This ain't your grandfather's Holmes, but damned if it doesn't look like fun. I never read any of the Doyle stories, only saw screen portrayals, but this reminds me more of Wild Wild West than anything. In spite of the "approved for ALL AUDIENCES" reasurrance, you might want to shoo the young'uns out of the room before you watch.
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That look like some good fun from Madonna's ex-. The steampunk thing seems to be hanging on longer than anyone expected and this is a fine vehicle for it.
But most Americans--outside New England perhaps--seem to think that everyone lived in log cabins 100 years ago. These were the folks who invented trains and cars and airplanes and radios and every sort of factory machine. It's pretty easy to surprise people by showing how sophisticated the world was in the late 1800s for those who weren't living on an actual frontier.
Saw this trailer in the theater this past weekend. It does look like fun.
Having said that, I've been thinking today about devising a movie rating system that reflects the difference between "some people's nice work" and a wholistically good movie. I now expect most movie trailers to represent some exciting visceral scenes - what matters to me is whether the movie is satisfying beyond that.
This weekend we saw "Terminator: Salvation," for instance. It's a mythology we care about because of the first two movies. It put lots of great stuff up on the screen - fantastic action, and superb technical work - but dialog was completely embarrassing. Of course, when the director goes by the moniker "McG," what do you expect?
Guy (Mr. Madonna) Ritchie has a similar pedigree (music video and commercial directing superstar) to McG, but I've liked some of his movies - particularly "Snatch."
Incidentally, the stills photographer for this new Sherlock Holmes flick is Alex Bailey, who also did the stills work on Atonement, The Other Boleyn Girl, The History Boys, the Lara Croft movies, The Boat That Rocked (which I cannot wait to see) and more than 40 others. He's got a book out on the art and business of stills photography.
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