[quote name='Marie' post='273238' date='Jan 17 2010, 12:14 AM']I don't mind TL;DR at all (which is probably obvious), but it would not be all-together responsible of me to post everything I want to say here, LOL. I don't want to be the first person to reach a character limit in replies, lulz. Saying that, I clearly disagree quite a bit, especially where the characters themselves are concerned. While I will admit the story itself is somewhat reaching as far as fitting squarely into the universe Doyle's novels and stories created, the characters are written and depicted so close to the source material that you can basically mirror them off of one-another. Before I ramble on and get a talking to from Wife, I do love discussing things like this, but without posting spoilers, LOL, this is obviously not the best place to do so. I'll move it over to LJ, for lack of a better forum, of communication - I've had enough people make various arguments against the movie that I can justify it to myself, haha.
To get back on topic, I watched Sherlock Holmes again today, unsurprisingly enough, and will be partaking of Parnassus tomorrow, before they remove it from theaters.[/quote]
Haha, I think we'll just have to agree to disagree, because I don't think I'll ever accept those two people as Holmes & Watson (especially Watson). And I'm not the first Doyle reader who thinks the characters in the movie are completely deformed from the originals, either. But anyway, my other problem is that I didn't think the film was really good at all. If it had been, I would have gladly enjoyed it even though, well, those are not Holmes & Watson. In any case, I'm not even such a big fan of the books.
By the way, I wouldn't expect much from Parnassus =/ I thought it was somewhat half-cooked. I don't know if Heath Ledger's death had anything to do with the final product being so... incongruent, but it was certainly underwhelming. He was quite good in it, though (excellent accent!)
And I watched The Time Traveler's Wife... I don't know why. Jesus, what an empty (and slightly disturbing in its wrongness) movie.