Sherlock Holmes 2 FTW

[clevermanka]

mckitterick and I just got back from seeing the new Sherlock Holmes movie. It's fucking awesome, people. So. Much. Fun. Non-spoilery comments:

They pretty much threw the homoerotic subtext out the window and just put that shit out there on a platter for all the slash-lovers to eat from. It was delightful. I can only imagine the screencaps that are going to come out of this once the DVD hits shelves.

The fight scenes aren't quite as ... well, I don't know what. Graphic? Visceral? Something? I don't know. I guess not much is going to measure up to that boxing scene in the first one. They're still very good, don't get me wrong. I think that boxing scene just set such a high bar.

But the FX stuff makes up for it. The running through the woods while being shot at sequence (that takes up so much of the previews) was outstanding. Really, really good.

The costumes. Oh my god the costumes. There are no words. Only drool and incoherent promises made in a darkened theater to outfit mckitterick in pretty much everything worn by either RDJ or Mr. Law. Ngnggngnggg. *wibble*

Oh thank god they wrote Irene Adler out in the first fifteen minutes. I feel bad for Rachel McAdams, I really do. It's gotta be hard knowing that you'll never have the onscreen chemistry with your leading man that he shares with the other leading man. But really, I swear to god that they could have cast RDJ's mother in that role and there would've been heavier sexual frission. To be honest, that spoiled a lot of the first movie for me, and I wonder if it's why I enjoyed this one so much.

The bit where they go over the waterfall? Damn. Good writing, there, screenwriters. I wish I'd seen it with someone who knew the books/story, because wow. For a minute, I thought "Did they really kill them?" And it would've been so great to share A Look with someone who caught that waterfall reference.

And because it seems no movie-going experience is possible for me these days without an Oh No They Didn't moment: At least this was in a trailer and wasn't another movie patron. So, Sacha Baron Cohen has a new movie coming out, The Dictator, which looks just awful, but it's not my type of movie, and that's okay. Here's the problem--he's portraying some sort of African/Middle Eastern type dictator, and all the visuals are strongly indicative of that culture. But the music they used for it? You guys, the music they used was (I swear it was, and I played the CD for mckitterick when we got home just to help confirm my hunch) Safri Boyz's Rahaye Rahaye. One of the most well-known Bhangra songs out there. And even if it wasn't that particular song, it was most definitely Bhangra music used in the preview. Bhangra. As in Indian Pop Music. Jesus, people. Total, absolute fail on the part of the music editor for this. I mean come on.