<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=167462.msg7932523#msg7932523">Quote from: yesiroleplay on 23-03-2013, 14:34:29</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Thank you!  That post is in support of upcoming IC posts where she may relate her story.  Possibly in open court at the trial of Mister Alfred Eklain.  <br/><br/>And nope! I don't even think I've seen that movie! I have seen the first "Sherlock Holmes" movie on TV, and it left me pretty much disgusted.  The movie on its own wasn't horrible, just unimaginative.  Would it have been so hard to create a new steampunk action hero rather that exploit the name of Doyle's wonderful character?  And will Hollywood ever learn that you can make an action movie without a token love interest?  I'd have much preferred a heavily repressed - and I mean so subtle the watcher isn't sure they're not imagining it - sexual chemistry between Holmes and Watson rather than a badly shoehorned-in female love interest.<br/><br/>Edit:<br/>After that rant, I want to say that Sherlock (http://www.hartswoodfilms.co.uk/programmes/sherlock-series-1/) - the BBC mini-series adapting Holmes to contemporary London, is simply brilliant!<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I fully agree.  Don't waste your time with A Game of Shadows.  At least the first Sherlock had its charming moments; the underground fight being one of the more memorable moments.  And Irene Adler was terribly misscripted to be honest.  There isn't meant to be any romantic interest in the sense that you or I should understand or appreciate.  Conan Doyle always presented it as Sherlock being intellectually drawn to Ms. Adler who was a match for his wit at every turn.  But showing that he was still human and still a man at so perhaps in that attraction, there was a hint of something more.<br/><br/>The second one was simply dreadful in every sense of the word.  I wouldn't post any spoilers to anyone still waiting to see it, but I was amazed at how a movie could choose to make simply huge, dramatic sweeping moves that should affect a character...<br/><br/>...only to literally never address them.  It was mind-boggling.  Though the movie industry does that quite often to keep a cash cow in the industry running as long as possible.  It's quite disturbing to say the least.<br/><br/>Oh, but I will check out the BBC series.  I've only heard good things about that one and would love to watch it when I get some free time.