Thoughts on 'Sherlock Holmes'
Jan. 29th, 2012 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indiana_jI finally got to see A Game of Shadows with the family yesterday and so, first, general non-spoilery impressions.
I did quite like it and I had a lot of fun but it didn't impress me as much as the first one. I don't know what it was, there was no big one thing that stood out, but the impact was less than the first. Still, it was rollicking and funny and, at times, emotional. I think maybe I felt that they could have done just a little more, gone a little further, with some of their ideas and what they wanted to show us.
OTOH, watching Sherlock Holmes cling to the back of a pony was worth the price of admission. Thoughts:
1. There needed to have been about 100% more Lestrade. Only one scene with my favorite inspector? I cry foul!
2. Mary. Oh, Mary. So very competent in the heat of things and a little bewildered when not - and it made sense, it really did. She's not used to this kind of life but when she's called to action, she acts.
3. ARGH, STEPHEN FRY, MY EYES. (Loved him as Mycroft.)
4. Okay, Irene. Here's the thing. I really did feel like it was a throw away death even though I wasn't the least bit emotionally moved by it (I love Rachel McAdams but feel that they kind of wasted the character in the first [that scene at the end of the movie of the first? The one with the machine? That's what I'd been wanting for the whole movie] ). In the scheme of the whole Moriarty getting the best of Holmes, it does make sense but, sadly, it also feels like they just wanted to get her out of the movie.
5. I rather liked Simza but really felt that this was the character that Irene could have been had they tried in the first movie.
6. I could have done with less action scenes and more Genius scenes with Holmes, though the action scenes were fun.
7. Holmes / Watson still continue to be awesome and this Watson is one of the best I've scene in movies.
8. The end at the falls, oh god. I've read the books, so I knew what was going to happen pretty much since I'd sat down in the theater. But it was brilliant. I loved how Moriarty could do the same thing Holmes could and the dawning realization of Holmes, Moriarty and the audience that Holmes wasn't going to win this unless he changed the nature of the game was so well done.
And the look on Holmes' face and on Watson's at that exact moment just did me in. The ending really brought the movie together for me.
So, overall, I really enjoyed it but it needed a little bit more of what the first movie had. I can't put a finger on it but I hope that the third movie really brings it home.
I did quite like it and I had a lot of fun but it didn't impress me as much as the first one. I don't know what it was, there was no big one thing that stood out, but the impact was less than the first. Still, it was rollicking and funny and, at times, emotional. I think maybe I felt that they could have done just a little more, gone a little further, with some of their ideas and what they wanted to show us.
OTOH, watching Sherlock Holmes cling to the back of a pony was worth the price of admission. Thoughts:
1. There needed to have been about 100% more Lestrade. Only one scene with my favorite inspector? I cry foul!
2. Mary. Oh, Mary. So very competent in the heat of things and a little bewildered when not - and it made sense, it really did. She's not used to this kind of life but when she's called to action, she acts.
3. ARGH, STEPHEN FRY, MY EYES. (Loved him as Mycroft.)
4. Okay, Irene. Here's the thing. I really did feel like it was a throw away death even though I wasn't the least bit emotionally moved by it (I love Rachel McAdams but feel that they kind of wasted the character in the first [that scene at the end of the movie of the first? The one with the machine? That's what I'd been wanting for the whole movie] ). In the scheme of the whole Moriarty getting the best of Holmes, it does make sense but, sadly, it also feels like they just wanted to get her out of the movie.
5. I rather liked Simza but really felt that this was the character that Irene could have been had they tried in the first movie.
6. I could have done with less action scenes and more Genius scenes with Holmes, though the action scenes were fun.
7. Holmes / Watson still continue to be awesome and this Watson is one of the best I've scene in movies.
8. The end at the falls, oh god. I've read the books, so I knew what was going to happen pretty much since I'd sat down in the theater. But it was brilliant. I loved how Moriarty could do the same thing Holmes could and the dawning realization of Holmes, Moriarty and the audience that Holmes wasn't going to win this unless he changed the nature of the game was so well done.
And the look on Holmes' face and on Watson's at that exact moment just did me in. The ending really brought the movie together for me.
So, overall, I really enjoyed it but it needed a little bit more of what the first movie had. I can't put a finger on it but I hope that the third movie really brings it home.