In Reply to: RE: Don´t know much about them, BUT-- posted by patrickU on July 13, 2010 at 23:42:39:
brilliant rumination about this. Oh, yes, there is a soupcon but it is all subsumed to the ACTION genre. This is an ACTION film. Fights. Chases. Explosions.
Dialogue and character development? Negligible.
Actually, my first thought when viewing was that the leads should have been reversed. Law is a far more interesting, nuanced actor. And... he's British. I'm sick of hearing these awful attempts by American actors to mimic the British. God awful. They get the sound right but tempi is all wrong. It jangles.
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Follow Ups
- No, Doyle would faint. There is none of the cerebral, none of the - tinear 09:31:11 07/14/10 (11)
- RE: Of course it is an action film! - patrickU 09:41:43 07/14/10 (10)
- 2012 was FUN! One simply cannot forget this is supposedly Sherlock Holmes. - tinear 20:57:52 07/15/10 (7)
- I still cannot believe you liked 2012, very uncharacteristic nt - Brian A 21:14:49 07/16/10 (0)
- RE: Jeremy Breet was maybe the best. peter Cushing was not bad. 2012 the most boring film of the decade. - patrickU 03:31:08 07/16/10 (5)
- RE: The wrong BEST SH Link, soory, here. - patrickU 10:26:44 07/16/10 (0)
- Jeremy and Cushing more or less imitated Basil. I grew up with those - tinear 07:54:01 07/16/10 (3)
- RE: Jeremy and Cushing more or less imitated Basil. I grew up with those - patrickU 10:29:15 07/16/10 (0)
- RE: Everett and Stephens were not bad either- Michael Caine.... Leslie Howard... - patrickU 10:24:03 07/16/10 (1)
- Thanks, Patrick, I'll check out the Russian and the Brit. nt - tinear 15:07:40 07/18/10 (0)
- More like an ADHD film...(nt) - mkuller 15:08:17 07/15/10 (1)
- RE: Well that is what I got---nt. - patrickU 23:13:05 07/15/10 (0)