OMFG SHERLOCK HOLMES
Dec. 26th, 2009 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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SO I KNEW FROM THE TRAILER THAT THIS WOULD BE HILARIOUS, BUT I DIDN'T EXPECT IT TO ALSO BE GOOD. I HATE JUDE LAW LIKE SYPHILIS, BUT HE TOTALLY HAD THE ONLY REALLY GOOD PORTRAYAL OF WATSON, LIKE, EVER.
ALSO, IRENE = WIN. CANON SCHMANON, IF ANYONE NEEDS ME, I SHALL BE WRITING FIC ABOUT IRENE ADLER, INTERNATIONAL MISTRESS OF CRIME.
To cut the capslock for a second, the bit at the end where she said, "Moriarty. The man I was working for, his name's Moriarty", I GOT CHILLS. Oh hey, the capslock is back. WELL, IT WAS THAT GOOD.
Seriously, first person who says it fails because it's not like canon gets a great big THE POINT, YOU MISS IT macro. Because it was win, in the way that a really good comic book movie is win. And no, the Holmes canon is not a comic book, but he occupies the same sort of cultural space, and no one's going around burning Doyle collections just because they changed, um, a lot. Like how Mary Morstan has never met Holmes (and would chuck a glass of wine over him if he was a douchebag, which he would be on account of how the subtext is surfacing).
ALSO DID I MENTION HOW IT WAS AMAZING? EXCUSE ME, NOW I HAVE TO GO WRITE MASSES OF OT3 FIC. OMFG I HAVEN'T LOVED A MOVIE THIS MUCH SINCE, LIKE, EVER.
...sajee, dear_prudence, wanna come see it with me sometime? IT'S TOTALLY AWESOME.
Also? I walked out going, "What Doctor Who special are you talking about? Why are you talking about that when IRENE ADLER IS AMAZING?" So that was good.
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Date: 2010-01-06 02:08 am (UTC)Ha ha ha! Did you read David Stratton's 'I've been personally butt-fucked by the wrong of this movie, OMG, Sherlock, my Sherlock, what have they DONE TO YOU?ELEVENTY!' review last weekend?
Irene Adler FTW. I went home and wrote six pages of Irene+Mary story outline WITH MY HAND AND A PEN AND ACTUAL PAPER because I had no computer. Now, if only I can learn to THINK UP A PLOT (sometime next century), I can write a story.