Anyone remember this
scene from the first Sherlock Holmes movie:
Holmes: You’ve never complained about my methods before.
Watson: I’m not complaining.
Holmes: You’re not? What do you call this?
Watson: I never complain! How am I complaining? When do I ever complain about you practicing the violin at three in the morning, or your mess, your general lack of hygiene, or the fact that you steal my clothes?
Holmes: Uh, we have a barter system…
Watson: When have I ever complained about you setting fire to my rooms?
Holmes: Our rooms…
Watson: The rooms! Or, or, the fact that you experiment on my dog?
Holmes: Our dog…
Watson: The dog!
Holmes: Gladstone is our dog!
<3
Anyway. I saw The Game Of Shadows this week, which, I
loved and which pretty much made my week. It’s the highlight of 2012 thus far.
I read an interview
somewhere on the t’interweb with Jude Law describing this film as a Rom-Com
with him and RDJ as the stars. How apt that is. It’s like the film is dancing
around singing ‘this is as gay as it
could be and you love it’ and you
know what?
It really is and I
really do.
Fine, I love the
action scenes and the fight scenes and the scenes with the very big weapons
[actual weapons, guys, that’s not a euphemism] too but what really makes this
film, for me, is the whole Holmes/Watson dynamic.
I mean, Sherlock at Watson’s wedding;
Watson’s panic on the train when he thinks Holmes is dead; the ballroom
dancing; the ‘always nice to see you, Watson’ [brought a lump to my throat
almost, that line]; Watson’s face when he
watches Holmes and Moriaty fall; the banter; the looks; the
read-between-the-lines-if-you-want-to subtleties; the ‘lie with me
Watson’-esque not-so-subtleties [that whole train sequence almost made me squeal actually. I loved it] All of
that, their whole relationship, sorry Watson, partnership is show-stoppingly good.
I’m not going to say
that Holmes and Watson are sleeping together secretly and Watson’s marriage to
Mary is a big fat Remus/Sirius/Tonks type of sham.* I'm not.
What I am going to say is
that the chemistry between these two characters is a million times more
sizzling than that between Twishite’s Bella and Edward [which is tragic when
you consider RPattz and Stewart are dating in real life] and that
chemistry is a large part of what makes this film so fabulous.
That and the fact that Downey Jr is seriously
sexy and spends a fair portion of the film either shirtless or deliciously
dishevelled and that Stephen Fry is
gloriously Stephen Fry and has and
that every actor in the film has spot on comic timing and that Guy Ritchie is
clearly a very clever man because the cinematography is excellent.
I loved this film.
It’s laugh out loud funny and edge of your seat exciting and just so much fun.
In that spirit: Happy Friday.
*except that possibly maybe I am saying that. Or at least, I
hope that if anybody ever decides to marry me and their best man asks them why,
their answer is less ‘because I want a relationship and the chance to start a
family and I don’t want to die alone’ and more ‘because I’m crazy in love with
her.’ Just sayin’….
