (of course her life is not all sunshine & roses but she's kickass and awesome in spite of it). I didn't recognize Noomi Rapace but, apparently, she's famous for the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo movies? (All this means now is that I have to watch the movies.)
Speaking of awesome casting choices, STEPHEN FRY ♥♥ Stephen Fry as Mycroft ("the other Holmes") was genius. My familiarity with the Arthur Conan Doyle canon is pretty much nil (besides what I can pick up via fandom osmosis and the Elementary canon) so I don't know too much about Mycroft and so can't say if Fry did the character justice, but I thought he was delightful in the role. His and Mary's interactions were also lovely (I'm talking about the nude scene in particular, yet it could be said that Mycroft's interactions with pretty much everyone were lovely to watch as well; there's just something hypnotic, I guess is the word, about Stephen Fry).
Of course this sequel remained very much a Sherlock & Holmes movie, which I have no objections to and, concerning that ending, I do hope a third movie gets developed, not that a third movie is necessarily needed (or that it'd be all too original) but well...I wouldn't mind Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. teaming up for a third time.
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I also watched Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows yesterday. I would've loved it as much as I loved the first film had they not killed Irene Adler right from the beginning. I know, from a logical story-line sense, it wouldn't do for Moriarty to let Irene loose when Sherlock kept interfering with his nefarious plots, but Irene Adler is so very awesome and did not deserve to die. That being said, I liked that the TPTB gave Mary Watson a larger role to play this time around (I'm assuming Holmes is the one who tells her to crack Moriarty's code seeing as she had Moriarty's little red book) instead of just being the girl that's taking Watson away from Holmes. Also, I know Ritchie's version of the Holmes & Watson relationship/partnership is to skate toward the gay-for-each-other line, but I honestly read Holmes' character as being more asexual this time around than necessarily gay? Of course, it's a moot point to question as it doesn't really matter what Sherlock's sexuality is if TPTB won't acknowledge it overtly themselves (I mean to say that me just guessing about Sherlock's sexuality is a moot point because Sherlock would be Sherlock whether or not we definitively knew his sexuality or not; I just like to focus on fictional characters' sexuality because that is a thing I like wondering about, not that I can say why exactly).
In addition to Mary Watson being awesome, there was also Madame Simza Heron. I wanted to be Madame Simza so freakin' much after watching this movie (of course her life is not all sunshine & roses but she's kickass and awesome in spite of it). I didn't recognize Noomi Rapace but, apparently, she's famous for the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo movies? (All this means now is that I have to watch the movies.)
Speaking of awesome casting choices, STEPHEN FRY ♥♥ Stephen Fry as Mycroft ("the other Holmes") was genius. My familiarity with the Arthur Conan Doyle canon is pretty much nil (besides what I can pick up via fandom osmosis and the Elementary canon) so I don't know too much about Mycroft and so can't say if Fry did the character justice, but I thought he was delightful in the role. His and Mary's interactions were also lovely (I'm talking about the nude scene in particular, yet it could be said that Mycroft's interactions with pretty much everyone were lovely to watch as well; there's just something hypnotic, I guess is the word, about Stephen Fry).
Of course this sequel remained very much a Sherlock & Holmes movie, which I have no objections to and, concerning that ending, I do hope a third movie gets developed, not that a third movie is necessarily needed (or that it'd be all too original) but well...I wouldn't mind Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. teaming up for a third time.