Sherlock Holmes

[feuervogel]

I went to catch the new flick today. I'm not a rabid fan of Doyle by any means; I've never even read a single Holmes book. I enjoyed it, though there wasn't nearly enough H/W slashy tiems. And NO KISSING. *grump* Robert Downey Jr was witty and a drunkard (rather than Doyle's Holmes' cocaine problem ... too close to home for RDJ?) There was also a good bit of semi-dressed Holmes, which I endorse.

I want the thief woman (Alder? Adler?)'s wardrobe. Except the fuschia dress; she can keep that. I don't think she was wearing a corset, though; her torso was too flexible.

The trailer for Iron Man 2: DO WANT. The Bruce Willis/black dude buddy cop movie? Do NOT want. Clash of the Titans looks sufficiently CGed, and the kraken looks hella scarier than the one from the 80s. There were other trailers, but I don't remember them.

If I had to choose a branch of military service based on the ads before the film, I'd go with the Marines. They had a better (and shorter) ad than the National Guard. And cooler uniforms.

The Marines ad was about 30 seconds. It was a montage of training stuff, including the arrival at the assembly place, with the shoe prints painted on the floor. The music was unobtrusive (I don't even remember it), and there was a steady drumbeat, a marching beat. Then it ended with a Marine in dress blues spinning his rifle butt upward in front of his face, like in the pictures.

The National Guard ad went on for at least a minute. It depicted people doing all sorts of things, from rescuing people from burning buildings to pulling people from the water to working on helicopters, and it had a couple 'morph' sequences, where a NG walked from their civilian clothes to their uniform. The music, however, made me want to kill someone. It was Loud and Annoying. It was possibly a Latin chant sung in English, with Sweeping Orchestral Accompaniment. The ending sequence was similar to the Marines' one. I can see what the NG was trying to do, with their whole citizen-soldier campaign, but jesus FUCK is that ad atrocious.

Though mostly I miss the days when the Lumina didn't run ads and those stupid trivia things before shows.

Comments

[thorny-rose.livejournal.com]

I'm startled by the length of the previews/ads before movies now. The longest I've clocked was 20 minutes. I could have done some shopping or been knitting or something productive...

[feuervogel]

God, yes. I think we had 5 minutes of commercials, then 5 or 6 previews. And of those, I remember 3.

[amakarie.livejournal.com]

As much as I like Jude Law, I didn't really understand why they cast him as Watson; he just doesn't seem like the right person. Of course, putting those two together makes me think they were seriously wanting to pander to fangirls. :P

I'm totally excited about the next Iron Man as well. It's funny how RDJ's making such a comeback.

[david-f-smith.livejournal.com]

Yeh. I also dig the Mickey Rourke comeback, he actually looks like he'll be able to make a D-list villain like Whiplash scary.

[kirin]

Oh come on, there was plenty of H/W slashy tiems. You must have accidentally left the limiter on your internal subtext meter. Hell, they spent half the movie arguing like an old married couple.

[feuervogel]

Well, sure, but there was no kissing!