Monday
18May2009
Watch the First 'Sherlock Holmes' Trailer
Monday, May 18, 2009 at 10:07PM
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.
Reader Comments (10)
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).
At least we get to wait until we celebrate Jesus' birth to see Holmes and Watson make out...
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. ;)
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]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......
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.
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.
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.
Sherlock Holmes has been done in so many different ways that I'm not really offended by this.
It looks like an antertaining movie with good cinematography, so why the long faces?
I agree not everything has to be an action film or has to have sophomoric humor. It is not like we don't support intelligent moves. Holmes is awesome and this does not look so. Also, Why can't we find one of the excellent British actors to play a British role? Colin Firth? Anyone. Why do we insist on making Americans play foreigners? Like why couldn't we find a Greek actor to play Leonides or at least on person in 300 etc?