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  • John DrakeJohn Drake On assignmentPosts: 2,564MI6 Agent
    Yes, she's quite fit. She did a book about making her own bespoke porn movie, didn't she?

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    Yup, it's called 'Once More with Feeling.' The book I mean. No idea what the film is called.
  • AlexAlex The Eastern SeaboardPosts: 2,694MI6 Agent
    I'm sick of Jude Law and can't get over this preening pose akin to an American Idol contestant. He's Adam Lambert here for crying out loud.

    I'll take a James Mason, Patrick Macnee, Nigel Bruce, etc. Anytime!

    Watson should never try to upstage the man!

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  • John DrakeJohn Drake On assignmentPosts: 2,564MI6 Agent
    The BBC are making a new series of Sherlock Holmes. Benedict Thumbersnatch (or whatever he is called) is playing Holmes. Martin Freeman is Watson. The good news is Steven Moffat is involved.
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    I'm watching The One Per Cent Solution tonight JD, the one where Holmes is on crack.

    Did you catch La Coren :x on Question Time last week? You could still catch it on iPlayer.

    Apropos of even less, I thought Guy Ritchie would be good for a new Flashman series, an effective one this time. It's the same sort of time period. Depends on who they get as Flashy of course.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • John DrakeJohn Drake On assignmentPosts: 2,564MI6 Agent

    Did you catch La Coren :x on Question Time last week? You could still catch it on iPlayer.
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    No i missed her. Still haven't seen this week's Only Connect either.

    I got sent a review disk for a Sherlock Holmes movie which I assumed would be the Downey Jr/Jude Law flick, but it appears to have dinosaurs in the background. No idea who the actors are, but I'm kind of looking forward to seeing it.
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    I saw The Seven Per Cent Solution last night, with Nicol Williamson and Robert Duvall as Holmes and Watson.

    Duvall nearly kills it with his strangulated English accent, he sounds like Biggus Dic*us in Life of Brian. There's plenty of his narration early on too. Williamson is good but looks like Ade Edmondson and Watson's wife is a ringer for the one who'd play Watson's wife in the Guy Ritchie version, in fact there are other similarities as Holmes is holed up in his flat in the throes of drug addiction.

    It's all about how Watson has to lure Holmes to Vienna to get treated by none other than Sigmund Freud, well played by Alan Arkin, who has some of DeNiro's mannersims here.

    It's an engrossing film that descends into silliness towards the end with an Octopussy-style climax on a steam train rooftop. Ken Adam did the sets and Charles 'Blofeld' Grey makes a brief appearance as Mycroft Holmes. The period details are understatedly rather wonderful. Purists may baulk at the whole Moriaty line in it. And I think it's heroin addiction, not cocaine, that prompts such terrifying Trainspotting-style withdrawal symptoms.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • darenhatdarenhat The Old PuebloPosts: 2,029Quartermasters
    Charles Grey portrayed Mycroft in 'Solution'? I don't remember that. Interesting since he also played Mycroft in the Jeremy Brett series.
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    Never mind that, JD did you see La Coren :x on Have I Got News For You last night? :)
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • John DrakeJohn Drake On assignmentPosts: 2,564MI6 Agent
    Never mind that, JD did you see La Coren :x on Have I Got News For You last night? :)

    Iplayer time again.

    Gonna watch this Sherlock Holmes versus the dinosaurs tomorrow hopefully.
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    Is it the one with Sacha Baron Cohen?
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • John DrakeJohn Drake On assignmentPosts: 2,564MI6 Agent
    No, it's a mockbuster from the notorious studo The Asylum who make cheap knock-offs of hit movies and release them on DVD just before the big movie they ape comes out either in cinemas or on rental.
  • John DrakeJohn Drake On assignmentPosts: 2,564MI6 Agent
    Just finished watching the new BBC version and really enjoyed it. The modern setting worked really well and Benedict Cumberthatch was impressive as Holmes.

    However the Asylum mockbuster is bizarre, although worth seeing for a sequence in which a young man goes to Whitechapel to pick up a prostitute and gets eaten by a tyrannasurus rex instead. :))
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    What's the name of the wacky Asylum Holmes movie? :)
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • John DrakeJohn Drake On assignmentPosts: 2,564MI6 Agent
    It's called Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.


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    The Arthur Conan Doyle bit on the cover is smaller than the disclaimer on life insurance policy. The guy playing Holmes is totally miscast. He's about 5'4 with a high-pitched squeaky voice. I kind of felt sorry for him. The guy playing Watson is the Welsh bloke from Torchwood.
  • Moore ThanMoore Than EnglandPosts: 3,173MI6 Agent
    Good news for US fans of Sherlock Holmes. Jonny Lee Miller will play the sleuth in a pilot episode of proposed CBS show Elementary, to be set in contemporary New York. If the pilot is successful a series will be made in time for the autumn.

    For fans of the BBC's Sherlock update a third series has been confirmed with Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Watson.

    For the FULL article.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17038465
    Moore Not Less 4371 posts (2002 - 2007) Moore Than (2012 - 2016)
  • John DrakeJohn Drake On assignmentPosts: 2,564MI6 Agent
    A US version of Sherlock Holmes makes me think of 'Cruise of the Gods' in which Steve Coogan cameos as an actor who's made it big in the States playing a modern day Holmes complete with his wisecracking African American partner. "Elementary, my dear Bro.." Wish I could find a clip.
  • John DrakeJohn Drake On assignmentPosts: 2,564MI6 Agent
    Lucy Liu is Dr Watson in the US version of 'Sherlock.' No bromance there then.
  • Moore ThanMoore Than EnglandPosts: 3,173MI6 Agent
    Sky has bought the UK rights to broadcast the new US Sherlock Holmes drama series Elementary this autumn. It will be shown on Sky Living. Jonny Lee Miller stars as Holmes, a recovering alcoholic who is assigned to live with Dr Joan Watson, played by Lucy Liu. The series is set in modern day New York. You can watch a preview by clicking on the link below.

    US Sherlock drama Elementary to air on Sky
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18712400

    Elementary -2012 Fall Preview
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrDVSxNycKc
    Moore Not Less 4371 posts (2002 - 2007) Moore Than (2012 - 2016)
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