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intertribalSherlock Holmes has pretty much convinced me that steampunk is just not for me. And apparently this is mild steampunk.
As for the technicalities of the movie - trying very hard to be clever and stylish. There are light-hearted, pseudo-witty moments. The planning-out-fight-moves-and-then-doing-them thing got old like soooo fast. And don't get me started on all the slow motion stuff. Why people continue to artsify the shit out of fight scenes, I don't know. Time spent on that could have been spent on making the plot less of a poorly-explained migraine. Then they had to spend like 20 minutes at the end setting up the sequel (this is TOO LONG in a franchise movie; I was afraid Dr. Moriarty was actually going to fucking appear and I'd be in the theater for another hour), after whizzing through the conclusion of the first (current!) movie. And LOL to the people that are all "oh, it's so homo-erotic!" Meh. Not something that's going to stick with me.
Never read the original, though, so I'm not a fan of the series to begin with (for the longest time I thought Sherlock Holmes was involved in the Dr. Livingstone in Africa thing - British people all kind of blurred together when I was a kid). And I did have a strong margarita beforehand, so my mental faculties may have been impaired.
Also, Rachel McAdams cannot act, sorry. There was a time when I mixed her up with Amy Adams and believe me, I make that mistake no more. Amy Adams needs to GTFO of the movies she's always in but at least she can act.
As for the technicalities of the movie - trying very hard to be clever and stylish. There are light-hearted, pseudo-witty moments. The planning-out-fight-moves-and-then-doing-them thing got old like soooo fast. And don't get me started on all the slow motion stuff. Why people continue to artsify the shit out of fight scenes, I don't know. Time spent on that could have been spent on making the plot less of a poorly-explained migraine. Then they had to spend like 20 minutes at the end setting up the sequel (this is TOO LONG in a franchise movie; I was afraid Dr. Moriarty was actually going to fucking appear and I'd be in the theater for another hour), after whizzing through the conclusion of the first (current!) movie. And LOL to the people that are all "oh, it's so homo-erotic!" Meh. Not something that's going to stick with me.
Never read the original, though, so I'm not a fan of the series to begin with (for the longest time I thought Sherlock Holmes was involved in the Dr. Livingstone in Africa thing - British people all kind of blurred together when I was a kid). And I did have a strong margarita beforehand, so my mental faculties may have been impaired.
Also, Rachel McAdams cannot act, sorry. There was a time when I mixed her up with Amy Adams and believe me, I make that mistake no more. Amy Adams needs to GTFO of the movies she's always in but at least she can act.
