A Game of Shadows
Dec. 16th, 2011 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabidsamfanWell, I went and saw A Game of Shadows tonight, and despite having made the mistake of eating something new and different before the movie, I'm glad I went. Internal distractions aside, I had a good time, having gone in expecting adrenaline charged crackfic and getting it, by heaven!
I also got some fun scenes with Mycroft, and a Mary I can more than live with, thanks. RDJ is still not "my" Holmes, but Jude Law's Watson is still very close to how I see the good doctor. Moriarty was played brilliantly, and I really liked -- in a "what a good villain" sort of way -- Colonel Moran.
I didn't expect some of the angsty bits (although one of them was telegraphed) and I can see some writers definitely working very hard to get around what happens to Irene.
I also have (in retrospect) a bit of a problem with the denouement, but it is a minor creebing and they are forgiven.
Clearly, though, I did not see the same movie as some of the critics (or maybe they didn't see the same trailers I did and were expecting something *snerk* cerebral...)
Feel free to discuss the movie here. I need someone to bounce with!
I also got some fun scenes with Mycroft, and a Mary I can more than live with, thanks. RDJ is still not "my" Holmes, but Jude Law's Watson is still very close to how I see the good doctor. Moriarty was played brilliantly, and I really liked -- in a "what a good villain" sort of way -- Colonel Moran.
I didn't expect some of the angsty bits (although one of them was telegraphed) and I can see some writers definitely working very hard to get around what happens to Irene.
I also have (in retrospect) a bit of a problem with the denouement, but it is a minor creebing and they are forgiven.
Clearly, though, I did not see the same movie as some of the critics (or maybe they didn't see the same trailers I did and were expecting something *snerk* cerebral...)
Feel free to discuss the movie here. I need someone to bounce with!
