Holmes Knows Kung Fu, Dear Watson
 

I swear to god every time Downey knife-arm outside blocked in an English brawl room I had a little part of me die, but other than that, looked surprisingly good, in fact.

I'm just hoping to god that Holmes-Fu takes a backseat to the detective work he did in the first few minutes of the trailer.

I'm too lazy to dig out a link so, eh, you do it.

You know, in the BOOKS, Sherlock Holmes was said to be familiar with the martial arts "bartitsu" which is a british martial arts. In the early U.S. editions was changed to "jujitsu".

Fair enough, but it's less of that and more "Let's action movie-ify one of the most famous detectives of all time."

Hey worked for Batman right?

though wasn't Holmes a pacifist by nature? Just because you can fight doesn't mean you don't avoid them as much as possible. But I wonder how america at large will handle Holmes. His stories often being about subtle detail and his particular reasoning and perceptive skills. Well L was well liked and its simular deductive logic, so hopefully.

But I'm one of those guys that would rather hear Holmes monologe about the train of logic he used to get his conclusion (reguardless of whether or not I figured it out already) then see an epic fight scene. Hope they dont take the easy route and cop-out by just having a third of the movie involve explosions and a tacted ok love story

I don't think he was really a pacifist. He was a hedonist.

Didn't he die when he went over a cliff fighting with Moriarty?

Once, yeah. He got better though.

Sherlock Holmes Movie appears to be interesting.
 

Although I never knew Sherlock Holmes looked so much like Stark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNPQj...eature=popular

Hopefully Americans just don't pay too much attention to his "deductive reasoning" as it is in most of the stories I've read entirely unbelievable. The things Holmes figures out based on the thinnest "clues" are ridiculous. Luckily the average Hollywood film has dozens of plot holes and unbelievable jumps in reasoning for characters so it will probably not stand out.

L in Death Note was cool and all but his ability to figure things out doesn't really stand up to believability, especially since everything always works out for him on the first try, besides, such as the fake execution broadcast at the beginning. I for one think that L's "reasoning" would be one of the weaker parts of the anime, not the stronger.

What would really surprise me is if the mystery in this movie is actually solved realistically and not with inane evidence such as "she had a bit of mud spattering the hem of her dress, thus it is obvious that she traveled to London via dogcart so as to avoid the notice of her scheming and evil uncle/stepfather!" This courtesy of the Mystery of the Speckled Band. Seriously, read it, and tell me I'm wrong. Not to mention the means of murder was so ridiculously convoluted it made an average CSI episode look tame, plus it's something that any coroner would've been able to pick up on right away regardless of what Doyle writes (it would be okay if it didn't stand up to advanced medical knowledge, but common sense would show it to be easily detectable by anyone who knew anything). Why this one is the most popular Holmes tale I'm not sure, but it's probably because it's fairly short, thus making it useful for High School classes, and it had a ridiculously convoluted means of murder backing it.

Anyway, I hope for this movie they pick one of the more believable Holmes tales and remove any of the ridiculous "reasoning" that Holmes does and replace it with something that could actually lead one to a conclusion.

Also Holmes seems to be being shown as the ladies man in this movie, whereas in the stories it is Watson who is the ladies man, with Holmes being rather asexual in point of fact.

That's the one with the snake right?