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FourtotheflushFourtotheflush Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,555
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Anyone See it? The reviews are average to above average. I was looking forward to it until I saw the mixed reviews.
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  • HaysHays Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,262
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  • j0z3rj0z3r Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 9,403
    I thought the story was mediocre at best and the movie relied too heavily on special effects. By the midway point, I couldn't wait for it to end.
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  • HaysHays Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,262
    j0z3r:
    I thought the story was mediocre at best and the movie relied too heavily on special effects. By the midway point, I couldn't wait for it to end.
    Wow! Harsh! That is entirely the worst review I've heard of the movie, by far...
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  • cabinetmakercabinetmaker Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,561
    My fiance and I fell asleep half way through it and left 15 minutes or so from the end. We actually tbought it was pretty good, but all the "this is what's gonna happen" sequences just lost us. I'll be buying it on DVD, but would not go back to see it in the theater.
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  • j0z3rj0z3r Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 9,403
    Hays:
    j0z3r:
    I thought the story was mediocre at best and the movie relied too heavily on special effects. By the midway point, I couldn't wait for it to end.
    Wow! Harsh! That is entirely the worst review I've heard of the movie, by far...
    What can I say? I just didn't think the movie was good. I wouldn't tell anyone not to see it, but I won't be watching it again.
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  • HaysHays Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,262
    j0z3r:
    Hays:
    j0z3r:
    I thought the story was mediocre at best and the movie relied too heavily on special effects. By the midway point, I couldn't wait for it to end.
    Wow! Harsh! That is entirely the worst review I've heard of the movie, by far...
    What can I say? I just didn't think the movie was good. I wouldn't tell anyone not to see it, but I won't be watching it again.
    I didn't mean that to bash yOu Joe... I just meant that I had not heard from anyone who disliked it that much.
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  • j0z3rj0z3r Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 9,403
    Nah, I didn't think that, just expanding on what I'd posted. I saw it with some friends, and most of them thought it wasn't very good. The biggest sticking point for me is that Sherlock Holmes was never, as far as I know, an ass kicker and name taker, mostly he used his wit and powers of deduction to solve mysteries, so on that note I think they did a disservice to the character. I guess maybe I was expecting something different, I don't know.
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  • zoom6zoomzoom6zoom Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,214
    Joe, if you've read the entire Holmsian Canon, it's evident that Holmes is indeed rather accomplished in unarmed combat arts and pugilism, although I would not call him a brawler. That said, I haven't heard a single review that gave the movie more than 2 1/2 stars.
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  • HaysHays Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,262
    zoom6zoom:
    Joe, if you've read the entire Holmsian Canon, it's evident that Holmes is indeed rather accomplished in unarmed combat arts and pugilism, although I would not call him a brawler. That said, I haven't heard a single review that gave the movie more than 2 1/2 stars.
    Both Joe and Zoom have made valid points here. Holmes is generally not portrayed, nor conceived, as a brawler...however, it's been referenced more than once in his tales that he's an extremely accomplished boxer; it just doesn't really come up much on the surface level. I rather like how they approached the boxing scenes in the movie - his analysis and strategy in the fight definitely smacks of Holmes to me.
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  • j0z3rj0z3r Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 9,403
    For the record, I've not read any of the Holmes stories, which is why in the quoted post I qualified my claim by saying "as far as I know". I'm far from an authority, or even much an informed voice, on all things Sherlock Holmes, but that was one aspect of the movie that I didn't buy.
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  • jeff_connorsjeff_connors Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 483
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  • zoom6zoomzoom6zoom Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,214
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  • bigbgballzbigbgballz Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 283
    I liked it, and the people with me liked it.Its a Sherlock movie with a Guy Ritchie twist. Its a movie that I will probably buy on DVD just because i find it relaxing and fun to watch. Nothing too outstanding though. I give 7.5 out of 10.
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  • FourtotheflushFourtotheflush Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,555
    Appreciate the feedback!
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  • jeff_connorsjeff_connors Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 483
    Anyone into holmes might want to check these old time radio shows out, some are not too bad http://www.archive.org/details/OTR_Sherlock_Holmes_smurfmeat
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  • Russ55Russ55 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,762
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  • VulchorVulchor Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 4,176
    Saw it last night...I am not a fan of going to the movies, and never been a Holmes fan.....Hays, youre right on target all that said-----Movie was simply freakin awesome.
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  • stephen_hannibalstephen_hannibal Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 4,317
    I really liked the movie... though IMHO Basil Rathbone is the be all and end all of Sherlock Holmes.
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