Probably not going to see "Sherlock Holmes"

[Elok]

I've never read the stories, I just know they're not about some dude who blows **** up all across London. Those commercials look ridiculous. Now, it's possible they made a decent movie and just screwed up on the ad campaign...

MrFun, I'm referring to coolness, not hotness--totally different things. If this were genuinely sexual, I would probably be cooing over one of those Twilight smegs or something.

[Kuciwalker]

I've never read the stories

Seriously? wtf

[Elok]

Detective stories don't much interest me...which, I just realized, makes my objection all the more retarded, but I'm mostly annoyed by the idea of utter disrespect for an author and his material. Anyway, I don't care whodunnit. I know somebody dunnit, and I'm confident that the CSI team/Nero Wolfe/Sherlock Holmes will figure out who in the end, but in the meantime, meh.

The only ACD stories I've read are the Challenger ones, which I liked except for the idiotic one attempting to justify Doyle's nutty seance beliefs.

[SpencerH]

There were occasional action scenes in the old Holmes stories, along with prodigious drug use. I think they're emphasizing the action because a movie about a guy who sniffs coke, plays violin, and reads the paper would be pretty dull.

In those days cocaine was more likely to be used intravenously or orally. Holmes uses a 7% solution. I just thought I'd point that out .

[Drake Tungsten]

I bet injected cocaine ****s you up like crazy.

[SpencerH]

I'd guess it takes 'the edge off' alright.

[Drake Tungsten]

Apparently it's less awesome than smoking cocaine, but better than snorting.

[MrFun]

I've never read the stories

Seriously? wtf

I never read any of the Holmes stories, either. Like Elok, I never got into the detective genre in literature.

[Imran Siddiqui]

+2, I guess. Like Elok and MrFun, I've never read the stories. But I just started reading some (free ebooks on the Kindle, FTW!)

[-Jrabbit]

I read the entire Doyle canon when I was about 10-12. Pretty damn good, esp. considering when it was written.

[Felch]

In those days cocaine was more likely to be used intravenously or orally. Holmes uses a 7% solution. I just thought I'd point that out .

They make a reference in the movie to Holmes drinking "stuff used for eye surgery." That's probably what it was.

[OzzyKP]

I never read any of the Holmes stories, either. Like Elok, I never got into the detective genre in literature.

+3

FWIW, now that I've seen both, Sherlock Holmes > Avatar

[Imran Siddiqui]

Saw the movie today, was teh awesome

[Kuciwalker]

It was meh.

The twist was... well, not a twist, given that Doyle used one exactly like it about fifteen times. And the rest of the movie was just kind of not-Sherlock-Holmesey.

[-Jrabbit]

I love the way all the complaints are about this movine being un-Conan Doylish, yet the totally Conan Doylish story-turn is also denounced.

I've decided I'm going to go see it, mostly because I like the cast. Yes, I, too, am gay for RDJr.