Nicht das schon wieder

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Rachel McAdams stars as Irene Adler, the only woman ever to have bested Holmes and who has maintained a tempestuous relationship with the detective.
- film summary from a National Express competition

No, just no. Really. Irene Adler threatens to ruin the King of Bohemia so that he can’t interfere with her marrying that man that she loves. She takes on the Bohemian state and Sherlock Holmes and wins to secure a safe future for herself and her husband.

I’m aware that there’s fanfiction where she has a relationship with Holmes and possibly even published fanfiction at that but this really is another nail in the coffin of just how bloody wrong this film is. Of course I’ll probably still watch it though possibly not in the cinema or I might accidentally murder someone in a fit of blind rage. It’s a shame really because Robert Downey, Jr. is a rather good actor and could probably have done a good job of a role featuring some Victorian action hero who wasn’t Sherlock Holmes.

I rather dislike when things I enjoy become mainstream fashionable in that cheap knockoff fashion where what’s served up isn’t anything like the real thing. Sadly it looks like budget Sherlock Holmes is going to be the next thing served up and ruined because anybody whose first point of contact with the stories is that film will come away with entirely the wrong idea. I’ve seen this sort of thing happen with the word ‘chai’ becoming fashionable amongst twenty-something idiots recently who have to tell you all about the fabulous chai they got from Starbucks as if Indian tea is anything new and people haven’t been drinking it for years in countries across the world long before the ‘trendy’ idiot twenty-something set deigned to notice it. Apparently tea in general has become fashionable too which is highly disheartening. First anime, then tea, now Sherlock Holmes. Will none of my interests remain un-bastardised? If they go for German opera next I may have to defenestrate something.

Comments

[blasphemiliar.livejournal.com]

*hammers nails up through the underside of desk*

*headdesk*

Unfortunately I have to agree with the above comment.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

See my above reply and Yahtzee’s all too perfect way of framing it (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/284-Silent-Hill-Homecoming). (There’s a Silent Hill: Homecoming review around that point, which is about two and a half minutes in, but it’s worth watching too.)