Watch the First 'Sherlock Holmes' Trailer

Hey, the new Sherlock Holmes trailer has been released and...at least I'll get to see Rachel McAdams in a corset. Otherwise...I'm terribly unsure. I'll leave it to you to give this one a thumbs up or down. You know the drill by now: Robert Downey is Holmes, Jude Law is Watson, and Guy Ritchie is pouring some Amp Energy down the gullet of one of literature's most enduring characters. The trailer is kind of what I expected - action, action, action, plus a little comedy - but really? A shot in the balls? I digress... Sherlock Holmes will be in theaters on Christmas.

Comments

[Anybody]

I'm not going to say that it's a great trailer but it is a smart trailer... playing to an action-flick audience instead of using a more 'intellectual' Holmes as a selling point (not sure if the intellectual Holmes is in the movie at all though, we'll see, but you probably wouldn't cash in on a trailer based on one).

[Will]

At least we get to wait until we celebrate Jesus' birth to see Holmes and Watson make out...

[NIronwolf]

So I take it they never actually read one of the books? They just heard about the names and job descriptions, maybe a bit about when and where it was set, then proceeded to paint the same Hollywood picture with that pallet?

I do like a good corset though. ;)

[Get The Big Picture]

Yeah, I really don't get it. It's not like the Holmes stories need a lot of help. I mean, he's one of the most read fictional characters in English literature. I don't see what good can come from turning him into Austin Powers.

[kUPD's Smartest Listener]

[quote]So I take it they never actually read one of the books? They just heard about the names and job descriptions, maybe a bit about when and where it was set, then proceeded to paint the same Hollywood picture with that pallet?

I do like a good corset though. ;)[/quote]

[quote]Yeah, I really don't get it. It's not like the Holmes stories need a lot of help. I mean, he's one of the most read fictional characters in English literature. I don't see what good can come from turning him into Austin Powers.[/quote]

Interesting.

When its Sherlock Homes its ok to not understand why the director would go about gutting the essence of the main characters and completely abandoning what made the original stories resonate.

But when its Star Trek......

[The Spam Master]

I'll prbably see this but it looks like the crew didn't really decide if it should be a serious movie or a comedy, much like Romeo + Juliet. Bad trailer though, I hope the second one is longer and a bit more calm.

[Get The Big Picture]

Here's the difference: Nobody gutted "the essence of the main characters" in Star Trek. In fact, Bones McCoy is pretty close to an impression. Sure, Chekhov couldn't be there. So should they just wait ten years to bring that character into the movie? There's no way you could watch the characterizations in Star Trek and not know who's who.

If they had turned Kirk into a bookish virgin, that would approximate what they're doing to Sherlock Holmes, or more accurately, handcuffing Spock to a bed, like they do Holmes in this trailer. You give me the equivalent of that in Star Trek. It's the difference between re-imagining and totally discarding the character traits.

[KUPD's Smartest Listener]

I will do that Colin when I see it. However at this point I have little confidence that anything I bring up will be both received, and discounted, as meaningless fan-boi nit picking.