Oh man, awesome news, I thought it got scrapped. To everyone - watch it if you haven't already, and their version of Holmes will become the "true" one in your head.

As for the Hollywood Sherlocks, I watched the first one and quite enjoyed it. I don't usually mind taking a general concept of a well-known character and reinventing it. In the movie he was basically Tony Stark, and I'm not sick of this sort of character just yet, so it's all good.
I don't think I'll be gracing the cinemas for this one, though, tickets are relatively expensive as hell here. :)

At least it wasn't Harry Potter...*shudders*

I am not a big fan of Holmes I merely read it all. And comparing the film to the writing just leaves me with a caricature image of Holmes.
Thing is, if you regarded the "first movie as a decent popcorn action film with token detective elements in it" then you will be surprised to see that the second one is just a mediocre iteration with less detective stuff in it and much more and bigger guns and explosions and slow-mo and Holmes going kung-fu on baddies; I wouldn't mind if he did some English gentleman boxing, sipping his tea.

It was really good. Better than the first slightly in my opinion.

The pacing wasn't very good, it was a bit too fast and inconsistent. And then the last 30 minutes came and it was amazing. Good movie, excellent final act.

O_O

YAAAY!

That will be amazing.

My wife and I saw Young Adult, Sherlock Holmes, and The Girl with... over four days starting late last week. I'd have to say I enjoyed all 3 for different reasons.

Young Adult is a really dark movie and I thought Charlize Theron did a nice job depicting a really clueless young adult. I liked it but it's not for anyone who wants a Hollywood ending...

I've read the Millennium trilogy but have not seen the original movies (so I can't compare the movies). I have read that a lot of people preferred the original movies but I have to say I thought the American version was pretty true to the book. We enjoyed it and thought it was a pretty interesting movie.

I'll second (or third?) the idea that the third act of the Sherlock Holmes movie was very good. I also liked the character of Moriarty (I know the actor from his work in Mad Men). I thought the invention of the "urban camouflage" was hysterical. The early death was curious and really didn't add anything to the movie. Overall, I thought the movie was about what I was expecting (no academy award noms but generally enjoyable). The one thing I didn't like was the slow motion cinematography (distracting and annoying).

Loved it! Hoping they make a third movie.

Well, according to the Wikipedia entry, they will make a third movie.

And I can promise that no matter what I will watch it when it comes. When it concerns watching movies in the cinema, I rarely do, barely doing so not more than 3 or 4 times a year, and usually related to these characters or universe: Star Wars, James Bond, Indiana Jones, Tintin, Sherlock Holmes, LotR, etc.

Did they make a new Indiana Jones? I thought the last movie was Last Crusade.

They did 3 years ago: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Definitely not as good as the first three (my wife even hated the Alien part), but I guess as long as it is Indiana Jones I'll still watch.

. . .

Like I said, I thought the last movie was Last Crusade. God, I mean, I don't know what they'd do if they made a new movie, with all of the crap coming out now. Could you imagine what would happen if they made new Star Wars movies?

The last movie, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, was bad, and yet I still enjoyed it. Yes, I am that biased and brainwashed :-D

*Weeps*
;-p

I once got the first of these movies through Netflix and it sat on my coffee table for about 3 months before I sent it back unwatched.

True story.