luciazephyr | (no subject)

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Jesus christ, why didn't anyone tell me Sherlock Holmes sucked?

Brilliant acting, fucking awful story. My god man, what the hell was that.

-Lucy

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I'm there basically for the subtext and the acting. Plot was AMAZINGLY awful :|

I...liked it?

*hides in a corner*

Ignore the iffy Blackwod plot. And that Irene was the distressed damsel more times than she should have. The real plot was the epic, epic love between Holmes and Watson. And possibly the love between Blackwood and Coward.

I PARTICULARLY LIKED THE PART WHERE HE WANTED TO TAKE OVER AMERICA, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE ONLY CARE ABOUT STUFF WHEN AMERICA IS INVOLVED

at least it wasn't a major part of the plot and they didn't relocate it to America or anything, but still I AM SO DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN THE MAINSTREAM MOVIE INDUSTRY, LET ME WATCH SOME BRITPORN WITHOUT HAVING TO THINK ABOUT WHAT WENT ON ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST

However, I went to see it for the HoYay, came out 1) not seeing the HoYay (they are bros! this goes for the books, too, thankfully. I feel the same way about Kirk and Spock) and 2) shipping Holmes/Irene.

Have you read the books? Apart from occasional forays into Victorian racism they're much better and Holmes and Watson are more likeable and less cartoonish than the ones in the film. Particularly Holmes. He's sort of like a bipolar, strangely giddy force of nature. He gets enthusiastic. He puts much more into the relationship than movie!Holmes, like playing Watson's favourite tunes on the violin as thanks for putting up with him. And he sings. He is awesome.

It's the eternal temptation of the Holmes story writer to have a mystery that the ENTIRE FATE OF ENGLAND depends upon. Somebody mentioned that the story of how they caught Blackwood the first time would have been far more interesting.

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